2.7
2,641
recorded earthquakes
M8.1
largest
1900–2026
record span
4.34
mean magnitude
1,877
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 | 20.09.1935 01:46 | 30 km | 75 km |
| 7.8 | 07.10.1900 21:04 | 0 km | 231 km |
| 7.7 | 10.01.1971 07:17 | 40.3 km | 264 km |
| 7.6 | 29.07.1917 21:52 | 35 km | 53 km |
| 7.6 | 08.09.2002 18:44 | 18 km | 110 km |
| 7.5 | 25.02.2018 17:44 | 29 km | 300 km |
| 7.4 | 15.12.1907 17:35 | 0 km | 72 km |
| 7.3 | 16.07.1980 19:56 | 84.6 km | 191 km |
| 7.2 | 24.06.1986 03:11 | 116.4 km | 237 km |
| 7.2 | 03.07.1918 06:52 | 15 km | 157 km |
| 7.1 | 25.06.1976 19:18 | 17.5 km | 240 km |
| 7.1 | 26.08.1906 06:01 | 15 km | 267 km |
| 7.1 | 07.08.1931 02:11 | 35 km | 16 km |
| 7.1 | 27.04.1909 12:42 | 15 km | 239 km |
| 7.0 | 09.06.1925 13:40 | 25 km | 168 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 19:18 | 10 km | 114 km |
| 2.5 | 27.07.2026 15:09 | 10 km | 110 km |
| 4.2 | 26.07.2026 11:58 | 13 km | 61 km |
| 3.5 | 26.07.2026 11:41 | 10 km | 130 km |
| 2.6 | 26.07.2026 11:10 | 10 km | 125 km |
| 2.6 | 26.07.2026 07:44 | 10 km | 117 km |
| 2.8 | 26.07.2026 07:38 | 8 km | 140 km |
| 2.6 | 26.07.2026 04:01 | 9 km | 136 km |
| 2.9 | 23.07.2026 14:06 | 10 km | 169 km |
| 2.9 | 22.07.2026 22:57 | 7 km | 86 km |
| 3.2 | 19.07.2026 04:08 | 26 km | 175 km |
| 3.4 | 18.07.2026 23:58 | 16 km | 181 km |
| 2.7 | 18.07.2026 21:57 | 16 km | 173 km |
| 4.1 | 18.07.2026 08:04 | 13 km | 105 km |
| 2.5 | 16.07.2026 16:37 | 10 km | 189 km |
| 2.9 | 08.07.2026 18:31 | 10 km | 123 km |
| 3.7 | 08.07.2026 09:54 | 10 km | 141 km |
| 3.2 | 03.07.2026 17:02 | 20 km | 145 km |
| 3.1 | 02.07.2026 14:06 | 47 km | 142 km |
| 3.2 | 30.06.2026 17:12 | 7 km | 48 km |
| 3.3 | 29.06.2026 12:04 | 23 km | 111 km |
| 2.7 | 28.06.2026 17:22 | 30 km | 131 km |
| 3.3 | 26.06.2026 16:08 | 12 km | 91 km |
| 3.8 | 26.06.2026 14:29 | 19 km | 90 km |
| 2.6 | 26.06.2026 13:14 | 17 km | 127 km |
| 3.7 | 26.06.2026 10:37 | 127 km | 120 km |
| 2.5 | 26.06.2026 04:03 | 29 km | 119 km |
| 2.9 | 21.06.2026 13:57 | 10 km | 91 km |
| 3.4 | 21.06.2026 12:23 | 13 km | 42 km |
| 3.4 | 21.06.2026 08:57 | 8 km | 108 km |
| 4.1 | 18.06.2026 19:45 | 10 km | 159 km |
| 2.7 | 17.06.2026 03:52 | 10 km | 188 km |
| 2.9 | 16.06.2026 22:21 | 10 km | 86 km |
| 3.8 | 16.06.2026 17:03 | 0 km | 75 km |
| 4.2 | 16.06.2026 16:18 | 10 km | 83 km |
| 3.4 | 12.06.2026 11:53 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 2.6 | 08.06.2026 15:38 | 14 km | 181 km |
| 3.1 | 07.06.2026 22:54 | 10 km | 10 km |
| 3.8 | 06.06.2026 04:27 | 111.1 km | 71 km |
| 2.6 | 05.06.2026 09:23 | 11 km | 190 km |
| 3.3 | 02.06.2026 22:17 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 3.1 | 29.05.2026 04:17 | 41 km | 98 km |
| 2.8 | 27.05.2026 15:42 | 10 km | 94 km |
| 3.2 | 18.05.2026 22:57 | 10 km | 80 km |
| 4.3 | 18.05.2026 22:52 | 10 km | 219 km |
| 2.9 | 15.05.2026 12:40 | 8 km | 215 km |
| 3.4 | 14.05.2026 07:26 | 43 km | 94 km |
| 2.5 | 12.05.2026 10:52 | 28 km | 126 km |
| 3.7 | 12.05.2026 01:55 | 10 km | 92 km |
| 3.1 | 11.05.2026 16:16 | 10 km | 83 km |
| 2.5 | 07.05.2026 18:24 | 10 km | 94 km |
| 3.1 | 06.05.2026 22:38 | 133 km | 124 km |
| 2.8 | 06.05.2026 16:58 | 41 km | 105 km |
| 3.2 | 06.05.2026 14:23 | 16 km | 97 km |
| 3.3 | 04.05.2026 16:52 | 10 km | 197 km |
| 2.7 | 30.04.2026 18:07 | 28 km | 77 km |
| 2.9 | 30.04.2026 11:49 | 10 km | 92 km |
| 3.2 | 30.04.2026 11:06 | 14 km | 155 km |
| 3.2 | 30.04.2026 09:28 | 63 km | 87 km |
| 3.5 | 30.04.2026 09:01 | 53 km | 90 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.