4.4
883
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1911–2026
record span
3.81
mean magnitude
699
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.2 | 28.08.1916 06:39 | 20 km | 147 km |
| 6.8 | 19.01.1975 08:02 | 12.9 km | 262 km |
| 6.8 | 19.10.1991 21:23 | 16.1 km | 87 km |
| 6.7 | 10.10.1956 15:31 | 15 km | 263 km |
| 6.7 | 06.03.1966 02:10 | 20 km | 197 km |
| 6.5 | 29.07.1980 14:58 | 17.5 km | 179 km |
| 6.5 | 28.03.1999 19:05 | 23.8 km | 30 km |
| 6.5 | 14.10.1911 23:23 | 20 km | 121 km |
| 6.5 | 27.06.1966 10:59 | 23.8 km | 164 km |
| 6.4 | 04.06.1945 12:08 | 15 km | 78 km |
| 6.3 | 06.03.1966 02:15 | 17.3 km | 187 km |
| 6.2 | 29.11.1918 10:41 | 15 km | 303 km |
| 6.0 | 27.06.1955 10:14 | 15 km | 256 km |
| 6.0 | 05.03.1935 22:15 | 35 km | 101 km |
| 6.0 | 27.06.1966 10:41 | 27.9 km | 165 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.4 | 12.10.2026 08:45 | 208.4 km | 75 km |
| 2.6 | 10.10.2026 19:55 | 5 km | 48 km |
| 4.4 | 10.10.2026 14:37 | 22 km | 104 km |
| 2.8 | 10.10.2026 10:10 | 5 km | 65 km |
| 3.7 | 07.10.2026 15:52 | 10 km | 193 km |
| 5.1 | 06.10.2026 16:53 | 16.5 km | 26 km |
| 3.1 | 28.09.2026 07:53 | 5 km | 136 km |
| 3.6 | 26.09.2026 07:05 | 5 km | 41 km |
| 3.7 | 26.09.2026 05:16 | 9.4 km | 164 km |
| 2.7 | 20.09.2026 11:21 | 10 km | 164 km |
| 4.3 | 09.09.2026 00:03 | 121 km | 198 km |
| 2.9 | 08.09.2026 10:58 | 5 km | 49 km |
| 3.4 | 03.09.2026 10:12 | 10 km | 185 km |
| 5.1 | 03.09.2026 08:16 | 10 km | 173 km |
| 2.8 | 01.09.2026 23:27 | 8 km | 120 km |
| 2.6 | 01.09.2026 01:05 | 5 km | 59 km |
| 2.5 | 31.08.2026 23:44 | 5 km | 57 km |
| 3.0 | 30.08.2026 01:42 | 15 km | 94 km |
| 2.7 | 28.08.2026 01:45 | 5 km | 188 km |
| 2.5 | 27.08.2026 09:40 | 126.7 km | 87 km |
| 4.0 | 26.08.2026 00:16 | 54.1 km | 215 km |
| 4.3 | 09.08.2026 19:51 | 10 km | 125 km |
| 3.4 | 03.08.2026 06:55 | 5 km | 48 km |
| 2.6 | 02.08.2026 00:41 | 7 km | 194 km |
| 4.3 | 01.08.2026 07:45 | 280.1 km | 114 km |
| 2.9 | 01.08.2026 05:59 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 3.0 | 01.08.2026 00:01 | 9.5 km | 93 km |
| 3.1 | 30.07.2026 22:30 | 7 km | 151 km |
| 3.4 | 19.07.2026 04:32 | 10 km | 176 km |
| 3.5 | 16.07.2026 14:32 | 7 km | 95 km |
| 2.9 | 01.07.2026 06:19 | 28 km | 96 km |
| 3.9 | 19.06.2026 07:36 | 10 km | 137 km |
| 2.8 | 18.06.2026 20:33 | 5 km | 51 km |
| 3.1 | 06.06.2026 20:21 | 5 km | 60 km |
| 2.6 | 01.06.2026 01:59 | 5 km | 120 km |
| 2.9 | 20.05.2026 05:46 | 12 km | 129 km |
| 2.6 | 16.05.2026 15:12 | 10 km | 121 km |
| 2.5 | 15.05.2026 17:10 | 3 km | 108 km |
| 2.6 | 04.05.2026 09:00 | 6 km | 45 km |
| 2.6 | 21.04.2026 04:36 | 5 km | 66 km |
| 3.0 | 20.04.2026 15:02 | 10 km | 89 km |
| 2.5 | 20.04.2026 12:56 | 5 km | 71 km |
| 2.8 | 19.04.2026 06:01 | 5 km | 60 km |
| 2.6 | 19.04.2026 05:16 | 5 km | 60 km |
| 3.1 | 19.04.2026 05:02 | 5 km | 60 km |
| 2.5 | 14.04.2026 18:18 | 10 km | 184 km |
| 3.7 | 14.04.2026 01:37 | 5 km | 124 km |
| 3.6 | 11.04.2026 00:59 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 3.3 | 10.04.2026 23:32 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 3.7 | 05.04.2026 06:17 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 3.1 | 26.03.2026 02:47 | 10 km | 138 km |
| 3.7 | 22.03.2026 22:06 | 10 km | 150 km |
| 2.5 | 20.03.2026 23:26 | 5 km | 74 km |
| 2.5 | 17.03.2026 23:21 | 5 km | 184 km |
| 3.4 | 17.03.2026 04:27 | 10 km | 146 km |
| 4.0 | 12.03.2026 17:43 | 143.3 km | 112 km |
| 2.7 | 04.03.2026 10:32 | 5 km | 172 km |
| 2.9 | 27.02.2026 10:59 | 10.3 km | 78 km |
| 3.0 | 20.02.2026 05:03 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 3.6 | 14.02.2026 11:26 | 10 km | 112 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.