3.2
4,836
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1907–2026
record span
3.53
mean magnitude
3,795
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.8 | 17.06.1996 11:22 | 596.7 km | 361 km |
| 7.7 | 12.12.1992 05:29 | 26.7 km | 454 km |
| 7.7 | 14.08.2026 21:58 | 10 km | 419 km |
| 7.3 | 14.12.2021 03:20 | 14.2 km | 382 km |
| 7.1 | 03.03.1927 01:05 | 15 km | 286 km |
| 7.1 | 17.03.1909 22:53 | 0 km | 296 km |
| 7.1 | 23.02.1969 00:37 | 50.4 km | 244 km |
| 7.0 | 24.05.1990 20:09 | 597.2 km | 294 km |
| 7.0 | 06.08.1914 04:10 | 600 km | 308 km |
| 7.0 | 27.02.2015 13:45 | 559.1 km | 370 km |
| 6.8 | 07.06.1991 11:51 | 525.7 km | 352 km |
| 6.8 | 19.11.1913 03:20 | 35 km | 327 km |
| 6.8 | 12.04.2019 11:40 | 19.6 km | 383 km |
| 6.8 | 07.06.1968 11:57 | 50 km | 315 km |
| 6.8 | 02.11.1954 08:24 | 20 km | 429 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.2 | 11.10.2026 01:23 | 10 km | 265 km |
| 3.4 | 10.10.2026 23:15 | 10 km | 162 km |
| 2.7 | 10.10.2026 19:53 | 10 km | 256 km |
| 2.5 | 10.10.2026 15:06 | 43 km | 252 km |
| 3.2 | 10.10.2026 13:15 | 10 km | 291 km |
| 5.0 | 08.10.2026 04:48 | 10 km | 351 km |
| 3.4 | 08.10.2026 03:31 | 10 km | 245 km |
| 3.0 | 06.10.2026 15:01 | 10 km | 275 km |
| 3.0 | 06.10.2026 13:50 | 10 km | 288 km |
| 2.6 | 05.10.2026 22:58 | 10 km | 276 km |
| 5.0 | 01.10.2026 14:19 | 10 km | 275 km |
| 2.8 | 30.09.2026 00:04 | 13 km | 301 km |
| 3.0 | 29.09.2026 14:39 | 10 km | 138 km |
| 3.1 | 27.09.2026 23:56 | 10 km | 82 km |
| 2.7 | 27.09.2026 14:25 | 10 km | 271 km |
| 2.7 | 27.09.2026 11:29 | 10 km | 230 km |
| 2.7 | 25.09.2026 06:00 | 11 km | 80 km |
| 3.1 | 24.09.2026 04:24 | 10 km | 309 km |
| 2.6 | 22.09.2026 00:37 | 10 km | 326 km |
| 2.7 | 21.09.2026 21:10 | 10 km | 285 km |
| 3.5 | 18.09.2026 08:43 | 19 km | 203 km |
| 2.5 | 17.09.2026 16:58 | 10 km | 230 km |
| 3.9 | 17.09.2026 09:24 | 10 km | 269 km |
| 3.0 | 16.09.2026 04:17 | 10 km | 194 km |
| 2.9 | 16.09.2026 03:00 | 24 km | 290 km |
| 3.7 | 15.09.2026 05:26 | 10 km | 242 km |
| 4.1 | 14.09.2026 09:24 | 361 km | 317 km |
| 3.2 | 14.09.2026 02:55 | 10 km | 213 km |
| 3.2 | 12.09.2026 10:42 | 10 km | 292 km |
| 2.5 | 11.09.2026 22:34 | 10 km | 230 km |
| 3.5 | 10.09.2026 17:07 | 10 km | 252 km |
| 3.3 | 10.09.2026 14:20 | 10 km | 239 km |
| 2.5 | 10.09.2026 02:17 | 3 km | 145 km |
| 3.3 | 08.09.2026 23:10 | 10 km | 295 km |
| 3.1 | 08.09.2026 23:01 | 10 km | 288 km |
| 5.2 | 08.09.2026 15:36 | 10 km | 345 km |
| 2.9 | 06.09.2026 13:40 | 10 km | 308 km |
| 3.4 | 04.09.2026 19:07 | 10 km | 246 km |
| 2.8 | 03.09.2026 06:51 | 10 km | 285 km |
| 3.1 | 02.09.2026 02:22 | 10 km | 259 km |
| 2.9 | 01.09.2026 15:22 | 10 km | 154 km |
| 3.5 | 31.08.2026 11:47 | 10 km | 257 km |
| 2.8 | 25.08.2026 18:43 | 10 km | 326 km |
| 4.3 | 24.08.2026 05:34 | 10 km | 245 km |
| 3.5 | 23.08.2026 00:12 | 10 km | 241 km |
| 3.4 | 20.08.2026 03:59 | 6 km | 173 km |
| 2.5 | 19.08.2026 18:35 | 5 km | 287 km |
| 3.5 | 19.08.2026 02:24 | 5 km | 235 km |
| 2.9 | 18.08.2026 12:50 | 10 km | 296 km |
| 2.8 | 17.08.2026 22:20 | 5 km | 241 km |
| 2.8 | 17.08.2026 18:16 | 5 km | 249 km |
| 5.4 | 17.08.2026 10:44 | 10 km | 368 km |
| 5.2 | 17.08.2026 10:42 | 10 km | 362 km |
| 3.3 | 16.08.2026 19:51 | 5 km | 177 km |
| 4.5 | 16.08.2026 17:42 | 5 km | 339 km |
| 3.9 | 16.08.2026 14:36 | 10 km | 326 km |
| 3.0 | 16.08.2026 14:02 | 5 km | 265 km |
| 5.0 | 16.08.2026 13:38 | 10 km | 364 km |
| 4.5 | 16.08.2026 12:37 | 10 km | 324 km |
| 4.9 | 16.08.2026 11:11 | 10 km | 340 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.