4.1
29,806
recorded earthquakes
M8.6
largest
1901–2026
record span
4.04
mean magnitude
28,652
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.6 | 15.08.1950 14:09 | 15 km | 1634 km |
| 8.0 | 15.01.1934 08:43 | 15 km | 755 km |
| 7.9 | 25.04.2015 06:11 | 13.4 km | 806 km |
| 7.8 | 04.04.1905 00:49 | 20 km | 1424 km |
| 7.8 | 15.11.1921 20:36 | 240 km | 2099 km |
| 7.8 | 14.11.2001 09:26 | 12.6 km | 1839 km |
| 7.7 | 28.03.2025 06:20 | 10 km | 1372 km |
| 7.7 | 23.05.1912 02:24 | 15 km | 1452 km |
| 7.7 | 26.06.1941 11:52 | 20 km | 1438 km |
| 7.7 | 07.07.1909 21:37 | 200 km | 2126 km |
| 7.7 | 17.08.1952 16:02 | 25 km | 1403 km |
| 7.7 | 18.11.1951 09:35 | 30 km | 1415 km |
| 7.6 | 12.09.1946 15:20 | 15 km | 1371 km |
| 7.6 | 26.01.2001 03:16 | 16 km | 1313 km |
| 7.6 | 07.01.1937 13:20 | 15 km | 2228 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.1 | 12.10.2026 18:34 | 10 km | 1308 km |
| 2.7 | 12.10.2026 13:26 | 7 km | 1235 km |
| 3.5 | 12.10.2026 12:14 | 93 km | 1478 km |
| 3.1 | 12.10.2026 11:10 | 5 km | 1418 km |
| 4.4 | 12.10.2026 08:45 | 208.4 km | 1021 km |
| 3.9 | 12.10.2026 08:27 | 135 km | 1419 km |
| 2.7 | 12.10.2026 05:07 | 6 km | 941 km |
| 4.8 | 12.10.2026 01:28 | 78.2 km | 1294 km |
| 3.6 | 11.10.2026 20:24 | 144.2 km | 1649 km |
| 3.2 | 11.10.2026 18:26 | 6.6 km | 903 km |
| 2.9 | 11.10.2026 18:01 | 5 km | 1545 km |
| 2.9 | 11.10.2026 00:54 | 7 km | 938 km |
| 2.6 | 10.10.2026 19:55 | 5 km | 1105 km |
| 3.0 | 10.10.2026 16:21 | 30 km | 1188 km |
| 4.4 | 10.10.2026 14:37 | 22 km | 1162 km |
| 2.8 | 10.10.2026 10:10 | 5 km | 1031 km |
| 3.4 | 10.10.2026 08:50 | 10 km | 1514 km |
| 2.7 | 10.10.2026 06:30 | 24 km | 1157 km |
| 2.6 | 10.10.2026 01:54 | 5 km | 1005 km |
| 2.7 | 10.10.2026 01:03 | 5 km | 1034 km |
| 3.5 | 10.10.2026 00:10 | 10 km | 1522 km |
| 3.7 | 09.10.2026 21:49 | 10 km | 1284 km |
| 3.1 | 09.10.2026 21:43 | 10 km | 1275 km |
| 3.1 | 09.10.2026 20:37 | 10 km | 993 km |
| 3.6 | 09.10.2026 19:18 | 10 km | 1386 km |
| 3.4 | 09.10.2026 16:23 | 10 km | 1517 km |
| 3.2 | 09.10.2026 06:04 | 10 km | 960 km |
| 2.9 | 09.10.2026 02:15 | 10 km | 926 km |
| 4.4 | 09.10.2026 01:34 | 10 km | 335 km |
| 2.7 | 09.10.2026 01:18 | 10 km | 969 km |
| 4.4 | 09.10.2026 01:11 | 10 km | 1007 km |
| 2.6 | 09.10.2026 00:04 | 10 km | 1538 km |
| 2.8 | 08.10.2026 22:47 | 136 km | 1195 km |
| 3.1 | 08.10.2026 21:11 | 50 km | 1177 km |
| 3.7 | 08.10.2026 19:38 | 10 km | 1212 km |
| 2.8 | 08.10.2026 18:50 | 10 km | 1134 km |
| 3.7 | 08.10.2026 13:46 | 7 km | 1024 km |
| 3.7 | 07.10.2026 15:52 | 10 km | 927 km |
| 2.6 | 07.10.2026 06:25 | 10 km | 1480 km |
| 4.5 | 07.10.2026 03:29 | 109.9 km | 1279 km |
| 3.0 | 07.10.2026 00:57 | 5 km | 1335 km |
| 3.0 | 06.10.2026 20:52 | 5 km | 1214 km |
| 5.1 | 06.10.2026 16:53 | 16.5 km | 1047 km |
| 2.6 | 06.10.2026 16:49 | 5 km | 938 km |
| 3.2 | 06.10.2026 12:16 | 5 km | 1212 km |
| 3.7 | 06.10.2026 09:03 | 10 km | 1401 km |
| 2.9 | 05.10.2026 22:57 | 12 km | 1206 km |
| 4.5 | 05.10.2026 22:54 | 10 km | 1064 km |
| 4.6 | 05.10.2026 22:53 | 10 km | 1198 km |
| 2.6 | 05.10.2026 19:23 | 5 km | 940 km |
| 3.1 | 05.10.2026 19:03 | 5 km | 974 km |
| 3.9 | 05.10.2026 15:38 | 10 km | 1574 km |
| 4.3 | 05.10.2026 14:37 | 35 km | 1272 km |
| 3.2 | 05.10.2026 13:14 | 5 km | 1634 km |
| 3.0 | 05.10.2026 07:21 | 7 km | 954 km |
| 2.9 | 05.10.2026 06:35 | 5 km | 1421 km |
| 2.5 | 04.10.2026 18:18 | 9 km | 1347 km |
| 3.6 | 04.10.2026 12:04 | 30 km | 712 km |
| 4.6 | 04.10.2026 05:55 | 58.3 km | 1142 km |
| 2.5 | 04.10.2026 05:40 | 5 km | 1025 km |
Regions
Andaman and Nicobar Islands6,087Assam3,612Uttar Pradesh1,478Arunachal Pradesh1,467Manipur1,286Ladakh1,226Jammu and Kashmir1,155Himachal Pradesh1,124Uttarakhand883Rajasthan855Bihar715Maharashtra663Nagaland596Meghalaya576West Bengal562Gujarat508Mizoram486Sikkim351Punjab319Karnataka262Madhya Pradesh232Haryana222Andhra Pradesh187Tripura161
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.