3.8
2,772
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1902–2026
record span
3.83
mean magnitude
961
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.8 | 13.06.2005 22:44 | 104.8 km | 216 km |
| 7.7 | 29.11.1957 22:19 | 232.5 km | 276 km |
| 7.6 | 06.06.1915 21:29 | 160 km | 96 km |
| 7.5 | 30.11.1976 00:40 | 78.1 km | 238 km |
| 7.5 | 25.08.1916 09:44 | 180 km | 269 km |
| 7.2 | 04.10.1940 07:55 | 35 km | 335 km |
| 7.2 | 08.08.1987 15:48 | 19.1 km | 267 km |
| 7.2 | 26.02.1914 04:58 | 130 km | 93 km |
| 7.2 | 04.10.1910 23:00 | 120 km | 236 km |
| 7.2 | 23.02.1933 08:09 | 35 km | 342 km |
| 7.1 | 14.06.1959 00:12 | 109.2 km | 240 km |
| 6.9 | 30.08.1906 02:38 | 60 km | 265 km |
| 6.8 | 05.03.1902 19:03 | 0 km | 297 km |
| 6.7 | 20.08.1965 09:42 | 124.8 km | 136 km |
| 6.7 | 25.02.1983 22:49 | 137.7 km | 177 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.8 | 13.10.2026 06:25 | 103.5 km | 204 km |
| 3.4 | 12.10.2026 11:06 | 252.2 km | 125 km |
| 2.9 | 10.10.2026 01:23 | 125.4 km | 162 km |
| 3.2 | 09.10.2026 18:33 | 103.3 km | 208 km |
| 5.1 | 09.10.2026 10:22 | 123.8 km | 192 km |
| 2.9 | 08.10.2026 19:49 | 102.2 km | 217 km |
| 4.5 | 06.10.2026 06:54 | 191.7 km | 156 km |
| 4.4 | 06.10.2026 00:41 | 105.5 km | 217 km |
| 3.0 | 04.10.2026 03:51 | 107.7 km | 193 km |
| 3.4 | 03.10.2026 03:03 | 262.2 km | 98 km |
| 3.4 | 02.10.2026 05:23 | 11.6 km | 216 km |
| 3.0 | 02.10.2026 02:48 | 103.1 km | 221 km |
| 2.5 | 01.10.2026 13:05 | 99.5 km | 203 km |
| 2.8 | 01.10.2026 12:11 | 11.9 km | 161 km |
| 2.9 | 01.10.2026 03:09 | 146.9 km | 124 km |
| 2.6 | 29.09.2026 03:38 | 147 km | 192 km |
| 2.9 | 27.09.2026 20:05 | 115.9 km | 197 km |
| 3.2 | 27.09.2026 10:26 | 92.5 km | 204 km |
| 2.8 | 18.09.2026 23:59 | 267 km | 60 km |
| 4.1 | 18.09.2026 14:42 | 152.1 km | 196 km |
| 3.8 | 17.09.2026 14:22 | 248.9 km | 91 km |
| 3.7 | 17.09.2026 00:36 | 27.3 km | 152 km |
| 3.1 | 16.09.2026 10:26 | 15.8 km | 126 km |
| 2.8 | 16.09.2026 04:46 | 149.6 km | 182 km |
| 4.2 | 15.09.2026 13:50 | 363.5 km | 173 km |
| 2.9 | 14.09.2026 14:15 | 127.5 km | 192 km |
| 3.2 | 13.09.2026 04:11 | 5 km | 202 km |
| 4.1 | 11.09.2026 07:04 | 108.8 km | 226 km |
| 4.8 | 10.09.2026 12:05 | 372.6 km | 203 km |
| 2.5 | 31.08.2026 20:14 | 188.9 km | 131 km |
| 3.6 | 29.08.2026 22:40 | 99.9 km | 225 km |
| 3.5 | 28.08.2026 17:53 | 106.1 km | 185 km |
| 2.9 | 28.08.2026 12:10 | 114.1 km | 215 km |
| 3.5 | 26.08.2026 10:46 | 103.5 km | 222 km |
| 3.2 | 26.08.2026 08:07 | 112.6 km | 163 km |
| 2.9 | 26.08.2026 05:55 | 110 km | 221 km |
| 3.1 | 26.08.2026 01:58 | 208.3 km | 129 km |
| 3.4 | 18.08.2026 04:45 | 249.3 km | 107 km |
| 4.1 | 17.08.2026 21:06 | 241 km | 45 km |
| 3.2 | 15.08.2026 08:34 | 101.7 km | 223 km |
| 3.3 | 12.08.2026 08:03 | 6.7 km | 190 km |
| 2.5 | 12.08.2026 07:18 | 10 km | 190 km |
| 3.2 | 12.08.2026 07:12 | 5.6 km | 189 km |
| 2.8 | 10.08.2026 13:27 | 99.1 km | 204 km |
| 2.6 | 10.08.2026 09:58 | 103.6 km | 196 km |
| 4.0 | 08.08.2026 15:15 | 117.8 km | 176 km |
| 2.8 | 08.08.2026 02:23 | 124.8 km | 187 km |
| 3.4 | 07.08.2026 08:01 | 243.5 km | 46 km |
| 3.9 | 06.08.2026 05:34 | 119.2 km | 181 km |
| 2.5 | 05.08.2026 06:27 | 112.2 km | 184 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 12:32 | 131.5 km | 185 km |
| 3.0 | 03.08.2026 20:09 | 153.3 km | 202 km |
| 3.3 | 02.08.2026 03:21 | 101 km | 215 km |
| 3.0 | 01.08.2026 07:27 | 107.6 km | 222 km |
| 3.5 | 30.07.2026 12:46 | 245.2 km | 52 km |
| 4.5 | 30.07.2026 06:04 | 98.4 km | 227 km |
| 2.5 | 29.07.2026 01:08 | 117.3 km | 172 km |
| 2.5 | 25.07.2026 17:48 | 97.9 km | 218 km |
| 3.2 | 25.07.2026 10:53 | 240.5 km | 64 km |
| 2.7 | 24.07.2026 10:03 | 100 km | 220 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.