2.5
11,673
recorded earthquakes
M9.2
largest
1902–2026
record span
3.70
mean magnitude
10,299
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.2 | 26.08.2024 04:26 | — | 809 km |
| 7.8 | 03.01.1911 23:25 | 20 km | 1025 km |
| 7.7 | 22.08.1902 03:00 | 0 km | 1163 km |
| 7.3 | 02.11.1946 18:28 | 25 km | 784 km |
| 7.3 | 23.02.1949 16:08 | 10 km | 1454 km |
| 7.2 | 27.09.2003 11:33 | 10.3 km | 1564 km |
| 7.2 | 22.12.1906 18:21 | 15 km | 1446 km |
| 7.2 | 19.08.1992 02:04 | 20.6 km | 822 km |
| 7.2 | 09.03.1944 22:12 | 10 km | 1365 km |
| 7.1 | 15.04.1955 03:40 | 20 km | 1078 km |
| 7.1 | 04.11.1946 21:47 | 37.9 km | 1292 km |
| 7.1 | 11.08.1974 01:13 | 7.9 km | 1089 km |
| 7.1 | 13.04.1961 16:34 | 35 km | 1217 km |
| 7.0 | 22.01.2024 18:09 | 8.8 km | 1151 km |
| 7.0 | 15.04.1955 04:13 | 20 km | 1064 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 | 02.08.2026 13:24 | 0 km | 851 km |
| 2.4 | 02.08.2026 04:22 | 10 km | 949 km |
| 1.8 | 01.08.2026 07:27 | 1 km | 852 km |
| 2.7 | 31.07.2026 15:26 | 0 km | 1001 km |
| 2.4 | 31.07.2026 14:32 | 0 km | 770 km |
| 2.1 | 31.07.2026 08:59 | 1 km | 910 km |
| 2.6 | 31.07.2026 06:09 | 10 km | 1010 km |
| 3.4 | 30.07.2026 22:41 | 10 km | 1502 km |
| 3.3 | 30.07.2026 21:28 | 10 km | 1497 km |
| 5.0 | 29.07.2026 06:09 | 30 km | 1132 km |
| 4.0 | 29.07.2026 01:41 | 10 km | 1584 km |
| 3.3 | 28.07.2026 00:51 | 22 km | 1457 km |
| 3.6 | 27.07.2026 09:00 | 21 km | 1540 km |
| 3.2 | 26.07.2026 00:34 | 1 km | 896 km |
| 2.5 | 25.07.2026 20:26 | 19 km | 860 km |
| 3.2 | 25.07.2026 15:57 | 28 km | 815 km |
| 2.5 | 24.07.2026 21:36 | 26 km | 838 km |
| 2.5 | 24.07.2026 19:26 | 33 km | 744 km |
| 3.4 | 24.07.2026 18:28 | 17 km | 1466 km |
| 1.7 | 24.07.2026 10:33 | 0 km | 822 km |
| 2.2 | 23.07.2026 08:26 | 0 km | 1043 km |
| 3.5 | 22.07.2026 14:53 | 0 km | 960 km |
| 2.5 | 22.07.2026 04:45 | 0 km | 984 km |
| 2.0 | 21.07.2026 12:39 | 0 km | 933 km |
| 3.4 | 21.07.2026 05:47 | 0 km | 1144 km |
| 2.2 | 20.07.2026 14:12 | 5 km | 901 km |
| 2.4 | 20.07.2026 01:34 | 0 km | 964 km |
| 4.6 | 19.07.2026 20:41 | 10 km | 965 km |
| 3.1 | 19.07.2026 14:53 | 0 km | 918 km |
| 2.2 | 19.07.2026 12:29 | 3 km | 1029 km |
| 3.2 | 19.07.2026 06:19 | 15 km | 1429 km |
| 2.2 | 19.07.2026 03:28 | 0 km | 930 km |
| 2.2 | 18.07.2026 23:35 | 35 km | 888 km |
| 2.2 | 17.07.2026 23:44 | 5 km | 1031 km |
| 4.6 | 17.07.2026 21:09 | 10 km | 1022 km |
| 2.5 | 17.07.2026 14:41 | 5 km | 978 km |
| 2.0 | 17.07.2026 14:09 | 10 km | 807 km |
| 2.1 | 17.07.2026 11:00 | 10 km | 797 km |
| 2.7 | 17.07.2026 10:00 | 1 km | 987 km |
| 3.3 | 17.07.2026 02:41 | 14 km | 1434 km |
| 2.3 | 16.07.2026 15:02 | 0 km | 976 km |
| 2.1 | 16.07.2026 14:24 | 5 km | 801 km |
| 4.2 | 16.07.2026 00:34 | 10 km | 1443 km |
| 3.1 | 15.07.2026 18:44 | 10 km | 1714 km |
| 2.1 | 15.07.2026 10:42 | 11 km | 970 km |
| 4.0 | 14.07.2026 15:01 | 10 km | 1625 km |
| 2.5 | 14.07.2026 13:01 | 2 km | 1016 km |
| 2.1 | 14.07.2026 03:57 | 0 km | 937 km |
| 3.8 | 13.07.2026 14:42 | 20 km | 935 km |
| 2.9 | 13.07.2026 10:01 | 3 km | 937 km |
| 3.1 | 11.07.2026 15:40 | 10 km | 1275 km |
| 4.5 | 11.07.2026 15:40 | 10 km | 1274 km |
| 2.4 | 11.07.2026 13:06 | 10 km | 792 km |
| 1.8 | 10.07.2026 18:31 | 0 km | 915 km |
| 2.0 | 10.07.2026 07:00 | 0 km | 916 km |
| 3.9 | 09.07.2026 19:59 | 10 km | 691 km |
| 3.0 | 09.07.2026 14:45 | 1 km | 866 km |
| 4.6 | 09.07.2026 03:59 | 22 km | 1445 km |
| 2.4 | 08.07.2026 07:54 | 0 km | 869 km |
| 2.8 | 08.07.2026 06:48 | 0 km | 653 km |
Regions
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.