2.8
10,323
recorded earthquakes
M9.2
largest
1902–2026
record span
3.83
mean magnitude
8,374
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 | 26.08.2024 04:26 | — | 886 km |
| 7.8 | 15.11.1921 20:36 | 240 km | 766 km |
| 7.7 | 07.07.1909 21:37 | 200 km | 741 km |
| 7.6 | 10.07.1949 03:53 | 20 km | 583 km |
| 7.6 | 26.10.2015 09:09 | 216.7 km | 758 km |
| 7.5 | 04.03.1949 10:19 | 228.7 km | 741 km |
| 7.4 | 21.10.1907 04:23 | 20 km | 374 km |
| 7.4 | 14.03.1965 15:53 | 215.3 km | 753 km |
| 7.4 | 04.07.1911 13:33 | 100 km | 796 km |
| 7.4 | 30.12.1983 23:52 | 215.6 km | 755 km |
| 7.4 | 29.07.1985 07:54 | 99.8 km | 787 km |
| 7.3 | 03.03.2002 12:08 | 204.8 km | 750 km |
| 7.3 | 02.11.1946 18:28 | 25 km | 611 km |
| 7.3 | 23.02.2023 00:37 | 18.4 km | 812 km |
| 7.2 | 18.02.1911 18:41 | 15 km | 754 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 23:35 | 0 km | 690 km |
| 2.5 | 02.08.2026 13:24 | 0 km | 723 km |
| 1.8 | 01.08.2026 07:27 | 1 km | 632 km |
| 4.4 | 31.07.2026 20:26 | 45.8 km | 589 km |
| 2.4 | 31.07.2026 14:32 | 0 km | 632 km |
| 2.1 | 31.07.2026 08:59 | 1 km | 664 km |
| 4.5 | 28.07.2026 06:57 | 132 km | 759 km |
| 4.2 | 27.07.2026 03:09 | 168.4 km | 697 km |
| 4.5 | 26.07.2026 06:48 | 173.4 km | 772 km |
| 4.2 | 25.07.2026 03:04 | 168.6 km | 767 km |
| 2.5 | 24.07.2026 21:36 | 26 km | 629 km |
| 2.5 | 24.07.2026 19:26 | 33 km | 641 km |
| 1.7 | 24.07.2026 10:33 | 0 km | 410 km |
| 2.8 | 23.07.2026 10:51 | 96 km | 501 km |
| 3.1 | 22.07.2026 16:04 | 127 km | 661 km |
| 2.8 | 22.07.2026 12:42 | 5 km | 662 km |
| 2.0 | 21.07.2026 12:39 | 0 km | 678 km |
| 2.2 | 20.07.2026 14:12 | 5 km | 660 km |
| 2.8 | 20.07.2026 08:56 | 10 km | 742 km |
| 3.3 | 20.07.2026 03:13 | 129 km | 642 km |
| 3.9 | 20.07.2026 01:09 | 10 km | 720 km |
| 2.2 | 19.07.2026 03:28 | 0 km | 674 km |
| 2.2 | 18.07.2026 23:35 | 35 km | 660 km |
| 4.8 | 18.07.2026 10:36 | 136.8 km | 786 km |
| 3.4 | 18.07.2026 02:39 | 0 km | 572 km |
| 2.0 | 17.07.2026 14:09 | 10 km | 460 km |
| 2.1 | 17.07.2026 11:00 | 10 km | 458 km |
| 3.4 | 16.07.2026 21:17 | 10 km | 664 km |
| 2.1 | 16.07.2026 14:24 | 5 km | 458 km |
| 2.6 | 16.07.2026 10:18 | 10 km | 640 km |
| 2.6 | 15.07.2026 16:50 | 10 km | 590 km |
| 3.0 | 15.07.2026 10:46 | 0 km | 627 km |
| 3.3 | 15.07.2026 06:16 | 2 km | 623 km |
| 2.7 | 14.07.2026 19:12 | 10 km | 627 km |
| 3.7 | 14.07.2026 18:37 | 2 km | 642 km |
| 2.9 | 13.07.2026 10:01 | 3 km | 731 km |
| 2.4 | 11.07.2026 13:06 | 10 km | 455 km |
| 2.3 | 11.07.2026 11:24 | 0 km | 734 km |
| 3.0 | 11.07.2026 02:33 | 0 km | 648 km |
| 2.0 | 10.07.2026 07:00 | 0 km | 668 km |
| 2.9 | 09.07.2026 23:59 | 0 km | 765 km |
| 3.9 | 09.07.2026 19:59 | 10 km | 540 km |
| 3.0 | 09.07.2026 14:45 | 1 km | 647 km |
| 2.4 | 08.07.2026 07:54 | 0 km | 679 km |
| 2.8 | 08.07.2026 06:48 | 0 km | 603 km |
| 3.5 | 08.07.2026 06:14 | 228.8 km | 786 km |
| 3.8 | 07.07.2026 22:42 | 56.5 km | 639 km |
| 2.6 | 07.07.2026 21:27 | 0 km | 681 km |
| 3.9 | 07.07.2026 19:54 | 18 km | 678 km |
| 2.4 | 07.07.2026 12:33 | 0 km | 681 km |
| 2.2 | 07.07.2026 02:02 | 0 km | 525 km |
| 2.6 | 06.07.2026 12:42 | 10 km | 458 km |
| 3.7 | 04.07.2026 17:12 | 0 km | 584 km |
| 2.2 | 04.07.2026 16:22 | 25 km | 682 km |
| 4.0 | 04.07.2026 14:04 | 179.9 km | 731 km |
| 2.1 | 04.07.2026 12:24 | 5 km | 464 km |
| 3.8 | 03.07.2026 23:40 | 0 km | 653 km |
| 2.7 | 03.07.2026 22:57 | 1 km | 569 km |
| 3.8 | 03.07.2026 09:35 | 20 km | 727 km |
| 2.5 | 03.07.2026 08:25 | 0 km | 721 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.