2.9
1,468
recorded earthquakes
M8.6
largest
1905–2026
record span
3.87
mean magnitude
1,134
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 | 199 km |
| 7.7 | 17.08.1952 16:02 | 25 km | 407 km |
| 7.6 | 27.01.1931 20:09 | 15 km | 332 km |
| 7.3 | 17.02.1905 11:42 | 0 km | 270 km |
| 7.3 | 29.07.1947 13:43 | 20 km | 104 km |
| 7.1 | 23.10.1943 17:23 | 15 km | 164 km |
| 7.0 | 29.07.1970 10:16 | 73.5 km | 244 km |
| 7.0 | 31.08.1906 14:57 | 100 km | 273 km |
| 7.0 | 12.12.1908 12:54 | 15 km | 256 km |
| 6.8 | 21.10.1964 23:09 | 20.2 km | 63 km |
| 6.6 | 21.01.1941 12:41 | 15 km | 273 km |
| 6.5 | 31.08.1937 14:15 | 15 km | 313 km |
| 6.5 | 03.12.1915 02:39 | 15 km | 280 km |
| 6.5 | 12.05.1906 05:48 | 35 km | 198 km |
| 6.5 | 01.07.1911 00:00 | 0 km | 303 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.9 | 13.10.2026 02:05 | 12 km | 53 km |
| 2.7 | 12.10.2026 13:26 | 7 km | 206 km |
| 3.7 | 09.10.2026 21:49 | 10 km | 176 km |
| 3.1 | 09.10.2026 21:43 | 10 km | 188 km |
| 3.7 | 08.10.2026 19:38 | 10 km | 218 km |
| 3.0 | 07.10.2026 00:57 | 5 km | 115 km |
| 3.0 | 06.10.2026 20:52 | 5 km | 217 km |
| 3.2 | 06.10.2026 12:16 | 5 km | 218 km |
| 2.9 | 05.10.2026 06:35 | 5 km | 16 km |
| 3.1 | 03.10.2026 01:25 | 14 km | 228 km |
| 3.7 | 02.10.2026 21:59 | 7 km | 173 km |
| 3.9 | 02.10.2026 16:50 | 15 km | 254 km |
| 2.9 | 01.10.2026 20:20 | 13 km | 171 km |
| 3.7 | 01.10.2026 08:16 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 3.8 | 27.09.2026 18:30 | 100.4 km | 262 km |
| 2.9 | 26.09.2026 23:02 | 9 km | 68 km |
| 2.9 | 26.09.2026 21:54 | 7 km | 67 km |
| 2.7 | 24.09.2026 00:35 | 5 km | 241 km |
| 3.7 | 22.09.2026 18:22 | 88 km | 221 km |
| 3.0 | 20.09.2026 07:12 | 5 km | 254 km |
| 3.7 | 16.09.2026 16:56 | 10 km | 172 km |
| 3.3 | 14.09.2026 02:29 | 5 km | 256 km |
| 3.0 | 12.09.2026 20:42 | 8 km | 188 km |
| 3.0 | 12.09.2026 10:46 | 10 km | 189 km |
| 3.0 | 11.09.2026 23:04 | 5 km | 138 km |
| 4.2 | 11.09.2026 17:56 | 123.2 km | 280 km |
| 2.8 | 08.09.2026 10:48 | 5 km | 250 km |
| 2.9 | 08.09.2026 00:14 | 10 km | 170 km |
| 2.5 | 05.09.2026 19:34 | 10 km | 203 km |
| 4.2 | 05.09.2026 01:10 | 56.2 km | 107 km |
| 2.8 | 03.09.2026 14:31 | 10 km | 184 km |
| 2.9 | 02.09.2026 04:48 | 5 km | 152 km |
| 2.9 | 01.09.2026 00:08 | 5 km | 100 km |
| 2.9 | 28.08.2026 12:07 | 10 km | 104 km |
| 2.5 | 25.08.2026 23:58 | 2 km | 235 km |
| 3.1 | 24.08.2026 18:11 | 5 km | 245 km |
| 2.9 | 19.08.2026 18:26 | 20 km | 156 km |
| 2.9 | 19.08.2026 14:23 | 10 km | 252 km |
| 2.8 | 19.08.2026 05:56 | 10 km | 255 km |
| 3.4 | 11.08.2026 23:57 | 9 km | 148 km |
| 3.9 | 10.08.2026 11:18 | 80 km | 232 km |
| 2.9 | 09.08.2026 08:41 | 5 km | 275 km |
| 3.3 | 09.08.2026 06:55 | 10 km | 177 km |
| 2.8 | 07.08.2026 01:37 | 10 km | 124 km |
| 3.5 | 06.08.2026 01:47 | 5 km | 113 km |
| 4.8 | 06.08.2026 00:15 | 10 km | 116 km |
| 2.8 | 05.08.2026 23:04 | 13 km | 104 km |
| 3.2 | 05.08.2026 22:25 | 7 km | 108 km |
| 2.8 | 05.08.2026 22:10 | 5 km | 107 km |
| 5.0 | 05.08.2026 10:06 | 10 km | 113 km |
| 3.6 | 05.08.2026 10:01 | 10 km | 115 km |
| 2.9 | 04.08.2026 18:08 | 10 km | 108 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 21:21 | 10 km | 262 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 00:08 | 5 km | 264 km |
| 3.3 | 30.07.2026 17:24 | 11 km | 199 km |
| 3.2 | 30.07.2026 17:22 | 14 km | 189 km |
| 2.8 | 29.07.2026 23:22 | 10 km | 254 km |
| 3.0 | 29.07.2026 01:23 | 5 km | 184 km |
| 3.2 | 28.07.2026 22:16 | 15 km | 103 km |
| 2.9 | 28.07.2026 19:16 | 15 km | 187 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.