2.6
250,834
recorded earthquakes
M9.0
largest
1900–2026
record span
4.05
mean magnitude
246,438
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 | 10678 km |
| 8.6 | 28.03.2005 16:09 | 27.5 km | 10792 km |
| 8.6 | 31.01.1906 15:36 | 20 km | 8845 km |
| 8.6 | 01.02.1938 19:04 | 25 km | 14607 km |
| 8.6 | 11.04.2012 08:38 | 26.3 km | 10340 km |
| 8.5 | 12.09.2007 11:10 | 24 km | 11258 km |
| 8.3 | 19.08.1977 06:08 | 33 km | 13160 km |
| 8.2 | 11.04.2012 10:43 | 21.6 km | 10266 km |
| 8.2 | 24.01.1965 00:11 | 15.2 km | 13971 km |
| 8.2 | 17.02.1996 05:59 | 46.4 km | 15200 km |
| 8.1 | 03.10.1974 14:21 | 15.1 km | 8683 km |
| 8.1 | 14.05.1932 13:11 | 15 km | 13969 km |
| 8.1 | 26.07.1971 01:23 | 43 km | 16999 km |
| 8.1 | 20.09.1935 01:46 | 30 km | 15695 km |
| 8.1 | 17.10.1966 21:41 | 28.3 km | 8750 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 07:42 | 31 km | 13236 km |
| 3.2 | 04.08.2026 06:57 | 14 km | 11378 km |
| 4.0 | 04.08.2026 06:11 | 35 km | 13519 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 05:51 | 87 km | 13790 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 05:15 | 44 km | 12315 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 04:35 | 13 km | 13377 km |
| 3.7 | 04.08.2026 04:29 | 20 km | 14020 km |
| 3.1 | 04.08.2026 04:17 | 17 km | 13112 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 04:09 | 11 km | 13543 km |
| 3.2 | 04.08.2026 03:01 | 200 km | 14287 km |
| 2.9 | 04.08.2026 02:35 | 56 km | 13628 km |
| 3.8 | 04.08.2026 01:32 | 422 km | 13763 km |
| 3.5 | 04.08.2026 00:51 | 47 km | 13731 km |
| 2.8 | 04.08.2026 00:31 | 3 km | 13391 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 00:14 | 5 km | 12668 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 23:18 | 14 km | 13151 km |
| 3.4 | 03.08.2026 22:25 | 86 km | 13551 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 22:18 | 27 km | 11681 km |
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 21:37 | 7 km | 14055 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 21:03 | 5 km | 13269 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 21:02 | 3 km | 14100 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 20:07 | 8 km | 14359 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 20:03 | 22 km | 14115 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 19:52 | 17 km | 13226 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 19:50 | 17 km | 13865 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 19:44 | 94 km | 13583 km |
| 3.0 | 03.08.2026 19:32 | 4 km | 14985 km |
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 19:25 | 78 km | 15416 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 19:18 | 10 km | 15657 km |
| 3.7 | 03.08.2026 19:12 | 59 km | 14188 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 18:20 | 97 km | 15533 km |
| 3.0 | 03.08.2026 18:12 | 22 km | 15423 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 17:45 | 89 km | 11110 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 17:21 | 74 km | 12248 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 16:27 | 10 km | 15418 km |
| 3.1 | 03.08.2026 15:48 | 10 km | 15185 km |
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 15:43 | 171 km | 13960 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 15:25 | 25 km | 14224 km |
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 15:18 | 23 km | 13972 km |
| 3.4 | 03.08.2026 15:11 | 20 km | 8644 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 14:45 | 20 km | 13054 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 14:28 | 18 km | 13461 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 14:00 | 16 km | 14045 km |
| 3.8 | 03.08.2026 13:55 | 338 km | 14207 km |
| 4.8 | 03.08.2026 13:14 | 35 km | 17330 km |
| 3.8 | 03.08.2026 13:13 | 7 km | 13269 km |
| 3.4 | 03.08.2026 12:23 | 10 km | 12575 km |
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 12:10 | 30 km | 12544 km |
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 12:09 | 5 km | 14262 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 11:55 | 10 km | 14268 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 11:49 | 56 km | 14288 km |
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 11:48 | 20 km | 13151 km |
| 3.4 | 03.08.2026 11:39 | 10 km | 15412 km |
| 3.1 | 03.08.2026 11:36 | 25 km | 14000 km |
| 3.5 | 03.08.2026 11:30 | 12 km | 11386 km |
| 3.0 | 03.08.2026 11:16 | 35 km | 14039 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 11:13 | 26 km | 13445 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 10:08 | 33 km | 12502 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 10:05 | 5 km | 13574 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 09:40 | 17 km | 13245 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.