3.4
8,646
recorded earthquakes
M6.9
largest
1905–2026
record span
2.45
mean magnitude
7,412
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.9 | 15.04.1979 06:19 | 9 km | 244 km |
| 6.5 | 01.06.1905 04:42 | 15 km | 240 km |
| 6.4 | 29.12.2020 11:19 | 10.6 km | 205 km |
| 6.2 | 14.02.1927 03:43 | 50 km | 106 km |
| 6.2 | 11.01.1962 05:05 | 15 km | 80 km |
| 6.2 | 04.08.1905 05:08 | 15 km | 303 km |
| 6.2 | 24.05.1979 17:23 | 6 km | 213 km |
| 6.1 | 07.01.1962 10:03 | 15 km | 91 km |
| 6.1 | 26.10.1969 15:36 | 23.7 km | 111 km |
| 6.1 | 15.03.1923 05:40 | 15 km | 76 km |
| 6.1 | 27.10.1969 08:10 | 23.7 km | 107 km |
| 6.0 | 13.04.1964 08:30 | 15 km | 152 km |
| 6.0 | 05.09.1996 20:44 | 13.3 km | 128 km |
| 6.0 | 08.10.1909 09:59 | 15 km | 213 km |
| 5.9 | 03.06.1905 05:10 | 15 km | 244 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.4 | 05.10.2026 09:35 | 12.8 km | 87 km |
| 2.3 | 04.10.2026 22:48 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 2.0 | 03.10.2026 01:41 | 16 km | 62 km |
| 1.6 | 03.10.2026 01:16 | 14 km | 38 km |
| 2.4 | 02.10.2026 12:16 | 8 km | 88 km |
| 2.1 | 01.10.2026 08:21 | 8 km | 67 km |
| 2.7 | 01.10.2026 05:02 | 8.6 km | 141 km |
| 1.7 | 30.09.2026 12:48 | 18 km | 188 km |
| 1.6 | 30.09.2026 03:25 | 5 km | 205 km |
| 1.5 | 29.09.2026 20:08 | 8.1 km | 191 km |
| 2.7 | 29.09.2026 16:13 | 7 km | 72 km |
| 2.8 | 27.09.2026 06:34 | 4.9 km | 82 km |
| 2.0 | 25.09.2026 07:21 | 11 km | 120 km |
| 2.5 | 25.09.2026 06:27 | 5 km | 60 km |
| 2.7 | 24.09.2026 21:25 | 7.7 km | 78 km |
| 2.7 | 24.09.2026 13:28 | 1 km | 171 km |
| 2.5 | 23.09.2026 19:49 | 9 km | 108 km |
| 1.4 | 23.09.2026 02:06 | 13 km | 65 km |
| 1.5 | 21.09.2026 08:41 | 4 km | 168 km |
| 1.8 | 19.09.2026 00:34 | 8 km | 116 km |
| 2.1 | 18.09.2026 17:44 | 8 km | 181 km |
| 2.2 | 18.09.2026 17:26 | 6 km | 181 km |
| 1.5 | 18.09.2026 16:59 | 8 km | 180 km |
| 1.4 | 18.09.2026 13:05 | 8 km | 205 km |
| 1.5 | 17.09.2026 15:23 | 7 km | 194 km |
| 2.0 | 17.09.2026 12:21 | 5 km | 193 km |
| 2.8 | 10.09.2026 12:15 | 5.2 km | 45 km |
| 2.4 | 08.09.2026 12:01 | 10.5 km | 185 km |
| 2.4 | 04.09.2026 19:32 | 98.7 km | 151 km |
| 1.7 | 28.08.2026 09:46 | 0 km | 113 km |
| 2.6 | 28.08.2026 07:27 | 11.1 km | 116 km |
| 1.5 | 27.08.2026 23:17 | 1 km | 111 km |
| 1.7 | 26.08.2026 22:58 | 9 km | 193 km |
| 2.9 | 26.08.2026 01:41 | 10 km | 203 km |
| 1.9 | 23.08.2026 10:37 | 30 km | 98 km |
| 3.1 | 23.08.2026 10:24 | 10.7 km | 98 km |
| 1.7 | 23.08.2026 03:34 | 6.1 km | 217 km |
| 2.6 | 16.08.2026 02:48 | 7 km | 103 km |
| 3.3 | 15.08.2026 01:00 | 0.4 km | 75 km |
| 3.1 | 14.08.2026 23:01 | 9.4 km | 89 km |
| 3.6 | 14.08.2026 22:47 | 6 km | 77 km |
| 1.7 | 14.08.2026 11:08 | 26 km | 127 km |
| 2.1 | 14.08.2026 09:13 | 14 km | 88 km |
| 2.0 | 14.08.2026 03:10 | 5 km | 100 km |
| 2.5 | 09.08.2026 22:18 | 12.1 km | 121 km |
| 2.6 | 07.08.2026 06:46 | 6 km | 145 km |
| 2.4 | 03.08.2026 04:54 | 9 km | 193 km |
| 3.1 | 29.07.2026 02:21 | 5.2 km | 66 km |
| 3.1 | 27.07.2026 12:00 | 6.3 km | 104 km |
| 2.3 | 24.07.2026 23:28 | 0 km | 48 km |
| 1.5 | 22.07.2026 18:23 | 3 km | 195 km |
| 2.4 | 22.07.2026 07:21 | 5.1 km | 103 km |
| 1.8 | 21.07.2026 16:58 | 29 km | 89 km |
| 2.2 | 20.07.2026 13:09 | 12 km | 135 km |
| 2.6 | 20.07.2026 11:25 | 9.3 km | 134 km |
| 2.2 | 20.07.2026 04:46 | 1 km | 82 km |
| 2.3 | 17.07.2026 09:37 | 15 km | 190 km |
| 2.5 | 15.07.2026 11:23 | 5.1 km | 98 km |
| 1.4 | 13.07.2026 18:25 | 15 km | 193 km |
| 2.5 | 11.07.2026 19:09 | 6 km | 77 km |
Regions
Trebinje2,835Herzegovina-Neretva Canton2,263Foča2,179Banja Luka1,073West Herzegovina Canton1,065Livno1,027Sarajevo-Romanija960Vlasenica855Central Bosnia Canton692Tuzla Canton630Zenica-Doboj Canton506Una-Sana Canton363Sarajevo Canton326Bosnian Podrinje Canton268Doboj188
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.