2.7
1,615
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1909–2026
record span
3.63
mean magnitude
1,228
epicentre inside the border
By year
Stacked by magnitude; one column per year.
M<3M3–4M4–5M5+
Read this chart carefully. Rising columns do not mean earthquakes are becoming more frequent. The monitoring network improved over time: the smallest detectable earthquake in Türkiye was about M5.0 in 1966 and is M1.5 today. Earlier years look quiet because small events were not heard, not because they did not happen.
Largest earthquakes
Inclusion rule: the radius widens with magnitude (15 km up to M4, 150 km at M7 and above). This is not a measure of felt shaking or intensity.
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.8 | 17.06.1996 11:22 | 596.7 km | 307 km |
| 7.7 | 29.11.1998 14:10 | 16.5 km | 389 km |
| 7.5 | 19.10.2001 03:28 | 29.4 km | 179 km |
| 7.1 | 17.03.1909 22:53 | 0 km | 317 km |
| 7.1 | 03.03.1927 01:05 | 15 km | 256 km |
| 7.0 | 24.05.1990 20:09 | 597.2 km | 390 km |
| 7.0 | 06.08.1914 04:10 | 600 km | 183 km |
| 6.9 | 21.08.2020 04:09 | 643.2 km | 278 km |
| 6.8 | 19.11.1913 03:20 | 35 km | 229 km |
| 6.5 | 29.07.1924 05:18 | 35 km | 201 km |
| 6.5 | 25.08.1933 09:26 | 720 km | 238 km |
| 6.4 | 19.02.2005 00:04 | 14.7 km | 138 km |
| 6.4 | 13.02.1924 22:50 | 35 km | 205 km |
| 6.2 | 14.02.1934 01:21 | 100 km | 173 km |
| 6.2 | 29.06.1934 12:34 | 670 km | 181 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 10:05 | 5 km | 173 km |
| 2.5 | 27.07.2026 13:37 | 6 km | 31 km |
| 2.6 | 26.07.2026 13:38 | 6 km | 176 km |
| 2.7 | 25.07.2026 11:38 | 13 km | 67 km |
| 3.0 | 21.07.2026 21:39 | 4 km | 104 km |
| 2.5 | 18.07.2026 20:44 | 3 km | 41 km |
| 2.5 | 18.07.2026 19:59 | 11 km | 77 km |
| 2.5 | 16.07.2026 09:54 | 9 km | 101 km |
| 2.7 | 14.07.2026 06:30 | 7 km | 28 km |
| 3.1 | 13.07.2026 13:42 | 15 km | 125 km |
| 2.8 | 13.07.2026 09:07 | 5 km | 81 km |
| 2.7 | 11.07.2026 17:50 | 5 km | 184 km |
| 3.6 | 11.07.2026 01:38 | 10 km | 181 km |
| 2.9 | 10.07.2026 11:04 | 13 km | 168 km |
| 2.5 | 10.07.2026 08:34 | 4 km | 188 km |
| 2.9 | 09.07.2026 01:36 | 3 km | 191 km |
| 2.5 | 04.07.2026 09:39 | 8 km | 77 km |
| 2.5 | 03.07.2026 05:26 | 10 km | 110 km |
| 3.2 | 02.07.2026 03:39 | 16 km | 170 km |
| 3.7 | 30.06.2026 18:25 | 69.4 km | 102 km |
| 2.7 | 28.06.2026 09:25 | 5 km | 211 km |
| 2.6 | 28.06.2026 05:24 | 5 km | 213 km |
| 3.5 | 24.06.2026 06:18 | 6 km | 89 km |
| 2.8 | 24.06.2026 00:14 | 5 km | 81 km |
| 2.5 | 23.06.2026 19:16 | 10 km | 172 km |
| 3.5 | 23.06.2026 15:38 | 10 km | 98 km |
| 2.8 | 22.06.2026 23:18 | 16 km | 134 km |
| 2.7 | 22.06.2026 19:10 | 10 km | 180 km |
| 2.6 | 18.06.2026 22:30 | 5 km | 83 km |
| 2.7 | 12.06.2026 22:34 | 10 km | 192 km |
| 2.7 | 11.06.2026 06:32 | 5 km | 104 km |
| 2.8 | 11.06.2026 06:15 | 5 km | 179 km |
| 2.8 | 09.06.2026 22:35 | 7 km | 106 km |
| 2.7 | 09.06.2026 15:29 | 8 km | 105 km |
| 2.5 | 09.06.2026 15:22 | 5 km | 97 km |
| 2.5 | 09.06.2026 15:07 | 3 km | 98 km |
| 3.7 | 09.06.2026 15:02 | 10 km | 97 km |
| 2.6 | 09.06.2026 13:53 | 3 km | 104 km |
| 3.3 | 09.06.2026 08:22 | 5 km | 101 km |
| 4.1 | 09.06.2026 07:00 | 10 km | 104 km |
| 2.6 | 09.06.2026 00:17 | 5 km | 122 km |
| 2.5 | 08.06.2026 23:34 | 5 km | 147 km |
| 2.5 | 08.06.2026 22:43 | 4 km | 105 km |
| 2.6 | 08.06.2026 22:12 | 6 km | 102 km |
| 4.1 | 08.06.2026 21:56 | 5 km | 98 km |
| 2.9 | 08.06.2026 21:11 | 5 km | 134 km |
| 3.4 | 08.06.2026 19:23 | 3 km | 101 km |
| 3.6 | 08.06.2026 16:09 | 5 km | 100 km |
| 2.5 | 05.06.2026 08:59 | 13 km | 107 km |
| 3.1 | 05.06.2026 07:02 | 7 km | 105 km |
| 2.6 | 05.06.2026 04:02 | 14 km | 107 km |
| 3.0 | 05.06.2026 03:53 | 7 km | 104 km |
| 2.5 | 05.06.2026 01:29 | 13 km | 113 km |
| 2.8 | 04.06.2026 17:44 | 4 km | 100 km |
| 3.2 | 03.06.2026 22:58 | 14 km | 61 km |
| 2.8 | 03.06.2026 12:30 | 5 km | 125 km |
| 2.5 | 03.06.2026 12:27 | 5 km | 132 km |
| 2.7 | 03.06.2026 12:24 | 5 km | 129 km |
| 2.9 | 03.06.2026 10:18 | 5 km | 82 km |
| 2.9 | 03.06.2026 03:29 | 5 km | 105 km |
Method and sources
- What this page counts
- An earthquake appears here when its epicentre is within a magnitude-dependent distance of this place's border: 15 km up to M4, 30 km to M5, 60 km to M6, 100 km to M7, and 150 km at M7 and above. The rule exists because a large earthquake concerns neighbouring provinces too — the 17 August 1999 epicentre was in the Gulf of İzmit, on no province's land at all.
- Location precision
- Epicentre uncertainty is typically 1–10 km, and larger for older records. That is why this site breaks data down to districts but not to neighbourhoods or villages — the data does not support that distinction.
- Magnitude scales
- The catalogues use more than twelve magnitude scales (Mw, ML, mb, Md…) and they are not equivalent. Values are shown on the scale the source reported; they are not converted.
- Deduplication
- The same earthquake is published by several catalogues. Records within 20 seconds and 100 km whose magnitudes differ by no more than 1.2 are treated as one event; the primary record is chosen by catalogue priority.
- Updates
- Recent earthquakes are fetched from four sources every five minutes. The historical archive is rebuilt infrequently.
- Sources
- USGS ComCat · ISC Bulletin · AFAD · Kandilli / KOERI · EMSC/CSEM
- Reporting an error
- If you spot a wrong record, write to us; we verify against the source and correct it.