3.0
16,155
recorded earthquakes
M7.9
largest
1905–2026
record span
3.60
mean magnitude
14,741
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.9 | 21.12.1939 21:00 | 35 km | 133 km |
| 7.9 | 01.01.1996 08:05 | 30.9 km | 268 km |
| 7.8 | 22.01.1905 02:43 | 90 km | 173 km |
| 7.7 | 29.11.1998 14:10 | 16.5 km | 369 km |
| 7.6 | 18.04.1990 13:39 | 25.9 km | 275 km |
| 7.6 | 28.09.2018 10:02 | 15.9 km | 211 km |
| 7.5 | 04.05.2000 04:21 | 38.6 km | 207 km |
| 7.5 | 20.06.1991 05:18 | 39.2 km | 276 km |
| 7.5 | 19.05.1938 17:08 | 35 km | 315 km |
| 7.5 | 19.10.2001 03:28 | 29.4 km | 441 km |
| 7.4 | 06.08.1984 12:01 | 239.7 km | 140 km |
| 7.3 | 16.11.2008 17:02 | 29.6 km | 252 km |
| 7.3 | 14.08.1968 22:14 | 16.8 km | 244 km |
| 7.2 | 04.12.1932 08:11 | 15 km | 386 km |
| 7.2 | 11.01.1913 13:16 | 35 km | 274 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 12.10.2026 16:09 | 13 km | 81 km |
| 3.0 | 12.10.2026 15:02 | 74 km | 154 km |
| 3.8 | 12.10.2026 11:01 | 10 km | 75 km |
| 3.2 | 12.10.2026 08:55 | 10 km | 187 km |
| 3.3 | 12.10.2026 01:05 | 137 km | 150 km |
| 5.2 | 11.10.2026 21:34 | 111.3 km | 164 km |
| 3.0 | 11.10.2026 17:28 | 113 km | 204 km |
| 3.2 | 11.10.2026 05:05 | 143 km | 178 km |
| 3.2 | 11.10.2026 01:23 | 10 km | 189 km |
| 2.7 | 10.10.2026 19:53 | 10 km | 198 km |
| 2.5 | 10.10.2026 15:06 | 43 km | 222 km |
| 3.2 | 10.10.2026 13:15 | 10 km | 165 km |
| 2.5 | 08.10.2026 13:29 | 14 km | 103 km |
| 3.1 | 08.10.2026 09:21 | 10 km | 223 km |
| 3.7 | 08.10.2026 06:43 | 10 km | 149 km |
| 3.4 | 08.10.2026 03:31 | 10 km | 192 km |
| 4.0 | 08.10.2026 01:00 | 10 km | 248 km |
| 2.7 | 07.10.2026 20:00 | 10 km | 195 km |
| 3.6 | 06.10.2026 14:46 | 179 km | 270 km |
| 3.0 | 06.10.2026 13:50 | 10 km | 176 km |
| 2.6 | 05.10.2026 22:58 | 10 km | 180 km |
| 2.8 | 05.10.2026 17:46 | 10 km | 163 km |
| 3.0 | 05.10.2026 17:12 | 14 km | 228 km |
| 2.6 | 05.10.2026 06:35 | 10 km | 150 km |
| 3.9 | 05.10.2026 04:39 | 170 km | 148 km |
| 3.3 | 04.10.2026 22:42 | 10 km | 167 km |
| 3.5 | 04.10.2026 15:42 | 10 km | 89 km |
| 3.8 | 02.10.2026 20:40 | 71 km | 251 km |
| 3.5 | 02.10.2026 01:10 | 19 km | 289 km |
| 2.9 | 01.10.2026 13:35 | 10 km | 216 km |
| 4.2 | 01.10.2026 11:51 | 38 km | 246 km |
| 4.6 | 01.10.2026 01:31 | 116.4 km | 167 km |
| 4.4 | 30.09.2026 16:29 | 10 km | 80 km |
| 3.5 | 30.09.2026 07:36 | 126 km | 169 km |
| 2.5 | 27.09.2026 19:12 | 95 km | 181 km |
| 2.8 | 27.09.2026 18:38 | 10 km | 94 km |
| 2.7 | 27.09.2026 14:25 | 10 km | 203 km |
| 2.9 | 27.09.2026 11:31 | 10 km | 90 km |
| 2.7 | 27.09.2026 11:29 | 10 km | 340 km |
| 2.7 | 27.09.2026 09:44 | 10 km | 152 km |
| 4.1 | 26.09.2026 15:02 | 10 km | 112 km |
| 4.0 | 25.09.2026 23:58 | 10 km | 92 km |
| 3.1 | 25.09.2026 20:47 | 10 km | 178 km |
| 2.6 | 25.09.2026 20:45 | 10 km | 174 km |
| 3.9 | 25.09.2026 20:36 | 10 km | 170 km |
| 2.5 | 24.09.2026 21:26 | 10 km | 168 km |
| 2.9 | 24.09.2026 19:02 | 10 km | 152 km |
| 3.5 | 23.09.2026 16:49 | 208 km | 257 km |
| 2.9 | 23.09.2026 05:19 | 10 km | 163 km |
| 2.7 | 22.09.2026 18:27 | 87 km | 218 km |
| 2.8 | 22.09.2026 18:01 | 159 km | 147 km |
| 2.9 | 22.09.2026 17:16 | 10 km | 154 km |
| 3.3 | 22.09.2026 07:02 | 10 km | 140 km |
| 2.7 | 21.09.2026 21:10 | 10 km | 174 km |
| 2.7 | 21.09.2026 20:43 | 10 km | 93 km |
| 2.8 | 21.09.2026 19:43 | 10 km | 91 km |
| 3.3 | 21.09.2026 16:52 | 10 km | 163 km |
| 3.6 | 21.09.2026 14:18 | 10 km | 98 km |
| 3.5 | 21.09.2026 09:14 | 10 km | 96 km |
| 4.1 | 21.09.2026 07:44 | 10 km | 95 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.