2.6
2,861
recorded earthquakes
M7.5
largest
1903–2026
record span
3.74
mean magnitude
1,965
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.5 | 08.08.2007 17:04 | 288.3 km | 92 km |
| 7.3 | 27.02.1903 00:43 | 0 km | 220 km |
| 7.2 | 01.04.1943 14:18 | 35 km | 244 km |
| 7.1 | 23.07.1943 14:53 | 60 km | 307 km |
| 7.0 | 15.12.1963 19:34 | 661.5 km | 233 km |
| 7.0 | 02.09.2009 07:55 | 61.6 km | 97 km |
| 6.8 | 25.10.2000 09:32 | 43.9 km | 231 km |
| 6.6 | 14.09.1944 06:38 | 35 km | 205 km |
| 6.5 | 15.12.2017 16:47 | 100.6 km | 96 km |
| 6.5 | 02.11.1979 15:53 | 58.8 km | 106 km |
| 6.4 | 21.12.1999 14:14 | 65.4 km | 228 km |
| 6.4 | 09.10.1985 01:15 | 158.2 km | 73 km |
| 6.4 | 24.03.1948 05:19 | 35 km | 236 km |
| 6.4 | 17.05.1974 20:55 | 136.3 km | 109 km |
| 6.2 | 08.09.1927 23:22 | 50 km | 72 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.6 | 12.10.2026 23:22 | 57 km | 118 km |
| 2.5 | 05.10.2026 08:57 | 19 km | 110 km |
| 2.7 | 04.10.2026 20:06 | 41 km | 116 km |
| 2.6 | 04.10.2026 16:21 | 36 km | 117 km |
| 2.8 | 04.10.2026 16:00 | 42 km | 117 km |
| 3.8 | 04.10.2026 14:47 | 37 km | 120 km |
| 3.9 | 04.10.2026 01:31 | 32 km | 110 km |
| 3.4 | 03.10.2026 07:38 | 24 km | 160 km |
| 3.4 | 02.10.2026 22:20 | 10 km | 133 km |
| 2.7 | 30.09.2026 09:24 | 30 km | 101 km |
| 4.4 | 30.09.2026 01:33 | 23 km | 167 km |
| 2.7 | 29.09.2026 22:18 | 27 km | 147 km |
| 3.1 | 27.09.2026 14:21 | 19 km | 183 km |
| 2.7 | 27.09.2026 13:37 | 10 km | 87 km |
| 3.0 | 24.09.2026 05:38 | 21 km | 150 km |
| 2.6 | 22.09.2026 19:34 | 38 km | 79 km |
| 2.9 | 20.09.2026 21:33 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 2.6 | 20.09.2026 00:48 | 82 km | 95 km |
| 2.7 | 19.09.2026 00:40 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 2.6 | 17.09.2026 04:04 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 2.7 | 16.09.2026 23:21 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 2.6 | 16.09.2026 21:59 | 10 km | 40 km |
| 3.2 | 16.09.2026 10:23 | 24 km | 152 km |
| 2.7 | 16.09.2026 10:14 | 10 km | 43 km |
| 2.8 | 16.09.2026 04:14 | 10 km | 42 km |
| 3.2 | 16.09.2026 04:12 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 2.9 | 16.09.2026 02:35 | 10 km | 42 km |
| 2.6 | 16.09.2026 01:48 | 10 km | 43 km |
| 3.1 | 16.09.2026 01:11 | 10 km | 42 km |
| 3.0 | 14.09.2026 04:16 | 26 km | 123 km |
| 2.8 | 13.09.2026 15:43 | 10 km | 118 km |
| 2.5 | 12.09.2026 22:54 | 12 km | 57 km |
| 2.7 | 12.09.2026 21:53 | 27 km | 104 km |
| 3.2 | 12.09.2026 20:05 | 28 km | 184 km |
| 2.9 | 11.09.2026 09:42 | 40 km | 115 km |
| 2.5 | 10.09.2026 03:00 | 10 km | 109 km |
| 2.5 | 09.09.2026 23:40 | 5 km | 42 km |
| 4.3 | 06.09.2026 02:06 | 64 km | 85 km |
| 5.2 | 04.09.2026 05:04 | 10 km | 199 km |
| 2.8 | 03.09.2026 14:41 | 14 km | 152 km |
| 2.7 | 01.09.2026 19:56 | 24 km | 106 km |
| 4.3 | 01.09.2026 10:53 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 2.8 | 31.08.2026 06:13 | 88 km | 90 km |
| 3.3 | 27.08.2026 05:14 | 82 km | 102 km |
| 4.2 | 26.08.2026 13:43 | 19 km | 134 km |
| 3.9 | 26.08.2026 08:22 | 225 km | 115 km |
| 2.9 | 22.08.2026 23:27 | 79 km | 77 km |
| 2.7 | 21.08.2026 09:43 | 10 km | 70 km |
| 3.3 | 20.08.2026 18:18 | 10 km | 43 km |
| 4.5 | 20.08.2026 14:31 | 60.9 km | 134 km |
| 4.4 | 19.08.2026 12:19 | 194.3 km | 175 km |
| 2.6 | 18.08.2026 23:35 | 5 km | 41 km |
| 2.9 | 17.08.2026 18:14 | 33 km | 76 km |
| 2.5 | 17.08.2026 10:06 | 5 km | 34 km |
| 2.6 | 15.08.2026 16:27 | 33 km | 121 km |
| 2.5 | 15.08.2026 10:52 | 7 km | 109 km |
| 2.6 | 15.08.2026 10:50 | 38 km | 118 km |
| 3.3 | 14.08.2026 22:14 | 8 km | 37 km |
| 4.4 | 14.08.2026 22:09 | 37 km | 51 km |
| 2.8 | 14.08.2026 15:10 | 197 km | 155 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.