4.6
5,082
recorded earthquakes
M7.3
largest
1910–2026
record span
3.82
mean magnitude
3,320
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.3 | 11.09.1921 04:01 | 15 km | 441 km |
| 7.2 | 11.09.1916 06:30 | 100 km | 200 km |
| 7.2 | 10.09.1926 10:34 | 35 km | 375 km |
| 7.1 | 11.08.1937 00:55 | 610 km | 347 km |
| 7.1 | 28.08.2023 19:55 | 516.2 km | 351 km |
| 7.1 | 23.07.1943 14:53 | 60 km | 426 km |
| 6.9 | 05.08.2018 11:46 | 31.9 km | 353 km |
| 6.9 | 19.08.2018 14:56 | 25.7 km | 377 km |
| 6.8 | 27.09.1937 08:55 | 55 km | 360 km |
| 6.7 | 07.07.1910 08:16 | 35 km | 329 km |
| 6.7 | 24.03.1967 09:00 | 603.1 km | 193 km |
| 6.7 | 06.07.2020 22:54 | 538.2 km | 358 km |
| 6.6 | 09.07.1984 23:19 | 541.8 km | 300 km |
| 6.6 | 02.09.1992 05:50 | 622.4 km | 208 km |
| 6.6 | 10.03.2011 17:08 | 518.6 km | 368 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.6 | 12.10.2026 05:28 | 121.1 km | 178 km |
| 4.3 | 10.10.2026 11:53 | 68.8 km | 342 km |
| 3.7 | 09.10.2026 16:38 | 108 km | 166 km |
| 3.4 | 06.10.2026 13:42 | 21 km | 227 km |
| 2.5 | 04.10.2026 09:53 | 58 km | 313 km |
| 2.9 | 03.10.2026 10:27 | 163 km | 297 km |
| 4.3 | 02.10.2026 00:46 | 91 km | 235 km |
| 2.8 | 01.10.2026 12:33 | 18 km | 329 km |
| 3.8 | 29.09.2026 11:57 | 107 km | 204 km |
| 3.3 | 27.09.2026 12:45 | 55 km | 333 km |
| 3.1 | 26.09.2026 16:30 | 127 km | 223 km |
| 3.0 | 22.09.2026 00:43 | 94 km | 230 km |
| 2.6 | 09.09.2026 21:12 | 63 km | 287 km |
| 3.5 | 09.09.2026 13:42 | 16 km | 189 km |
| 3.0 | 07.09.2026 18:24 | 10 km | 316 km |
| 4.6 | 02.09.2026 20:52 | 160 km | 273 km |
| 2.7 | 28.08.2026 23:41 | 80 km | 174 km |
| 2.9 | 28.08.2026 21:27 | 17 km | 39 km |
| 2.8 | 28.08.2026 21:07 | 17 km | 39 km |
| 4.0 | 24.08.2026 19:11 | 24 km | 203 km |
| 2.8 | 20.08.2026 04:33 | 24 km | 295 km |
| 2.6 | 19.08.2026 17:41 | 11 km | 220 km |
| 2.7 | 19.08.2026 10:46 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 2.6 | 18.08.2026 21:03 | 21 km | 308 km |
| 2.7 | 18.08.2026 20:59 | 25 km | 305 km |
| 2.6 | 18.08.2026 18:43 | 10 km | 94 km |
| 2.5 | 18.08.2026 16:00 | 21 km | 301 km |
| 2.9 | 18.08.2026 15:46 | 30 km | 267 km |
| 2.5 | 16.08.2026 02:31 | 56 km | 323 km |
| 2.9 | 15.08.2026 23:53 | 137 km | 163 km |
| 2.5 | 15.08.2026 13:47 | 41 km | 283 km |
| 2.5 | 15.08.2026 11:49 | 10 km | 208 km |
| 2.5 | 15.08.2026 01:39 | 68 km | 314 km |
| 2.9 | 15.08.2026 01:38 | 49 km | 133 km |
| 3.0 | 15.08.2026 01:18 | 7 km | 169 km |
| 3.5 | 14.08.2026 22:55 | 29 km | 310 km |
| 2.8 | 14.08.2026 18:38 | 16 km | 81 km |
| 2.7 | 14.08.2026 09:24 | 30 km | 314 km |
| 2.6 | 14.08.2026 08:37 | 63 km | 303 km |
| 2.5 | 14.08.2026 05:41 | 5 km | 158 km |
| 2.6 | 14.08.2026 03:00 | 13 km | 262 km |
| 2.7 | 13.08.2026 14:52 | 53 km | 185 km |
| 2.7 | 13.08.2026 13:20 | 10 km | 314 km |
| 4.6 | 13.08.2026 10:23 | 145.7 km | 154 km |
| 3.3 | 13.08.2026 05:25 | 127 km | 177 km |
| 2.6 | 13.08.2026 04:21 | 71 km | 175 km |
| 2.6 | 13.08.2026 00:51 | 97 km | 152 km |
| 3.0 | 13.08.2026 00:26 | 5 km | 184 km |
| 2.5 | 12.08.2026 18:05 | 16 km | 262 km |
| 2.5 | 12.08.2026 15:17 | 61 km | 307 km |
| 2.7 | 12.08.2026 13:51 | 10 km | 224 km |
| 2.7 | 11.08.2026 01:08 | 30 km | 317 km |
| 2.7 | 10.08.2026 22:06 | 69 km | 230 km |
| 2.5 | 10.08.2026 19:47 | 116 km | 127 km |
| 2.8 | 10.08.2026 14:12 | 29 km | 330 km |
| 2.7 | 10.08.2026 07:50 | 46 km | 307 km |
| 2.6 | 09.08.2026 04:13 | 18 km | 283 km |
| 2.5 | 09.08.2026 02:55 | 84 km | 248 km |
| 2.9 | 08.08.2026 22:31 | 24 km | 197 km |
| 2.6 | 08.08.2026 22:04 | 127 km | 193 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.