3.8
11,796
recorded earthquakes
M9.2
largest
1902–2026
record span
3.69
mean magnitude
10,409
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.2 | 26.08.2024 04:26 | — | 809 km |
| 7.8 | 03.01.1911 23:25 | 20 km | 1025 km |
| 7.7 | 22.08.1902 03:00 | 0 km | 1163 km |
| 7.3 | 23.02.1949 16:08 | 10 km | 1454 km |
| 7.3 | 02.11.1946 18:28 | 25 km | 784 km |
| 7.2 | 27.09.2003 11:33 | 10.3 km | 1564 km |
| 7.2 | 22.12.1906 18:21 | 15 km | 1446 km |
| 7.2 | 19.08.1992 02:04 | 20.6 km | 822 km |
| 7.2 | 09.03.1944 22:12 | 10 km | 1365 km |
| 7.1 | 11.08.1974 01:13 | 7.9 km | 1089 km |
| 7.1 | 15.04.1955 03:40 | 20 km | 1078 km |
| 7.1 | 04.11.1946 21:47 | 37.9 km | 1292 km |
| 7.1 | 13.04.1961 16:34 | 35 km | 1217 km |
| 7.0 | 22.01.2024 18:09 | 8.8 km | 1151 km |
| 7.0 | 15.04.1955 04:13 | 20 km | 1064 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.8 | 10.10.2026 14:06 | 1 km | 1246 km |
| 4.7 | 10.10.2026 00:47 | 10 km | 1598 km |
| 3.4 | 09.10.2026 20:04 | 19 km | 1458 km |
| 2.6 | 09.10.2026 16:45 | 7 km | 896 km |
| 2.4 | 09.10.2026 09:51 | 5 km | 807 km |
| 2.5 | 09.10.2026 07:30 | 0 km | 925 km |
| 2.3 | 08.10.2026 12:03 | 10 km | 811 km |
| 2.7 | 08.10.2026 08:34 | 4 km | 832 km |
| 2.5 | 07.10.2026 17:15 | 0 km | 862 km |
| 2.2 | 07.10.2026 06:00 | 1 km | 934 km |
| 2.8 | 07.10.2026 04:56 | 4 km | 907 km |
| 2.4 | 05.10.2026 23:42 | 15 km | 908 km |
| 3.0 | 04.10.2026 22:56 | 20 km | 1425 km |
| 2.3 | 04.10.2026 01:33 | 16 km | 965 km |
| 2.5 | 03.10.2026 17:16 | 15 km | 838 km |
| 3.1 | 03.10.2026 11:29 | 1 km | 917 km |
| 3.9 | 02.10.2026 06:39 | 1 km | 1006 km |
| 4.2 | 01.10.2026 10:51 | 7 km | 1687 km |
| 4.5 | 01.10.2026 08:17 | 10 km | 862 km |
| 4.2 | 28.09.2026 08:53 | 2.3 km | 1117 km |
| 3.4 | 28.09.2026 04:38 | 10 km | 917 km |
| 4.1 | 28.09.2026 04:03 | 33 km | 832 km |
| 2.6 | 27.09.2026 13:23 | 5 km | 803 km |
| 2.7 | 27.09.2026 11:55 | 10 km | 805 km |
| 2.5 | 27.09.2026 02:07 | 12 km | 837 km |
| 2.7 | 27.09.2026 01:42 | 11 km | 839 km |
| 2.4 | 27.09.2026 00:33 | 0 km | 837 km |
| 2.9 | 27.09.2026 00:19 | 10 km | 829 km |
| 2.7 | 26.09.2026 21:19 | 19 km | 840 km |
| 2.6 | 26.09.2026 20:23 | 11 km | 839 km |
| 2.5 | 26.09.2026 13:28 | 50 km | 785 km |
| 2.7 | 26.09.2026 11:38 | 0 km | 905 km |
| 3.7 | 26.09.2026 08:31 | 25 km | 1448 km |
| 2.4 | 26.09.2026 08:10 | 3 km | 838 km |
| 4.5 | 22.09.2026 16:09 | 10 km | 1336 km |
| 4.2 | 22.09.2026 10:10 | 1 km | 831 km |
| 3.9 | 21.09.2026 14:12 | 10 km | 1348 km |
| 4.2 | 19.09.2026 17:22 | 1 km | 1239 km |
| 4.5 | 19.09.2026 15:53 | 10 km | 1447 km |
| 3.6 | 19.09.2026 15:45 | 20 km | 1460 km |
| 4.1 | 18.09.2026 14:32 | 27 km | 1421 km |
| 2.6 | 18.09.2026 08:06 | 0 km | 1144 km |
| 4.3 | 18.09.2026 07:52 | 0 km | 1216 km |
| 2.1 | 17.09.2026 23:13 | 5 km | 829 km |
| 3.0 | 17.09.2026 22:56 | 12 km | 1541 km |
| 4.4 | 17.09.2026 11:46 | 10 km | 1045 km |
| 2.9 | 17.09.2026 10:34 | 6 km | 987 km |
| 2.8 | 17.09.2026 04:23 | 0 km | 822 km |
| 3.3 | 17.09.2026 00:39 | 0 km | 984 km |
| 3.5 | 16.09.2026 20:49 | 2 km | 779 km |
| 3.0 | 16.09.2026 10:55 | 0 km | 883 km |
| 3.6 | 16.09.2026 04:40 | 3 km | 1052 km |
| 4.3 | 12.09.2026 09:47 | 33 km | 831 km |
| 3.7 | 12.09.2026 07:13 | 1 km | 1005 km |
| 3.7 | 11.09.2026 20:06 | 7.6 km | 1135 km |
| 3.1 | 11.09.2026 13:41 | 14 km | 1420 km |
| 3.1 | 10.09.2026 01:52 | 31.2 km | 1493 km |
| 2.3 | 10.09.2026 00:39 | 0 km | 815 km |
| 3.0 | 09.09.2026 18:17 | 1 km | 930 km |
| 4.1 | 09.09.2026 17:03 | 10 km | 933 km |
Regions
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.