2.8
614
recorded earthquakes
M7.5
largest
1920–2026
record span
3.82
mean magnitude
277
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.5 | 23.11.1977 09:26 | 10.4 km | 347 km |
| 7.1 | 15.01.1944 23:49 | 15 km | 355 km |
| 6.7 | 17.12.1920 19:00 | 15 km | 308 km |
| 6.6 | 30.05.1929 09:43 | 10 km | 193 km |
| 6.3 | 02.02.2015 10:49 | 172.7 km | 170 km |
| 6.2 | 17.09.2006 09:34 | 136.2 km | 262 km |
| 6.1 | 28.11.1977 06:31 | 13.5 km | 297 km |
| 6.1 | 22.05.1936 00:15 | 15 km | 190 km |
| 6.1 | 10.11.1966 03:02 | 111.9 km | 296 km |
| 6.1 | 23.11.1977 09:35 | 31 km | 328 km |
| 6.0 | 11.06.1934 06:00 | 100 km | 158 km |
| 6.0 | 11.06.1934 03:07 | 100 km | 158 km |
| 6.0 | 30.04.1936 17:06 | 200 km | 342 km |
| 6.0 | 18.11.1982 20:39 | 162.7 km | 307 km |
| 6.0 | 21.09.2024 21:24 | 141 km | 237 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.8 | 10.10.2026 06:58 | 132 km | 259 km |
| 2.9 | 05.10.2026 01:51 | 135 km | 228 km |
| 2.6 | 02.10.2026 08:06 | 10 km | 274 km |
| 2.9 | 01.10.2026 08:09 | 10 km | 236 km |
| 2.8 | 29.09.2026 11:10 | 211 km | 121 km |
| 2.5 | 26.09.2026 11:44 | 5 km | 141 km |
| 3.2 | 23.09.2026 08:29 | 141 km | 156 km |
| 3.0 | 23.09.2026 00:25 | 121 km | 251 km |
| 2.7 | 21.09.2026 08:22 | 226 km | 126 km |
| 3.3 | 21.09.2026 00:47 | 148 km | 170 km |
| 3.5 | 20.09.2026 16:21 | 102 km | 224 km |
| 4.0 | 15.09.2026 10:23 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 2.9 | 09.09.2026 11:28 | 107 km | 241 km |
| 2.5 | 06.09.2026 06:07 | 82 km | 260 km |
| 2.6 | 02.09.2026 05:08 | 80 km | 252 km |
| 2.6 | 01.09.2026 04:46 | 12 km | 266 km |
| 2.5 | 31.08.2026 02:54 | 10 km | 180 km |
| 3.1 | 30.08.2026 13:43 | 133 km | 264 km |
| 2.7 | 30.08.2026 09:49 | 10 km | 256 km |
| 2.9 | 29.08.2026 03:08 | 10 km | 211 km |
| 2.9 | 26.08.2026 21:48 | 109 km | 262 km |
| 2.7 | 24.08.2026 11:34 | 112 km | 258 km |
| 2.7 | 19.08.2026 16:08 | 35 km | 163 km |
| 2.7 | 18.08.2026 16:18 | 95 km | 240 km |
| 3.5 | 16.08.2026 09:45 | 10 km | 104 km |
| 2.9 | 11.08.2026 06:51 | 100 km | 256 km |
| 2.7 | 11.08.2026 06:28 | 124 km | 249 km |
| 2.9 | 11.08.2026 03:55 | 10 km | 223 km |
| 2.7 | 10.08.2026 18:58 | 127 km | 229 km |
| 2.6 | 02.08.2026 19:48 | 10 km | 256 km |
| 2.7 | 02.08.2026 09:29 | 120 km | 257 km |
| 2.6 | 31.07.2026 14:59 | 10 km | 112 km |
| 3.2 | 23.07.2026 03:09 | 165 km | 161 km |
| 2.9 | 19.07.2026 19:07 | 114 km | 254 km |
| 2.7 | 15.07.2026 08:56 | 28 km | 31 km |
| 2.9 | 12.07.2026 04:07 | 96 km | 237 km |
| 2.7 | 11.07.2026 04:14 | 8 km | 223 km |
| 3.0 | 09.07.2026 03:54 | 122 km | 255 km |
| 2.8 | 06.07.2026 01:51 | 115 km | 254 km |
| 4.1 | 04.07.2026 13:18 | 120 km | 284 km |
| 3.4 | 02.07.2026 20:58 | 10 km | 262 km |
| 2.9 | 02.07.2026 00:39 | 15 km | 185 km |
| 3.1 | 02.07.2026 00:14 | 10 km | 230 km |
| 3.2 | 29.06.2026 06:24 | 227 km | 161 km |
| 2.8 | 28.06.2026 22:46 | 114 km | 240 km |
| 3.1 | 27.06.2026 10:34 | 117 km | 258 km |
| 2.6 | 25.06.2026 13:56 | 124 km | 252 km |
| 2.7 | 25.06.2026 00:05 | 15 km | 163 km |
| 2.5 | 23.06.2026 06:22 | 10 km | 252 km |
| 2.8 | 21.06.2026 13:37 | 18 km | 54 km |
| 3.7 | 20.06.2026 12:35 | 145 km | 242 km |
| 2.6 | 17.06.2026 16:30 | 10 km | 264 km |
| 2.9 | 16.06.2026 10:34 | 20 km | 52 km |
| 2.7 | 11.06.2026 09:16 | 118 km | 259 km |
| 2.7 | 05.06.2026 08:49 | 10 km | 186 km |
| 5.0 | 05.06.2026 06:54 | 131.2 km | 244 km |
| 3.7 | 05.06.2026 06:54 | 111 km | 239 km |
| 3.1 | 03.06.2026 00:14 | 124 km | 250 km |
| 2.8 | 28.05.2026 03:07 | 10 km | 198 km |
| 3.2 | 28.05.2026 02:51 | 15 km | 196 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.