3.0
7,249
recorded earthquakes
M9.0
largest
1907–2026
record span
3.87
mean magnitude
6,129
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 | 103 km |
| 8.6 | 28.03.2005 16:09 | 27.5 km | 213 km |
| 7.8 | 06.04.2010 22:15 | 33.6 km | 184 km |
| 7.6 | 21.11.1969 02:05 | 23.2 km | 319 km |
| 7.5 | 04.01.1907 05:19 | 15 km | 357 km |
| 7.4 | 21.11.1907 20:03 | 0 km | 263 km |
| 7.3 | 20.02.2008 08:08 | 29 km | 155 km |
| 7.3 | 03.08.1935 01:10 | 25 km | 56 km |
| 7.2 | 09.05.2010 05:59 | 41.4 km | 73 km |
| 7.2 | 02.11.2002 01:26 | 26.4 km | 135 km |
| 7.1 | 19.09.1936 01:01 | 20 km | 103 km |
| 7.1 | 23.08.1936 21:12 | 50 km | 262 km |
| 7.0 | 28.03.2005 16:38 | 32.1 km | 313 km |
| 7.0 | 27.07.1916 11:52 | 100 km | 17 km |
| 7.0 | 02.04.1964 01:11 | 29.1 km | 235 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 13.10.2026 13:47 | 10 km | 132 km |
| 2.8 | 13.10.2026 11:59 | 17 km | 161 km |
| 3.0 | 12.10.2026 02:01 | 10 km | 79 km |
| 2.6 | 12.10.2026 00:20 | 10 km | 89 km |
| 3.9 | 11.10.2026 21:25 | 10 km | 94 km |
| 3.2 | 10.10.2026 18:29 | 13 km | 48 km |
| 3.9 | 10.10.2026 12:28 | 13 km | 267 km |
| 4.6 | 08.10.2026 07:45 | 97.5 km | 266 km |
| 2.9 | 08.10.2026 06:42 | 10 km | 89 km |
| 2.7 | 05.10.2026 06:11 | 10 km | 46 km |
| 5.3 | 03.10.2026 23:37 | 56.3 km | 191 km |
| 2.5 | 02.10.2026 04:30 | 10 km | 144 km |
| 3.3 | 01.10.2026 13:19 | 10 km | 58 km |
| 2.7 | 30.09.2026 17:16 | 10 km | 133 km |
| 3.1 | 30.09.2026 15:50 | 5 km | 185 km |
| 4.5 | 30.09.2026 02:35 | 33.9 km | 214 km |
| 2.7 | 29.09.2026 12:47 | 10 km | 83 km |
| 3.0 | 28.09.2026 00:37 | 10 km | 165 km |
| 3.4 | 25.09.2026 08:09 | 10 km | 123 km |
| 4.0 | 24.09.2026 21:01 | 10 km | 174 km |
| 3.4 | 24.09.2026 18:59 | 10 km | 174 km |
| 2.7 | 23.09.2026 15:46 | 74 km | 77 km |
| 3.7 | 21.09.2026 18:53 | 11 km | 100 km |
| 3.9 | 20.09.2026 07:49 | 10 km | 31 km |
| 3.1 | 19.09.2026 17:00 | 34 km | 33 km |
| 3.0 | 18.09.2026 00:34 | 10 km | 92 km |
| 3.8 | 16.09.2026 17:28 | 10 km | 92 km |
| 4.1 | 16.09.2026 15:57 | 10 km | 95 km |
| 3.4 | 16.09.2026 15:56 | 10 km | 87 km |
| 3.2 | 16.09.2026 15:50 | 45 km | 74 km |
| 3.8 | 15.09.2026 07:13 | 10 km | 93 km |
| 3.5 | 14.09.2026 07:40 | 10 km | 178 km |
| 2.9 | 11.09.2026 06:00 | 10 km | 87 km |
| 2.6 | 09.09.2026 18:12 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 2.6 | 09.09.2026 18:05 | 2 km | 95 km |
| 3.1 | 06.09.2026 12:15 | 14 km | 188 km |
| 4.5 | 05.09.2026 09:14 | 10 km | 102 km |
| 2.6 | 05.09.2026 04:00 | 167 km | 185 km |
| 4.2 | 05.09.2026 03:37 | 10 km | 112 km |
| 3.4 | 02.09.2026 09:46 | 10 km | 82 km |
| 2.8 | 31.08.2026 13:24 | 10 km | 81 km |
| 4.3 | 27.08.2026 22:01 | 92 km | 211 km |
| 3.0 | 26.08.2026 20:17 | 41 km | 48 km |
| 3.4 | 26.08.2026 19:08 | 10 km | 70 km |
| 2.9 | 26.08.2026 11:35 | 15 km | 213 km |
| 3.6 | 25.08.2026 18:49 | 78 km | 130 km |
| 4.2 | 25.08.2026 00:27 | 153.9 km | 233 km |
| 3.0 | 24.08.2026 20:00 | 20 km | 248 km |
| 2.5 | 23.08.2026 06:46 | 100 km | 152 km |
| 2.9 | 18.08.2026 18:32 | 39 km | 191 km |
| 2.6 | 18.08.2026 08:33 | 5 km | 82 km |
| 4.1 | 17.08.2026 18:19 | 119 km | 204 km |
| 2.8 | 17.08.2026 17:20 | 5 km | 84 km |
| 3.0 | 17.08.2026 16:28 | 13 km | 145 km |
| 3.1 | 16.08.2026 01:21 | 3 km | 89 km |
| 2.7 | 15.08.2026 23:14 | 5 km | 120 km |
| 6.9 | 15.08.2026 10:54 | 175 km | 281 km |
| 2.9 | 15.08.2026 00:35 | 33 km | 42 km |
| 2.5 | 14.08.2026 13:54 | 15 km | 119 km |
| 2.7 | 13.08.2026 22:16 | 16 km | 108 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.