3.0
11,899
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1901–2026
record span
3.00
mean magnitude
6,256
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.2 | 31.12.1934 18:45 | 10 km | 438 km |
| 7.2 | 16.10.1907 13:57 | 35 km | 169 km |
| 7.2 | 04.04.2010 22:40 | 5.5 km | 471 km |
| 7.1 | 09.12.1901 02:17 | 0 km | 412 km |
| 7.1 | 12.12.1902 23:10 | 0 km | 222 km |
| 7.1 | 21.11.1915 00:13 | 35 km | 430 km |
| 7.1 | 29.04.1954 11:34 | 10 km | 127 km |
| 7.1 | 02.05.1939 13:14 | 10 km | 174 km |
| 7.0 | 12.04.2012 07:15 | 10 km | 146 km |
| 7.0 | 09.02.1956 14:32 | 15 km | 487 km |
| 6.9 | 03.08.2009 17:59 | 11.1 km | 113 km |
| 6.9 | 19.05.1940 04:36 | 10 km | 561 km |
| 6.8 | 20.11.1949 07:09 | 10 km | 114 km |
| 6.8 | 23.05.1918 11:57 | 10 km | 298 km |
| 6.8 | 07.07.1932 16:15 | 10 km | 145 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 02.08.2026 22:57 | 13.9 km | 332 km |
| 3.6 | 02.08.2026 22:54 | 10 km | 331 km |
| 3.3 | 02.08.2026 22:52 | 12.1 km | 332 km |
| 3.1 | 02.08.2026 22:24 | 8.5 km | 368 km |
| 3.5 | 02.08.2026 22:22 | 5.4 km | 258 km |
| 4.0 | 02.08.2026 21:50 | 10 km | 290 km |
| 5.1 | 02.08.2026 13:10 | 10 km | 232 km |
| 3.5 | 02.08.2026 10:15 | 7.2 km | 294 km |
| 4.1 | 23.07.2026 02:01 | 10 km | 216 km |
| 3.4 | 21.07.2026 22:43 | 10 km | 288 km |
| 3.2 | 16.07.2026 10:48 | 15 km | 351 km |
| 3.6 | 16.07.2026 08:58 | 7.2 km | 285 km |
| 3.4 | 15.07.2026 09:28 | 7 km | 178 km |
| 3.9 | 14.07.2026 19:41 | 10 km | 265 km |
| 3.5 | 14.07.2026 19:34 | 5 km | 273 km |
| 3.9 | 11.07.2026 18:30 | 2.9 km | 163 km |
| 3.6 | 09.07.2026 22:38 | 10 km | 270 km |
| 3.6 | 09.07.2026 22:07 | 10 km | 267 km |
| 3.7 | 08.07.2026 07:41 | 5 km | 265 km |
| 3.8 | 06.07.2026 10:53 | 5.5 km | 172 km |
| 3.3 | 04.07.2026 19:54 | 7 km | 185 km |
| 3.6 | 04.07.2026 17:10 | 16 km | 273 km |
| 3.4 | 27.06.2026 20:29 | 3.6 km | 245 km |
| 1.6 | 20.06.2026 08:10 | 20.6 km | 479 km |
| 3.5 | 18.06.2026 22:48 | 6.6 km | 357 km |
| 3.2 | 18.06.2026 22:44 | 5.6 km | 359 km |
| 3.4 | 18.06.2026 08:13 | 12.9 km | 356 km |
| 3.6 | 17.06.2026 09:07 | 8.7 km | 306 km |
| 3.5 | 16.06.2026 09:53 | 15 km | 319 km |
| 3.8 | 15.06.2026 22:05 | 8.6 km | 203 km |
| 3.4 | 15.06.2026 21:36 | 2.2 km | 318 km |
| 3.6 | 15.06.2026 20:47 | 10 km | 299 km |
| 3.5 | 13.06.2026 20:44 | 6.7 km | 180 km |
| 3.8 | 13.06.2026 09:13 | 15 km | 273 km |
| 4.3 | 12.06.2026 09:17 | 11.6 km | 186 km |
| 3.7 | 11.06.2026 22:27 | 19.7 km | 313 km |
| 3.6 | 11.06.2026 19:15 | 7.5 km | 273 km |
| 3.7 | 11.06.2026 17:25 | 9.8 km | 364 km |
| 3.5 | 10.06.2026 20:22 | 10 km | 206 km |
| 3.4 | 10.06.2026 10:47 | 5.9 km | 194 km |
| 4.0 | 10.06.2026 06:46 | 10 km | 185 km |
| 3.4 | 09.06.2026 07:48 | 6.8 km | 194 km |
| 3.8 | 08.06.2026 20:53 | 7.8 km | 178 km |
| 3.9 | 07.06.2026 22:47 | 10 km | 231 km |
| 3.5 | 06.06.2026 20:00 | 7.5 km | 200 km |
| 3.4 | 06.06.2026 08:18 | 7 km | 194 km |
| 3.5 | 05.06.2026 17:51 | 5 km | 150 km |
| 3.8 | 04.06.2026 09:40 | 10 km | 160 km |
| 4.4 | 02.06.2026 21:39 | 0 km | 304 km |
| 3.6 | 02.06.2026 09:42 | 10 km | 168 km |
| 4.0 | 02.06.2026 09:01 | 15.3 km | 141 km |
| 3.4 | 01.06.2026 10:56 | 10 km | 238 km |
| 4.2 | 31.05.2026 13:32 | 20.3 km | 145 km |
| 3.1 | 31.05.2026 07:20 | 16.7 km | 228 km |
| 3.5 | 30.05.2026 09:18 | 17.5 km | 355 km |
| 4.0 | 29.05.2026 10:21 | 5.2 km | 225 km |
| 4.2 | 29.05.2026 05:56 | 10 km | 240 km |
| 4.0 | 29.05.2026 03:42 | 10 km | 253 km |
| 3.8 | 28.05.2026 20:56 | 5.8 km | 186 km |
| 2.0 | 28.05.2026 00:43 | 17.6 km | 477 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.