2.7
1,878
recorded earthquakes
M9.2
largest
1902–2026
record span
3.70
mean magnitude
1,203
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 | — | 206 km |
| 7.8 | 03.01.1911 23:25 | 20 km | 281 km |
| 7.7 | 22.08.1902 03:00 | 0 km | 175 km |
| 7.2 | 19.08.1992 02:04 | 20.6 km | 218 km |
| 7.1 | 15.04.1955 03:40 | 20 km | 201 km |
| 7.1 | 11.08.1974 01:13 | 7.9 km | 288 km |
| 7.1 | 13.04.1961 16:34 | 35 km | 231 km |
| 7.0 | 22.01.2024 18:09 | 8.8 km | 226 km |
| 7.0 | 15.04.1955 04:13 | 20 km | 204 km |
| 6.9 | 23.08.1985 12:41 | 1.2 km | 222 km |
| 6.9 | 24.03.1978 21:05 | 25.8 km | 273 km |
| 6.9 | 20.06.1938 23:50 | 15 km | 140 km |
| 6.8 | 30.08.1902 21:48 | 0 km | 175 km |
| 6.8 | 01.04.1961 15:18 | 20 km | 230 km |
| 6.7 | 05.10.2008 15:52 | 21.5 km | 280 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.7 | 08.10.2026 08:34 | 4 km | 200 km |
| 3.0 | 04.10.2026 09:57 | 10 km | 139 km |
| 2.3 | 04.10.2026 01:33 | 16 km | 205 km |
| 3.1 | 03.10.2026 11:29 | 1 km | 151 km |
| 3.9 | 02.10.2026 06:39 | 1 km | 46 km |
| 2.5 | 27.09.2026 02:07 | 12 km | 169 km |
| 2.7 | 27.09.2026 01:42 | 11 km | 166 km |
| 2.4 | 27.09.2026 00:33 | 0 km | 168 km |
| 2.7 | 26.09.2026 21:19 | 19 km | 165 km |
| 2.6 | 26.09.2026 20:23 | 11 km | 167 km |
| 2.3 | 26.09.2026 13:03 | 10 km | 198 km |
| 2.4 | 26.09.2026 08:10 | 3 km | 167 km |
| 4.2 | 22.09.2026 10:10 | 1 km | 175 km |
| 2.1 | 17.09.2026 23:13 | 5 km | 177 km |
| 2.9 | 17.09.2026 10:34 | 6 km | 84 km |
| 3.3 | 17.09.2026 00:39 | 0 km | 80 km |
| 3.6 | 16.09.2026 04:40 | 3 km | 134 km |
| 3.0 | 09.09.2026 18:17 | 1 km | 89 km |
| 4.1 | 09.09.2026 17:03 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 3.2 | 09.09.2026 16:37 | 0 km | 89 km |
| 3.0 | 09.09.2026 05:54 | 0 km | 105 km |
| 4.4 | 06.09.2026 02:29 | 6 km | 149 km |
| 2.3 | 26.08.2026 00:59 | 3 km | 107 km |
| 2.3 | 21.08.2026 19:05 | 10 km | 184 km |
| 4.2 | 19.08.2026 19:08 | 8 km | 127 km |
| 2.5 | 18.08.2026 23:45 | 4 km | 167 km |
| 2.2 | 17.08.2026 22:01 | 2 km | 180 km |
| 2.0 | 17.08.2026 07:19 | 1 km | 118 km |
| 3.0 | 17.08.2026 00:43 | 0 km | 158 km |
| 3.3 | 16.08.2026 23:42 | 0 km | 132 km |
| 3.1 | 16.08.2026 17:40 | 0 km | 148 km |
| 2.4 | 13.08.2026 08:14 | 0 km | 113 km |
| 3.6 | 12.08.2026 20:49 | 0 km | 171 km |
| 2.4 | 12.08.2026 18:15 | 0 km | 81 km |
| 2.6 | 12.08.2026 12:16 | 0 km | 81 km |
| 5.0 | 12.08.2026 07:14 | 10 km | 93 km |
| 2.9 | 12.08.2026 05:10 | 0 km | 205 km |
| 3.0 | 09.08.2026 04:38 | 2 km | 173 km |
| 2.6 | 08.08.2026 23:34 | 0 km | 182 km |
| 2.7 | 04.08.2026 21:06 | 10 km | 25 km |
| 2.4 | 02.08.2026 04:22 | 10 km | 161 km |
| 2.7 | 31.07.2026 15:26 | 0 km | 169 km |
| 2.6 | 31.07.2026 06:09 | 10 km | 151 km |
| 5.0 | 29.07.2026 06:09 | 30 km | 224 km |
| 2.2 | 23.07.2026 08:26 | 0 km | 86 km |
| 3.5 | 22.07.2026 14:53 | 0 km | 40 km |
| 2.5 | 22.07.2026 04:45 | 0 km | 105 km |
| 3.4 | 21.07.2026 05:47 | 0 km | 159 km |
| 2.4 | 20.07.2026 01:34 | 0 km | 36 km |
| 4.6 | 19.07.2026 20:41 | 10 km | 39 km |
| 3.1 | 19.07.2026 14:53 | 0 km | 155 km |
| 2.2 | 17.07.2026 23:44 | 5 km | 167 km |
| 2.7 | 17.07.2026 10:00 | 1 km | 22 km |
| 2.1 | 15.07.2026 10:42 | 11 km | 94 km |
| 3.8 | 13.07.2026 14:42 | 20 km | 173 km |
| 3.8 | 05.07.2026 00:50 | 19 km | 140 km |
| 2.1 | 03.07.2026 09:07 | 10 km | 103 km |
| 3.0 | 29.06.2026 08:36 | 1 km | 172 km |
| 2.5 | 28.06.2026 02:29 | 1 km | 47 km |
| 3.0 | 20.06.2026 17:22 | 0 km | 71 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.