3.2
5,051
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1900–2026
record span
3.86
mean magnitude
3,215
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 | 306 km |
| 7.7 | 13.01.2001 17:33 | 57.6 km | 327 km |
| 7.5 | 10.01.2018 02:51 | 2.3 km | 417 km |
| 7.5 | 04.02.1976 09:01 | 7.6 km | 321 km |
| 7.3 | 27.08.2012 04:37 | 16 km | 389 km |
| 7.3 | 28.05.2009 08:24 | 12.7 km | 232 km |
| 7.3 | 19.06.1982 06:21 | 76.3 km | 374 km |
| 7.3 | 14.10.2014 03:51 | 63.9 km | 309 km |
| 7.2 | 30.12.1907 05:26 | 0 km | 295 km |
| 7.2 | 28.03.1921 07:49 | 15 km | 153 km |
| 7.2 | 24.10.1956 14:42 | 35 km | 343 km |
| 7.2 | 01.07.1907 13:08 | 15 km | 383 km |
| 7.1 | 21.05.1932 10:10 | 15 km | 262 km |
| 7.1 | 08.10.1901 02:14 | 0 km | 210 km |
| 7.1 | 08.02.1926 15:18 | 20 km | 376 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.2 | 12.10.2026 12:55 | 9.5 km | 326 km |
| 2.8 | 08.10.2026 08:14 | 21 km | 366 km |
| 3.1 | 05.10.2026 22:57 | 28 km | 355 km |
| 4.2 | 04.10.2026 06:27 | 27 km | 356 km |
| 3.7 | 02.10.2026 15:32 | 61.6 km | 339 km |
| 2.8 | 29.09.2026 06:22 | 19 km | 366 km |
| 2.8 | 25.09.2026 14:38 | 1 km | 295 km |
| 3.4 | 24.09.2026 21:02 | 35 km | 142 km |
| 4.2 | 24.09.2026 08:47 | 4 km | 244 km |
| 2.7 | 24.09.2026 04:57 | 25 km | 355 km |
| 3.0 | 21.09.2026 09:46 | 28 km | 380 km |
| 4.0 | 20.09.2026 05:21 | 199 km | 95 km |
| 4.0 | 20.09.2026 00:22 | 50 km | 363 km |
| 3.1 | 17.09.2026 17:44 | 26 km | 361 km |
| 2.6 | 15.09.2026 13:21 | 15 km | 382 km |
| 3.4 | 13.09.2026 19:49 | 166 km | 242 km |
| 3.0 | 13.09.2026 08:47 | 10 km | 233 km |
| 2.6 | 12.09.2026 22:43 | 6 km | 185 km |
| 3.4 | 11.09.2026 12:15 | 276 km | 257 km |
| 2.6 | 11.09.2026 07:25 | 30 km | 376 km |
| 4.0 | 10.09.2026 22:40 | 55.7 km | 353 km |
| 2.9 | 09.09.2026 02:34 | 121 km | 251 km |
| 3.3 | 07.09.2026 10:05 | 35 km | 365 km |
| 3.2 | 04.09.2026 10:46 | 52.6 km | 325 km |
| 3.3 | 02.09.2026 23:50 | 7.5 km | 338 km |
| 4.2 | 01.09.2026 02:02 | 10 km | 210 km |
| 3.1 | 31.08.2026 05:04 | 33 km | 377 km |
| 2.5 | 29.08.2026 18:58 | 3 km | 156 km |
| 3.9 | 29.08.2026 17:04 | 26 km | 365 km |
| 4.3 | 25.08.2026 11:10 | 37 km | 61 km |
| 4.4 | 23.08.2026 15:52 | 42.7 km | 369 km |
| 3.7 | 17.08.2026 20:34 | 53.6 km | 350 km |
| 3.1 | 17.08.2026 09:42 | 200 km | 142 km |
| 3.4 | 17.08.2026 00:07 | 35 km | 117 km |
| 2.6 | 14.08.2026 19:31 | 160 km | 252 km |
| 3.6 | 14.08.2026 16:02 | 58.2 km | 337 km |
| 3.6 | 13.08.2026 20:55 | 1 km | 141 km |
| 5.5 | 13.08.2026 00:30 | 56.8 km | 323 km |
| 3.3 | 09.08.2026 08:56 | 162 km | 137 km |
| 2.7 | 06.08.2026 13:54 | 12 km | 368 km |
| 3.2 | 05.08.2026 15:15 | 30 km | 371 km |
| 4.4 | 05.08.2026 13:22 | 1 km | 247 km |
| 3.3 | 05.08.2026 02:13 | 142 km | 260 km |
| 3.4 | 03.08.2026 18:58 | 180 km | 257 km |
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 06:49 | 10 km | 238 km |
| 3.2 | 02.08.2026 12:57 | 39 km | 364 km |
| 4.0 | 01.08.2026 03:43 | 200 km | 194 km |
| 2.7 | 29.07.2026 06:30 | 35 km | 368 km |
| 2.9 | 28.07.2026 08:47 | 22 km | 394 km |
| 4.5 | 28.07.2026 04:16 | 115 km | 287 km |
| 2.6 | 26.07.2026 11:51 | 5 km | 193 km |
| 3.8 | 24.07.2026 14:03 | 24 km | 367 km |
| 3.0 | 22.07.2026 18:14 | 30 km | 397 km |
| 2.8 | 20.07.2026 08:07 | 39 km | 371 km |
| 3.5 | 20.07.2026 04:22 | 54.4 km | 336 km |
| 2.8 | 16.07.2026 06:13 | 28 km | 370 km |
| 3.8 | 15.07.2026 23:56 | 2 km | 321 km |
| 3.0 | 15.07.2026 23:50 | 2 km | 322 km |
| 3.8 | 15.07.2026 14:37 | 68.9 km | 290 km |
| 3.6 | 14.07.2026 19:58 | 50 km | 352 km |
Regions
Choluteca954Valle790Bay Islands342El Paraíso229Olancho183Francisco Morazán179Yoro173Cortés171Lempira151Atlántida151
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.