4.6
11,122
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1905–2026
record span
3.52
mean magnitude
10,185
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 | 22.11.1995 04:15 | 14 km | 1167 km |
| 6.7 | 21.03.1977 21:18 | 19 km | 1202 km |
| 6.6 | 10.04.1972 02:06 | 18.9 km | 902 km |
| 6.6 | 28.12.1977 02:45 | 8.2 km | 989 km |
| 6.6 | 31.03.1969 07:15 | 8.1 km | 1198 km |
| 6.5 | 06.11.1990 18:45 | 22.3 km | 1141 km |
| 6.4 | 18.04.1911 18:14 | 15 km | 1328 km |
| 6.4 | 11.06.1961 05:10 | 15 km | 1035 km |
| 6.3 | 31.10.1956 14:03 | 15 km | 1010 km |
| 6.3 | 04.02.1934 13:27 | 15 km | 954 km |
| 6.3 | 22.07.2018 20:59 | 19.5 km | 1065 km |
| 6.3 | 09.04.2013 11:52 | 12.8 km | 809 km |
| 6.3 | 24.04.1949 04:22 | 15 km | 1195 km |
| 6.2 | 11.01.1941 08:31 | 35 km | 835 km |
| 6.2 | 09.05.1927 10:31 | 35 km | 1161 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.6 | 01.08.2026 01:24 | 10 km | 848 km |
| 4.5 | 23.07.2026 07:58 | 10 km | 910 km |
| 5.1 | 19.07.2026 02:25 | 10 km | 989 km |
| 3.3 | 03.07.2026 11:34 | 45.1 km | 1136 km |
| 3.7 | 03.07.2026 11:09 | 47.7 km | 1137 km |
| 4.0 | 26.06.2026 21:12 | 10 km | 899 km |
| 4.0 | 19.06.2026 02:54 | 0 km | 999 km |
| 3.4 | 11.06.2026 06:48 | 0 km | 935 km |
| 3.7 | 11.06.2026 06:19 | 0 km | 944 km |
| 3.8 | 05.06.2026 15:38 | 10 km | 860 km |
| 3.9 | 29.05.2026 10:58 | 0 km | 790 km |
| 3.9 | 28.05.2026 09:24 | 37.9 km | 932 km |
| 3.7 | 21.05.2026 09:56 | 10 km | 1124 km |
| 4.9 | 21.05.2026 09:56 | 10 km | 1117 km |
| 3.9 | 21.05.2026 00:17 | 0 km | 892 km |
| 3.7 | 19.05.2026 23:40 | 10 km | 1125 km |
| 3.6 | 16.05.2026 11:31 | 0 km | 1155 km |
| 3.8 | 07.05.2026 13:54 | 0 km | 879 km |
| 3.3 | 06.05.2026 05:37 | 0 km | 919 km |
| 4.0 | 05.05.2026 10:27 | 0 km | 540 km |
| 3.2 | 04.05.2026 20:39 | 10 km | 1029 km |
| 4.5 | 04.05.2026 20:39 | 10 km | 1025 km |
| 4.1 | 25.04.2026 15:47 | 10 km | 815 km |
| 3.6 | 18.04.2026 18:24 | 10 km | 938 km |
| 4.1 | 15.04.2026 00:47 | 10 km | 1013 km |
| 3.6 | 11.04.2026 08:41 | 10 km | 857 km |
| 4.0 | 10.04.2026 00:56 | 10 km | 940 km |
| 4.1 | 09.04.2026 19:06 | 10 km | 873 km |
| 4.3 | 07.04.2026 07:39 | 10 km | 936 km |
| 4.1 | 24.03.2026 00:50 | 10 km | 883 km |
| 4.0 | 20.03.2026 07:38 | 10 km | 837 km |
| 4.0 | 20.03.2026 05:47 | 0 km | 828 km |
| 4.0 | 20.03.2026 05:24 | 10 km | 825 km |
| 3.7 | 20.03.2026 05:01 | 0 km | 915 km |
| 4.0 | 18.03.2026 03:30 | 0 km | 901 km |
| 4.5 | 17.03.2026 06:59 | 10 km | 833 km |
| 4.0 | 11.03.2026 11:22 | 0 km | 923 km |
| 3.2 | 07.03.2026 03:18 | 0 km | 1118 km |
| 4.0 | 06.03.2026 17:53 | 10 km | 960 km |
| 3.7 | 06.03.2026 06:06 | 0 km | 826 km |
| 4.2 | 04.03.2026 13:56 | 10 km | 1168 km |
| 4.1 | 03.03.2026 06:54 | 10 km | 967 km |
| 3.7 | 01.03.2026 08:45 | 10 km | 925 km |
| 3.1 | 27.02.2026 04:01 | 20.9 km | 890 km |
| 4.7 | 27.02.2026 01:51 | 10 km | 834 km |
| 4.0 | 25.02.2026 15:38 | 0 km | 828 km |
| 4.1 | 23.02.2026 05:02 | 10 km | 824 km |
| 4.1 | 22.02.2026 19:11 | 10 km | 890 km |
| 4.4 | 21.02.2026 05:09 | 10 km | 1000 km |
| 3.5 | 19.02.2026 03:43 | 10 km | 834 km |
| 3.9 | 19.02.2026 03:21 | 0 km | 819 km |
| 4.3 | 18.02.2026 14:08 | 10 km | 919 km |
| 4.0 | 17.02.2026 08:07 | 0 km | 821 km |
| 3.3 | 16.02.2026 13:32 | 10 km | 820 km |
| 3.7 | 13.02.2026 19:50 | 10 km | 828 km |
| 4.2 | 13.02.2026 19:44 | 0 km | 820 km |
| 4.2 | 13.02.2026 19:33 | 52.4 km | 1154 km |
| 5.0 | 13.02.2026 11:08 | 10 km | 831 km |
| 4.4 | 13.02.2026 10:45 | 10 km | 855 km |
| 3.8 | 13.02.2026 10:33 | 10 km | 837 km |
Regions
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.