4.6
4,136
recorded earthquakes
M7.6
largest
1907–2026
record span
3.53
mean magnitude
3,284
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.6 | 10.07.1949 03:53 | 20 km | 223 km |
| 7.3 | 02.11.1946 18:28 | 25 km | 210 km |
| 7.3 | 23.02.2023 00:37 | 18.4 km | 232 km |
| 7.2 | 18.02.1911 18:41 | 15 km | 209 km |
| 7.2 | 21.10.1907 04:23 | 20 km | 246 km |
| 7.2 | 07.12.2015 07:50 | 14.2 km | 228 km |
| 7.2 | 19.08.1992 02:04 | 20.6 km | 213 km |
| 7.1 | 15.04.1955 03:40 | 20 km | 138 km |
| 7.1 | 11.08.1974 01:13 | 7.9 km | 105 km |
| 7.0 | 15.04.1955 04:13 | 20 km | 120 km |
| 6.9 | 23.08.1985 12:41 | 1.2 km | 207 km |
| 6.9 | 10.07.1949 16:24 | 20 km | 208 km |
| 6.7 | 27.09.1944 16:25 | 20 km | 203 km |
| 6.7 | 05.10.2008 15:52 | 21.5 km | 90 km |
| 6.7 | 10.07.1949 15:49 | 20 km | 202 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.6 | 12.10.2026 03:04 | 25 km | 124 km |
| 2.6 | 09.10.2026 16:45 | 7 km | 117 km |
| 2.4 | 09.10.2026 08:05 | 0 km | 84 km |
| 2.5 | 09.10.2026 07:30 | 0 km | 74 km |
| 2.8 | 08.10.2026 13:57 | 10 km | 79 km |
| 2.2 | 07.10.2026 06:00 | 1 km | 60 km |
| 2.9 | 07.10.2026 05:01 | 0 km | 119 km |
| 2.8 | 07.10.2026 04:56 | 4 km | 104 km |
| 2.4 | 05.10.2026 23:42 | 15 km | 83 km |
| 2.3 | 04.10.2026 01:33 | 16 km | 69 km |
| 2.3 | 26.09.2026 13:03 | 10 km | 73 km |
| 2.7 | 26.09.2026 11:38 | 0 km | 114 km |
| 2.5 | 26.09.2026 00:54 | 10 km | 163 km |
| 2.6 | 25.09.2026 10:31 | 10 km | 123 km |
| 2.8 | 25.09.2026 08:18 | 10 km | 126 km |
| 2.7 | 18.09.2026 07:48 | 1 km | 142 km |
| 3.0 | 16.09.2026 10:55 | 0 km | 133 km |
| 3.1 | 16.09.2026 07:32 | 0 km | 87 km |
| 4.3 | 12.09.2026 09:47 | 33 km | 163 km |
| 2.2 | 10.09.2026 06:33 | 2 km | 107 km |
| 3.0 | 09.09.2026 05:54 | 0 km | 167 km |
| 2.7 | 08.09.2026 02:38 | 11 km | 112 km |
| 3.6 | 31.08.2026 17:19 | 0 km | 116 km |
| 3.2 | 26.08.2026 15:06 | 30 km | 186 km |
| 2.3 | 26.08.2026 00:59 | 3 km | 171 km |
| 2.6 | 25.08.2026 18:32 | 10 km | 74 km |
| 3.1 | 22.08.2026 18:05 | 66 km | 123 km |
| 2.1 | 22.08.2026 07:17 | 2 km | 72 km |
| 2.3 | 21.08.2026 19:05 | 10 km | 89 km |
| 2.5 | 21.08.2026 03:01 | 3 km | 58 km |
| 3.1 | 21.08.2026 00:22 | 0 km | 103 km |
| 2.7 | 18.08.2026 21:14 | 10 km | 165 km |
| 2.4 | 14.08.2026 20:29 | 10 km | 72 km |
| 2.5 | 14.08.2026 12:45 | 0 km | 58 km |
| 2.6 | 14.08.2026 12:05 | 0 km | 57 km |
| 2.1 | 14.08.2026 11:23 | 0 km | 59 km |
| 2.9 | 12.08.2026 05:10 | 0 km | 89 km |
| 2.7 | 11.08.2026 01:24 | 2 km | 147 km |
| 4.1 | 10.08.2026 12:52 | 209 km | 86 km |
| 2.1 | 10.08.2026 12:32 | 0 km | 60 km |
| 3.2 | 10.08.2026 02:12 | 17 km | 117 km |
| 3.5 | 09.08.2026 15:42 | 0 km | 81 km |
| 3.6 | 09.08.2026 12:33 | 0 km | 117 km |
| 3.0 | 09.08.2026 03:33 | 12 km | 82 km |
| 2.6 | 08.08.2026 23:34 | 0 km | 89 km |
| 2.8 | 05.08.2026 13:40 | 6 km | 177 km |
| 2.7 | 05.08.2026 01:55 | 10 km | 148 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 23:35 | 0 km | 68 km |
| 2.4 | 02.08.2026 04:22 | 10 km | 119 km |
| 1.8 | 01.08.2026 07:27 | 1 km | 143 km |
| 2.7 | 31.07.2026 15:26 | 0 km | 105 km |
| 2.1 | 31.07.2026 08:59 | 1 km | 85 km |
| 2.6 | 31.07.2026 06:09 | 10 km | 127 km |
| 2.8 | 22.07.2026 12:42 | 5 km | 163 km |
| 2.0 | 21.07.2026 12:39 | 0 km | 63 km |
| 2.2 | 20.07.2026 14:12 | 5 km | 93 km |
| 2.8 | 20.07.2026 08:56 | 10 km | 73 km |
| 2.2 | 19.07.2026 03:28 | 0 km | 67 km |
| 2.2 | 18.07.2026 23:35 | 35 km | 105 km |
| 2.6 | 16.07.2026 10:18 | 10 km | 154 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.