2.0
26,736
recorded earthquakes
M8.2
largest
1905–2026
record span
3.48
mean magnitude
25,140
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.2 | 27.10.1945 21:57 | — | 1048 km |
| 8.0 | 27.11.1945 21:56 | 15 km | 1253 km |
| 7.7 | 16.04.2013 10:44 | 63.1 km | 938 km |
| 7.4 | 12.11.2017 18:18 | 20.1 km | 780 km |
| 7.3 | 20.06.1990 21:00 | 15.3 km | 649 km |
| 7.3 | 16.09.1978 15:35 | 17.5 km | 369 km |
| 7.3 | 23.01.1909 02:48 | 15 km | 366 km |
| 7.2 | 18.01.2011 20:23 | 79.9 km | 1057 km |
| 7.2 | 28.07.1981 17:22 | 12.5 km | 485 km |
| 7.2 | 05.10.1948 20:12 | 15 km | 765 km |
| 7.2 | 10.05.1997 07:57 | 15 km | 594 km |
| 7.1 | 23.10.2011 10:41 | 7.6 km | 1188 km |
| 7.1 | 31.08.1968 10:47 | 14.1 km | 537 km |
| 7.1 | 02.07.1957 00:42 | 15 km | 436 km |
| 7.1 | 04.11.1946 21:47 | 37.9 km | 828 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.0 | 12.10.2026 16:17 | 3 km | 1163 km |
| 1.4 | 12.10.2026 15:33 | 7 km | 1200 km |
| 2.2 | 12.10.2026 07:29 | 6.9 km | 1159 km |
| 2.4 | 12.10.2026 04:15 | 7 km | 1089 km |
| 2.1 | 11.10.2026 00:54 | 5.9 km | 881 km |
| 0.9 | 07.10.2026 23:28 | 7 km | 1076 km |
| 1.3 | 07.10.2026 23:28 | 6.9 km | 1067 km |
| 2.0 | 06.10.2026 23:00 | 7 km | 1109 km |
| 1.6 | 06.10.2026 13:11 | 7 km | 1064 km |
| 1.8 | 06.10.2026 13:09 | 7 km | 1065 km |
| 2.1 | 06.10.2026 12:52 | 7 km | 1081 km |
| 2.4 | 06.10.2026 12:07 | 7.1 km | 1095 km |
| 1.6 | 06.10.2026 06:21 | 17.6 km | 1145 km |
| 2.7 | 05.10.2026 12:59 | 7 km | 1031 km |
| 3.4 | 04.10.2026 01:35 | 7.5 km | 847 km |
| 2.7 | 04.10.2026 00:16 | 5.6 km | 1037 km |
| 2.2 | 01.10.2026 21:01 | 7 km | 1094 km |
| 1.9 | 30.09.2026 04:38 | 12.6 km | 1126 km |
| 3.2 | 30.09.2026 00:20 | 35.5 km | 826 km |
| 1.3 | 29.09.2026 21:45 | 6.6 km | 1041 km |
| 3.3 | 29.09.2026 11:50 | 24.8 km | 862 km |
| 1.6 | 29.09.2026 01:29 | 6.8 km | 1195 km |
| 3.2 | 27.09.2026 07:14 | 23.1 km | 851 km |
| 2.2 | 27.09.2026 02:58 | 7 km | 1009 km |
| 3.1 | 24.09.2026 06:46 | 15.3 km | 812 km |
| 4.3 | 23.09.2026 00:44 | 10 km | 274 km |
| 2.3 | 22.09.2026 19:21 | 7.5 km | 1191 km |
| 2.2 | 22.09.2026 08:30 | 7 km | 1163 km |
| 1.3 | 21.09.2026 23:58 | 6 km | 1119 km |
| 1.8 | 21.09.2026 07:18 | 13.4 km | 1094 km |
| 1.7 | 18.09.2026 15:49 | 7.1 km | 1201 km |
| 3.1 | 17.09.2026 12:03 | 20.5 km | 862 km |
| 3.1 | 16.09.2026 18:28 | 43.8 km | 955 km |
| 1.9 | 16.09.2026 09:03 | 7 km | 1100 km |
| 4.4 | 16.09.2026 05:27 | 10 km | 433 km |
| 2.1 | 14.09.2026 03:46 | 7 km | 1182 km |
| 1.3 | 14.09.2026 03:39 | 7 km | 1130 km |
| 4.0 | 14.09.2026 02:11 | 12 km | 579 km |
| 4.3 | 14.09.2026 01:38 | 10 km | 596 km |
| 2.1 | 13.09.2026 15:35 | 7.1 km | 1121 km |
| 1.8 | 13.09.2026 14:54 | 6.6 km | 1175 km |
| 2.5 | 11.09.2026 16:50 | 6.8 km | 999 km |
| 3.0 | 11.09.2026 14:26 | 17.3 km | 1001 km |
| 4.7 | 09.09.2026 20:17 | 10 km | 552 km |
| 4.3 | 09.09.2026 19:26 | 10 km | 519 km |
| 4.0 | 08.09.2026 16:36 | 8 km | 261 km |
| 4.3 | 07.09.2026 09:25 | 10 km | 836 km |
| 1.7 | 07.09.2026 06:53 | 7.2 km | 1087 km |
| 2.6 | 03.09.2026 10:49 | 7 km | 1050 km |
| 2.2 | 03.09.2026 02:21 | 7 km | 1022 km |
| 4.3 | 01.09.2026 06:36 | 12 km | 269 km |
| 4.5 | 01.09.2026 06:15 | 10 km | 272 km |
| 2.3 | 31.08.2026 20:04 | 5 km | 1118 km |
| 4.5 | 31.08.2026 15:22 | 45.9 km | 291 km |
| 2.9 | 29.08.2026 14:52 | 7 km | 915 km |
| 4.4 | 29.08.2026 07:15 | 15 km | 799 km |
| 2.5 | 28.08.2026 11:16 | 9.5 km | 1155 km |
| 3.1 | 26.08.2026 14:47 | 26.3 km | 908 km |
| 4.0 | 26.08.2026 07:49 | 12 km | 795 km |
| 4.2 | 25.08.2026 06:19 | 10 km | 593 km |
Regions
West Azerbaijan6,591Kerman5,710Hormozgan5,459Fars4,909Bushehr2,946Khuzestan2,546Yazd2,069Isfahan1,820Lorestan1,722Semnan1,658Razavi Khorasan1,497Ilam1,445East Azerbaijan1,391Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad1,112Kermanshah1,099Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari857Sistan and Baluchestan854Ardabil788South Khorasan677Golestan665Mazandaran641Markazi587North Khorasan563Kurdistan548Gilan455Tehran444Hamadan431Qazvin388Zanjan309Qom186
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.