2.7
1,222
recorded earthquakes
M7.5
largest
1918–2026
record span
3.70
mean magnitude
999
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 | 08.07.1918 10:22 | 15 km | 115 km |
| 7.2 | 02.07.1930 21:03 | 15 km | 251 km |
| 7.1 | 23.10.1943 17:23 | 15 km | 487 km |
| 7.1 | 16.08.1938 04:28 | 75 km | 380 km |
| 6.9 | 09.09.1923 22:03 | 15 km | 145 km |
| 6.7 | 03.01.2016 23:05 | 49.5 km | 358 km |
| 6.6 | 21.01.1941 12:41 | 15 km | 418 km |
| 6.5 | 27.01.1941 02:30 | 180 km | 384 km |
| 6.4 | 30.03.1921 10:26 | 15 km | 148 km |
| 6.3 | 24.12.1944 14:46 | 15 km | 258 km |
| 6.2 | 21.03.1935 00:04 | 80 km | 106 km |
| 6.2 | 19.11.1980 19:00 | 43.5 km | 439 km |
| 6.2 | 25.11.2021 23:45 | 42.7 km | 343 km |
| 6.1 | 14.12.1955 10:51 | 35 km | 315 km |
| 6.1 | 21.09.2009 08:53 | 17.4 km | 427 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.7 | 12.10.2026 05:07 | 6 km | 293 km |
| 2.9 | 11.10.2026 00:54 | 7 km | 226 km |
| 2.6 | 10.10.2026 01:54 | 5 km | 236 km |
| 2.7 | 10.10.2026 01:03 | 5 km | 238 km |
| 2.7 | 09.10.2026 01:18 | 10 km | 242 km |
| 4.6 | 05.10.2026 22:53 | 10 km | 392 km |
| 3.1 | 05.10.2026 19:03 | 5 km | 205 km |
| 3.0 | 05.10.2026 07:21 | 7 km | 240 km |
| 3.6 | 04.10.2026 12:04 | 30 km | 126 km |
| 3.8 | 03.10.2026 19:27 | 30 km | 170 km |
| 4.9 | 03.10.2026 18:13 | 17.6 km | 283 km |
| 3.2 | 01.10.2026 06:15 | 36 km | 62 km |
| 2.8 | 30.09.2026 00:19 | 10 km | 267 km |
| 2.5 | 27.09.2026 10:30 | 18 km | 126 km |
| 2.9 | 26.09.2026 13:47 | 13 km | 353 km |
| 3.0 | 26.09.2026 03:39 | 5 km | 279 km |
| 3.0 | 25.09.2026 19:16 | 17 km | 172 km |
| 2.6 | 24.09.2026 04:16 | 10 km | 213 km |
| 2.9 | 19.09.2026 23:31 | 5 km | 256 km |
| 3.5 | 15.09.2026 01:59 | 5 km | 228 km |
| 2.9 | 13.09.2026 01:26 | 10 km | 194 km |
| 3.0 | 12.09.2026 22:10 | 10 km | 207 km |
| 2.8 | 12.09.2026 17:44 | 10 km | 252 km |
| 4.1 | 11.09.2026 10:33 | 10 km | 254 km |
| 3.0 | 11.09.2026 01:26 | 9 km | 317 km |
| 4.1 | 08.09.2026 04:27 | 10 km | 258 km |
| 4.0 | 06.09.2026 03:36 | 28 km | 267 km |
| 3.7 | 05.09.2026 16:54 | 10 km | 271 km |
| 2.5 | 30.08.2026 02:25 | 12.1 km | 206 km |
| 2.5 | 27.08.2026 07:32 | 5 km | 234 km |
| 2.6 | 23.08.2026 19:31 | 21 km | 275 km |
| 2.7 | 22.08.2026 05:28 | 6 km | 214 km |
| 2.9 | 20.08.2026 19:11 | 6 km | 243 km |
| 2.8 | 20.08.2026 12:05 | 10 km | 250 km |
| 2.7 | 20.08.2026 10:49 | 5 km | 345 km |
| 2.8 | 19.08.2026 17:25 | 18 km | 86 km |
| 3.1 | 18.08.2026 20:08 | 5 km | 215 km |
| 2.8 | 18.08.2026 06:14 | 10 km | 232 km |
| 3.0 | 16.08.2026 23:32 | 10 km | 58 km |
| 2.8 | 16.08.2026 06:53 | 10 km | 200 km |
| 2.9 | 15.08.2026 08:46 | 77 km | 210 km |
| 3.2 | 09.08.2026 02:47 | 10 km | 352 km |
| 2.8 | 06.08.2026 20:27 | 15 km | 203 km |
| 3.1 | 05.08.2026 11:23 | 5 km | 377 km |
| 3.5 | 04.08.2026 00:03 | 9 km | 243 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 00:35 | 4 km | 275 km |
| 3.0 | 01.08.2026 00:23 | 5 km | 169 km |
| 3.1 | 24.07.2026 17:19 | 10 km | 111 km |
| 2.9 | 23.07.2026 21:41 | 25 km | 360 km |
| 2.7 | 20.07.2026 09:20 | 5 km | 256 km |
| 3.3 | 17.07.2026 20:04 | 24 km | 337 km |
| 2.7 | 17.07.2026 10:21 | 5 km | 249 km |
| 2.9 | 17.07.2026 00:44 | 5 km | 223 km |
| 2.8 | 15.07.2026 02:02 | 10 km | 237 km |
| 3.2 | 15.07.2026 00:56 | 13 km | 214 km |
| 3.4 | 12.07.2026 13:54 | 8 km | 215 km |
| 2.6 | 12.07.2026 07:20 | 5 km | 335 km |
| 4.0 | 12.07.2026 06:30 | 10 km | 217 km |
| 3.4 | 10.07.2026 06:43 | 10 km | 216 km |
| 3.1 | 09.07.2026 18:28 | 5 km | 192 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.