2.8
8,986
recorded earthquakes
M9.0
largest
1907–2026
record span
3.81
mean magnitude
7,641
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 | 349 km |
| 8.6 | 28.03.2005 16:09 | 27.5 km | 187 km |
| 7.8 | 06.04.2010 22:15 | 33.6 km | 191 km |
| 7.8 | 28.12.1935 02:35 | 30 km | 245 km |
| 7.6 | 30.09.2009 10:16 | 91 km | 315 km |
| 7.5 | 09.06.1943 03:06 | 10 km | 371 km |
| 7.3 | 08.05.1946 05:20 | 35 km | 292 km |
| 7.3 | 20.02.2008 08:08 | 29 km | 319 km |
| 7.3 | 03.08.1935 01:10 | 25 km | 386 km |
| 7.2 | 09.05.2010 05:59 | 41.4 km | 364 km |
| 7.2 | 02.11.2002 01:26 | 26.4 km | 315 km |
| 7.1 | 24.04.2023 20:00 | 29.3 km | 310 km |
| 7.1 | 17.11.1984 06:49 | 33.7 km | 219 km |
| 7.1 | 19.09.1936 01:01 | 20 km | 245 km |
| 7.1 | 04.02.1971 15:33 | 33.2 km | 143 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.8 | 13.10.2026 17:21 | 132 km | 65 km |
| 2.9 | 13.10.2026 14:19 | 11 km | 179 km |
| 3.0 | 13.10.2026 13:47 | 10 km | 216 km |
| 3.0 | 12.10.2026 02:01 | 10 km | 291 km |
| 2.6 | 12.10.2026 00:20 | 10 km | 293 km |
| 3.0 | 11.10.2026 23:36 | 127 km | 190 km |
| 3.9 | 11.10.2026 21:25 | 10 km | 290 km |
| 3.0 | 11.10.2026 11:59 | 10 km | 263 km |
| 3.9 | 11.10.2026 10:17 | 10 km | 262 km |
| 3.9 | 10.10.2026 12:28 | 13 km | 94 km |
| 2.9 | 08.10.2026 06:42 | 10 km | 293 km |
| 3.9 | 07.10.2026 21:18 | 13 km | 209 km |
| 3.9 | 06.10.2026 14:01 | 35 km | 121 km |
| 2.7 | 05.10.2026 17:01 | 10 km | 149 km |
| 3.6 | 03.10.2026 10:08 | 87 km | 287 km |
| 3.0 | 02.10.2026 00:57 | 164 km | 219 km |
| 3.3 | 01.10.2026 19:43 | 10 km | 151 km |
| 3.3 | 28.09.2026 20:19 | 15 km | 269 km |
| 3.1 | 26.09.2026 19:46 | 144 km | 80 km |
| 2.8 | 25.09.2026 14:58 | 28 km | 109 km |
| 2.6 | 24.09.2026 05:45 | 41 km | 327 km |
| 3.7 | 24.09.2026 04:12 | 29 km | 278 km |
| 2.7 | 23.09.2026 15:46 | 74 km | 270 km |
| 4.3 | 23.09.2026 08:55 | 112 km | 21 km |
| 3.1 | 22.09.2026 17:17 | 57 km | 102 km |
| 4.4 | 21.09.2026 12:35 | 10 km | 275 km |
| 3.8 | 21.09.2026 11:12 | 10 km | 271 km |
| 3.0 | 20.09.2026 01:56 | 139 km | 72 km |
| 3.0 | 18.09.2026 17:24 | 27 km | 106 km |
| 3.0 | 18.09.2026 00:34 | 10 km | 291 km |
| 4.0 | 17.09.2026 16:01 | 37 km | 280 km |
| 3.8 | 17.09.2026 06:39 | 10 km | 285 km |
| 3.1 | 17.09.2026 01:20 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 3.8 | 16.09.2026 17:28 | 10 km | 290 km |
| 4.1 | 16.09.2026 15:57 | 10 km | 290 km |
| 3.4 | 16.09.2026 15:56 | 10 km | 294 km |
| 3.2 | 16.09.2026 15:50 | 45 km | 258 km |
| 3.8 | 15.09.2026 07:13 | 10 km | 294 km |
| 3.5 | 14.09.2026 07:40 | 10 km | 167 km |
| 3.6 | 12.09.2026 21:35 | 110 km | 24 km |
| 3.0 | 11.09.2026 22:13 | 120 km | 185 km |
| 3.8 | 11.09.2026 13:08 | 40 km | 300 km |
| 3.1 | 10.09.2026 00:25 | 10 km | 143 km |
| 2.5 | 09.09.2026 19:57 | 10 km | 165 km |
| 2.8 | 09.09.2026 19:13 | 10 km | 207 km |
| 2.6 | 09.09.2026 18:12 | 10 km | 288 km |
| 2.6 | 09.09.2026 18:05 | 2 km | 292 km |
| 3.2 | 09.09.2026 06:15 | 128 km | 146 km |
| 2.9 | 08.09.2026 22:00 | 76 km | 73 km |
| 2.8 | 08.09.2026 20:00 | 10 km | 275 km |
| 2.6 | 07.09.2026 17:18 | 123 km | 268 km |
| 5.2 | 05.09.2026 14:06 | 91.9 km | 90 km |
| 2.6 | 05.09.2026 04:00 | 167 km | 202 km |
| 5.1 | 04.09.2026 16:24 | 121.7 km | 62 km |
| 2.5 | 02.09.2026 05:34 | 10 km | 168 km |
| 3.1 | 01.09.2026 05:04 | 10 km | 171 km |
| 2.8 | 01.09.2026 01:09 | 10 km | 176 km |
| 2.8 | 01.09.2026 00:49 | 10 km | 34 km |
| 3.0 | 31.08.2026 23:53 | 10 km | 169 km |
| 2.8 | 31.08.2026 13:24 | 10 km | 293 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.