3.1
3,205
recorded earthquakes
M8.0
largest
1908–2026
record span
4.00
mean magnitude
2,930
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.0 | 15.01.1934 08:43 | 15 km | 294 km |
| 7.9 | 25.04.2015 06:11 | 13.4 km | 66 km |
| 7.3 | 15.12.1934 01:57 | 15 km | 590 km |
| 7.2 | 12.05.2015 07:05 | 12.3 km | 208 km |
| 7.2 | 28.08.1916 06:39 | 20 km | 362 km |
| 7.1 | 07.01.2025 01:05 | 10 km | 321 km |
| 6.9 | 20.08.1908 09:53 | 15 km | 484 km |
| 6.9 | 18.09.2011 12:40 | 29.6 km | 401 km |
| 6.8 | 17.10.1944 18:36 | 20 km | 336 km |
| 6.8 | 20.08.1988 23:09 | 58.1 km | 308 km |
| 6.8 | 27.05.1936 06:19 | 15 km | 78 km |
| 6.7 | 26.04.2015 07:09 | 13.4 km | 197 km |
| 6.7 | 25.08.2008 13:22 | 23.9 km | 293 km |
| 6.7 | 25.04.2015 06:45 | 14.7 km | 76 km |
| 6.5 | 29.07.1980 14:58 | 17.5 km | 328 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 04.08.2026 03:10 | 5 km | 365 km |
| 3.5 | 03.08.2026 15:08 | 25 km | 173 km |
| 4.0 | 02.08.2026 21:22 | 30 km | 163 km |
| 3.0 | 01.08.2026 00:01 | 9.5 km | 417 km |
| 3.1 | 30.07.2026 21:25 | 14 km | 261 km |
| 3.4 | 30.07.2026 19:48 | 15 km | 363 km |
| 4.1 | 30.07.2026 19:20 | 90 km | 238 km |
| 4.3 | 30.07.2026 17:55 | 130 km | 277 km |
| 3.1 | 28.07.2026 23:19 | 15 km | 303 km |
| 3.0 | 25.07.2026 18:14 | 10 km | 390 km |
| 4.0 | 21.07.2026 22:55 | 10 km | 239 km |
| 4.5 | 19.07.2026 10:45 | 10 km | 127 km |
| 3.9 | 17.07.2026 17:57 | 10 km | 328 km |
| 3.8 | 16.07.2026 18:23 | 258.9 km | 183 km |
| 4.4 | 11.07.2026 21:23 | 10 km | 216 km |
| 3.0 | 11.07.2026 20:12 | 10 km | 309 km |
| 3.4 | 10.07.2026 01:41 | 30 km | 329 km |
| 3.5 | 08.07.2026 05:42 | 10 km | 323 km |
| 3.3 | 06.07.2026 13:41 | 21 km | 327 km |
| 3.2 | 02.07.2026 02:40 | 55 km | 278 km |
| 3.7 | 01.07.2026 09:45 | 19.4 km | 138 km |
| 3.5 | 29.06.2026 17:47 | 10 km | 334 km |
| 4.4 | 25.06.2026 00:37 | 110.2 km | 182 km |
| 3.8 | 24.06.2026 23:51 | 25 km | 219 km |
| 3.2 | 23.06.2026 15:55 | 10 km | 325 km |
| 3.9 | 21.06.2026 08:47 | 30 km | 270 km |
| 2.5 | 21.06.2026 04:51 | 20 km | 411 km |
| 2.8 | 19.06.2026 22:27 | 10 km | 342 km |
| 3.9 | 19.06.2026 07:36 | 10 km | 407 km |
| 2.8 | 13.06.2026 13:29 | 15 km | 379 km |
| 4.3 | 11.06.2026 20:29 | 124.9 km | 223 km |
| 3.3 | 11.06.2026 19:46 | 10 km | 325 km |
| 3.7 | 06.06.2026 07:39 | 10 km | 279 km |
| 3.2 | 06.06.2026 04:57 | 10 km | 319 km |
| 3.2 | 06.06.2026 04:46 | 10 km | 325 km |
| 3.1 | 05.06.2026 18:53 | 10 km | 322 km |
| 4.4 | 05.06.2026 18:53 | 138.8 km | 200 km |
| 4.1 | 05.06.2026 15:11 | 225.2 km | 61 km |
| 2.6 | 01.06.2026 01:59 | 5 km | 389 km |
| 2.7 | 30.05.2026 16:29 | 10 km | 344 km |
| 2.9 | 28.05.2026 15:48 | 70 km | 382 km |
| 4.0 | 27.05.2026 10:23 | 161.1 km | 154 km |
| 3.9 | 22.05.2026 23:33 | 17 km | 319 km |
| 3.0 | 22.05.2026 22:27 | 10 km | 337 km |
| 3.5 | 20.05.2026 14:10 | 10 km | 365 km |
| 3.2 | 20.05.2026 07:33 | 10 km | 366 km |
| 2.9 | 20.05.2026 05:46 | 12 km | 380 km |
| 2.8 | 18.05.2026 19:25 | 15 km | 298 km |
| 2.6 | 16.05.2026 15:12 | 10 km | 387 km |
| 4.3 | 13.05.2026 16:36 | 219.8 km | 298 km |
| 3.3 | 12.05.2026 22:42 | 4.6 km | 349 km |
| 3.0 | 11.05.2026 20:29 | 5 km | 367 km |
| 3.7 | 07.05.2026 05:29 | 45 km | 84 km |
| 2.7 | 04.05.2026 08:24 | 10 km | 299 km |
| 2.7 | 03.05.2026 06:27 | 10 km | 344 km |
| 2.7 | 28.04.2026 12:02 | 25 km | 404 km |
| 2.5 | 28.04.2026 04:31 | 10 km | 400 km |
| 2.8 | 28.04.2026 02:28 | 10 km | 316 km |
| 3.1 | 22.04.2026 15:08 | 10 km | 270 km |
| 2.6 | 21.04.2026 04:36 | 5 km | 446 km |
Regions
Bagmati Zone864Janakpur Zone776Karnali Zone538Sagarmatha Zone533Seti Zone505Narayani Zone460Mahakali Zone394Gandaki Zone384Mechi Zone282Bhojpur267Bheri Zone227
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.