3.0
1,112
recorded earthquakes
M7.6
largest
1909–2026
record span
3.75
mean magnitude
659
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.6 | 30.09.2009 10:16 | 91 km | 271 km |
| 7.5 | 09.06.1943 03:06 | 10 km | 220 km |
| 7.3 | 08.05.1946 05:20 | 35 km | 357 km |
| 7.2 | 03.06.1909 18:40 | 35 km | 322 km |
| 7.1 | 04.02.1971 15:33 | 33.2 km | 358 km |
| 7.0 | 13.09.2007 03:35 | 23 km | 421 km |
| 7.0 | 01.04.1998 17:56 | 43.7 km | 324 km |
| 6.7 | 28.06.1926 03:23 | 15 km | 88 km |
| 6.7 | 21.05.1967 18:45 | 178.7 km | 189 km |
| 6.7 | 06.10.1995 18:09 | 29.8 km | 303 km |
| 6.7 | 20.09.2007 08:31 | 29.6 km | 362 km |
| 6.7 | 10.04.2005 10:29 | 32.6 km | 375 km |
| 6.7 | 16.08.2009 07:38 | 30 km | 372 km |
| 6.5 | 13.09.2007 02:30 | 31.3 km | 369 km |
| 6.5 | 22.09.1918 09:55 | 35 km | 319 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 11.10.2026 11:59 | 10 km | 211 km |
| 3.9 | 11.10.2026 10:17 | 10 km | 210 km |
| 2.9 | 08.10.2026 22:28 | 10 km | 226 km |
| 3.0 | 02.10.2026 00:57 | 164 km | 196 km |
| 2.8 | 29.09.2026 17:36 | 10 km | 157 km |
| 2.6 | 24.09.2026 05:45 | 41 km | 208 km |
| 3.2 | 19.09.2026 17:35 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 3.6 | 16.09.2026 00:39 | 218 km | 151 km |
| 2.8 | 08.09.2026 20:00 | 10 km | 199 km |
| 3.3 | 08.09.2026 02:45 | 10 km | 220 km |
| 2.6 | 07.09.2026 17:18 | 123 km | 197 km |
| 2.7 | 28.08.2026 11:59 | 164 km | 188 km |
| 2.8 | 26.08.2026 05:16 | 29 km | 135 km |
| 3.1 | 25.08.2026 08:12 | 10 km | 141 km |
| 2.5 | 16.08.2026 11:19 | 6 km | 210 km |
| 3.3 | 16.08.2026 11:12 | 5 km | 217 km |
| 2.6 | 15.08.2026 22:33 | 10 km | 214 km |
| 2.7 | 15.08.2026 16:02 | 3 km | 220 km |
| 2.9 | 12.08.2026 04:55 | 4 km | 236 km |
| 2.8 | 09.08.2026 17:43 | 5 km | 137 km |
| 2.5 | 09.08.2026 16:46 | 10 km | 199 km |
| 4.0 | 09.08.2026 13:11 | 175 km | 232 km |
| 3.8 | 07.08.2026 10:22 | 96 km | 251 km |
| 2.5 | 06.08.2026 23:06 | 5 km | 234 km |
| 3.0 | 06.08.2026 02:22 | 100 km | 249 km |
| 2.5 | 05.08.2026 14:13 | 3 km | 224 km |
| 4.0 | 04.08.2026 23:32 | 134 km | 237 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2026 21:55 | 5 km | 226 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2026 12:21 | 9 km | 229 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 17:45 | 89 km | 245 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 17:46 | 119 km | 226 km |
| 3.3 | 02.08.2026 14:30 | 38 km | 277 km |
| 3.1 | 18.07.2026 04:58 | 5 km | 208 km |
| 2.9 | 18.07.2026 03:10 | 7 km | 215 km |
| 3.0 | 18.07.2026 03:01 | 10 km | 224 km |
| 2.5 | 17.07.2026 19:17 | 10 km | 226 km |
| 4.3 | 11.07.2026 10:33 | 176 km | 227 km |
| 2.7 | 09.07.2026 11:13 | 16 km | 228 km |
| 3.1 | 08.07.2026 11:17 | 10 km | 161 km |
| 2.9 | 19.06.2026 10:18 | 20 km | 293 km |
| 3.1 | 19.06.2026 10:14 | 55 km | 280 km |
| 2.9 | 16.06.2026 05:31 | 185 km | 222 km |
| 2.8 | 11.06.2026 17:07 | 10 km | 187 km |
| 2.5 | 11.06.2026 09:35 | 6 km | 226 km |
| 4.3 | 08.06.2026 06:39 | 111.5 km | 237 km |
| 2.5 | 06.06.2026 11:26 | 17 km | 230 km |
| 3.8 | 29.05.2026 08:54 | 167.6 km | 208 km |
| 2.9 | 23.05.2026 10:00 | 10 km | 237 km |
| 3.4 | 23.05.2026 03:05 | 5 km | 230 km |
| 3.0 | 23.05.2026 00:36 | 11 km | 231 km |
| 2.6 | 15.05.2026 20:07 | 5 km | 216 km |
| 2.6 | 15.05.2026 01:51 | 157 km | 210 km |
| 2.5 | 13.05.2026 23:35 | 17 km | 233 km |
| 2.8 | 13.05.2026 21:11 | 71 km | 259 km |
| 2.7 | 06.05.2026 06:08 | 10 km | 235 km |
| 3.0 | 03.05.2026 11:41 | 194 km | 200 km |
| 4.0 | 01.05.2026 05:17 | 199.9 km | 184 km |
| 2.6 | 26.04.2026 02:42 | 12 km | 231 km |
| 2.9 | 17.04.2026 21:10 | 8 km | 269 km |
| 2.8 | 17.04.2026 14:31 | 150 km | 219 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.