3.0
3,060
recorded earthquakes
M7.0
largest
1912–2026
record span
3.49
mean magnitude
2,907
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | 06.05.1912 19:00 | 35 km | 797 km |
| 6.8 | 28.03.1963 00:15 | 10 km | 757 km |
| 6.5 | 17.06.2000 15:40 | 10.4 km | 777 km |
| 6.4 | 21.06.2000 00:51 | 8.7 km | 768 km |
| 6.3 | 23.07.1929 18:43 | 10 km | 716 km |
| 6.3 | 29.05.2008 15:46 | 4.2 km | 754 km |
| 6.0 | 10.06.1933 12:06 | 35 km | 673 km |
| 6.0 | 05.12.1968 09:44 | 10 km | 717 km |
| 5.9 | 09.10.1935 22:08 | 15 km | 678 km |
| 5.7 | 14.05.1920 17:57 | 10 km | 727 km |
| 5.7 | 17.06.2000 15:42 | 10 km | 790 km |
| 5.7 | 06.01.1929 00:01 | 10 km | 731 km |
| 5.6 | 06.06.1945 07:00 | 15 km | 743 km |
| 5.6 | 20.10.2020 13:43 | 3.2 km | 715 km |
| 5.6 | 19.02.1944 11:35 | 15 km | 644 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 09.10.2026 04:00 | 5 km | 673 km |
| 3.4 | 08.10.2026 17:50 | 8.9 km | 676 km |
| 2.9 | 07.10.2026 00:17 | 10 km | 662 km |
| 3.3 | 04.10.2026 00:40 | 4.4 km | 722 km |
| 2.9 | 19.09.2026 12:32 | 10 km | 666 km |
| 3.3 | 17.09.2026 01:38 | 0 km | 729 km |
| 3.4 | 17.09.2026 01:32 | 10 km | 675 km |
| 2.8 | 17.09.2026 01:28 | 10 km | 676 km |
| 2.9 | 17.09.2026 01:26 | 10 km | 674 km |
| 3.0 | 17.09.2026 01:21 | 8.1 km | 675 km |
| 2.8 | 17.09.2026 00:27 | 65.8 km | 605 km |
| 2.8 | 16.09.2026 09:14 | 2.4 km | 668 km |
| 2.9 | 16.09.2026 06:25 | 10 km | 667 km |
| 2.9 | 16.09.2026 06:03 | 0 km | 671 km |
| 2.8 | 15.09.2026 23:20 | 10 km | 662 km |
| 2.8 | 15.09.2026 23:18 | 9.7 km | 661 km |
| 2.8 | 15.09.2026 22:59 | 10 km | 665 km |
| 2.8 | 15.09.2026 22:31 | 10 km | 667 km |
| 2.8 | 15.09.2026 22:21 | 10 km | 665 km |
| 2.8 | 15.09.2026 22:19 | 10 km | 670 km |
| 2.9 | 04.09.2026 20:18 | 4.6 km | 727 km |
| 3.8 | 25.08.2026 07:31 | 10.9 km | 675 km |
| 2.8 | 25.08.2026 07:14 | 0 km | 679 km |
| 2.9 | 25.08.2026 05:54 | 8.7 km | 663 km |
| 3.4 | 25.08.2026 05:49 | 12.1 km | 674 km |
| 3.0 | 25.08.2026 05:47 | 8.9 km | 677 km |
| 4.2 | 25.08.2026 05:46 | 10 km | 671 km |
| 3.3 | 25.08.2026 05:38 | 1.1 km | 653 km |
| 2.9 | 25.08.2026 04:11 | 7.4 km | 677 km |
| 4.4 | 25.08.2026 03:38 | 10 km | 668 km |
| 2.8 | 25.08.2026 03:29 | 6.4 km | 674 km |
| 2.9 | 24.08.2026 06:01 | 0 km | 694 km |
| 3.0 | 11.08.2026 08:40 | 9.8 km | 676 km |
| 3.9 | 27.07.2026 00:36 | 3 km | 739 km |
| 2.8 | 25.07.2026 16:44 | 10 km | 668 km |
| 2.9 | 25.07.2026 05:38 | 1.6 km | 663 km |
| 3.0 | 25.07.2026 05:32 | 13.8 km | 666 km |
| 3.4 | 25.07.2026 05:27 | 5.9 km | 661 km |
| 3.0 | 08.07.2026 14:44 | 12.4 km | 748 km |
| 2.9 | 26.06.2026 05:23 | 0 km | 668 km |
| 3.3 | 22.06.2026 01:49 | 12.2 km | 677 km |
| 3.0 | 20.06.2026 03:44 | 0 km | 673 km |
| 2.8 | 15.06.2026 18:03 | 5.1 km | 699 km |
| 2.8 | 10.06.2026 02:55 | 9.2 km | 689 km |
| 3.2 | 03.06.2026 10:40 | 3 km | 731 km |
| 3.3 | 02.06.2026 14:35 | 10 km | 677 km |
| 3.4 | 01.06.2026 16:46 | 4 km | 734 km |
| 3.8 | 01.06.2026 16:17 | 2.7 km | 734 km |
| 3.6 | 01.06.2026 13:45 | 0 km | 733 km |
| 2.9 | 31.05.2026 18:28 | 3.7 km | 733 km |
| 3.5 | 31.05.2026 17:15 | 4.5 km | 733 km |
| 2.9 | 31.05.2026 17:01 | 2.6 km | 735 km |
| 2.8 | 31.05.2026 06:55 | 3.5 km | 733 km |
| 4.0 | 31.05.2026 00:54 | 10 km | 669 km |
| 3.0 | 24.05.2026 18:31 | 7.9 km | 686 km |
| 3.4 | 24.05.2026 05:06 | 9.1 km | 686 km |
| 2.8 | 24.05.2026 04:21 | 1.3 km | 686 km |
| 2.8 | 23.05.2026 22:45 | 6.5 km | 687 km |
| 3.6 | 13.05.2026 00:31 | 0 km | 734 km |
| 2.9 | 27.04.2026 04:00 | 0 km | 675 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.