1.2
400,314
recorded earthquakes
M9.2
largest
1903–2026
record span
1.45
mean magnitude
381,762
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.2 | 28.03.1964 03:36 | 14.5 km | 6522 km |
| 7.8 | 03.11.2002 22:12 | 11.5 km | 6506 km |
| 7.6 | 20.04.2006 23:25 | 23.9 km | 7382 km |
| 7.5 | 28.02.1979 21:27 | 19 km | 6276 km |
| 7.3 | 07.04.1958 15:30 | 15 km | 6883 km |
| 7.2 | 27.08.1904 21:56 | 35 km | 6654 km |
| 7.2 | 22.07.1937 17:09 | 10 km | 6456 km |
| 7.2 | 31.01.1912 20:11 | 80 km | 6524 km |
| 7.2 | 07.07.1912 07:57 | 0 km | 6478 km |
| 7.2 | 03.11.1943 14:32 | 15 km | 6672 km |
| 7.1 | 14.04.1951 13:33 | 10 km | 6044 km |
| 7.1 | 16.10.1947 02:09 | 26 km | 6548 km |
| 7.1 | 22.01.1910 08:48 | 35 km | 754 km |
| 7.0 | 30.11.2018 17:29 | 50.4 km | 6631 km |
| 7.0 | 18.05.1971 22:44 | 1.5 km | 6433 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2 | 04.08.2026 05:22 | 5 km | 6376 km |
| 1.4 | 04.08.2026 04:31 | 11.5 km | 6525 km |
| 1.4 | 04.08.2026 03:24 | 5 km | 6617 km |
| 2.8 | 04.08.2026 01:32 | 5.3 km | 6922 km |
| 1.6 | 03.08.2026 20:14 | 5 km | 6396 km |
| 1.6 | 03.08.2026 17:14 | 12.1 km | 6616 km |
| 1.9 | 03.08.2026 16:41 | 143 km | 6613 km |
| 2.3 | 03.08.2026 15:09 | 5 km | 6673 km |
| 1.3 | 03.08.2026 13:54 | 1.3 km | 6570 km |
| 2.0 | 03.08.2026 13:15 | 11.9 km | 6548 km |
| 1.9 | 03.08.2026 12:34 | 4.4 km | 6670 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 12:07 | 5 km | 6406 km |
| 2.0 | 03.08.2026 10:48 | 5 km | 6832 km |
| 1.8 | 03.08.2026 10:07 | 9.8 km | 6522 km |
| 2.0 | 03.08.2026 09:20 | 0.1 km | 6640 km |
| 1.6 | 03.08.2026 09:04 | 6.3 km | 6785 km |
| 1.0 | 03.08.2026 08:44 | 0.6 km | 6567 km |
| 1.3 | 03.08.2026 05:10 | 1.7 km | 6732 km |
| 1.7 | 03.08.2026 05:05 | 55.7 km | 6602 km |
| 1.6 | 03.08.2026 04:47 | 6.3 km | 6672 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 04:20 | 129.3 km | 6660 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 03:37 | 5 km | 6051 km |
| 2.0 | 03.08.2026 03:33 | 5 km | 6896 km |
| 0.5 | 03.08.2026 03:32 | 8.8 km | 6413 km |
| 1.5 | 03.08.2026 03:03 | 5 km | 6677 km |
| 1.1 | 03.08.2026 01:26 | 5 km | 6552 km |
| 1.8 | 03.08.2026 00:42 | 1.7 km | 6403 km |
| 1.9 | 03.08.2026 00:09 | 0.7 km | 6640 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 22:07 | 10 km | 7099 km |
| 1.0 | 02.08.2026 21:10 | 10.3 km | 6636 km |
| 2.9 | 02.08.2026 17:54 | 0 km | 909 km |
| 1.8 | 02.08.2026 17:35 | 1.3 km | 6520 km |
| 1.2 | 02.08.2026 17:21 | 1.6 km | 6496 km |
| 1.7 | 02.08.2026 16:18 | 3.6 km | 6640 km |
| 2.1 | 02.08.2026 16:13 | 0.3 km | 6402 km |
| 1.7 | 02.08.2026 12:25 | 112.2 km | 6522 km |
| 1.4 | 02.08.2026 11:54 | 0 km | 6445 km |
| 1.7 | 02.08.2026 09:46 | 104.5 km | 6636 km |
| 0.8 | 02.08.2026 09:35 | 3.6 km | 6542 km |
| 1.0 | 02.08.2026 08:59 | 5 km | 6469 km |
| 1.7 | 02.08.2026 05:10 | 71.9 km | 6672 km |
| 2.9 | 02.08.2026 05:01 | 10 km | 818 km |
| 1.6 | 02.08.2026 03:40 | 7.6 km | 6657 km |
| 1.8 | 02.08.2026 00:35 | 5 km | 6594 km |
| 1.4 | 01.08.2026 16:42 | 99.7 km | 6612 km |
| 2.5 | 01.08.2026 11:38 | 95.6 km | 6702 km |
| 2.5 | 01.08.2026 11:37 | 13.6 km | 6545 km |
| 2.3 | 01.08.2026 10:38 | 8.4 km | 6712 km |
| 1.3 | 01.08.2026 09:57 | 5 km | 6611 km |
| 1.3 | 01.08.2026 08:57 | 43.1 km | 6552 km |
| 0.8 | 01.08.2026 08:55 | 4.2 km | 6542 km |
| 1.3 | 01.08.2026 08:21 | 5 km | 6620 km |
| 1.0 | 01.08.2026 08:05 | 32.2 km | 6612 km |
| 1.9 | 01.08.2026 05:57 | 2.6 km | 6595 km |
| 1.0 | 01.08.2026 04:05 | 19.6 km | 6594 km |
| 1.0 | 01.08.2026 04:01 | 21.7 km | 6594 km |
| 1.9 | 01.08.2026 03:55 | 2.4 km | 6595 km |
| 1.4 | 01.08.2026 03:51 | 20 km | 6594 km |
| 2.5 | 01.08.2026 03:48 | 5 km | 6598 km |
| 2.2 | 01.08.2026 03:45 | 18.1 km | 6594 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.