4.5
9,517
recorded earthquakes
M9.2
largest
1902–2026
record span
3.58
mean magnitude
8,714
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 | — | 203 km |
| 7.8 | 03.01.1911 23:25 | 20 km | 375 km |
| 7.7 | 22.08.1902 03:00 | 0 km | 233 km |
| 7.6 | 10.07.1949 03:53 | 20 km | 395 km |
| 7.4 | 21.10.1907 04:23 | 20 km | 607 km |
| 7.3 | 02.11.1946 18:28 | 25 km | 249 km |
| 7.3 | 23.02.2023 00:37 | 18.4 km | 372 km |
| 7.2 | 18.02.1911 18:41 | 15 km | 367 km |
| 7.2 | 21.10.1907 04:23 | 20 km | 416 km |
| 7.2 | 07.12.2015 07:50 | 14.2 km | 378 km |
| 7.2 | 19.08.1992 02:04 | 20.6 km | 137 km |
| 7.1 | 11.08.1974 01:13 | 7.9 km | 221 km |
| 7.1 | 15.04.1955 03:40 | 20 km | 155 km |
| 7.1 | 13.04.1961 16:34 | 35 km | 297 km |
| 7.0 | 22.01.2024 18:09 | 8.8 km | 330 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.5 | 12.10.2026 03:04 | 26.9 km | 313 km |
| 3.3 | 09.10.2026 23:48 | 0 km | 143 km |
| 2.6 | 09.10.2026 16:45 | 7 km | 239 km |
| 2.4 | 09.10.2026 09:51 | 5 km | 174 km |
| 2.4 | 09.10.2026 08:05 | 0 km | 257 km |
| 2.5 | 09.10.2026 07:30 | 0 km | 204 km |
| 2.8 | 08.10.2026 13:57 | 10 km | 254 km |
| 2.3 | 08.10.2026 12:03 | 10 km | 376 km |
| 2.7 | 08.10.2026 08:34 | 4 km | 125 km |
| 2.5 | 07.10.2026 17:15 | 0 km | 130 km |
| 2.2 | 07.10.2026 06:00 | 1 km | 194 km |
| 2.9 | 07.10.2026 05:01 | 0 km | 163 km |
| 2.8 | 07.10.2026 04:56 | 4 km | 114 km |
| 2.4 | 05.10.2026 23:42 | 15 km | 160 km |
| 3.0 | 04.10.2026 09:57 | 10 km | 205 km |
| 2.3 | 04.10.2026 01:33 | 16 km | 108 km |
| 2.5 | 03.10.2026 17:16 | 15 km | 160 km |
| 3.1 | 03.10.2026 11:29 | 1 km | 49 km |
| 3.9 | 02.10.2026 06:39 | 1 km | 76 km |
| 4.5 | 01.10.2026 08:17 | 10 km | 136 km |
| 4.2 | 28.09.2026 08:53 | 2.3 km | 467 km |
| 3.4 | 28.09.2026 04:38 | 10 km | 290 km |
| 4.1 | 28.09.2026 04:03 | 33 km | 426 km |
| 2.6 | 27.09.2026 13:23 | 5 km | 390 km |
| 2.7 | 27.09.2026 11:55 | 10 km | 389 km |
| 2.5 | 27.09.2026 02:07 | 12 km | 140 km |
| 2.7 | 27.09.2026 01:42 | 11 km | 138 km |
| 2.4 | 27.09.2026 00:33 | 0 km | 139 km |
| 2.9 | 27.09.2026 00:19 | 10 km | 437 km |
| 2.7 | 26.09.2026 21:19 | 19 km | 138 km |
| 2.6 | 26.09.2026 20:23 | 11 km | 138 km |
| 2.5 | 26.09.2026 13:28 | 50 km | 214 km |
| 2.3 | 26.09.2026 13:03 | 10 km | 109 km |
| 2.7 | 26.09.2026 11:38 | 0 km | 244 km |
| 2.4 | 26.09.2026 08:10 | 3 km | 138 km |
| 2.5 | 26.09.2026 00:54 | 10 km | 234 km |
| 2.6 | 25.09.2026 10:31 | 10 km | 138 km |
| 2.8 | 25.09.2026 08:18 | 10 km | 188 km |
| 4.2 | 22.09.2026 10:10 | 1 km | 143 km |
| 3.0 | 18.09.2026 13:47 | 10 km | 197 km |
| 2.6 | 18.09.2026 08:06 | 0 km | 332 km |
| 2.7 | 18.09.2026 07:48 | 1 km | 317 km |
| 3.3 | 18.09.2026 05:15 | 0 km | 196 km |
| 2.1 | 17.09.2026 23:13 | 5 km | 147 km |
| 2.9 | 17.09.2026 10:34 | 6 km | 39 km |
| 3.2 | 17.09.2026 09:44 | 10 km | 191 km |
| 2.8 | 17.09.2026 04:23 | 0 km | 181 km |
| 3.3 | 17.09.2026 00:39 | 0 km | 37 km |
| 3.5 | 16.09.2026 20:49 | 2 km | 275 km |
| 3.0 | 16.09.2026 10:55 | 0 km | 250 km |
| 3.1 | 16.09.2026 07:32 | 0 km | 256 km |
| 3.6 | 16.09.2026 04:40 | 3 km | 239 km |
| 4.3 | 12.09.2026 09:47 | 33 km | 224 km |
| 3.7 | 12.09.2026 07:13 | 1 km | 362 km |
| 2.2 | 10.09.2026 06:33 | 2 km | 263 km |
| 2.3 | 10.09.2026 00:39 | 0 km | 146 km |
| 4.6 | 09.09.2026 20:17 | 29.6 km | 423 km |
| 3.0 | 09.09.2026 18:17 | 1 km | 42 km |
| 4.1 | 09.09.2026 17:03 | 10 km | 38 km |
| 3.2 | 09.09.2026 16:37 | 0 km | 38 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.