3.8
1,934
recorded earthquakes
M9.2
largest
1906–2026
record span
3.74
mean magnitude
1,570
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 | — | 323 km |
| 7.8 | 03.01.1911 23:25 | 20 km | 195 km |
| 7.3 | 23.02.1949 16:08 | 10 km | 570 km |
| 7.2 | 19.08.1992 02:04 | 20.6 km | 476 km |
| 7.2 | 09.03.1944 22:12 | 10 km | 476 km |
| 7.0 | 22.01.2024 18:09 | 8.8 km | 390 km |
| 6.9 | 24.03.1978 21:05 | 25.8 km | 217 km |
| 6.9 | 20.06.1938 23:50 | 15 km | 292 km |
| 6.6 | 19.08.1992 03:12 | 13.1 km | 489 km |
| 6.5 | 19.08.1992 03:20 | 13.9 km | 499 km |
| 6.5 | 12.11.1906 17:32 | 15 km | 456 km |
| 6.4 | 25.05.1949 08:23 | 35 km | 536 km |
| 6.4 | 21.12.1958 05:46 | 20 km | 215 km |
| 6.3 | 08.08.2017 23:27 | 14.9 km | 367 km |
| 6.3 | 17.12.1915 07:05 | 20 km | 346 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.8 | 10.10.2026 14:06 | 1 km | 371 km |
| 2.4 | 09.10.2026 09:51 | 5 km | 370 km |
| 2.7 | 08.10.2026 08:34 | 4 km | 460 km |
| 2.5 | 03.10.2026 17:16 | 15 km | 351 km |
| 4.2 | 28.09.2026 08:53 | 2.3 km | 246 km |
| 3.4 | 28.09.2026 04:38 | 10 km | 198 km |
| 2.5 | 27.09.2026 02:07 | 12 km | 382 km |
| 2.7 | 27.09.2026 01:42 | 11 km | 383 km |
| 2.4 | 27.09.2026 00:33 | 0 km | 383 km |
| 2.7 | 26.09.2026 21:19 | 19 km | 382 km |
| 2.6 | 26.09.2026 20:23 | 11 km | 383 km |
| 2.4 | 26.09.2026 08:10 | 3 km | 384 km |
| 4.2 | 22.09.2026 10:10 | 1 km | 386 km |
| 4.2 | 19.09.2026 17:22 | 1 km | 365 km |
| 4.3 | 18.09.2026 07:52 | 0 km | 344 km |
| 2.1 | 17.09.2026 23:13 | 5 km | 381 km |
| 3.7 | 12.09.2026 07:13 | 1 km | 185 km |
| 3.7 | 11.09.2026 20:06 | 7.6 km | 274 km |
| 4.3 | 03.09.2026 11:02 | 8 km | 331 km |
| 3.7 | 01.09.2026 17:58 | 18.8 km | 268 km |
| 4.6 | 30.08.2026 14:50 | 10 km | 325 km |
| 3.7 | 28.08.2026 22:36 | 10 km | 336 km |
| 4.9 | 28.08.2026 22:07 | 10 km | 329 km |
| 3.4 | 26.08.2026 03:32 | 17.8 km | 178 km |
| 3.5 | 19.08.2026 01:39 | 4.6 km | 219 km |
| 2.2 | 17.08.2026 22:01 | 2 km | 387 km |
| 3.0 | 17.08.2026 20:21 | 2 km | 300 km |
| 2.0 | 17.08.2026 07:19 | 1 km | 320 km |
| 2.4 | 13.08.2026 08:14 | 0 km | 384 km |
| 2.6 | 13.08.2026 04:53 | 0 km | 194 km |
| 5.0 | 12.08.2026 07:14 | 10 km | 380 km |
| 2.8 | 08.08.2026 04:23 | 0 km | 366 km |
| 3.1 | 05.08.2026 01:05 | 0 km | 306 km |
| 3.2 | 26.07.2026 00:34 | 1 km | 86 km |
| 3.2 | 25.07.2026 15:57 | 28 km | 362 km |
| 2.5 | 22.07.2026 04:45 | 0 km | 317 km |
| 2.2 | 19.07.2026 12:29 | 3 km | 155 km |
| 2.2 | 17.07.2026 23:44 | 5 km | 292 km |
| 2.5 | 17.07.2026 14:41 | 5 km | 210 km |
| 2.3 | 16.07.2026 15:02 | 0 km | 215 km |
| 2.1 | 15.07.2026 10:42 | 11 km | 323 km |
| 2.5 | 14.07.2026 13:01 | 2 km | 138 km |
| 2.1 | 14.07.2026 03:57 | 0 km | 221 km |
| 1.8 | 10.07.2026 18:31 | 0 km | 278 km |
| 4.2 | 05.07.2026 13:41 | 20 km | 355 km |
| 3.8 | 05.07.2026 00:50 | 19 km | 324 km |
| 2.1 | 03.07.2026 09:07 | 10 km | 313 km |
| 2.3 | 03.07.2026 01:50 | 0 km | 321 km |
| 3.8 | 28.06.2026 19:55 | 0 km | 252 km |
| 2.2 | 25.06.2026 06:09 | 0 km | 222 km |
| 2.4 | 22.06.2026 18:07 | 10 km | 223 km |
| 3.4 | 21.06.2026 17:58 | 25.8 km | 283 km |
| 4.7 | 21.06.2026 17:58 | 10 km | 278 km |
| 4.1 | 15.06.2026 12:01 | 1 km | 80 km |
| 2.9 | 10.06.2026 11:26 | 12 km | 199 km |
| 4.3 | 09.06.2026 21:43 | 10 km | 379 km |
| 4.1 | 09.06.2026 11:02 | 0 km | 336 km |
| 4.5 | 09.06.2026 02:17 | 25 km | 309 km |
| 3.5 | 08.06.2026 16:54 | 39 km | 207 km |
| 4.3 | 07.06.2026 17:58 | 3.2 km | 228 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.