1.2
18,773
recorded earthquakes
M6.2
largest
1911–2026
record span
1.93
mean magnitude
16,913
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.2 | 16.11.1911 21:25 | 40 km | 333 km |
| 6.0 | 25.01.1946 17:31 | 35 km | 569 km |
| 5.8 | 28.05.1943 00:24 | 15 km | 345 km |
| 5.6 | 27.06.1935 17:19 | 35 km | 348 km |
| 5.5 | 20.07.1913 12:06 | 15 km | 342 km |
| 5.5 | 14.03.1951 09:46 | 15 km | 262 km |
| 5.5 | 23.06.1975 13:17 | 3.3 km | 55 km |
| 5.5 | 03.10.1936 15:48 | 10 km | 543 km |
| 5.4 | 25.07.1927 20:35 | 15 km | 523 km |
| 5.4 | 22.02.1953 20:16 | 10 km | 32 km |
| 5.3 | 13.04.1992 01:20 | 19.7 km | 325 km |
| 5.3 | 07.10.1930 23:27 | 15 km | 430 km |
| 5.3 | 30.09.1958 08:45 | 15 km | 416 km |
| 5.3 | 08.07.1958 05:02 | 15 km | 34 km |
| 5.2 | 28.06.1982 09:57 | 10 km | 190 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2 | 12.10.2026 14:00 | 14 km | 330 km |
| 0.5 | 11.10.2026 02:41 | 10 km | 211 km |
| 1.0 | 10.10.2026 11:49 | 12 km | 238 km |
| 1.6 | 10.10.2026 11:47 | 9 km | 452 km |
| 0.9 | 09.10.2026 21:46 | 10 km | 212 km |
| 0.9 | 09.10.2026 19:44 | 19 km | 403 km |
| 3.1 | 09.10.2026 04:46 | 10 km | 436 km |
| 1.4 | 08.10.2026 16:47 | 11 km | 212 km |
| 1.9 | 08.10.2026 09:44 | 0.9 km | 433 km |
| 1.2 | 07.10.2026 10:49 | 0 km | 415 km |
| 0.4 | 07.10.2026 01:39 | 3 km | 409 km |
| 1.7 | 07.10.2026 01:14 | 5 km | 380 km |
| 3.4 | 07.10.2026 01:02 | 2.1 km | 447 km |
| 0.7 | 07.10.2026 01:01 | 4.6 km | 489 km |
| 0.5 | 06.10.2026 20:31 | 8 km | 432 km |
| 1.7 | 05.10.2026 07:27 | -1.2 km | 498 km |
| 0.7 | 05.10.2026 07:11 | 11 km | 238 km |
| 1.5 | 05.10.2026 06:42 | 19 km | 420 km |
| 0.7 | 05.10.2026 06:23 | 4.1 km | 490 km |
| 1.0 | 04.10.2026 18:13 | 12.8 km | 455 km |
| 1.0 | 03.10.2026 23:39 | 16 km | 233 km |
| 0.8 | 03.10.2026 22:33 | 9 km | 219 km |
| 0.7 | 03.10.2026 16:35 | 9.4 km | 452 km |
| 1.0 | 03.10.2026 13:51 | 18.2 km | 452 km |
| 2.7 | 03.10.2026 13:36 | 18.2 km | 451 km |
| 0.3 | 03.10.2026 06:26 | 20 km | 427 km |
| 1.1 | 01.10.2026 23:16 | 9 km | 452 km |
| 1.2 | 01.10.2026 13:28 | 7.5 km | 427 km |
| 0.9 | 01.10.2026 01:47 | 12 km | 212 km |
| 0.7 | 01.10.2026 00:56 | 3.9 km | 489 km |
| 2.2 | 30.09.2026 09:58 | 5 km | 538 km |
| 0.7 | 30.09.2026 09:25 | 11 km | 246 km |
| 0.8 | 30.09.2026 07:47 | 10 km | 232 km |
| 1.6 | 30.09.2026 07:43 | 10 km | 232 km |
| 0.5 | 30.09.2026 03:22 | 10 km | 246 km |
| 0.7 | 29.09.2026 23:16 | 6 km | 363 km |
| 1.1 | 29.09.2026 09:53 | 2 km | 415 km |
| 1.8 | 29.09.2026 08:17 | 1.6 km | 479 km |
| 0.8 | 28.09.2026 15:44 | 11 km | 210 km |
| 1.1 | 28.09.2026 14:58 | 11 km | 246 km |
| 0.3 | 28.09.2026 03:09 | 11 km | 211 km |
| 1.1 | 27.09.2026 14:12 | 3.9 km | 490 km |
| 0.7 | 27.09.2026 13:49 | 3.7 km | 490 km |
| 0.4 | 27.09.2026 04:16 | 3.7 km | 490 km |
| 0.5 | 27.09.2026 03:59 | 18 km | 424 km |
| 0.5 | 27.09.2026 03:18 | 3.8 km | 490 km |
| 1.4 | 27.09.2026 01:19 | 4.4 km | 489 km |
| 0.5 | 27.09.2026 00:34 | 8 km | 247 km |
| 0.5 | 27.09.2026 00:02 | 12 km | 238 km |
| 3.5 | 26.09.2026 07:56 | 10 km | 437 km |
| 0.7 | 26.09.2026 04:56 | 8 km | 227 km |
| 0.6 | 26.09.2026 02:31 | 4.9 km | 489 km |
| 0.3 | 25.09.2026 23:27 | 15 km | 378 km |
| 1.3 | 25.09.2026 15:41 | 4.4 km | 490 km |
| 0.7 | 25.09.2026 15:17 | 4.3 km | 489 km |
| 0.5 | 25.09.2026 11:39 | 10 km | 232 km |
| 1.0 | 24.09.2026 23:57 | 4.4 km | 490 km |
| 0.9 | 24.09.2026 18:28 | 20 km | 432 km |
| 1.3 | 24.09.2026 14:34 | -0.5 km | 427 km |
| 0.7 | 24.09.2026 05:46 | 11 km | 247 km |
Regions
Bavaria5,967Baden-Württemberg5,690Rhineland-Palatinate3,663North Rhine-Westphalia2,411Saxony2,339Thuringia1,872Saarland1,255Hesse1,140Lower Saxony1,095
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.