2.4
4,676
recorded earthquakes
M6.7
largest
1927–2026
record span
2.82
mean magnitude
4,651
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.7 | 14.07.2019 05:39 | 19.6 km | 688 km |
| 6.5 | 14.10.1968 02:58 | 8.1 km | 885 km |
| 6.3 | 29.04.1941 01:35 | 15 km | 552 km |
| 6.2 | 16.08.1929 21:28 | 35 km | 883 km |
| 6.2 | 10.08.1997 09:20 | 27.6 km | 990 km |
| 6.1 | 23.04.1979 05:45 | 30 km | 878 km |
| 6.1 | 02.06.1979 09:47 | 5.8 km | 807 km |
| 6.0 | 20.05.2016 18:14 | 15.7 km | 913 km |
| 6.0 | 24.03.1970 10:35 | 6.4 km | 646 km |
| 6.0 | 12.07.1934 14:24 | 35 km | 1356 km |
| 6.0 | 22.03.1927 07:31 | 15 km | 408 km |
| 5.9 | 16.12.2018 14:26 | 16.7 km | 847 km |
| 5.8 | 27.10.1927 07:31 | 15 km | 1197 km |
| 5.7 | 29.01.2021 19:47 | 16 km | 1167 km |
| 5.6 | 10.03.1970 17:15 | 8 km | 867 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.4 | 12.10.2026 04:47 | 2.5 km | 843 km |
| 2.3 | 11.10.2026 10:03 | 10 km | 827 km |
| 2.2 | 10.10.2026 11:27 | 5 km | 751 km |
| 3.4 | 08.10.2026 20:35 | 2 km | 745 km |
| 3.3 | 08.10.2026 16:46 | 5 km | 749 km |
| 2.7 | 08.10.2026 04:13 | 5 km | 840 km |
| 2.1 | 06.10.2026 17:35 | 3.3 km | 1086 km |
| 2.0 | 06.10.2026 17:13 | 2.4 km | 1086 km |
| 2.8 | 06.10.2026 05:30 | 5 km | 769 km |
| 1.9 | 05.10.2026 11:58 | 5 km | 706 km |
| 2.1 | 04.10.2026 17:26 | 5 km | 403 km |
| 2.4 | 04.10.2026 16:44 | 10 km | 522 km |
| 2.4 | 04.10.2026 13:30 | 8.4 km | 900 km |
| 2.6 | 25.09.2026 03:06 | 5 km | 509 km |
| 2.3 | 23.09.2026 18:14 | 23.3 km | 1187 km |
| 2.1 | 21.09.2026 10:54 | 5 km | 1073 km |
| 1.2 | 21.09.2026 08:09 | 5 km | 709 km |
| 2.6 | 21.09.2026 01:48 | 5 km | 462 km |
| 2.1 | 20.09.2026 17:33 | 10 km | 513 km |
| 2.4 | 20.09.2026 11:01 | 5 km | 508 km |
| 2.3 | 20.09.2026 05:46 | 5 km | 510 km |
| 2.6 | 19.09.2026 23:32 | 10 km | 504 km |
| 1.9 | 18.09.2026 16:56 | 5 km | 482 km |
| 1.6 | 17.09.2026 22:19 | 5 km | 472 km |
| 2.4 | 29.08.2026 05:39 | 21.4 km | 797 km |
| 1.8 | 28.08.2026 17:39 | 10 km | 512 km |
| 2.4 | 15.08.2026 09:12 | 2.3 km | 713 km |
| 2.1 | 13.08.2026 13:57 | 10 km | 989 km |
| 2.8 | 12.08.2026 07:57 | 10 km | 974 km |
| 1.9 | 12.08.2026 04:59 | 2.6 km | 712 km |
| 4.6 | 11.08.2026 18:10 | 10 km | 978 km |
| 2.0 | 11.08.2026 03:20 | 0.7 km | 835 km |
| 2.3 | 06.08.2026 05:48 | 4.1 km | 830 km |
| 2.6 | 06.08.2026 05:40 | 2.9 km | 834 km |
| 2.0 | 04.08.2026 11:44 | 5 km | 596 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 17:47 | 11.6 km | 1162 km |
| 2.3 | 28.07.2026 03:41 | 2.3 km | 792 km |
| 3.3 | 27.07.2026 21:43 | 2.8 km | 791 km |
| 2.7 | 27.07.2026 21:23 | 5.8 km | 791 km |
| 3.0 | 23.07.2026 02:24 | 5 km | 652 km |
| 2.9 | 21.07.2026 02:26 | 10 km | 681 km |
| 2.5 | 17.07.2026 23:53 | 1.7 km | 1090 km |
| 2.6 | 14.07.2026 00:32 | 10 km | 678 km |
| 2.9 | 07.07.2026 13:51 | 4.4 km | 1042 km |
| 2.6 | 04.07.2026 21:40 | 2.7 km | 1047 km |
| 2.9 | 03.07.2026 04:34 | 10 km | 1166 km |
| 2.1 | 03.07.2026 03:46 | 6.1 km | 1225 km |
| 2.8 | 02.07.2026 06:18 | 10 km | 1300 km |
| 1.9 | 26.06.2026 21:35 | 3.4 km | 763 km |
| 2.8 | 25.06.2026 23:50 | 10 km | 703 km |
| 3.2 | 24.06.2026 16:57 | 10 km | 723 km |
| 2.6 | 23.06.2026 20:06 | 10 km | 844 km |
| 3.1 | 22.06.2026 23:40 | 10 km | 572 km |
| 2.6 | 22.06.2026 11:23 | 5 km | 413 km |
| 2.8 | 21.06.2026 02:08 | 10 km | 142 km |
| 2.9 | 21.06.2026 01:09 | 5 km | 1034 km |
| 2.8 | 20.06.2026 17:24 | 5 km | 1044 km |
| 2.6 | 19.06.2026 05:04 | 5 km | 294 km |
| 2.7 | 19.06.2026 01:30 | 1.3 km | 840 km |
| 3.1 | 17.06.2026 17:36 | 1.7 km | 1045 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.