2.6
185,988
recorded earthquakes
M9.0
largest
1900–2026
record span
3.88
mean magnitude
182,637
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.0 | 26.12.2004 00:58 | 26.5 km | 2543 km |
| 8.6 | 28.03.2005 16:09 | 27.5 km | 2390 km |
| 8.6 | 01.02.1938 19:04 | 25 km | 1530 km |
| 8.5 | 12.09.2007 11:10 | 24 km | 1861 km |
| 8.3 | 19.08.1977 06:08 | 33 km | 966 km |
| 8.2 | 15.08.1918 12:18 | 20 km | 1174 km |
| 8.2 | 14.04.1924 16:20 | 15 km | 1355 km |
| 8.2 | 24.01.1965 00:11 | 15.2 km | 867 km |
| 8.2 | 17.02.1996 05:59 | 46.4 km | 2102 km |
| 8.1 | 20.09.1935 01:46 | 30 km | 2598 km |
| 8.1 | 14.05.1932 13:11 | 15 km | 920 km |
| 8.0 | 02.12.1972 00:19 | 27.7 km | 1374 km |
| 8.0 | 16.08.1976 16:11 | 12.9 km | 1171 km |
| 7.9 | 14.03.1913 08:45 | 15 km | 1250 km |
| 7.9 | 26.05.1914 14:22 | 15 km | 2098 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.6 | 12.10.2026 23:22 | 57 km | 1379 km |
| 3.9 | 12.10.2026 21:25 | 10 km | 1495 km |
| 3.5 | 12.10.2026 18:53 | 11 km | 1080 km |
| 3.1 | 12.10.2026 18:24 | 10 km | 745 km |
| 4.3 | 12.10.2026 16:56 | 10 km | 798 km |
| 3.9 | 12.10.2026 16:12 | 85 km | 895 km |
| 3.0 | 12.10.2026 16:09 | 13 km | 487 km |
| 3.1 | 12.10.2026 15:51 | 10 km | 993 km |
| 3.2 | 12.10.2026 15:48 | 10 km | 1073 km |
| 4.2 | 12.10.2026 15:42 | 10 km | 1071 km |
| 3.1 | 12.10.2026 15:36 | 10 km | 691 km |
| 2.7 | 12.10.2026 15:27 | 17 km | 813 km |
| 3.0 | 12.10.2026 15:02 | 74 km | 503 km |
| 3.4 | 12.10.2026 14:27 | 10 km | 696 km |
| 3.5 | 12.10.2026 13:07 | 133 km | 2417 km |
| 3.6 | 12.10.2026 12:02 | 167 km | 1046 km |
| 4.6 | 12.10.2026 11:58 | 55.2 km | 925 km |
| 3.8 | 12.10.2026 11:01 | 10 km | 503 km |
| 3.6 | 12.10.2026 09:40 | 69 km | 842 km |
| 4.6 | 12.10.2026 08:59 | 49.2 km | 941 km |
| 3.2 | 12.10.2026 08:55 | 10 km | 260 km |
| 4.1 | 12.10.2026 08:35 | 10 km | 941 km |
| 4.7 | 12.10.2026 08:30 | 22.4 km | 1368 km |
| 3.1 | 12.10.2026 07:51 | 90 km | 1141 km |
| 2.8 | 12.10.2026 07:14 | 21 km | 647 km |
| 4.6 | 12.10.2026 05:28 | 121.1 km | 920 km |
| 3.5 | 12.10.2026 02:38 | 10 km | 650 km |
| 3.0 | 12.10.2026 02:01 | 10 km | 2420 km |
| 3.3 | 12.10.2026 01:05 | 137 km | 543 km |
| 3.2 | 12.10.2026 00:48 | 10 km | 657 km |
| 2.6 | 12.10.2026 00:20 | 10 km | 2413 km |
| 3.0 | 11.10.2026 23:36 | 127 km | 2063 km |
| 3.2 | 11.10.2026 22:14 | 20 km | 805 km |
| 4.5 | 11.10.2026 22:07 | 10 km | 2029 km |
| 5.2 | 11.10.2026 21:34 | 111.3 km | 524 km |
| 3.9 | 11.10.2026 21:25 | 10 km | 2408 km |
| 2.7 | 11.10.2026 21:16 | 10 km | 663 km |
| 3.1 | 11.10.2026 20:39 | 10 km | 754 km |
| 3.2 | 11.10.2026 19:42 | 10 km | 798 km |
| 2.9 | 11.10.2026 19:17 | 10 km | 667 km |
| 4.6 | 11.10.2026 18:47 | 10 km | 1399 km |
| 2.5 | 11.10.2026 18:32 | 10 km | 689 km |
| 2.8 | 11.10.2026 18:31 | 10 km | 703 km |
| 3.0 | 11.10.2026 18:12 | 22 km | 1945 km |
| 3.0 | 11.10.2026 17:28 | 113 km | 639 km |
| 2.6 | 11.10.2026 17:05 | 10 km | 675 km |
| 3.4 | 11.10.2026 16:49 | 19 km | 1095 km |
| 3.0 | 11.10.2026 15:03 | 29 km | 1161 km |
| 4.3 | 11.10.2026 14:57 | 10 km | 2029 km |
| 3.0 | 11.10.2026 11:59 | 10 km | 2009 km |
| 4.1 | 11.10.2026 10:58 | 184 km | 1408 km |
| 3.9 | 11.10.2026 10:17 | 10 km | 2009 km |
| 3.0 | 11.10.2026 07:09 | 10 km | 666 km |
| 3.1 | 11.10.2026 07:06 | 10 km | 668 km |
| 2.8 | 11.10.2026 07:04 | 10 km | 638 km |
| 2.8 | 11.10.2026 06:55 | 10 km | 696 km |
| 3.5 | 11.10.2026 06:42 | 32 km | 1019 km |
| 2.6 | 11.10.2026 05:15 | 10 km | 685 km |
| 3.2 | 11.10.2026 05:05 | 143 km | 612 km |
| 3.0 | 11.10.2026 04:50 | 10 km | 611 km |
Regions
North Sulawesi31,110Maluku28,046North Maluku25,766East Nusa Tenggara16,419Central Sulawesi16,155Papua14,980West Papua9,314North Sumatra8,983Aceh7,247West Nusa Tenggara6,916West Sumatra6,133Bengkulu5,552East Java5,082South Sulawesi4,836South Sumatra3,239Gorontalo2,991West Java2,861Banten1,982Lampung1,944Southeast Sulawesi1,637West Sulawesi1,613Bali1,520Central Java1,518Riau1,112Jambi870East Kalimantan600Yogyakarta264
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.