2.8
1,054
recorded earthquakes
M7.9
largest
1904–2026
record span
3.82
mean magnitude
660
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.9 | 01.01.1996 08:05 | 30.9 km | 1226 km |
| 7.6 | 28.09.2018 10:02 | 15.9 km | 1260 km |
| 7.3 | 14.08.1968 22:14 | 16.8 km | 1229 km |
| 7.1 | 04.02.1971 15:33 | 33.2 km | 1255 km |
| 7.1 | 22.02.2026 16:57 | 607.7 km | 812 km |
| 7.0 | 28.10.1904 13:51 | 0 km | 585 km |
| 6.9 | 15.08.2026 10:54 | 175 km | 1169 km |
| 6.8 | 19.04.1923 03:09 | 35 km | 900 km |
| 6.7 | 28.06.1926 03:23 | 15 km | 993 km |
| 6.6 | 27.03.1970 18:36 | 22 km | 1177 km |
| 6.6 | 21.05.1998 05:34 | 42.2 km | 1201 km |
| 6.5 | 14.05.1921 11:17 | 35 km | 1120 km |
| 6.5 | 08.02.1941 18:46 | 35 km | 1221 km |
| 6.5 | 04.07.1936 08:57 | 200 km | 1161 km |
| 6.4 | 25.04.1987 19:22 | 29.1 km | 1193 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.8 | 13.10.2026 15:23 | 10 km | 1054 km |
| 5.0 | 06.10.2026 13:11 | 10 km | 1044 km |
| 2.0 | 04.10.2026 21:26 | 10 km | 829 km |
| 3.5 | 03.10.2026 02:58 | 10 km | 843 km |
| 2.8 | 29.09.2026 17:36 | 10 km | 777 km |
| 1.3 | 27.09.2026 05:00 | 10 km | 824 km |
| 2.5 | 26.09.2026 01:19 | 10 km | 929 km |
| 1.8 | 25.09.2026 13:51 | 66.1 km | 786 km |
| 1.1 | 23.09.2026 02:10 | 10 km | 816 km |
| 1.5 | 19.09.2026 19:17 | 10 km | 828 km |
| 3.2 | 19.09.2026 17:35 | 10 km | 947 km |
| 3.2 | 09.09.2026 06:15 | 128 km | 1140 km |
| 1.7 | 09.09.2026 04:29 | 17.5 km | 793 km |
| 3.3 | 08.09.2026 02:45 | 10 km | 762 km |
| 1.4 | 07.09.2026 20:36 | 20.4 km | 822 km |
| 1.7 | 06.09.2026 02:46 | 10 km | 822 km |
| 3.2 | 04.09.2026 10:20 | 10 km | 877 km |
| 1.4 | 03.09.2026 21:07 | 10 km | 831 km |
| 2.9 | 03.09.2026 03:11 | 10 km | 980 km |
| 3.5 | 03.09.2026 01:31 | 10 km | 703 km |
| 2.7 | 30.08.2026 01:41 | 10 km | 804 km |
| 3.0 | 28.08.2026 11:38 | 13 km | 748 km |
| 3.4 | 27.08.2026 16:06 | 10 km | 915 km |
| 2.8 | 26.08.2026 21:27 | 10 km | 829 km |
| 2.8 | 26.08.2026 05:16 | 29 km | 796 km |
| 3.4 | 25.08.2026 23:57 | 158 km | 1139 km |
| 3.1 | 25.08.2026 08:12 | 10 km | 789 km |
| 1.7 | 24.08.2026 03:33 | 10 km | 787 km |
| 1.7 | 23.08.2026 13:52 | 10 km | 827 km |
| 1.4 | 23.08.2026 05:59 | 20.4 km | 840 km |
| 1.3 | 21.08.2026 10:04 | 10 km | 820 km |
| 2.3 | 20.08.2026 21:10 | 10 km | 817 km |
| 6.9 | 15.08.2026 10:54 | 175 km | 1169 km |
| 4.3 | 12.08.2026 22:41 | 7 km | 1092 km |
| 3.5 | 09.08.2026 14:03 | 7 km | 1007 km |
| 4.0 | 09.08.2026 13:11 | 175 km | 1106 km |
| 2.7 | 08.08.2026 04:20 | 3 km | 892 km |
| 2.5 | 06.08.2026 15:55 | 9 km | 944 km |
| 3.1 | 05.08.2026 14:10 | 22 km | 1093 km |
| 2.8 | 05.08.2026 08:37 | 15 km | 1097 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 04:22 | 3 km | 924 km |
| 2.8 | 01.08.2026 23:11 | 10 km | 999 km |
| 2.8 | 01.08.2026 17:40 | 22 km | 1086 km |
| 2.8 | 31.07.2026 02:58 | 20 km | 1145 km |
| 2.9 | 29.07.2026 07:43 | 10 km | 887 km |
| 4.3 | 25.07.2026 10:53 | 29 km | 1095 km |
| 3.1 | 25.07.2026 04:29 | 11 km | 888 km |
| 3.2 | 18.07.2026 15:42 | 57 km | 990 km |
| 2.7 | 18.07.2026 04:20 | 17 km | 894 km |
| 2.9 | 17.07.2026 11:28 | 9 km | 898 km |
| 2.9 | 17.07.2026 07:52 | 3 km | 920 km |
| 3.3 | 15.07.2026 19:47 | 17 km | 987 km |
| 3.6 | 15.07.2026 19:11 | 14 km | 995 km |
| 2.8 | 15.07.2026 17:40 | 7 km | 976 km |
| 3.6 | 15.07.2026 17:37 | 18 km | 996 km |
| 2.7 | 14.07.2026 11:58 | 5 km | 1139 km |
| 2.8 | 09.07.2026 23:30 | 5 km | 952 km |
| 2.9 | 05.07.2026 04:22 | 9 km | 919 km |
| 2.7 | 18.06.2026 17:46 | 10 km | 1124 km |
| 2.9 | 16.06.2026 05:31 | 185 km | 1112 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.