4.8
7,275
recorded earthquakes
M8.1
largest
1905–2026
record span
4.53
mean magnitude
4,759
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.1 | 26.07.1971 01:23 | 43 km | 265 km |
| 8.0 | 14.07.1971 06:11 | 35 km | 364 km |
| 8.0 | 16.11.2000 04:54 | 32 km | 125 km |
| 7.9 | 17.12.2016 10:51 | 105.2 km | 258 km |
| 7.8 | 16.11.2000 07:42 | 27.5 km | 293 km |
| 7.8 | 06.05.1919 19:41 | 35 km | 302 km |
| 7.8 | 17.11.2000 21:01 | 30.6 km | 273 km |
| 7.7 | 16.08.1995 10:27 | 40.2 km | 414 km |
| 7.7 | 18.03.1983 09:05 | 84.4 km | 290 km |
| 7.7 | 30.05.1913 11:47 | 15 km | 177 km |
| 7.7 | 01.01.1916 13:20 | 35 km | 209 km |
| 7.6 | 09.09.2005 07:26 | 94.5 km | 258 km |
| 7.6 | 23.04.1953 16:24 | 35 km | 203 km |
| 7.6 | 29.09.1946 03:02 | 50 km | 300 km |
| 7.6 | 02.02.1920 11:22 | 35 km | 212 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.8 | 28.07.2026 23:51 | 10 km | 205 km |
| 5.3 | 27.07.2026 14:33 | 105.9 km | 252 km |
| 4.9 | 27.07.2026 11:59 | 113.3 km | 253 km |
| 5.0 | 17.07.2026 16:22 | 170.3 km | 260 km |
| 4.2 | 16.07.2026 17:46 | 64.4 km | 254 km |
| 4.0 | 16.07.2026 16:13 | 125.2 km | 226 km |
| 3.7 | 09.07.2026 22:53 | 197.6 km | 134 km |
| 3.9 | 09.07.2026 21:22 | 0 km | 205 km |
| 4.0 | 29.06.2026 17:37 | 0 km | 171 km |
| 3.6 | 28.06.2026 07:15 | 21.6 km | 123 km |
| 4.7 | 25.06.2026 06:19 | 34 km | 183 km |
| 3.5 | 21.06.2026 13:18 | 311.6 km | 268 km |
| 4.0 | 21.06.2026 08:48 | 0 km | 229 km |
| 4.0 | 16.06.2026 13:03 | 87.2 km | 223 km |
| 3.6 | 14.06.2026 14:16 | 129.6 km | 265 km |
| 3.9 | 14.06.2026 04:32 | 97.3 km | 261 km |
| 3.9 | 13.06.2026 23:28 | 107.9 km | 305 km |
| 3.8 | 12.06.2026 03:13 | 0 km | 120 km |
| 4.1 | 11.06.2026 18:49 | 56.7 km | 214 km |
| 3.4 | 08.06.2026 19:30 | 404.9 km | 196 km |
| 4.0 | 01.06.2026 16:09 | 112 km | 237 km |
| 3.6 | 31.05.2026 05:02 | 249 km | 174 km |
| 3.5 | 29.05.2026 22:26 | 300.4 km | 153 km |
| 5.0 | 25.05.2026 15:00 | 55.9 km | 256 km |
| 3.6 | 25.05.2026 15:00 | 0 km | 276 km |
| 4.0 | 23.05.2026 17:03 | 0 km | 122 km |
| 4.0 | 20.05.2026 02:09 | 86.5 km | 226 km |
| 3.3 | 17.05.2026 18:13 | 574 km | 299 km |
| 3.9 | 14.05.2026 23:51 | 161.6 km | 135 km |
| 3.5 | 09.05.2026 07:56 | 175.9 km | 156 km |
| 3.9 | 06.05.2026 00:08 | 103.1 km | 293 km |
| 3.4 | 04.05.2026 17:38 | 53.8 km | 259 km |
| 4.0 | 04.05.2026 06:41 | 63 km | 168 km |
| 3.1 | 03.05.2026 05:49 | 0 km | 128 km |
| 4.6 | 03.05.2026 04:40 | 65.1 km | 174 km |
| 3.3 | 03.05.2026 04:40 | 0 km | 178 km |
| 4.6 | 02.05.2026 14:15 | 61.5 km | 189 km |
| 3.3 | 02.05.2026 14:15 | 0 km | 178 km |
| 3.7 | 01.05.2026 03:58 | 134.2 km | 268 km |
| 3.8 | 30.04.2026 22:58 | 94.4 km | 190 km |
| 3.6 | 30.04.2026 16:36 | 113.6 km | 256 km |
| 3.8 | 30.04.2026 13:46 | 0 km | 232 km |
| 3.8 | 30.04.2026 13:04 | 75 km | 229 km |
| 3.5 | 30.04.2026 05:01 | 145.6 km | 266 km |
| 4.3 | 28.04.2026 10:27 | 111.3 km | 274 km |
| 4.0 | 27.04.2026 22:25 | 113.8 km | 260 km |
| 3.6 | 25.04.2026 06:01 | 128.6 km | 277 km |
| 4.2 | 24.04.2026 23:59 | 114.8 km | 282 km |
| 3.7 | 24.04.2026 19:48 | 112.2 km | 295 km |
| 4.0 | 24.04.2026 07:26 | 86.2 km | 291 km |
| 3.6 | 24.04.2026 05:25 | 141.2 km | 271 km |
| 3.8 | 23.04.2026 16:27 | 118.1 km | 292 km |
| 3.7 | 21.04.2026 23:31 | 60.3 km | 202 km |
| 3.6 | 18.04.2026 16:01 | 104.9 km | 270 km |
| 3.7 | 18.04.2026 13:27 | 112.6 km | 279 km |
| 3.3 | 14.04.2026 11:48 | 0 km | 161 km |
| 3.3 | 14.04.2026 11:44 | 0 km | 91 km |
| 3.5 | 13.04.2026 13:20 | 119.2 km | 271 km |
| 3.5 | 13.04.2026 05:30 | 133.8 km | 244 km |
| 3.8 | 11.04.2026 18:02 | 113.3 km | 269 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.