3.8
574
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1909–2026
record span
3.57
mean magnitude
371
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.2 | 02.07.1930 21:03 | 15 km | 177 km |
| 7.1 | 07.01.2025 01:05 | 10 km | 323 km |
| 6.9 | 18.09.2011 12:40 | 29.6 km | 225 km |
| 6.6 | 21.01.1941 12:41 | 15 km | 148 km |
| 6.5 | 03.12.1915 02:39 | 15 km | 123 km |
| 6.5 | 04.08.1909 00:00 | 0 km | 144 km |
| 6.5 | 27.01.1941 02:30 | 180 km | 235 km |
| 6.2 | 21.05.1935 04:22 | 140 km | 180 km |
| 6.2 | 19.11.1980 19:00 | 43.5 km | 162 km |
| 6.1 | 21.09.2009 08:53 | 17.4 km | 103 km |
| 6.1 | 23.02.1954 06:40 | 15 km | 119 km |
| 6.0 | 28.04.2021 02:21 | 39.3 km | 217 km |
| 5.8 | 08.02.1943 21:05 | 15 km | 104 km |
| 5.7 | 26.09.1966 05:10 | 16.3 km | 212 km |
| 5.7 | 26.02.1950 03:35 | 15 km | 51 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.8 | 13.10.2026 07:52 | 5 km | 134 km |
| 4.4 | 09.10.2026 01:11 | 10 km | 206 km |
| 2.6 | 06.10.2026 16:49 | 5 km | 136 km |
| 2.6 | 05.10.2026 19:23 | 5 km | 140 km |
| 2.6 | 01.10.2026 19:17 | 5 km | 93 km |
| 2.7 | 24.09.2026 00:35 | 5 km | 169 km |
| 4.1 | 21.09.2026 08:10 | 15 km | 82 km |
| 4.8 | 19.09.2026 10:31 | 10 km | 78 km |
| 2.6 | 18.09.2026 17:24 | 6 km | 59 km |
| 2.5 | 16.09.2026 11:08 | 5 km | 127 km |
| 2.8 | 08.09.2026 10:48 | 5 km | 161 km |
| 3.0 | 04.09.2026 22:35 | 10 km | 94 km |
| 3.9 | 31.08.2026 20:18 | 7 km | 163 km |
| 2.5 | 25.08.2026 23:58 | 2 km | 174 km |
| 3.1 | 24.08.2026 18:11 | 5 km | 169 km |
| 2.9 | 23.08.2026 15:58 | 8 km | 141 km |
| 2.9 | 19.08.2026 14:23 | 10 km | 183 km |
| 2.8 | 19.08.2026 05:56 | 10 km | 179 km |
| 2.7 | 14.08.2026 05:18 | 9 km | 181 km |
| 2.5 | 11.08.2026 06:25 | 3.9 km | 78 km |
| 2.9 | 09.08.2026 08:41 | 5 km | 137 km |
| 2.7 | 09.08.2026 07:25 | 7 km | 168 km |
| 3.8 | 07.08.2026 17:57 | 26 km | 54 km |
| 2.7 | 07.08.2026 14:53 | 10 km | 179 km |
| 2.5 | 06.08.2026 23:34 | 5 km | 137 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 21:21 | 10 km | 156 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 00:08 | 5 km | 140 km |
| 2.8 | 29.07.2026 23:22 | 10 km | 172 km |
| 2.9 | 28.07.2026 09:32 | 15 km | 172 km |
| 3.2 | 18.07.2026 15:01 | 7 km | 181 km |
| 2.5 | 18.07.2026 13:55 | 5 km | 18 km |
| 3.2 | 17.07.2026 00:16 | 5 km | 170 km |
| 3.4 | 15.07.2026 11:24 | 10 km | 130 km |
| 2.5 | 14.07.2026 13:39 | 5 km | 179 km |
| 2.7 | 14.07.2026 10:24 | 10 km | 127 km |
| 2.6 | 14.07.2026 07:23 | 27 km | 57 km |
| 2.7 | 10.07.2026 07:29 | 10 km | 170 km |
| 2.6 | 10.07.2026 01:33 | 5 km | 167 km |
| 2.9 | 09.07.2026 10:22 | 10 km | 154 km |
| 2.7 | 09.07.2026 03:01 | 5 km | 105 km |
| 3.0 | 08.07.2026 11:21 | 15 km | 176 km |
| 2.8 | 04.07.2026 13:44 | 5 km | 149 km |
| 2.8 | 01.07.2026 01:44 | 5 km | 132 km |
| 2.5 | 30.06.2026 22:14 | 5 km | 132 km |
| 3.0 | 28.06.2026 22:18 | 7 km | 156 km |
| 2.7 | 26.06.2026 22:15 | 5 km | 167 km |
| 2.8 | 26.06.2026 13:05 | 5 km | 162 km |
| 2.8 | 25.06.2026 04:26 | 5 km | 180 km |
| 2.9 | 22.06.2026 17:04 | 5 km | 160 km |
| 2.5 | 22.06.2026 10:11 | 5 km | 76 km |
| 3.5 | 22.06.2026 09:39 | 10 km | 149 km |
| 2.6 | 22.06.2026 07:53 | 3.9 km | 159 km |
| 2.5 | 22.06.2026 03:45 | 5 km | 156 km |
| 2.7 | 22.06.2026 01:41 | 10 km | 169 km |
| 2.8 | 21.06.2026 22:05 | 10 km | 155 km |
| 2.6 | 21.06.2026 10:41 | 10 km | 161 km |
| 2.7 | 21.06.2026 02:36 | 10 km | 159 km |
| 3.8 | 21.06.2026 02:24 | 0 km | 161 km |
| 2.8 | 21.06.2026 02:00 | 5 km | 157 km |
| 4.0 | 21.06.2026 00:53 | 0 km | 172 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.