3.0
2,991
recorded earthquakes
M7.9
largest
1905–2026
record span
3.94
mean magnitude
1,447
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 | 84 km |
| 7.9 | 01.01.1996 08:05 | 30.9 km | 263 km |
| 7.8 | 22.01.1905 02:43 | 90 km | 79 km |
| 7.6 | 18.04.1990 13:39 | 25.9 km | 86 km |
| 7.5 | 20.06.1991 05:18 | 39.2 km | 87 km |
| 7.4 | 06.08.1984 12:01 | 239.7 km | 71 km |
| 7.3 | 16.11.2008 17:02 | 29.6 km | 73 km |
| 7.2 | 11.01.1913 13:16 | 35 km | 100 km |
| 7.2 | 08.11.1941 23:37 | 35 km | 52 km |
| 7.0 | 25.11.1997 12:14 | 26.1 km | 65 km |
| 7.0 | 23.12.1912 23:56 | 50 km | 105 km |
| 7.0 | 22.07.1996 14:19 | 34.3 km | 210 km |
| 6.9 | 19.05.1991 00:58 | 24.9 km | 95 km |
| 6.8 | 05.01.1941 18:47 | 25 km | 108 km |
| 6.7 | 30.06.1964 13:46 | 23.6 km | 140 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 12.10.2026 15:02 | 74 km | 93 km |
| 3.3 | 12.10.2026 01:05 | 137 km | 47 km |
| 5.2 | 11.10.2026 21:34 | 111.3 km | 72 km |
| 3.9 | 05.10.2026 04:39 | 170 km | 71 km |
| 4.2 | 01.10.2026 11:51 | 38 km | 57 km |
| 2.9 | 23.09.2026 05:19 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 2.8 | 22.09.2026 18:01 | 159 km | 88 km |
| 2.8 | 21.09.2026 05:03 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 4.4 | 20.09.2026 09:05 | 197.1 km | 64 km |
| 2.8 | 10.09.2026 16:02 | 80 km | 96 km |
| 3.0 | 10.09.2026 14:16 | 164 km | 52 km |
| 2.8 | 08.09.2026 12:50 | 10 km | 91 km |
| 4.9 | 03.09.2026 21:05 | 111.2 km | 23 km |
| 3.5 | 23.08.2026 21:07 | 30 km | 41 km |
| 2.6 | 20.08.2026 09:29 | 66 km | 30 km |
| 2.7 | 19.08.2026 01:59 | 106 km | 28 km |
| 3.0 | 14.08.2026 08:56 | 54 km | 100 km |
| 3.4 | 13.08.2026 18:58 | 3 km | 44 km |
| 2.5 | 13.08.2026 14:33 | 178 km | 44 km |
| 2.8 | 13.08.2026 00:49 | 9 km | 84 km |
| 3.5 | 10.08.2026 18:26 | 73 km | 30 km |
| 3.0 | 10.08.2026 17:44 | 208 km | 87 km |
| 2.5 | 10.08.2026 09:36 | 14 km | 34 km |
| 2.6 | 09.08.2026 12:05 | 185 km | 48 km |
| 2.6 | 09.08.2026 01:34 | 148 km | 51 km |
| 2.7 | 08.08.2026 06:10 | 57 km | 88 km |
| 4.5 | 07.08.2026 23:30 | 199 km | 58 km |
| 3.3 | 05.08.2026 03:37 | 57 km | 136 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 21:00 | 60 km | 106 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 19:45 | 46 km | 119 km |
| 4.0 | 04.08.2026 06:11 | 35 km | 79 km |
| 3.4 | 03.08.2026 22:25 | 86 km | 39 km |
| 2.5 | 03.08.2026 19:44 | 94 km | 23 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 11:13 | 26 km | 142 km |
| 3.0 | 02.08.2026 21:06 | 232 km | 141 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 01:04 | 4 km | 115 km |
| 2.9 | 30.07.2026 10:15 | 36 km | 146 km |
| 2.8 | 29.07.2026 06:18 | 173 km | 30 km |
| 3.2 | 29.07.2026 03:57 | 157 km | 52 km |
| 3.8 | 27.07.2026 20:58 | 170 km | 48 km |
| 3.1 | 27.07.2026 04:42 | 173 km | 58 km |
| 2.8 | 26.07.2026 19:41 | 81 km | 6 km |
| 2.5 | 26.07.2026 15:49 | 101 km | 18 km |
| 2.8 | 23.07.2026 17:40 | 107 km | 40 km |
| 2.8 | 23.07.2026 12:41 | 75 km | 118 km |
| 3.3 | 23.07.2026 03:33 | 186 km | 54 km |
| 3.1 | 21.07.2026 10:30 | 189 km | 70 km |
| 4.4 | 20.07.2026 13:36 | 111 km | 76 km |
| 2.5 | 20.07.2026 08:49 | 5 km | 70 km |
| 3.1 | 19.07.2026 10:09 | 103 km | 62 km |
| 2.5 | 18.07.2026 19:14 | 177 km | 63 km |
| 3.1 | 18.07.2026 12:54 | 8 km | 102 km |
| 4.1 | 17.07.2026 00:32 | 5 km | 165 km |
| 2.9 | 16.07.2026 18:37 | 106 km | 43 km |
| 2.9 | 16.07.2026 18:34 | 92 km | 39 km |
| 2.6 | 16.07.2026 15:27 | 92 km | 30 km |
| 2.7 | 13.07.2026 21:47 | 83 km | 91 km |
| 2.7 | 12.07.2026 18:39 | 21 km | 127 km |
| 2.8 | 12.07.2026 16:06 | 41 km | 63 km |
| 5.0 | 12.07.2026 13:46 | 12 km | 109 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.