2.3
40,389
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1901–2026
record span
1.64
mean magnitude
27,428
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 | 30.11.1987 19:23 | 11.6 km | 821 km |
| 7.5 | 28.02.1979 21:27 | 19 km | 649 km |
| 7.1 | 18.01.1901 04:39 | 0 km | 551 km |
| 7.0 | 15.05.1908 08:31 | 35 km | 766 km |
| 7.0 | 06.12.2025 20:41 | 10 km | 602 km |
| 6.8 | 16.04.1970 05:33 | 10 km | 754 km |
| 6.7 | 23.12.1985 05:16 | 13.6 km | 490 km |
| 6.5 | 05.10.1985 15:24 | 9.5 km | 491 km |
| 6.5 | 03.02.1944 12:14 | 35 km | 539 km |
| 6.4 | 05.06.1940 11:01 | 10 km | 274 km |
| 6.3 | 01.03.1955 04:43 | 10 km | 61 km |
| 6.3 | 11.01.1953 22:53 | 15 km | 68 km |
| 6.2 | 29.05.1940 01:57 | 35 km | 271 km |
| 6.2 | 01.05.2017 14:18 | 4.3 km | 599 km |
| 6.2 | 25.03.1988 19:36 | 10.1 km | 501 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.3 | 12.10.2026 06:21 | 5 km | 280 km |
| 2.4 | 09.10.2026 18:15 | 9.6 km | 588 km |
| 1.6 | 09.10.2026 14:19 | 2 km | 584 km |
| 1.9 | 09.10.2026 11:48 | 3.7 km | 596 km |
| 2.1 | 09.10.2026 11:34 | 5 km | 594 km |
| 2.6 | 09.10.2026 01:33 | 13.3 km | 593 km |
| 1.7 | 08.10.2026 13:46 | 1 km | 594 km |
| 1.9 | 08.10.2026 12:05 | 1.9 km | 530 km |
| 1.7 | 08.10.2026 10:02 | 1.3 km | 546 km |
| 1.5 | 08.10.2026 09:44 | 10.4 km | 545 km |
| 2.0 | 08.10.2026 09:32 | 1.5 km | 548 km |
| 1.8 | 08.10.2026 08:19 | 5.9 km | 571 km |
| 1.9 | 08.10.2026 06:17 | 0.6 km | 600 km |
| 2.6 | 07.10.2026 17:54 | 10 km | 525 km |
| 2.9 | 07.10.2026 12:09 | 1 km | 54 km |
| 2.0 | 06.10.2026 20:13 | 0.2 km | 634 km |
| 4.2 | 06.10.2026 19:08 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 2.2 | 06.10.2026 04:01 | 27.2 km | 627 km |
| 2.1 | 06.10.2026 02:24 | 4.9 km | 592 km |
| 3.2 | 05.10.2026 20:50 | 2.8 km | 396 km |
| 2.7 | 05.10.2026 20:11 | 5 km | 593 km |
| 1.3 | 02.10.2026 10:55 | 10.3 km | 553 km |
| 2.6 | 02.10.2026 01:03 | 5 km | 433 km |
| 2.8 | 30.09.2026 08:26 | 1 km | 148 km |
| 3.0 | 29.09.2026 02:26 | 8.7 km | 395 km |
| 2.0 | 28.09.2026 18:26 | 1.8 km | 595 km |
| 2.2 | 26.09.2026 11:50 | 0 km | 596 km |
| 2.5 | 26.09.2026 09:52 | 5 km | 593 km |
| 1.6 | 26.09.2026 05:27 | 1.3 km | 549 km |
| 1.9 | 26.09.2026 04:12 | 6 km | 592 km |
| 1.9 | 25.09.2026 22:33 | 5.2 km | 591 km |
| 1.5 | 25.09.2026 17:47 | 11.6 km | 579 km |
| 1.7 | 25.09.2026 17:46 | 5.9 km | 577 km |
| 1.5 | 25.09.2026 17:12 | 16.7 km | 578 km |
| 1.9 | 25.09.2026 13:52 | 4.4 km | 668 km |
| 1.8 | 25.09.2026 00:32 | 8.2 km | 600 km |
| 2.0 | 24.09.2026 18:07 | 5.2 km | 474 km |
| 1.6 | 24.09.2026 17:22 | 14.3 km | 632 km |
| 2.9 | 24.09.2026 14:14 | 5 km | 549 km |
| 3.1 | 24.09.2026 10:56 | 5 km | 118 km |
| 1.7 | 24.09.2026 10:17 | 11 km | 545 km |
| 2.2 | 24.09.2026 04:09 | 6.5 km | 560 km |
| 2.0 | 24.09.2026 04:02 | 10 km | 619 km |
| 1.9 | 24.09.2026 02:55 | 9.9 km | 601 km |
| 1.8 | 23.09.2026 13:02 | 9.5 km | 617 km |
| 2.1 | 23.09.2026 06:27 | 1.3 km | 593 km |
| 1.8 | 23.09.2026 06:00 | 1.3 km | 534 km |
| 1.8 | 22.09.2026 18:57 | 4.3 km | 547 km |
| 1.8 | 22.09.2026 18:22 | 3.5 km | 593 km |
| 2.8 | 22.09.2026 12:45 | 5.2 km | 549 km |
| 1.6 | 22.09.2026 12:12 | 19.8 km | 590 km |
| 1.6 | 22.09.2026 11:56 | 4.9 km | 555 km |
| 2.2 | 21.09.2026 14:34 | 21.8 km | 666 km |
| 2.7 | 20.09.2026 13:21 | 5 km | 598 km |
| 1.5 | 19.09.2026 18:53 | 17.9 km | 628 km |
| 2.6 | 18.09.2026 23:30 | 5 km | 537 km |
| 1.8 | 16.09.2026 00:05 | 11.5 km | 592 km |
| 1.6 | 15.09.2026 01:21 | 2.9 km | 589 km |
| 1.4 | 14.09.2026 15:59 | 5.9 km | 598 km |
| 1.4 | 14.09.2026 13:12 | 2.5 km | 586 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.