4.4
11,234
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1902–2026
record span
4.09
mean magnitude
6,932
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 | 272 km |
| 7.7 | 07.07.1909 21:37 | 200 km | 284 km |
| 7.6 | 10.07.1949 03:53 | 20 km | 202 km |
| 7.6 | 26.10.2015 09:09 | 216.7 km | 249 km |
| 7.5 | 04.03.1949 10:19 | 228.7 km | 244 km |
| 7.4 | 14.03.1965 15:53 | 215.3 km | 258 km |
| 7.4 | 04.07.1911 13:33 | 100 km | 237 km |
| 7.4 | 30.12.1983 23:52 | 215.6 km | 259 km |
| 7.4 | 29.07.1985 07:54 | 99.8 km | 264 km |
| 7.3 | 03.03.2002 12:08 | 204.8 km | 266 km |
| 7.3 | 23.02.2023 00:37 | 18.4 km | 45 km |
| 7.2 | 18.02.1911 18:41 | 15 km | 30 km |
| 7.2 | 06.10.1902 09:15 | 200 km | 262 km |
| 7.2 | 21.10.1907 04:23 | 20 km | 224 km |
| 7.2 | 07.12.2015 07:50 | 14.2 km | 16 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.4 | 30.07.2026 09:38 | 10 km | 169 km |
| 4.5 | 30.07.2026 09:20 | 10 km | 159 km |
| 4.5 | 28.07.2026 06:57 | 132 km | 147 km |
| 4.6 | 27.07.2026 17:47 | 109.1 km | 187 km |
| 4.2 | 27.07.2026 03:09 | 168.4 km | 190 km |
| 4.5 | 26.07.2026 06:48 | 173.4 km | 101 km |
| 4.2 | 25.07.2026 03:04 | 168.6 km | 64 km |
| 3.1 | 22.07.2026 16:04 | 127 km | 119 km |
| 2.8 | 22.07.2026 12:42 | 5 km | 135 km |
| 4.0 | 21.07.2026 10:18 | 209 km | 216 km |
| 2.8 | 20.07.2026 08:56 | 10 km | 163 km |
| 3.3 | 20.07.2026 03:13 | 129 km | 137 km |
| 3.9 | 20.07.2026 01:09 | 10 km | 73 km |
| 4.8 | 18.07.2026 10:36 | 136.8 km | 14 km |
| 4.6 | 18.07.2026 05:47 | 10 km | 222 km |
| 3.4 | 18.07.2026 02:39 | 0 km | 211 km |
| 4.2 | 17.07.2026 19:20 | 211 km | 219 km |
| 3.4 | 16.07.2026 21:17 | 10 km | 118 km |
| 2.6 | 16.07.2026 10:18 | 10 km | 166 km |
| 2.7 | 14.07.2026 19:12 | 10 km | 192 km |
| 3.5 | 14.07.2026 03:22 | 208.6 km | 219 km |
| 2.9 | 09.07.2026 23:59 | 0 km | 136 km |
| 3.9 | 09.07.2026 01:15 | 155.1 km | 130 km |
| 3.0 | 08.07.2026 09:51 | 0 km | 261 km |
| 3.5 | 08.07.2026 06:14 | 228.8 km | 94 km |
| 3.8 | 07.07.2026 22:42 | 56.5 km | 157 km |
| 3.1 | 06.07.2026 17:01 | 182 km | 215 km |
| 3.7 | 04.07.2026 17:12 | 0 km | 198 km |
| 4.0 | 04.07.2026 14:04 | 179.9 km | 62 km |
| 3.5 | 03.07.2026 04:45 | 167.6 km | 141 km |
| 3.0 | 02.07.2026 18:00 | 0 km | 172 km |
| 3.3 | 02.07.2026 10:35 | 0 km | 233 km |
| 3.3 | 02.07.2026 09:19 | 0 km | 207 km |
| 4.3 | 02.07.2026 07:50 | 10 km | 192 km |
| 3.7 | 02.07.2026 01:20 | 118.6 km | 88 km |
| 5.5 | 01.07.2026 17:57 | 198.8 km | 261 km |
| 3.0 | 30.06.2026 20:16 | 0 km | 256 km |
| 4.1 | 30.06.2026 10:35 | 0 km | 227 km |
| 3.4 | 30.06.2026 10:32 | 56.5 km | 230 km |
| 2.5 | 29.06.2026 22:12 | 0 km | 155 km |
| 2.7 | 29.06.2026 12:11 | 0 km | 157 km |
| 3.3 | 29.06.2026 06:34 | 0 km | 157 km |
| 3.2 | 29.06.2026 01:46 | 0 km | 185 km |
| 2.8 | 27.06.2026 21:06 | 0 km | 94 km |
| 6.2 | 27.06.2026 13:34 | 203 km | 248 km |
| 3.9 | 27.06.2026 01:54 | 0 km | 69 km |
| 3.3 | 26.06.2026 22:40 | 0 km | 108 km |
| 3.3 | 26.06.2026 07:00 | 20 km | 100 km |
| 5.2 | 22.06.2026 10:22 | 209.1 km | 246 km |
| 2.9 | 21.06.2026 11:53 | 4 km | 100 km |
| 3.5 | 19.06.2026 09:36 | 342 km | 126 km |
| 3.4 | 19.06.2026 08:20 | 0 km | 191 km |
| 3.5 | 18.06.2026 23:00 | 182.7 km | 84 km |
| 4.2 | 18.06.2026 06:46 | 0 km | 207 km |
| 4.2 | 14.06.2026 17:54 | 205.4 km | 229 km |
| 3.4 | 14.06.2026 13:56 | 220.8 km | 207 km |
| 2.5 | 13.06.2026 06:47 | 2 km | 177 km |
| 3.6 | 10.06.2026 16:36 | 103.7 km | 138 km |
| 3.5 | 06.06.2026 21:24 | 221.7 km | 208 km |
| 2.8 | 06.06.2026 21:20 | 3 km | 169 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.