2.6
179,313
recorded earthquakes
M9.0
largest
1900–2026
record span
3.90
mean magnitude
175,987
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 | 14.04.1924 16:20 | 15 km | 1355 km |
| 8.2 | 24.01.1965 00:11 | 15.2 km | 867 km |
| 8.2 | 15.08.1918 12:18 | 20 km | 1174 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 | 05.08.2026 00:56 | 27 km | 1017 km |
| 3.0 | 05.08.2026 00:24 | 15 km | 1567 km |
| 3.2 | 05.08.2026 00:13 | 10 km | 2377 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 23:52 | 105 km | 683 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 23:37 | 3 km | 322 km |
| 4.0 | 04.08.2026 23:32 | 134 km | 2059 km |
| 3.0 | 04.08.2026 23:27 | 9 km | 2346 km |
| 2.9 | 04.08.2026 23:02 | 26 km | 937 km |
| 2.7 | 04.08.2026 22:59 | 10 km | 787 km |
| 3.0 | 04.08.2026 22:28 | 9 km | 2326 km |
| 3.2 | 04.08.2026 22:12 | 10 km | 2416 km |
| 4.4 | 04.08.2026 21:56 | 31 km | 645 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 21:55 | 5 km | 2035 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 21:54 | 29 km | 1639 km |
| 2.7 | 04.08.2026 21:45 | 10 km | 1292 km |
| 2.7 | 04.08.2026 21:43 | 15 km | 2314 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 21:21 | 18 km | 613 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 21:16 | 94 km | 716 km |
| 2.9 | 04.08.2026 21:14 | 23 km | 2315 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 21:00 | 60 km | 498 km |
| 5.7 | 04.08.2026 20:16 | 35 km | 1035 km |
| 3.1 | 04.08.2026 20:00 | 33 km | 2347 km |
| 3.0 | 04.08.2026 19:58 | 13 km | 2343 km |
| 2.8 | 04.08.2026 19:55 | 10 km | 1174 km |
| 3.3 | 04.08.2026 19:47 | 10 km | 1026 km |
| 2.7 | 04.08.2026 19:46 | 15 km | 725 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 19:45 | 46 km | 496 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 19:38 | 27 km | 1016 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 19:03 | 10 km | 1125 km |
| 2.9 | 04.08.2026 18:43 | 134 km | 1143 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 18:17 | 305 km | 696 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 18:03 | 51 km | 984 km |
| 2.8 | 04.08.2026 17:58 | 26 km | 1353 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 17:54 | 3 km | 275 km |
| 3.0 | 04.08.2026 17:52 | 30 km | 611 km |
| 3.2 | 04.08.2026 17:38 | 99 km | 1286 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 17:31 | 108 km | 665 km |
| 4.1 | 04.08.2026 17:30 | 189.2 km | 1273 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 17:27 | 6 km | 1524 km |
| 3.0 | 04.08.2026 16:39 | 15 km | 1223 km |
| 2.8 | 04.08.2026 16:33 | 4 km | 2400 km |
| 2.8 | 04.08.2026 16:27 | 10 km | 2416 km |
| 3.0 | 04.08.2026 16:21 | 110 km | 1388 km |
| 2.8 | 04.08.2026 16:03 | 33 km | 2185 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 15:48 | 4 km | 613 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 15:14 | 35 km | 1373 km |
| 3.3 | 04.08.2026 15:09 | 223 km | 817 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 14:42 | 42 km | 2273 km |
| 3.1 | 04.08.2026 14:25 | 10 km | 1164 km |
| 2.8 | 04.08.2026 14:23 | 5 km | 2425 km |
| 2.9 | 04.08.2026 14:22 | 10 km | 1186 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 13:35 | 125 km | 1112 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 13:07 | 18 km | 892 km |
| 2.9 | 04.08.2026 13:05 | 18 km | 851 km |
| 3.3 | 04.08.2026 12:29 | 24 km | 2331 km |
| 2.8 | 04.08.2026 12:28 | 25 km | 1859 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 12:21 | 9 km | 2019 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 11:56 | 39 km | 1360 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 11:52 | 83 km | 1077 km |
| 3.4 | 04.08.2026 11:51 | 10 km | 1116 km |
Regions
North Sulawesi30,646Maluku27,830North Maluku25,499Central Sulawesi15,914Papua14,821East Nusa Tenggara12,746West Papua9,217North Sumatra8,862Aceh7,170West Nusa Tenggara6,822West Sumatra6,053Bengkulu5,508East Java5,004South Sulawesi4,753South Sumatra3,211Gorontalo2,963West Java2,785Banten1,950Lampung1,918Southeast Sulawesi1,615West Sulawesi1,594Bali1,512Central Java1,483Riau1,086Jambi864East Kalimantan586Yogyakarta256
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.