2.9
11,096
recorded earthquakes
M8.7
largest
1903–2026
record span
3.50
mean magnitude
9,469
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.7 | 11.11.1922 04:32 | 70 km | 86 km |
| 7.7 | 28.12.1966 08:18 | 22.1 km | 232 km |
| 7.6 | 04.10.1983 18:52 | 28.6 km | 122 km |
| 7.5 | 05.03.1987 09:17 | 41.4 km | 341 km |
| 7.5 | 04.12.1918 11:47 | 40 km | 129 km |
| 7.4 | 18.04.1939 06:22 | 35 km | 99 km |
| 7.2 | 02.12.1960 09:10 | 35 km | 313 km |
| 7.2 | 08.06.1909 05:46 | 35 km | 128 km |
| 7.2 | 05.02.1988 14:01 | 37.9 km | 314 km |
| 7.1 | 13.07.1936 11:12 | 35 km | 312 km |
| 7.1 | 06.09.1910 19:59 | 0 km | 281 km |
| 7.1 | 08.07.1942 06:55 | 35 km | 351 km |
| 7.1 | 15.10.1997 01:03 | 56.9 km | 411 km |
| 7.0 | 19.04.1955 20:24 | 15 km | 352 km |
| 7.0 | 07.11.1922 23:00 | 25 km | 223 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.9 | 11.10.2026 23:47 | 31.2 km | 211 km |
| 3.9 | 11.10.2026 20:38 | 103.9 km | 47 km |
| 2.9 | 11.10.2026 20:28 | 115.6 km | 197 km |
| 3.2 | 11.10.2026 17:18 | 39.6 km | 194 km |
| 2.5 | 11.10.2026 13:27 | 83 km | 174 km |
| 3.1 | 10.10.2026 23:38 | 54.5 km | 290 km |
| 3.2 | 10.10.2026 03:52 | 113.1 km | 142 km |
| 2.7 | 09.10.2026 13:08 | 50 km | 135 km |
| 2.5 | 09.10.2026 05:01 | 19.9 km | 138 km |
| 2.7 | 09.10.2026 04:41 | 39.8 km | 185 km |
| 3.6 | 08.10.2026 18:35 | 56 km | 174 km |
| 3.7 | 08.10.2026 11:02 | 30.4 km | 137 km |
| 3.0 | 08.10.2026 02:28 | 46.3 km | 294 km |
| 3.2 | 07.10.2026 16:37 | 89.9 km | 76 km |
| 2.8 | 07.10.2026 10:34 | 120 km | 188 km |
| 2.7 | 06.10.2026 11:30 | 83.6 km | 170 km |
| 2.5 | 06.10.2026 09:38 | 29.2 km | 113 km |
| 2.8 | 05.10.2026 16:48 | 123 km | 187 km |
| 2.9 | 05.10.2026 02:32 | 47.4 km | 254 km |
| 2.7 | 05.10.2026 01:44 | 30.9 km | 160 km |
| 2.6 | 04.10.2026 18:44 | 103.8 km | 62 km |
| 3.0 | 04.10.2026 05:19 | 87.6 km | 72 km |
| 3.3 | 03.10.2026 09:16 | 86.1 km | 128 km |
| 2.8 | 02.10.2026 18:51 | 17.4 km | 211 km |
| 2.7 | 02.10.2026 15:07 | 79.5 km | 270 km |
| 2.8 | 02.10.2026 05:22 | 106 km | 280 km |
| 3.2 | 01.10.2026 15:25 | 107.9 km | 270 km |
| 2.6 | 01.10.2026 13:53 | 35.7 km | 241 km |
| 2.8 | 01.10.2026 13:03 | 39.9 km | 90 km |
| 2.9 | 01.10.2026 08:57 | 42.4 km | 243 km |
| 2.9 | 01.10.2026 03:48 | 72.1 km | 66 km |
| 2.9 | 30.09.2026 10:23 | 62.5 km | 236 km |
| 3.9 | 30.09.2026 02:08 | 47 km | 292 km |
| 2.8 | 29.09.2026 12:18 | 100.9 km | 27 km |
| 2.7 | 29.09.2026 07:18 | 118 km | 189 km |
| 2.9 | 29.09.2026 00:45 | 34 km | 156 km |
| 2.6 | 28.09.2026 20:02 | 104 km | 258 km |
| 3.0 | 28.09.2026 11:13 | 16.1 km | 205 km |
| 2.5 | 28.09.2026 09:11 | 79.2 km | 108 km |
| 3.1 | 28.09.2026 00:02 | 75.1 km | 151 km |
| 2.9 | 27.09.2026 10:00 | 49.2 km | 210 km |
| 2.5 | 26.09.2026 21:53 | 64.2 km | 290 km |
| 2.5 | 26.09.2026 19:42 | 89 km | 213 km |
| 2.5 | 26.09.2026 17:34 | 42.4 km | 289 km |
| 3.3 | 26.09.2026 11:45 | 117.2 km | 167 km |
| 2.5 | 26.09.2026 03:48 | 95.2 km | 136 km |
| 2.5 | 25.09.2026 11:38 | 20.1 km | 210 km |
| 2.5 | 24.09.2026 19:23 | 68.2 km | 64 km |
| 2.8 | 24.09.2026 17:18 | 87.4 km | 89 km |
| 3.8 | 24.09.2026 15:17 | 27.9 km | 202 km |
| 3.4 | 24.09.2026 05:48 | 61.4 km | 220 km |
| 2.7 | 23.09.2026 19:06 | 68.6 km | 174 km |
| 2.5 | 23.09.2026 15:20 | 101 km | 237 km |
| 2.9 | 23.09.2026 07:54 | 104.7 km | 80 km |
| 2.5 | 23.09.2026 05:13 | 99.6 km | 60 km |
| 4.3 | 23.09.2026 03:07 | 60.4 km | 278 km |
| 2.6 | 22.09.2026 19:17 | 39.8 km | 100 km |
| 3.9 | 21.09.2026 20:59 | 119.9 km | 257 km |
| 2.6 | 20.09.2026 16:41 | 22.4 km | 46 km |
| 2.6 | 20.09.2026 10:30 | 94.6 km | 107 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.