3.0
6,133
recorded earthquakes
M8.5
largest
1900–2026
record span
3.93
mean magnitude
4,973
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.5 | 12.09.2007 11:10 | 24 km | 384 km |
| 7.9 | 12.09.2007 23:49 | 39.2 km | 168 km |
| 7.8 | 04.06.2000 16:28 | 44 km | 429 km |
| 7.8 | 25.10.2010 14:42 | 22.9 km | 259 km |
| 7.8 | 28.12.1935 02:35 | 30 km | 242 km |
| 7.6 | 04.06.2000 16:39 | 35.7 km | 432 km |
| 7.6 | 25.06.1914 19:07 | 35 km | 350 km |
| 7.6 | 30.09.2009 10:16 | 91 km | 65 km |
| 7.5 | 09.06.1943 03:06 | 10 km | 73 km |
| 7.3 | 08.05.1946 05:20 | 35 km | 136 km |
| 7.2 | 03.06.1909 18:40 | 35 km | 123 km |
| 7.2 | 08.06.1943 20:42 | 15 km | 286 km |
| 7.2 | 25.02.2008 08:36 | 29 km | 146 km |
| 7.1 | 24.04.2023 20:00 | 29.3 km | 194 km |
| 7.1 | 17.11.1984 06:49 | 33.7 km | 300 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 11.10.2026 23:36 | 127 km | 197 km |
| 3.0 | 11.10.2026 11:59 | 10 km | 135 km |
| 3.9 | 11.10.2026 10:17 | 10 km | 136 km |
| 3.6 | 09.10.2026 19:44 | 12 km | 104 km |
| 4.9 | 09.10.2026 09:47 | 40.8 km | 74 km |
| 2.9 | 08.10.2026 22:28 | 10 km | 66 km |
| 4.7 | 08.10.2026 15:23 | 50.6 km | 292 km |
| 4.3 | 06.10.2026 23:17 | 175 km | 149 km |
| 3.9 | 06.10.2026 14:01 | 35 km | 273 km |
| 3.5 | 06.10.2026 13:08 | 15 km | 72 km |
| 2.7 | 05.10.2026 17:01 | 10 km | 274 km |
| 3.3 | 03.10.2026 19:27 | 136 km | 235 km |
| 4.0 | 03.10.2026 13:03 | 15 km | 159 km |
| 3.6 | 03.10.2026 10:08 | 87 km | 92 km |
| 3.0 | 02.10.2026 00:57 | 164 km | 193 km |
| 3.3 | 01.10.2026 19:43 | 10 km | 275 km |
| 3.3 | 28.09.2026 20:19 | 15 km | 141 km |
| 2.8 | 27.09.2026 18:21 | 38 km | 63 km |
| 3.2 | 27.09.2026 17:15 | 10 km | 166 km |
| 2.6 | 24.09.2026 05:45 | 41 km | 89 km |
| 3.1 | 22.09.2026 17:17 | 57 km | 308 km |
| 3.4 | 21.09.2026 18:14 | 36 km | 125 km |
| 4.4 | 21.09.2026 12:35 | 10 km | 122 km |
| 3.8 | 21.09.2026 11:12 | 10 km | 125 km |
| 4.0 | 17.09.2026 16:01 | 37 km | 103 km |
| 3.8 | 17.09.2026 06:39 | 10 km | 130 km |
| 3.6 | 16.09.2026 00:39 | 218 km | 199 km |
| 3.7 | 12.09.2026 09:54 | 26 km | 90 km |
| 3.0 | 11.09.2026 22:13 | 120 km | 197 km |
| 3.8 | 11.09.2026 13:08 | 40 km | 81 km |
| 3.2 | 09.09.2026 06:15 | 128 km | 248 km |
| 2.8 | 08.09.2026 20:00 | 10 km | 131 km |
| 2.6 | 07.09.2026 17:18 | 123 km | 140 km |
| 5.2 | 05.09.2026 14:06 | 91.9 km | 311 km |
| 5.1 | 04.09.2026 16:24 | 121.7 km | 317 km |
| 2.8 | 03.09.2026 02:05 | 51 km | 100 km |
| 3.2 | 02.09.2026 16:44 | 15 km | 218 km |
| 2.5 | 02.09.2026 05:34 | 10 km | 218 km |
| 3.1 | 01.09.2026 05:04 | 10 km | 211 km |
| 2.8 | 01.09.2026 01:09 | 10 km | 203 km |
| 3.0 | 31.08.2026 23:53 | 10 km | 215 km |
| 3.8 | 31.08.2026 09:11 | 12 km | 218 km |
| 4.9 | 30.08.2026 07:37 | 78.2 km | 297 km |
| 2.8 | 29.08.2026 20:33 | 10 km | 223 km |
| 4.2 | 29.08.2026 20:03 | 154 km | 235 km |
| 2.7 | 28.08.2026 11:59 | 164 km | 182 km |
| 2.7 | 27.08.2026 19:52 | 43 km | 95 km |
| 2.7 | 25.08.2026 14:36 | 60 km | 95 km |
| 4.4 | 23.08.2026 19:56 | 61.4 km | 106 km |
| 4.5 | 22.08.2026 17:40 | 43.2 km | 214 km |
| 4.7 | 22.08.2026 16:33 | 26.3 km | 233 km |
| 3.3 | 21.08.2026 00:41 | 43 km | 69 km |
| 3.3 | 18.08.2026 12:40 | 61 km | 196 km |
| 5.6 | 18.08.2026 06:02 | 10 km | 209 km |
| 2.5 | 16.08.2026 11:19 | 6 km | 124 km |
| 3.3 | 16.08.2026 11:12 | 5 km | 119 km |
| 3.7 | 16.08.2026 10:18 | 6 km | 91 km |
| 2.6 | 15.08.2026 22:33 | 10 km | 80 km |
| 2.7 | 15.08.2026 16:02 | 3 km | 75 km |
| 2.5 | 14.08.2026 21:59 | 10 km | 65 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.