2.6
179,241
recorded earthquakes
M9.0
largest
1900–2026
record span
3.90
mean magnitude
175,915
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.0 | 26.12.2004 00:58 | 26.5 km | 2543 km |
| 8.6 | 28.03.2005 16:09 | 27.5 km | 2390 km |
| 8.6 | 01.02.1938 19:04 | 25 km | 1530 km |
| 8.5 | 12.09.2007 11:10 | 24 km | 1861 km |
| 8.3 | 19.08.1977 06:08 | 33 km | 966 km |
| 8.2 | 15.08.1918 12:18 | 20 km | 1174 km |
| 8.2 | 14.04.1924 16:20 | 15 km | 1355 km |
| 8.2 | 24.01.1965 00:11 | 15.2 km | 867 km |
| 8.2 | 17.02.1996 05:59 | 46.4 km | 2102 km |
| 8.1 | 20.09.1935 01:46 | 30 km | 2598 km |
| 8.1 | 14.05.1932 13:11 | 15 km | 920 km |
| 8.0 | 02.12.1972 00:19 | 27.7 km | 1374 km |
| 8.0 | 16.08.1976 16:11 | 12.9 km | 1171 km |
| 7.9 | 26.05.1914 14:22 | 15 km | 2098 km |
| 7.9 | 14.03.1913 08:45 | 15 km | 1250 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 07:42 | 31 km | 825 km |
| 3.2 | 04.08.2026 06:57 | 14 km | 1757 km |
| 4.0 | 04.08.2026 06:11 | 35 km | 565 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 05:51 | 87 km | 975 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 05:15 | 44 km | 1073 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 04:35 | 13 km | 865 km |
| 3.7 | 04.08.2026 04:29 | 20 km | 1038 km |
| 3.2 | 04.08.2026 04:21 | 5 km | 2414 km |
| 3.1 | 04.08.2026 04:17 | 17 km | 599 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 04:09 | 11 km | 486 km |
| 3.2 | 04.08.2026 03:01 | 200 km | 1293 km |
| 2.9 | 04.08.2026 02:35 | 56 km | 880 km |
| 3.8 | 04.08.2026 01:32 | 422 km | 927 km |
| 3.5 | 04.08.2026 00:51 | 47 km | 956 km |
| 2.8 | 04.08.2026 00:31 | 3 km | 290 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 00:14 | 5 km | 815 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 23:18 | 14 km | 648 km |
| 3.4 | 03.08.2026 22:25 | 86 km | 549 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 22:18 | 27 km | 1502 km |
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 21:37 | 7 km | 1031 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 21:03 | 5 km | 805 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 21:02 | 3 km | 1066 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 20:07 | 8 km | 1256 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 20:03 | 22 km | 1097 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 19:52 | 17 km | 842 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 19:50 | 17 km | 811 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 19:44 | 94 km | 575 km |
| 3.0 | 03.08.2026 19:32 | 4 km | 1886 km |
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 19:25 | 78 km | 2314 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 19:18 | 10 km | 2557 km |
| 3.7 | 03.08.2026 19:12 | 59 km | 1283 km |
| 3.3 | 03.08.2026 18:47 | 33 km | 1176 km |
| 3.6 | 03.08.2026 18:41 | 17 km | 1158 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 18:20 | 97 km | 2435 km |
| 3.0 | 03.08.2026 18:12 | 22 km | 2321 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 17:45 | 89 km | 2016 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 17:21 | 74 km | 1076 km |
| 3.0 | 03.08.2026 17:04 | 41 km | 1354 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 16:27 | 10 km | 2315 km |
| 3.1 | 03.08.2026 15:48 | 10 km | 2084 km |
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 15:43 | 171 km | 902 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 15:25 | 25 km | 1239 km |
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 15:18 | 23 km | 1115 km |
| 3.9 | 03.08.2026 14:53 | 10 km | 1214 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 14:45 | 20 km | 785 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 14:28 | 18 km | 736 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 14:00 | 16 km | 1018 km |
| 3.8 | 03.08.2026 13:55 | 338 km | 1161 km |
| 3.8 | 03.08.2026 13:13 | 7 km | 809 km |
| 3.4 | 03.08.2026 12:23 | 10 km | 1024 km |
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 12:10 | 30 km | 976 km |
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 12:09 | 5 km | 1244 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 11:55 | 10 km | 1232 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 11:49 | 56 km | 1216 km |
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 11:48 | 20 km | 657 km |
| 3.4 | 03.08.2026 11:39 | 10 km | 2310 km |
| 3.1 | 03.08.2026 11:36 | 25 km | 995 km |
| 3.5 | 03.08.2026 11:30 | 12 km | 1750 km |
| 3.0 | 03.08.2026 11:16 | 35 km | 1021 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 11:13 | 26 km | 499 km |
Regions
North Sulawesi30,640Maluku27,827North Maluku25,491Central Sulawesi15,905Papua14,813East Nusa Tenggara12,740West Papua9,213North Sumatra8,852Aceh7,163West Nusa Tenggara6,818West Sumatra6,048Bengkulu5,506East Java5,003South Sulawesi4,752South Sumatra3,211Gorontalo2,961West Java2,782Banten1,949Lampung1,916Southeast Sulawesi1,615West Sulawesi1,593Bali1,512Central Java1,483Riau1,083Jambi864East Kalimantan586Yogyakarta256
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.