3.5
6,726
recorded earthquakes
M7.1
largest
1910–2026
record span
3.64
mean magnitude
6,598
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.1 | 22.01.1910 08:48 | 35 km | 995 km |
| 7.1 | 20.11.1933 23:21 | 15 km | 987 km |
| 7.0 | 01.01.1945 01:20 | 35 km | 985 km |
| 7.0 | 06.05.1912 19:00 | 35 km | 1155 km |
| 6.8 | 09.11.2018 01:49 | 9.1 km | 1074 km |
| 6.8 | 28.03.1963 00:15 | 10 km | 990 km |
| 6.7 | 30.08.2012 13:43 | 11.1 km | 1087 km |
| 6.7 | 10.10.1923 07:11 | 15 km | 1141 km |
| 6.5 | 08.04.1922 20:42 | 15 km | 1141 km |
| 6.5 | 17.06.2000 15:40 | 10.4 km | 1153 km |
| 6.5 | 16.04.1975 01:27 | 12 km | 1121 km |
| 6.4 | 21.06.2000 00:51 | 8.7 km | 1144 km |
| 6.3 | 31.08.1934 05:02 | 15 km | 990 km |
| 6.3 | 23.07.1929 18:43 | 10 km | 1104 km |
| 6.3 | 29.05.2008 15:46 | 4.2 km | 1134 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.5 | 10.10.2026 10:08 | 0 km | 1208 km |
| 3.0 | 09.10.2026 04:00 | 5 km | 1104 km |
| 3.4 | 08.10.2026 17:50 | 8.9 km | 1107 km |
| 2.9 | 07.10.2026 00:17 | 10 km | 1112 km |
| 4.7 | 05.10.2026 17:28 | 10 km | 1181 km |
| 2.8 | 04.10.2026 21:46 | 10 km | 985 km |
| 2.8 | 04.10.2026 15:31 | 10 km | 989 km |
| 3.1 | 04.10.2026 14:07 | 4.4 km | 1015 km |
| 3.7 | 04.10.2026 13:13 | 10 km | 992 km |
| 3.1 | 04.10.2026 12:16 | 1.9 km | 1173 km |
| 3.4 | 04.10.2026 09:04 | 1.2 km | 989 km |
| 3.2 | 04.10.2026 08:43 | 10 km | 991 km |
| 3.3 | 04.10.2026 00:40 | 4.4 km | 1116 km |
| 3.0 | 03.10.2026 21:44 | 0 km | 1206 km |
| 2.9 | 03.10.2026 21:27 | 0 km | 1206 km |
| 2.8 | 02.10.2026 11:54 | 5.2 km | 1185 km |
| 2.8 | 01.10.2026 18:19 | 3.5 km | 1092 km |
| 3.3 | 01.10.2026 06:49 | 0.2 km | 993 km |
| 3.3 | 01.10.2026 00:37 | 1.2 km | 991 km |
| 3.6 | 30.09.2026 01:26 | 11 km | 989 km |
| 2.9 | 29.09.2026 07:46 | 11.4 km | 991 km |
| 3.5 | 28.09.2026 17:38 | 12.2 km | 989 km |
| 4.0 | 27.09.2026 19:22 | 10 km | 928 km |
| 4.3 | 27.09.2026 10:57 | 10 km | 923 km |
| 4.5 | 26.09.2026 02:52 | 10 km | 935 km |
| 2.9 | 24.09.2026 00:41 | 5 km | 1091 km |
| 2.8 | 22.09.2026 22:25 | 5.2 km | 1074 km |
| 2.9 | 19.09.2026 12:32 | 10 km | 1118 km |
| 2.8 | 19.09.2026 05:13 | 5 km | 1017 km |
| 2.9 | 17.09.2026 06:07 | 11 km | 1063 km |
| 2.8 | 17.09.2026 05:13 | 10 km | 1029 km |
| 3.3 | 17.09.2026 01:38 | 0 km | 1170 km |
| 3.4 | 17.09.2026 01:32 | 10 km | 1109 km |
| 2.8 | 17.09.2026 01:28 | 10 km | 1108 km |
| 2.9 | 17.09.2026 01:26 | 10 km | 1107 km |
| 3.0 | 17.09.2026 01:21 | 8.1 km | 1107 km |
| 2.8 | 17.09.2026 00:27 | 65.8 km | 939 km |
| 2.8 | 16.09.2026 09:14 | 2.4 km | 1122 km |
| 2.9 | 16.09.2026 06:25 | 10 km | 1120 km |
| 2.9 | 16.09.2026 06:03 | 0 km | 1119 km |
| 2.8 | 15.09.2026 23:20 | 10 km | 1116 km |
| 2.8 | 15.09.2026 23:18 | 9.7 km | 1115 km |
| 2.8 | 15.09.2026 22:59 | 10 km | 1119 km |
| 2.8 | 15.09.2026 22:31 | 10 km | 1121 km |
| 2.8 | 15.09.2026 22:21 | 10 km | 1119 km |
| 2.8 | 15.09.2026 22:19 | 10 km | 1124 km |
| 4.0 | 15.09.2026 14:18 | 2.4 km | 1092 km |
| 2.8 | 11.09.2026 18:10 | 3.8 km | 1092 km |
| 4.2 | 06.09.2026 02:13 | 10 km | 958 km |
| 4.5 | 06.09.2026 00:04 | 10 km | 958 km |
| 2.9 | 04.09.2026 20:18 | 4.6 km | 1119 km |
| 3.0 | 30.08.2026 15:34 | 2.6 km | 1170 km |
| 2.8 | 27.08.2026 01:28 | 3.2 km | 1166 km |
| 3.8 | 25.08.2026 07:31 | 10.9 km | 1110 km |
| 2.8 | 25.08.2026 07:14 | 0 km | 1116 km |
| 2.9 | 25.08.2026 05:54 | 8.7 km | 1129 km |
| 3.4 | 25.08.2026 05:49 | 12.1 km | 1109 km |
| 3.0 | 25.08.2026 05:47 | 8.9 km | 1111 km |
| 4.2 | 25.08.2026 05:46 | 10 km | 1096 km |
| 3.3 | 25.08.2026 05:38 | 1.1 km | 1116 km |
Regions
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.