3.8
3,614
recorded earthquakes
M8.6
largest
1905–2026
record span
3.77
mean magnitude
3,181
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 | 443 km |
| 7.6 | 12.09.1946 15:20 | 15 km | 402 km |
| 7.6 | 27.01.1931 20:09 | 15 km | 396 km |
| 7.5 | 08.07.1918 10:22 | 15 km | 256 km |
| 7.3 | 12.09.1946 15:17 | 15 km | 361 km |
| 7.3 | 17.02.1905 11:42 | 0 km | 317 km |
| 7.3 | 29.07.1947 13:43 | 20 km | 291 km |
| 7.3 | 17.02.1905 11:41 | 15 km | 508 km |
| 7.2 | 02.07.1930 21:03 | 15 km | 266 km |
| 7.2 | 06.08.1988 00:36 | 98.1 km | 259 km |
| 7.1 | 23.10.1943 17:23 | 15 km | 120 km |
| 7.0 | 29.07.1970 10:16 | 73.5 km | 250 km |
| 7.0 | 31.08.1906 14:57 | 100 km | 430 km |
| 7.0 | 12.12.1908 12:54 | 15 km | 406 km |
| 6.9 | 05.01.1991 14:57 | 21.4 km | 410 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.8 | 13.10.2026 19:13 | 104 km | 330 km |
| 2.9 | 13.10.2026 02:05 | 12 km | 296 km |
| 2.7 | 12.10.2026 13:26 | 7 km | 174 km |
| 3.5 | 12.10.2026 12:14 | 93 km | 300 km |
| 2.7 | 12.10.2026 05:07 | 6 km | 292 km |
| 4.8 | 12.10.2026 01:28 | 78.2 km | 231 km |
| 2.9 | 11.10.2026 00:54 | 7 km | 254 km |
| 3.0 | 10.10.2026 16:21 | 30 km | 172 km |
| 2.7 | 10.10.2026 06:30 | 24 km | 176 km |
| 2.6 | 10.10.2026 01:54 | 5 km | 177 km |
| 2.7 | 10.10.2026 01:03 | 5 km | 144 km |
| 3.7 | 09.10.2026 21:49 | 10 km | 218 km |
| 3.1 | 09.10.2026 21:43 | 10 km | 220 km |
| 2.7 | 09.10.2026 01:18 | 10 km | 225 km |
| 3.1 | 08.10.2026 21:11 | 50 km | 229 km |
| 3.7 | 08.10.2026 19:38 | 10 km | 132 km |
| 4.5 | 07.10.2026 03:29 | 109.9 km | 274 km |
| 3.0 | 07.10.2026 00:57 | 5 km | 220 km |
| 3.0 | 06.10.2026 20:52 | 5 km | 133 km |
| 3.2 | 06.10.2026 12:16 | 5 km | 130 km |
| 2.9 | 05.10.2026 22:57 | 12 km | 133 km |
| 4.6 | 05.10.2026 22:53 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 3.1 | 05.10.2026 19:03 | 5 km | 205 km |
| 3.0 | 05.10.2026 07:21 | 7 km | 242 km |
| 2.9 | 05.10.2026 06:35 | 5 km | 258 km |
| 3.5 | 04.10.2026 01:48 | 52 km | 241 km |
| 2.7 | 03.10.2026 12:22 | 5 km | 74 km |
| 3.7 | 02.10.2026 21:59 | 7 km | 152 km |
| 3.0 | 02.10.2026 11:22 | 94 km | 245 km |
| 2.9 | 01.10.2026 20:20 | 13 km | 228 km |
| 2.6 | 01.10.2026 19:17 | 5 km | 228 km |
| 3.2 | 01.10.2026 06:15 | 36 km | 303 km |
| 3.2 | 30.09.2026 18:03 | 52 km | 237 km |
| 2.8 | 30.09.2026 00:19 | 10 km | 230 km |
| 3.0 | 29.09.2026 13:04 | 21 km | 200 km |
| 4.1 | 26.09.2026 04:04 | 111 km | 284 km |
| 3.0 | 26.09.2026 03:39 | 5 km | 219 km |
| 3.5 | 24.09.2026 19:11 | 126 km | 267 km |
| 2.6 | 24.09.2026 04:16 | 10 km | 213 km |
| 2.7 | 24.09.2026 00:35 | 5 km | 163 km |
| 3.4 | 23.09.2026 22:44 | 85 km | 284 km |
| 3.0 | 23.09.2026 19:34 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 3.7 | 22.09.2026 18:22 | 88 km | 333 km |
| 4.1 | 21.09.2026 08:10 | 15 km | 211 km |
| 3.3 | 21.09.2026 03:09 | 134 km | 270 km |
| 3.0 | 20.09.2026 07:12 | 5 km | 91 km |
| 2.9 | 19.09.2026 23:31 | 5 km | 188 km |
| 4.8 | 19.09.2026 10:31 | 10 km | 212 km |
| 2.6 | 18.09.2026 17:24 | 6 km | 348 km |
| 3.7 | 16.09.2026 16:56 | 10 km | 158 km |
| 2.5 | 16.09.2026 11:08 | 5 km | 166 km |
| 3.6 | 15.09.2026 06:15 | 62 km | 183 km |
| 3.5 | 15.09.2026 01:59 | 5 km | 218 km |
| 3.3 | 14.09.2026 02:29 | 5 km | 95 km |
| 2.9 | 13.09.2026 01:26 | 10 km | 209 km |
| 3.0 | 12.09.2026 22:10 | 10 km | 238 km |
| 3.0 | 12.09.2026 20:42 | 8 km | 227 km |
| 2.8 | 12.09.2026 17:44 | 10 km | 259 km |
| 3.0 | 12.09.2026 10:46 | 10 km | 213 km |
| 3.0 | 11.09.2026 23:04 | 5 km | 200 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.