4.4
20,195
recorded earthquakes
M7.9
largest
1900–2026
record span
4.35
mean magnitude
18,142
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.9 | 25.11.1953 17:48 | 25 km | 641 km |
| 7.9 | 05.11.1938 08:43 | 35 km | 878 km |
| 7.9 | 01.09.1923 02:58 | 15 km | 912 km |
| 7.9 | 11.03.2011 06:15 | 25.4 km | 861 km |
| 7.9 | 30.05.2015 11:23 | 685.5 km | 625 km |
| 7.8 | 05.11.1938 10:50 | 35 km | 892 km |
| 7.7 | 10.11.1930 13:35 | 30 km | 860 km |
| 7.7 | 23.05.1938 07:18 | 15 km | 865 km |
| 7.6 | 04.12.1972 10:16 | 58.2 km | 657 km |
| 7.6 | 02.09.1923 02:46 | 15 km | 837 km |
| 7.5 | 29.02.1972 09:23 | 47.1 km | 655 km |
| 7.4 | 21.12.2010 17:19 | 20.3 km | 437 km |
| 7.4 | 21.01.1906 13:49 | 300 km | 933 km |
| 7.4 | 12.02.1910 18:10 | 350 km | 859 km |
| 7.4 | 06.03.1984 02:17 | 450.1 km | 734 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.4 | 04.08.2026 04:46 | 105.4 km | 677 km |
| 3.3 | 01.08.2026 09:22 | 20 km | 825 km |
| 4.4 | 01.08.2026 06:01 | 35 km | 741 km |
| 4.1 | 27.07.2026 23:20 | 462 km | 687 km |
| 4.5 | 27.07.2026 19:03 | 428.2 km | 656 km |
| 4.5 | 24.07.2026 23:18 | 70 km | 696 km |
| 4.6 | 24.07.2026 18:43 | 39.4 km | 506 km |
| 4.4 | 20.07.2026 18:44 | 10 km | 416 km |
| 3.1 | 20.07.2026 17:23 | 20 km | 948 km |
| 4.4 | 17.07.2026 19:45 | 47 km | 819 km |
| 3.7 | 16.07.2026 16:04 | 10 km | 675 km |
| 3.8 | 16.07.2026 00:01 | 43.1 km | 840 km |
| 3.0 | 13.07.2026 06:32 | 50 km | 845 km |
| 3.7 | 11.07.2026 10:20 | 90.4 km | 591 km |
| 3.0 | 08.07.2026 04:25 | 50 km | 847 km |
| 3.7 | 07.07.2026 18:53 | 0 km | 419 km |
| 4.1 | 05.07.2026 17:03 | 10 km | 440 km |
| 4.4 | 04.07.2026 17:44 | 10 km | 412 km |
| 3.2 | 04.07.2026 17:44 | 0 km | 419 km |
| 3.8 | 04.07.2026 17:04 | 38.8 km | 434 km |
| 4.2 | 04.07.2026 16:57 | 0 km | 428 km |
| 3.4 | 04.07.2026 05:03 | 10 km | 464 km |
| 4.8 | 04.07.2026 05:03 | 10 km | 446 km |
| 4.5 | 02.07.2026 15:00 | 10 km | 451 km |
| 3.3 | 02.07.2026 15:00 | 0 km | 450 km |
| 4.3 | 02.07.2026 07:17 | 52.2 km | 844 km |
| 3.5 | 01.07.2026 14:47 | 421.1 km | 671 km |
| 4.0 | 30.06.2026 20:48 | 0 km | 432 km |
| 4.2 | 30.06.2026 15:02 | 56.8 km | 758 km |
| 4.5 | 30.06.2026 10:08 | 481.2 km | 679 km |
| 3.8 | 30.06.2026 02:35 | 48.2 km | 705 km |
| 4.6 | 27.06.2026 14:15 | 10 km | 489 km |
| 4.2 | 26.06.2026 18:59 | 74.2 km | 882 km |
| 3.3 | 26.06.2026 14:17 | 20 km | 941 km |
| 5.3 | 26.06.2026 13:28 | 21.8 km | 945 km |
| 4.5 | 26.06.2026 04:31 | 31.3 km | 856 km |
| 3.5 | 26.06.2026 04:22 | 50 km | 845 km |
| 3.8 | 26.06.2026 04:00 | 62.7 km | 832 km |
| 3.1 | 26.06.2026 03:52 | 50 km | 845 km |
| 5.8 | 26.06.2026 03:46 | 52 km | 855 km |
| 3.9 | 26.06.2026 02:48 | 49.8 km | 914 km |
| 3.8 | 25.06.2026 05:12 | 153.5 km | 592 km |
| 3.2 | 24.06.2026 02:07 | 519.3 km | 678 km |
| 4.3 | 23.06.2026 11:36 | 10 km | 425 km |
| 4.4 | 21.06.2026 20:28 | 10 km | 368 km |
| 3.1 | 21.06.2026 20:28 | 0 km | 368 km |
| 4.0 | 20.06.2026 13:12 | 10 km | 376 km |
| 3.9 | 19.06.2026 19:40 | 37.7 km | 447 km |
| 5.4 | 18.06.2026 19:17 | 10 km | 434 km |
| 4.2 | 18.06.2026 18:43 | 38.6 km | 805 km |
| 4.4 | 16.06.2026 10:55 | 42.4 km | 906 km |
| 5.4 | 16.06.2026 10:46 | 52 km | 932 km |
| 4.5 | 16.06.2026 02:52 | 10 km | 564 km |
| 3.5 | 16.06.2026 02:11 | 0 km | 467 km |
| 4.4 | 15.06.2026 09:40 | 0 km | 431 km |
| 4.2 | 14.06.2026 11:06 | 10 km | 488 km |
| 4.4 | 13.06.2026 00:32 | 10 km | 490 km |
| 4.4 | 11.06.2026 12:08 | 10 km | 486 km |
| 4.0 | 09.06.2026 14:59 | 298.8 km | 808 km |
| 3.4 | 09.06.2026 14:07 | 492.9 km | 698 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.