3.5
4,817
recorded earthquakes
M7.1
largest
1910–2026
record span
3.51
mean magnitude
4,341
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 | 298 km |
| 7.0 | 06.05.1912 19:00 | 35 km | 117 km |
| 6.8 | 28.03.1963 00:15 | 10 km | 144 km |
| 6.5 | 17.06.2000 15:40 | 10.4 km | 145 km |
| 6.4 | 21.06.2000 00:51 | 8.7 km | 143 km |
| 6.3 | 23.07.1929 18:43 | 10 km | 165 km |
| 6.3 | 29.05.2008 15:46 | 4.2 km | 149 km |
| 6.3 | 13.01.1976 13:29 | 3.6 km | 177 km |
| 6.2 | 23.08.1921 20:17 | 35 km | 231 km |
| 6.2 | 02.06.1934 13:42 | 35 km | 121 km |
| 6.0 | 10.06.1933 12:06 | 35 km | 216 km |
| 6.0 | 21.06.2020 19:07 | 9 km | 161 km |
| 6.0 | 25.05.1987 11:31 | 6.7 km | 142 km |
| 6.0 | 05.12.1968 09:44 | 10 km | 164 km |
| 5.9 | 26.07.1913 20:51 | 15 km | 232 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.5 | 10.10.2026 10:08 | 0 km | 151 km |
| 3.0 | 09.10.2026 04:00 | 5 km | 244 km |
| 3.4 | 08.10.2026 17:50 | 8.9 km | 244 km |
| 2.9 | 07.10.2026 00:17 | 10 km | 281 km |
| 4.7 | 05.10.2026 17:28 | 10 km | 95 km |
| 3.1 | 04.10.2026 14:07 | 4.4 km | 175 km |
| 3.1 | 04.10.2026 12:16 | 1.9 km | 83 km |
| 3.3 | 04.10.2026 00:40 | 4.4 km | 174 km |
| 3.0 | 03.10.2026 21:44 | 0 km | 148 km |
| 2.9 | 03.10.2026 21:27 | 0 km | 147 km |
| 2.8 | 02.10.2026 11:54 | 5.2 km | 104 km |
| 2.8 | 01.10.2026 18:19 | 3.5 km | 74 km |
| 2.9 | 24.09.2026 00:41 | 5 km | 91 km |
| 2.8 | 22.09.2026 22:25 | 5.2 km | 181 km |
| 2.9 | 19.09.2026 12:32 | 10 km | 284 km |
| 2.8 | 19.09.2026 05:13 | 5 km | 153 km |
| 2.9 | 17.09.2026 06:07 | 11 km | 150 km |
| 2.8 | 17.09.2026 05:13 | 10 km | 183 km |
| 3.4 | 17.09.2026 01:32 | 10 km | 249 km |
| 2.8 | 17.09.2026 01:28 | 10 km | 247 km |
| 2.9 | 17.09.2026 01:26 | 10 km | 248 km |
| 3.0 | 17.09.2026 01:21 | 8.1 km | 246 km |
| 2.8 | 17.09.2026 00:27 | 65.8 km | 219 km |
| 2.8 | 16.09.2026 09:14 | 2.4 km | 287 km |
| 2.9 | 16.09.2026 06:25 | 10 km | 285 km |
| 2.9 | 16.09.2026 06:03 | 0 km | 276 km |
| 2.8 | 15.09.2026 23:20 | 10 km | 289 km |
| 2.8 | 15.09.2026 23:18 | 9.7 km | 287 km |
| 2.8 | 15.09.2026 22:59 | 10 km | 289 km |
| 2.8 | 15.09.2026 22:31 | 10 km | 288 km |
| 2.8 | 15.09.2026 22:21 | 10 km | 286 km |
| 2.8 | 15.09.2026 22:19 | 10 km | 287 km |
| 4.0 | 15.09.2026 14:18 | 2.4 km | 73 km |
| 2.8 | 11.09.2026 18:10 | 3.8 km | 85 km |
| 2.9 | 04.09.2026 20:18 | 4.6 km | 170 km |
| 3.0 | 30.08.2026 15:34 | 2.6 km | 86 km |
| 2.8 | 27.08.2026 01:28 | 3.2 km | 82 km |
| 3.8 | 25.08.2026 07:31 | 10.9 km | 252 km |
| 2.8 | 25.08.2026 07:14 | 0 km | 254 km |
| 3.4 | 25.08.2026 05:49 | 12.1 km | 250 km |
| 3.0 | 25.08.2026 05:47 | 8.9 km | 249 km |
| 4.2 | 25.08.2026 05:46 | 10 km | 235 km |
| 3.3 | 25.08.2026 05:38 | 1.1 km | 305 km |
| 2.9 | 25.08.2026 04:11 | 7.4 km | 250 km |
| 4.4 | 25.08.2026 03:38 | 10 km | 248 km |
| 2.8 | 25.08.2026 03:29 | 6.4 km | 251 km |
| 2.9 | 24.08.2026 06:01 | 0 km | 206 km |
| 2.8 | 20.08.2026 07:16 | 5 km | 178 km |
| 3.0 | 11.08.2026 08:40 | 9.8 km | 250 km |
| 2.9 | 02.08.2026 17:54 | 0 km | 142 km |
| 3.4 | 28.07.2026 16:57 | 1.1 km | 94 km |
| 3.1 | 28.07.2026 05:44 | 0 km | 87 km |
| 5.5 | 28.07.2026 05:36 | 10 km | 83 km |
| 3.9 | 27.07.2026 00:36 | 3 km | 143 km |
| 2.8 | 25.07.2026 16:44 | 10 km | 283 km |
| 2.9 | 25.07.2026 05:38 | 1.6 km | 286 km |
| 3.0 | 25.07.2026 05:32 | 13.8 km | 288 km |
| 3.4 | 25.07.2026 05:27 | 5.9 km | 287 km |
| 3.8 | 15.07.2026 19:25 | 0 km | 149 km |
| 3.0 | 08.07.2026 14:44 | 12.4 km | 146 km |
Regions
Southern2,111Northeastern1,996Southern Peninsula1,744Austurland1,050Reykjavík883Capital623Northwestern362Western271
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.