4.6
9,314
recorded earthquakes
M8.6
largest
1901–2026
record span
3.93
mean magnitude
7,622
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.6 | 01.02.1938 19:04 | 25 km | 394 km |
| 7.7 | 13.01.1916 08:20 | 25 km | 390 km |
| 7.7 | 03.01.2009 19:43 | 28.9 km | 122 km |
| 7.6 | 06.11.1943 08:31 | 15 km | 476 km |
| 7.5 | 10.10.2002 10:50 | 23.6 km | 198 km |
| 7.5 | 12.09.1979 05:17 | 30 km | 388 km |
| 7.4 | 03.01.2009 22:33 | 34.6 km | 140 km |
| 7.3 | 13.01.1916 06:18 | 25 km | 401 km |
| 7.3 | 22.06.1957 23:50 | 59.1 km | 457 km |
| 7.3 | 07.02.2004 02:42 | 19.1 km | 395 km |
| 7.2 | 10.11.1925 13:50 | 15 km | 234 km |
| 7.2 | 27.04.1944 14:38 | 15 km | 185 km |
| 7.2 | 27.05.1947 05:58 | 15 km | 279 km |
| 7.2 | 28.03.1902 14:44 | 0 km | 188 km |
| 7.2 | 07.10.1923 03:29 | 15 km | 330 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.6 | 11.10.2026 18:47 | 10 km | 265 km |
| 3.6 | 11.10.2026 04:13 | 10 km | 293 km |
| 3.1 | 10.10.2026 22:55 | 11 km | 296 km |
| 3.5 | 08.10.2026 21:03 | 10 km | 330 km |
| 2.8 | 08.10.2026 13:09 | 10 km | 91 km |
| 4.6 | 08.10.2026 10:59 | 10 km | 336 km |
| 3.2 | 08.10.2026 09:55 | 10 km | 119 km |
| 3.8 | 07.10.2026 08:47 | 10 km | 196 km |
| 3.6 | 07.10.2026 05:44 | 15 km | 195 km |
| 3.7 | 02.10.2026 21:34 | 10 km | 104 km |
| 3.2 | 02.10.2026 10:00 | 10 km | 247 km |
| 4.1 | 01.10.2026 10:06 | 10 km | 134 km |
| 3.8 | 28.09.2026 23:08 | 10 km | 329 km |
| 4.0 | 27.09.2026 23:11 | 10 km | 191 km |
| 3.4 | 27.09.2026 22:41 | 10 km | 195 km |
| 3.4 | 27.09.2026 20:04 | 136 km | 335 km |
| 3.7 | 27.09.2026 14:12 | 10 km | 307 km |
| 2.7 | 27.09.2026 01:30 | 10 km | 109 km |
| 3.8 | 24.09.2026 12:31 | 15 km | 357 km |
| 3.8 | 23.09.2026 23:06 | 10 km | 333 km |
| 3.3 | 22.09.2026 22:55 | 22 km | 331 km |
| 3.2 | 22.09.2026 17:47 | 10 km | 167 km |
| 2.8 | 22.09.2026 14:38 | 20 km | 328 km |
| 3.2 | 22.09.2026 13:52 | 10 km | 334 km |
| 3.6 | 21.09.2026 00:40 | 10 km | 331 km |
| 4.4 | 17.09.2026 12:09 | 11 km | 333 km |
| 3.1 | 15.09.2026 18:49 | 10 km | 144 km |
| 3.4 | 13.09.2026 16:18 | 10 km | 122 km |
| 3.2 | 10.09.2026 18:28 | 21 km | 393 km |
| 2.9 | 10.09.2026 00:29 | 5 km | 289 km |
| 3.0 | 09.09.2026 14:57 | 33 km | 390 km |
| 2.7 | 09.09.2026 12:12 | 10 km | 56 km |
| 3.1 | 06.09.2026 04:14 | 10 km | 132 km |
| 3.5 | 03.09.2026 07:42 | 10 km | 122 km |
| 4.6 | 01.09.2026 05:06 | 35 km | 334 km |
| 3.0 | 31.08.2026 16:29 | 10 km | 349 km |
| 3.7 | 30.08.2026 17:58 | 10 km | 280 km |
| 2.6 | 27.08.2026 15:46 | 10 km | 119 km |
| 4.1 | 26.08.2026 10:56 | 10 km | 361 km |
| 3.3 | 25.08.2026 15:39 | 10 km | 320 km |
| 3.6 | 24.08.2026 14:49 | 10 km | 324 km |
| 4.0 | 23.08.2026 17:16 | 10 km | 118 km |
| 4.9 | 21.08.2026 12:32 | 10 km | 257 km |
| 2.6 | 19.08.2026 12:07 | 10 km | 165 km |
| 2.8 | 19.08.2026 09:16 | 7 km | 257 km |
| 2.6 | 18.08.2026 20:54 | 4 km | 126 km |
| 3.2 | 18.08.2026 18:07 | 23 km | 119 km |
| 3.4 | 18.08.2026 12:08 | 10 km | 133 km |
| 2.7 | 18.08.2026 10:15 | 25 km | 391 km |
| 3.0 | 18.08.2026 08:26 | 22 km | 307 km |
| 3.0 | 18.08.2026 07:57 | 10 km | 120 km |
| 3.9 | 18.08.2026 07:46 | 7 km | 112 km |
| 2.5 | 18.08.2026 07:02 | 11 km | 204 km |
| 2.6 | 17.08.2026 11:39 | 28 km | 268 km |
| 2.6 | 17.08.2026 00:28 | 10 km | 75 km |
| 2.6 | 16.08.2026 09:05 | 10 km | 105 km |
| 2.9 | 16.08.2026 01:32 | 93 km | 285 km |
| 2.5 | 15.08.2026 23:06 | 11 km | 179 km |
| 3.4 | 15.08.2026 13:35 | 7 km | 320 km |
| 3.9 | 13.08.2026 04:28 | 10 km | 164 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.