1.1
7,238
recorded earthquakes
M7.6
largest
1901–2026
record span
2.31
mean magnitude
5,575
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.6 | 09.08.1912 01:29 | 15 km | 267 km |
| 7.6 | 17.08.1999 00:01 | 16.3 km | 429 km |
| 7.2 | 08.11.1905 22:06 | 15 km | 303 km |
| 7.2 | 31.03.1901 07:10 | 14 km | 274 km |
| 7.2 | 18.03.1953 19:06 | 10 km | 337 km |
| 7.2 | 30.08.1986 21:28 | 137.4 km | 325 km |
| 7.0 | 26.09.1932 19:20 | 10 km | 309 km |
| 7.0 | 04.04.1904 10:26 | 15 km | 212 km |
| 6.9 | 18.04.1928 19:22 | 15 km | 52 km |
| 6.8 | 04.04.1904 10:02 | 15 km | 219 km |
| 6.8 | 14.04.1928 09:00 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 6.7 | 13.09.1912 23:31 | 15 km | 269 km |
| 6.7 | 14.06.1913 09:33 | 15 km | 52 km |
| 6.5 | 08.03.1931 01:50 | 10 km | 277 km |
| 6.4 | 26.07.1963 04:17 | 15 km | 347 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | 12.10.2026 09:18 | 7 km | 185 km |
| 2.2 | 11.10.2026 10:28 | 5.4 km | 97 km |
| 2.3 | 11.10.2026 09:47 | 7.5 km | 98 km |
| 1.0 | 10.10.2026 12:46 | 9.3 km | 178 km |
| 1.0 | 08.10.2026 13:31 | 6.8 km | 280 km |
| 1.0 | 08.10.2026 08:55 | 7 km | 165 km |
| 2.2 | 05.10.2026 19:29 | 7.2 km | 121 km |
| 2.4 | 01.10.2026 04:24 | 12.5 km | 101 km |
| 2.5 | 30.09.2026 22:29 | 15 km | 263 km |
| 1.4 | 30.09.2026 08:43 | 1.4 km | 183 km |
| 1.0 | 24.09.2026 12:40 | 7 km | 186 km |
| 1.6 | 23.09.2026 03:11 | 11.1 km | 198 km |
| 1.9 | 22.09.2026 18:26 | 7 km | 202 km |
| 3.2 | 22.09.2026 17:54 | 7.9 km | 199 km |
| 0.8 | 19.09.2026 08:54 | 7.4 km | 179 km |
| 1.2 | 18.09.2026 12:25 | 7.3 km | 253 km |
| 1.6 | 15.09.2026 18:14 | 9.6 km | 225 km |
| 2.7 | 15.09.2026 12:29 | 15.3 km | 233 km |
| 1.7 | 14.09.2026 09:04 | 2 km | 91 km |
| 0.9 | 11.09.2026 10:33 | 9.3 km | 185 km |
| 1.6 | 11.09.2026 10:31 | 7 km | 159 km |
| 1.0 | 11.09.2026 06:09 | 7 km | 142 km |
| 1.4 | 10.09.2026 15:49 | 10.4 km | 319 km |
| 1.0 | 10.09.2026 12:01 | 7.4 km | 139 km |
| 2.3 | 09.09.2026 08:56 | 15 km | 270 km |
| 1.2 | 08.09.2026 07:38 | 7 km | 106 km |
| 0.9 | 03.09.2026 09:08 | 7 km | 219 km |
| 1.0 | 03.09.2026 08:57 | 7 km | 216 km |
| 2.6 | 03.09.2026 05:46 | 2 km | 181 km |
| 1.0 | 02.09.2026 10:09 | 75.2 km | 196 km |
| 1.0 | 02.09.2026 07:42 | 7.9 km | 178 km |
| 2.6 | 01.09.2026 19:41 | 4.6 km | 219 km |
| 2.1 | 30.08.2026 10:05 | 13.5 km | 135 km |
| 1.8 | 28.08.2026 10:31 | 18.7 km | 73 km |
| 1.0 | 28.08.2026 08:09 | 7 km | 174 km |
| 3.0 | 27.08.2026 09:33 | 2 km | 232 km |
| 0.8 | 25.08.2026 07:40 | 7 km | 172 km |
| 1.5 | 24.08.2026 07:10 | 6.9 km | 135 km |
| 1.2 | 23.08.2026 10:05 | 7.3 km | 132 km |
| 1.0 | 22.08.2026 06:59 | 7.3 km | 143 km |
| 0.8 | 20.08.2026 14:12 | 7 km | 274 km |
| 1.2 | 20.08.2026 09:55 | 7 km | 318 km |
| 0.8 | 18.08.2026 13:22 | 5 km | 181 km |
| 1.9 | 17.08.2026 00:49 | 6.9 km | 187 km |
| 0.9 | 12.08.2026 12:33 | 7 km | 272 km |
| 1.0 | 08.08.2026 09:56 | 7 km | 174 km |
| 0.9 | 08.08.2026 06:41 | 7 km | 181 km |
| 1.0 | 04.08.2026 09:52 | 7 km | 179 km |
| 2.0 | 02.08.2026 04:31 | 7.1 km | 95 km |
| 1.2 | 28.07.2026 23:35 | 5.4 km | 253 km |
| 1.2 | 24.07.2026 05:06 | 7 km | 229 km |
| 1.1 | 16.07.2026 10:01 | 5.7 km | 146 km |
| 1.1 | 13.07.2026 15:28 | 7 km | 273 km |
| 2.4 | 11.07.2026 09:42 | 14 km | 201 km |
| 2.1 | 03.07.2026 17:10 | 7 km | 180 km |
| 1.3 | 03.07.2026 08:26 | 6.3 km | 158 km |
| 1.8 | 19.06.2026 11:16 | 7.9 km | 114 km |
| 2.2 | 18.06.2026 11:13 | 7.8 km | 175 km |
| 1.4 | 17.06.2026 15:37 | 6.2 km | 317 km |
| 1.6 | 16.06.2026 09:11 | 7.3 km | 150 km |
Regions
Blagoevgrad2,934Burgas798Sofia782Kyustendil781Pazardzhik678Smolyan594Haskovo566Yambol550Plovdiv402Stara Zagora392Kardzhali385Sliven334Pernik198
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.