0.5
32,376
recorded earthquakes
M6.9
largest
1905–2026
record span
1.98
mean magnitude
22,492
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 | 350 km |
| 6.6 | 30.10.2016 06:40 | 9.6 km | 324 km |
| 6.6 | 13.01.1915 06:52 | 15 km | 343 km |
| 6.5 | 01.06.1905 04:42 | 15 km | 346 km |
| 6.5 | 06.05.1976 20:00 | 13.4 km | 323 km |
| 6.4 | 29.12.2020 11:19 | 10.6 km | 108 km |
| 6.3 | 06.04.2009 01:32 | 11.7 km | 342 km |
| 6.2 | 14.02.1927 03:43 | 50 km | 206 km |
| 6.2 | 11.01.1962 05:05 | 15 km | 131 km |
| 6.2 | 24.08.2016 01:36 | 11.6 km | 328 km |
| 6.2 | 04.08.1905 05:08 | 15 km | 411 km |
| 6.2 | 24.05.1979 17:23 | 6 km | 317 km |
| 6.1 | 07.01.1962 10:03 | 15 km | 145 km |
| 6.1 | 15.03.1923 05:40 | 15 km | 164 km |
| 6.1 | 17.06.1976 14:28 | 24 km | 341 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.5 | 09.10.2026 01:39 | 8 km | 288 km |
| 1.9 | 08.10.2026 17:05 | 10 km | 117 km |
| 1.4 | 07.10.2026 02:01 | 10 km | 122 km |
| 1.9 | 06.10.2026 17:47 | 14.5 km | 119 km |
| 1.2 | 05.10.2026 14:00 | 0 km | 175 km |
| 3.4 | 05.10.2026 09:35 | 12.8 km | 180 km |
| 2.3 | 04.10.2026 22:48 | 10 km | 82 km |
| 1.2 | 04.10.2026 22:37 | 6.5 km | 158 km |
| 2.2 | 04.10.2026 20:12 | 18.4 km | 281 km |
| 1.6 | 03.10.2026 10:30 | 5.6 km | 290 km |
| 2.0 | 03.10.2026 01:41 | 16 km | 124 km |
| 1.6 | 03.10.2026 01:16 | 14 km | 127 km |
| 2.4 | 02.10.2026 12:16 | 8 km | 195 km |
| 1.6 | 02.10.2026 10:32 | 7.6 km | 222 km |
| 2.2 | 02.10.2026 10:28 | 7.8 km | 223 km |
| 1.8 | 02.10.2026 07:03 | 15 km | 111 km |
| 3.0 | 02.10.2026 04:59 | 13.4 km | 110 km |
| 1.0 | 02.10.2026 02:14 | 0.1 km | 188 km |
| 1.0 | 01.10.2026 14:30 | 19 km | 105 km |
| 2.1 | 01.10.2026 08:21 | 8 km | 125 km |
| 2.7 | 01.10.2026 05:02 | 8.6 km | 235 km |
| 2.2 | 30.09.2026 13:14 | 14 km | 319 km |
| 1.7 | 30.09.2026 12:48 | 18 km | 93 km |
| 2.2 | 30.09.2026 12:37 | 16.9 km | 320 km |
| 1.6 | 30.09.2026 03:25 | 5 km | 102 km |
| 1.0 | 29.09.2026 23:13 | 14 km | 245 km |
| 1.5 | 29.09.2026 20:08 | 8.1 km | 98 km |
| 2.1 | 29.09.2026 18:57 | 45.5 km | 296 km |
| 2.7 | 29.09.2026 16:13 | 7 km | 154 km |
| 1.2 | 27.09.2026 12:35 | 8 km | 250 km |
| 2.8 | 27.09.2026 06:34 | 4.9 km | 192 km |
| 2.1 | 25.09.2026 08:06 | 0 km | 152 km |
| 2.0 | 25.09.2026 07:21 | 11 km | 69 km |
| 2.5 | 25.09.2026 06:27 | 5 km | 127 km |
| 2.2 | 25.09.2026 04:22 | 0.9 km | 150 km |
| 1.6 | 24.09.2026 22:29 | 3.2 km | 173 km |
| 2.7 | 24.09.2026 21:25 | 7.7 km | 188 km |
| 1.6 | 24.09.2026 18:20 | 12.9 km | 170 km |
| 1.8 | 24.09.2026 18:05 | 0 km | 156 km |
| 2.7 | 24.09.2026 13:28 | 1 km | 281 km |
| 2.1 | 24.09.2026 07:00 | 0.9 km | 152 km |
| 1.7 | 23.09.2026 23:03 | 3 km | 117 km |
| 2.5 | 23.09.2026 19:49 | 9 km | 174 km |
| 0.7 | 23.09.2026 12:00 | 0 km | 284 km |
| 1.2 | 23.09.2026 11:02 | 6 km | 329 km |
| 2.0 | 23.09.2026 08:03 | 2.1 km | 152 km |
| 1.8 | 23.09.2026 03:03 | 0 km | 153 km |
| 1.4 | 23.09.2026 02:06 | 13 km | 138 km |
| 2.0 | 23.09.2026 01:41 | 7.4 km | 155 km |
| 2.8 | 23.09.2026 01:07 | 10 km | 154 km |
| 0.9 | 22.09.2026 12:00 | 0 km | 284 km |
| 1.8 | 21.09.2026 23:41 | 0 km | 153 km |
| 2.9 | 21.09.2026 22:41 | 2.2 km | 152 km |
| 2.0 | 21.09.2026 21:01 | 1 km | 152 km |
| 2.3 | 21.09.2026 20:50 | 11.7 km | 144 km |
| 1.5 | 21.09.2026 08:41 | 4 km | 53 km |
| 1.8 | 19.09.2026 00:34 | 8 km | 129 km |
| 2.1 | 18.09.2026 17:44 | 8 km | 80 km |
| 2.2 | 18.09.2026 17:26 | 6 km | 81 km |
| 1.5 | 18.09.2026 16:59 | 8 km | 80 km |
Regions
Zagreb4,478Primorje-Gorski3,112Sisak-Moslavina2,803Karlovac2,368Dubrovnik-Neretva2,044Krapina-Zagorje1,543Split-Dalmatia1,245Istria815Varaždin716Zadar708Lika-Senj619Šibenik-Knin363Koprivnica-Križevci231Bjelovar-Bilogora216
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.