2.8
15,141
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1902–2026
record span
3.92
mean magnitude
11,055
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.8 | 15.11.1921 20:36 | 240 km | 296 km |
| 7.7 | 07.07.1909 21:37 | 200 km | 292 km |
| 7.6 | 10.07.1949 03:53 | 20 km | 46 km |
| 7.6 | 26.10.2015 09:09 | 216.7 km | 274 km |
| 7.5 | 04.03.1949 10:19 | 228.7 km | 260 km |
| 7.4 | 21.10.1907 04:23 | 20 km | 283 km |
| 7.4 | 14.03.1965 15:53 | 215.3 km | 278 km |
| 7.4 | 04.07.1911 13:33 | 100 km | 287 km |
| 7.4 | 30.12.1983 23:52 | 215.6 km | 279 km |
| 7.4 | 29.07.1985 07:54 | 99.8 km | 302 km |
| 7.3 | 03.03.2002 12:08 | 204.8 km | 282 km |
| 7.3 | 02.11.1946 18:28 | 25 km | 327 km |
| 7.3 | 23.02.2023 00:37 | 18.4 km | 194 km |
| 7.2 | 18.02.1911 18:41 | 15 km | 134 km |
| 7.2 | 06.10.1902 09:15 | 200 km | 270 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 23:35 | 0 km | 154 km |
| 2.4 | 02.08.2026 04:22 | 10 km | 342 km |
| 1.8 | 01.08.2026 07:27 | 1 km | 267 km |
| 4.4 | 31.07.2026 20:26 | 45.8 km | 170 km |
| 2.7 | 31.07.2026 15:26 | 0 km | 324 km |
| 2.1 | 31.07.2026 08:59 | 1 km | 231 km |
| 2.6 | 31.07.2026 06:09 | 10 km | 344 km |
| 4.4 | 30.07.2026 09:38 | 10 km | 314 km |
| 4.5 | 30.07.2026 09:20 | 10 km | 300 km |
| 4.5 | 28.07.2026 06:57 | 132 km | 202 km |
| 4.6 | 27.07.2026 17:47 | 109.1 km | 254 km |
| 4.2 | 27.07.2026 03:09 | 168.4 km | 185 km |
| 4.5 | 26.07.2026 06:48 | 173.4 km | 186 km |
| 4.2 | 25.07.2026 03:04 | 168.6 km | 164 km |
| 1.7 | 24.07.2026 10:33 | 0 km | 268 km |
| 2.8 | 23.07.2026 10:51 | 96 km | 127 km |
| 3.1 | 22.07.2026 16:04 | 127 km | 38 km |
| 2.8 | 22.07.2026 12:42 | 5 km | 62 km |
| 2.0 | 21.07.2026 12:39 | 0 km | 218 km |
| 4.0 | 21.07.2026 10:18 | 209 km | 236 km |
| 2.2 | 20.07.2026 14:12 | 5 km | 236 km |
| 2.8 | 20.07.2026 08:56 | 10 km | 176 km |
| 3.3 | 20.07.2026 03:13 | 129 km | 20 km |
| 3.9 | 20.07.2026 01:09 | 10 km | 114 km |
| 3.0 | 19.07.2026 07:23 | 0 km | 357 km |
| 2.2 | 19.07.2026 03:28 | 0 km | 218 km |
| 2.2 | 18.07.2026 23:35 | 35 km | 251 km |
| 4.8 | 18.07.2026 10:36 | 136.8 km | 168 km |
| 4.6 | 18.07.2026 05:47 | 10 km | 339 km |
| 3.4 | 18.07.2026 02:39 | 0 km | 54 km |
| 4.2 | 17.07.2026 19:20 | 211 km | 253 km |
| 2.0 | 17.07.2026 14:09 | 10 km | 265 km |
| 2.1 | 17.07.2026 11:00 | 10 km | 274 km |
| 3.4 | 16.07.2026 21:17 | 10 km | 42 km |
| 2.1 | 16.07.2026 14:24 | 5 km | 270 km |
| 2.6 | 16.07.2026 10:18 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 2.6 | 15.07.2026 16:50 | 10 km | 105 km |
| 2.8 | 15.07.2026 12:58 | 0 km | 339 km |
| 3.0 | 15.07.2026 10:46 | 0 km | 120 km |
| 3.3 | 15.07.2026 06:16 | 2 km | 123 km |
| 2.7 | 14.07.2026 19:12 | 10 km | 90 km |
| 3.7 | 14.07.2026 18:37 | 2 km | 184 km |
| 3.5 | 14.07.2026 03:22 | 208.6 km | 236 km |
| 3.8 | 13.07.2026 14:42 | 20 km | 338 km |
| 2.9 | 13.07.2026 10:01 | 3 km | 271 km |
| 3.0 | 11.07.2026 11:41 | 0 km | 357 km |
| 2.3 | 11.07.2026 11:24 | 0 km | 241 km |
| 3.0 | 11.07.2026 02:33 | 0 km | 117 km |
| 2.0 | 10.07.2026 07:00 | 0 km | 227 km |
| 2.9 | 09.07.2026 23:59 | 0 km | 180 km |
| 3.0 | 09.07.2026 14:45 | 1 km | 264 km |
| 2.3 | 09.07.2026 05:11 | 10 km | 335 km |
| 3.9 | 09.07.2026 01:15 | 155.1 km | 269 km |
| 3.0 | 08.07.2026 09:51 | 0 km | 335 km |
| 3.5 | 08.07.2026 06:14 | 228.8 km | 194 km |
| 3.8 | 07.07.2026 22:42 | 56.5 km | 51 km |
| 3.9 | 07.07.2026 19:54 | 18 km | 284 km |
| 2.4 | 07.07.2026 12:33 | 0 km | 213 km |
| 3.1 | 06.07.2026 17:01 | 182 km | 297 km |
| 2.6 | 06.07.2026 12:42 | 10 km | 270 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.