2.6
4,317
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1900–2026
record span
3.93
mean magnitude
2,196
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 | 07.09.1915 01:20 | 80 km | 24 km |
| 7.7 | 13.01.2001 17:33 | 57.6 km | 86 km |
| 7.7 | 06.08.1942 23:37 | 35 km | 241 km |
| 7.5 | 19.04.1902 02:23 | 0 km | 227 km |
| 7.5 | 04.02.1976 09:01 | 7.6 km | 170 km |
| 7.3 | 27.08.2012 04:37 | 16 km | 187 km |
| 7.3 | 19.06.1982 06:21 | 76.3 km | 76 km |
| 7.3 | 14.10.2014 03:51 | 63.9 km | 162 km |
| 7.2 | 28.03.1921 07:49 | 15 km | 198 km |
| 7.1 | 21.05.1932 10:10 | 15 km | 114 km |
| 7.1 | 08.10.1901 02:14 | 0 km | 225 km |
| 7.1 | 08.02.1926 15:18 | 20 km | 169 km |
| 7.0 | 05.11.1926 07:55 | 15 km | 257 km |
| 7.0 | 09.11.1900 13:12 | — | 147 km |
| 7.0 | 09.11.1900 16:10 | 0 km | 147 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.6 | 13.10.2026 00:14 | 4 km | 144 km |
| 2.9 | 12.10.2026 16:00 | 4 km | 143 km |
| 3.5 | 12.10.2026 15:54 | 4 km | 143 km |
| 3.2 | 12.10.2026 12:55 | 9.5 km | 23 km |
| 2.8 | 12.10.2026 10:37 | 23 km | 130 km |
| 2.6 | 12.10.2026 06:41 | 22 km | 128 km |
| 2.9 | 12.10.2026 06:40 | 16 km | 121 km |
| 3.1 | 09.10.2026 11:02 | 20 km | 123 km |
| 2.9 | 09.10.2026 05:44 | 17 km | 152 km |
| 2.5 | 09.10.2026 04:57 | 5 km | 143 km |
| 3.2 | 08.10.2026 19:53 | 10 km | 144 km |
| 3.7 | 08.10.2026 18:14 | 4 km | 144 km |
| 3.7 | 08.10.2026 09:07 | 27 km | 122 km |
| 4.5 | 07.10.2026 02:58 | 35.6 km | 117 km |
| 3.0 | 07.10.2026 00:21 | 19 km | 126 km |
| 3.6 | 07.10.2026 00:14 | 28 km | 121 km |
| 3.8 | 07.10.2026 00:13 | 24 km | 124 km |
| 2.8 | 06.10.2026 08:36 | 26 km | 130 km |
| 2.5 | 06.10.2026 06:38 | 5 km | 145 km |
| 2.7 | 06.10.2026 01:20 | 24 km | 145 km |
| 2.7 | 05.10.2026 22:30 | 102 km | 143 km |
| 3.2 | 05.10.2026 13:38 | 4 km | 143 km |
| 4.2 | 03.10.2026 07:25 | 23 km | 125 km |
| 3.3 | 02.10.2026 10:47 | 25 km | 107 km |
| 2.5 | 01.10.2026 17:52 | 4 km | 144 km |
| 2.8 | 01.10.2026 07:56 | 5 km | 142 km |
| 3.0 | 30.09.2026 20:49 | 8 km | 155 km |
| 3.0 | 30.09.2026 14:43 | 4 km | 143 km |
| 2.9 | 30.09.2026 14:31 | 2 km | 143 km |
| 2.7 | 30.09.2026 14:29 | 5 km | 144 km |
| 4.0 | 30.09.2026 14:24 | 5 km | 144 km |
| 2.7 | 30.09.2026 07:45 | 14 km | 123 km |
| 3.0 | 29.09.2026 22:51 | 27 km | 117 km |
| 3.2 | 29.09.2026 20:33 | 5 km | 144 km |
| 2.7 | 29.09.2026 18:56 | 6 km | 144 km |
| 3.6 | 29.09.2026 01:39 | 22 km | 118 km |
| 2.8 | 28.09.2026 22:37 | 4 km | 144 km |
| 2.6 | 28.09.2026 12:49 | 6 km | 148 km |
| 2.5 | 28.09.2026 03:52 | 2 km | 143 km |
| 2.7 | 27.09.2026 18:28 | 3 km | 144 km |
| 3.6 | 26.09.2026 07:22 | 25 km | 122 km |
| 3.3 | 25.09.2026 07:38 | 46 km | 105 km |
| 3.1 | 22.09.2026 11:25 | 30 km | 98 km |
| 4.0 | 20.09.2026 00:22 | 50 km | 87 km |
| 3.3 | 19.09.2026 14:15 | 6 km | 145 km |
| 2.8 | 14.09.2026 19:44 | 5 km | 144 km |
| 3.4 | 13.09.2026 19:49 | 166 km | 156 km |
| 2.6 | 13.09.2026 07:07 | 10 km | 149 km |
| 4.0 | 10.09.2026 22:40 | 55.7 km | 96 km |
| 3.5 | 09.09.2026 06:01 | 25 km | 121 km |
| 3.5 | 08.09.2026 07:40 | 11 km | 150 km |
| 2.5 | 08.09.2026 07:29 | 12 km | 158 km |
| 2.8 | 08.09.2026 07:09 | 11 km | 156 km |
| 3.0 | 06.09.2026 11:15 | 24 km | 122 km |
| 3.1 | 05.09.2026 04:55 | 22 km | 122 km |
| 4.2 | 04.09.2026 21:10 | 42.3 km | 116 km |
| 3.6 | 03.09.2026 17:48 | 22 km | 123 km |
| 3.3 | 02.09.2026 23:50 | 7.5 km | 34 km |
| 3.8 | 02.09.2026 14:41 | 19 km | 123 km |
| 3.1 | 02.09.2026 13:53 | 27 km | 108 km |
Regions
Usulután1,019San Miguel956La Unión877La Paz807Ahuachapán763La Libertad763Sonsonate697San Vicente665Santa Ana631San Salvador356Cuscatlán270Cabañas224Chalatenango186Morazán156
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.