3.1
1,518
recorded earthquakes
M7.5
largest
1921–2026
record span
3.70
mean magnitude
797
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.5 | 08.08.2007 17:04 | 288.3 km | 293 km |
| 7.2 | 10.09.1926 10:34 | 35 km | 243 km |
| 7.1 | 23.07.1943 14:53 | 60 km | 177 km |
| 7.0 | 15.12.1963 19:34 | 661.5 km | 336 km |
| 6.8 | 27.09.1937 08:55 | 55 km | 195 km |
| 6.7 | 24.03.1967 09:00 | 603.1 km | 265 km |
| 6.7 | 06.07.2020 22:54 | 538.2 km | 161 km |
| 6.6 | 09.07.1984 23:19 | 541.8 km | 189 km |
| 6.6 | 02.09.1992 05:50 | 622.4 km | 245 km |
| 6.6 | 14.09.1944 06:38 | 35 km | 242 km |
| 6.6 | 19.06.1950 12:37 | 45 km | 215 km |
| 6.6 | 28.09.1994 16:39 | 640.9 km | 150 km |
| 6.5 | 15.12.2017 16:47 | 100.6 km | 231 km |
| 6.5 | 28.09.1998 13:34 | 159.7 km | 289 km |
| 6.5 | 02.11.1979 15:53 | 58.8 km | 225 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 26.09.2026 16:30 | 127 km | 218 km |
| 3.2 | 12.09.2026 20:05 | 28 km | 154 km |
| 4.4 | 11.09.2026 19:43 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 2.8 | 11.09.2026 02:28 | 88 km | 155 km |
| 2.8 | 10.09.2026 09:03 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 2.7 | 10.09.2026 01:16 | 59 km | 195 km |
| 2.6 | 09.09.2026 21:30 | 60 km | 142 km |
| 2.8 | 09.09.2026 12:05 | 38 km | 184 km |
| 5.2 | 04.09.2026 05:04 | 10 km | 159 km |
| 4.0 | 01.09.2026 12:54 | 25 km | 179 km |
| 3.9 | 26.08.2026 08:22 | 225 km | 174 km |
| 3.5 | 20.08.2026 10:20 | 21 km | 103 km |
| 2.5 | 20.08.2026 00:58 | 11 km | 142 km |
| 2.6 | 19.08.2026 23:01 | 20 km | 144 km |
| 2.8 | 19.08.2026 22:13 | 10 km | 155 km |
| 2.6 | 19.08.2026 08:25 | 79 km | 140 km |
| 2.5 | 19.08.2026 00:07 | 10 km | 70 km |
| 2.5 | 15.08.2026 13:47 | 41 km | 150 km |
| 2.5 | 15.08.2026 01:52 | 3 km | 60 km |
| 2.6 | 15.08.2026 01:47 | 9 km | 58 km |
| 2.8 | 14.08.2026 15:10 | 197 km | 136 km |
| 2.8 | 14.08.2026 06:59 | 10 km | 106 km |
| 2.7 | 14.08.2026 06:03 | 38 km | 182 km |
| 2.7 | 13.08.2026 13:20 | 10 km | 135 km |
| 2.7 | 12.08.2026 13:51 | 10 km | 194 km |
| 2.9 | 10.08.2026 18:21 | 88 km | 124 km |
| 2.5 | 10.08.2026 17:25 | 19 km | 147 km |
| 2.6 | 09.08.2026 11:44 | 104 km | 152 km |
| 2.8 | 08.08.2026 21:34 | 5 km | 121 km |
| 2.5 | 08.08.2026 16:24 | 120 km | 106 km |
| 2.5 | 08.08.2026 07:23 | 16 km | 139 km |
| 3.7 | 08.08.2026 06:11 | 13 km | 141 km |
| 4.8 | 07.08.2026 14:07 | 535 km | 155 km |
| 2.5 | 07.08.2026 13:15 | 144 km | 133 km |
| 2.8 | 06.08.2026 08:53 | 35 km | 187 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 17:21 | 74 km | 134 km |
| 2.6 | 02.08.2026 05:45 | 134 km | 220 km |
| 2.5 | 31.07.2026 08:34 | 70 km | 154 km |
| 2.5 | 31.07.2026 03:42 | 14 km | 204 km |
| 2.8 | 30.07.2026 10:51 | 10 km | 91 km |
| 2.5 | 29.07.2026 19:59 | 45 km | 220 km |
| 2.8 | 29.07.2026 00:04 | 117 km | 214 km |
| 4.8 | 28.07.2026 09:21 | 144.8 km | 207 km |
| 2.6 | 28.07.2026 06:38 | 120 km | 88 km |
| 2.6 | 28.07.2026 01:21 | 59 km | 212 km |
| 2.5 | 27.07.2026 07:38 | 9 km | 128 km |
| 2.7 | 26.07.2026 22:21 | 67 km | 174 km |
| 2.9 | 26.07.2026 13:45 | 260 km | 123 km |
| 2.7 | 25.07.2026 23:17 | 10 km | 183 km |
| 2.6 | 25.07.2026 20:50 | 10 km | 210 km |
| 2.5 | 25.07.2026 06:59 | 29 km | 167 km |
| 2.5 | 24.07.2026 00:33 | 23 km | 146 km |
| 2.9 | 23.07.2026 23:49 | 98 km | 178 km |
| 2.6 | 23.07.2026 17:09 | 40 km | 182 km |
| 2.6 | 23.07.2026 10:29 | 14 km | 141 km |
| 2.5 | 22.07.2026 06:20 | 258 km | 156 km |
| 2.6 | 21.07.2026 19:41 | 15 km | 157 km |
| 2.6 | 21.07.2026 19:33 | 5 km | 152 km |
| 2.7 | 21.07.2026 19:12 | 84 km | 141 km |
| 2.6 | 21.07.2026 09:29 | 88 km | 169 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.