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Earthquakes in Messina

8,357 earthquakes catalogued in and around Messina between 1905 and 2026. Recorded measurements; not a forecast.

Last updated 4 August 2026 · merged from 5 catalogues
2.1
Latest earthquake · depth 6.6 km
02.08.2026 08:10 UTC · from centre 70 km
8,357
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1905–2026
record span
2.42
mean magnitude
5,760
epicentre inside the border

By year

Stacked by magnitude; one column per year.

057111421905: 1 (M5+)19051907: 1 (M5+)1908: 1 (M5+)1910: 1 (M5+)1914: 1 (M5+)19151920: 1 (M5+)19251926: 1 (M5+)1928: 1 (M5+)1932: 1 (M5+)19351937: 1 (M5+)1938: 1 (M5+)1939: 1 (M5+)19451947: 2 (M5+)1952: 1 (M5+)19551957: 2 (M5+)1961: 1 (M5+)1963: 1 (M4–5)1964: 2 (M4–5)19651966: 1 (M4–5)1967: 5 (M4–5)1968: 1 (M4–5)1968: 1 (M5+)1969: 3 (M4–5)1970: 2 (M4–5)1971: 3 (M4–5)1973: 1 (M4–5)1974: 1 (M3–4)1974: 1 (M4–5)1975: 5 (M4–5)19751976: 3 (M4–5)1977: 2 (M4–5)1977: 1 (M5+)1978: 1 (M3–4)1978: 7 (M4–5)1978: 2 (M5+)1979: 2 (M3–4)1979: 2 (M4–5)1979: 1 (M5+)1980: 6 (M4–5)1980: 1 (M5+)1981: 6 (M4–5)1982: 4 (M4–5)1983: 3 (M4–5)1984: 2 (M4–5)1985: 5 (M4–5)19851986: 3 (M4–5)1987: 4 (M3–4)1987: 7 (M4–5)1988: 13 (M<3)1988: 14 (M3–4)1988: 1 (M4–5)1989: 18 (M<3)1989: 2 (M3–4)1989: 3 (M4–5)1990: 1 (M<3)1990: 1 (M3–4)1990: 3 (M4–5)1990: 1 (M5+)1991: 1 (M<3)1991: 6 (M3–4)1991: 2 (M4–5)1992: 4 (M<3)1992: 4 (M3–4)1992: 4 (M4–5)1992: 1 (M5+)1993: 11 (M<3)1993: 6 (M3–4)1993: 5 (M4–5)1994: 1 (M<3)1994: 1 (M4–5)1994: 1 (M5+)1995: 6 (M3–4)1995: 3 (M4–5)19951996: 4 (M3–4)1996: 5 (M4–5)1997: 2 (M3–4)1997: 2 (M4–5)1998: 15 (M<3)1998: 7 (M3–4)1998: 2 (M4–5)1999: 22 (M<3)1999: 3 (M3–4)1999: 6 (M4–5)2000: 7 (M<3)2000: 3 (M3–4)2001: 1 (M<3)2001: 2 (M3–4)2001: 7 (M4–5)2001: 1 (M5+)2002: 116 (M<3)2002: 43 (M3–4)2002: 13 (M4–5)2002: 2 (M5+)2003: 81 (M<3)2003: 8 (M3–4)2003: 2 (M4–5)2004: 70 (M<3)2004: 23 (M3–4)2004: 1 (M4–5)2004: 1 (M5+)2005: 76 (M<3)2005: 14 (M3–4)2005: 3 (M4–5)2005: 1 (M5+)20052006: 120 (M<3)2006: 27 (M3–4)2006: 5 (M4–5)2006: 1 (M5+)2007: 252 (M<3)2007: 11 (M3–4)2007: 2 (M4–5)2007: 1 (M5+)2008: 331 (M<3)2008: 19 (M3–4)2008: 2 (M4–5)2008: 1 (M5+)2009: 248 (M<3)2009: 4 (M3–4)2009: 10 (M4–5)2010: 449 (M<3)2010: 19 (M3–4)2010: 6 (M4–5)2011: 1,094 (M<3)2011: 41 (M3–4)2011: 7 (M4–5)2012: 268 (M<3)2012: 30 (M3–4)2012: 6 (M4–5)2013: 347 (M<3)2013: 22 (M3–4)2013: 4 (M4–5)2014: 313 (M<3)2014: 31 (M3–4)2014: 6 (M4–5)2015: 286 (M<3)2015: 21 (M3–4)2015: 6 (M4–5)20152016: 94 (M<3)2016: 31 (M3–4)2017: 199 (M<3)2017: 25 (M3–4)2018: 479 (M<3)2018: 56 (M3–4)2018: 6 (M4–5)2018: 1 (M5+)2019: 319 (M<3)2019: 26 (M3–4)2019: 3 (M4–5)2020: 344 (M<3)2020: 32 (M3–4)2020: 3 (M4–5)2021: 378 (M<3)2021: 31 (M3–4)2021: 7 (M4–5)2022: 293 (M<3)2022: 31 (M3–4)2022: 3 (M4–5)2023: 318 (M<3)2023: 25 (M3–4)2023: 8 (M4–5)2024: 223 (M<3)2024: 8 (M3–4)2024: 2 (M4–5)2025: 269 (M<3)2025: 20 (M3–4)2025: 3 (M4–5)20252026: 326 (M<3)2026: 32 (M3–4)2026: 7 (M4–5)2026: 2 (M5+)
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.

MagnitudeDateDepthDistance
7.208.09.1905 01:4315 km84 km
7.128.12.1908 04:2015 km63 km
6.813.04.1938 02:45270 km103 km
6.501.08.1910 10:40200 km78 km
6.415.01.1968 02:0112.6 km174 km
6.201.06.2026 22:12249 km134 km
6.015.04.1978 23:3316.8 km24 km
6.007.03.1928 10:55120 km107 km
5.906.09.2002 01:2113.3 km108 km
5.923.10.1907 20:2815 km92 km
5.826.10.2006 14:28220.5 km67 km
5.805.01.1994 13:24287.7 km99 km
5.817.08.1926 01:42100 km79 km
5.728.05.1980 19:5127.8 km56 km
5.613.12.1990 00:2419.8 km120 km

Latest earthquakes

MagnitudeDateDepthDistance
2.102.08.2026 08:106.6 km70 km
2.302.08.2026 07:415.4 km69 km
2.030.07.2026 08:08111.5 km29 km
2.127.07.2026 11:1315.4 km18 km
2.025.07.2026 13:3326.4 km69 km
2.424.07.2026 14:28134.5 km52 km
2.024.07.2026 13:347.8 km62 km
4.723.07.2026 22:55251.6 km82 km
2.223.07.2026 13:5411.4 km80 km
2.423.07.2026 11:2626.6 km26 km
2.921.07.2026 18:0611.1 km22 km
2.221.07.2026 15:01118.1 km40 km
2.120.07.2026 16:18129.9 km52 km
2.119.07.2026 07:05107.9 km44 km
2.218.07.2026 14:5111.3 km11 km
2.218.07.2026 14:5010.7 km11 km
2.018.07.2026 14:478.2 km10 km
2.615.07.2026 17:0388.8 km73 km
2.215.07.2026 04:16116.4 km43 km
2.315.07.2026 01:35111.4 km34 km
2.014.07.2026 16:5793.6 km82 km
2.912.07.2026 17:298.1 km20 km
2.012.07.2026 14:409.4 km45 km
2.411.07.2026 06:599.4 km21 km
2.210.07.2026 23:17158.7 km77 km
2.010.07.2026 11:1285.4 km89 km
2.210.07.2026 05:157.8 km21 km
2.209.07.2026 21:39172.6 km93 km
2.209.07.2026 08:249.6 km21 km
2.209.07.2026 08:199.8 km21 km
2.009.07.2026 08:158 km20 km
3.209.07.2026 08:109.3 km20 km
2.008.07.2026 05:129.2 km78 km
2.505.07.2026 23:3310.3 km26 km
2.704.07.2026 16:5210.8 km73 km
3.804.07.2026 15:4610 km72 km
2.303.07.2026 18:078.2 km39 km
2.102.07.2026 23:51115 km28 km
2.102.07.2026 23:06120.8 km35 km
2.028.06.2026 03:5390.3 km90 km
2.227.06.2026 00:347.7 km76 km
2.426.06.2026 17:13130 km59 km
2.024.06.2026 15:41118.2 km42 km
2.022.06.2026 17:40116.9 km46 km
2.121.06.2026 02:2510.6 km38 km
2.020.06.2026 13:01148.1 km13 km
2.119.06.2026 10:3934.4 km21 km
2.119.06.2026 10:079.1 km21 km
2.019.06.2026 06:39115.3 km43 km
2.517.06.2026 20:48115.9 km42 km
2.717.06.2026 19:38167.9 km53 km
2.717.06.2026 11:54120.2 km41 km
2.317.06.2026 05:0725.9 km54 km
2.817.06.2026 05:0224 km54 km
2.416.06.2026 06:1710.8 km39 km
2.116.06.2026 02:4562 km20 km
2.516.06.2026 02:439.8 km38 km
2.214.06.2026 06:15120.9 km46 km
4.213.06.2026 17:28226.3 km62 km
2.213.06.2026 15:1910.7 km38 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.