1.7
23,607
recorded earthquakes
M7.1
largest
1901–2026
record span
1.94
mean magnitude
22,950
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.1 | 09.12.1901 02:17 | 0 km | 475 km |
| 6.8 | 23.05.1918 11:57 | 10 km | 419 km |
| 6.7 | 17.08.1969 20:15 | 26.4 km | 526 km |
| 6.7 | 12.07.1932 19:24 | 10 km | 477 km |
| 6.7 | 21.10.2010 17:53 | 15 km | 516 km |
| 6.6 | 13.09.2015 08:14 | 2.6 km | 518 km |
| 6.5 | 05.04.1955 15:09 | 15 km | 491 km |
| 6.5 | 17.08.1969 20:13 | 19.8 km | 483 km |
| 6.5 | 16.08.1931 11:40 | 10 km | 285 km |
| 6.4 | 28.08.1923 23:15 | 10 km | 513 km |
| 6.4 | 01.11.1928 04:12 | 10 km | 184 km |
| 6.3 | 06.03.2018 06:45 | 0 km | 394 km |
| 6.3 | 06.03.1921 07:25 | 15 km | 439 km |
| 6.1 | 24.10.1957 21:44 | 15 km | 525 km |
| 6.1 | 16.03.1990 15:52 | 15.7 km | 522 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.7 | 12.10.2026 15:39 | 5.3 km | 373 km |
| 1.5 | 12.10.2026 10:52 | 7.3 km | 376 km |
| 2.8 | 12.10.2026 08:24 | 6.3 km | 369 km |
| 1.8 | 12.10.2026 07:33 | 6.1 km | 373 km |
| 1.7 | 12.10.2026 07:30 | 6.1 km | 374 km |
| 1.5 | 12.10.2026 06:58 | 6.8 km | 365 km |
| 1.6 | 12.10.2026 04:54 | 6.1 km | 381 km |
| 1.8 | 12.10.2026 04:44 | 6.4 km | 381 km |
| 1.6 | 11.10.2026 20:25 | 6.1 km | 381 km |
| 1.5 | 11.10.2026 18:21 | 4 km | 381 km |
| 1.8 | 11.10.2026 13:27 | 6.2 km | 373 km |
| 1.6 | 11.10.2026 11:22 | 5.9 km | 374 km |
| 1.7 | 11.10.2026 09:09 | 6.8 km | 372 km |
| 2.0 | 11.10.2026 09:03 | 6.4 km | 372 km |
| 1.8 | 11.10.2026 09:02 | 6.4 km | 372 km |
| 1.6 | 11.10.2026 08:49 | 6.1 km | 372 km |
| 1.8 | 11.10.2026 08:46 | 6.1 km | 372 km |
| 1.5 | 11.10.2026 08:44 | 7.4 km | 370 km |
| 2.2 | 11.10.2026 08:41 | 6.3 km | 374 km |
| 1.5 | 11.10.2026 08:38 | 6.5 km | 371 km |
| 2.4 | 11.10.2026 08:27 | 6.1 km | 373 km |
| 2.5 | 11.10.2026 08:12 | 6.4 km | 374 km |
| 1.7 | 11.10.2026 08:09 | 7.4 km | 372 km |
| 2.9 | 11.10.2026 08:06 | 8.7 km | 369 km |
| 3.8 | 11.10.2026 08:04 | 7.7 km | 369 km |
| 2.6 | 11.10.2026 08:02 | 9.3 km | 369 km |
| 2.0 | 11.10.2026 06:00 | 7.5 km | 395 km |
| 1.5 | 11.10.2026 03:05 | 6.1 km | 381 km |
| 1.8 | 10.10.2026 16:31 | 8.6 km | 409 km |
| 2.1 | 10.10.2026 04:24 | 5.2 km | 375 km |
| 1.9 | 10.10.2026 04:18 | 6.1 km | 372 km |
| 2.2 | 09.10.2026 19:04 | 9.7 km | 376 km |
| 1.7 | 09.10.2026 15:17 | 6.1 km | 397 km |
| 1.8 | 09.10.2026 13:31 | 4.8 km | 379 km |
| 1.3 | 09.10.2026 12:24 | 8 km | 355 km |
| 2.0 | 09.10.2026 10:59 | 6.2 km | 398 km |
| 1.5 | 09.10.2026 02:04 | 6.3 km | 370 km |
| 1.8 | 08.10.2026 22:36 | 3.5 km | 381 km |
| 0.8 | 08.10.2026 15:43 | 8.3 km | 388 km |
| 1.8 | 08.10.2026 07:12 | 7.1 km | 371 km |
| 1.8 | 08.10.2026 07:11 | 6.2 km | 372 km |
| 2.0 | 08.10.2026 07:06 | 7.9 km | 389 km |
| 2.7 | 08.10.2026 06:24 | 7.8 km | 370 km |
| 1.6 | 08.10.2026 03:07 | 5.2 km | 372 km |
| 1.7 | 08.10.2026 02:34 | 6.7 km | 374 km |
| 3.0 | 08.10.2026 02:24 | 6.2 km | 373 km |
| 3.6 | 08.10.2026 02:21 | 8.3 km | 368 km |
| 1.2 | 07.10.2026 20:28 | 1.5 km | 397 km |
| 2.0 | 07.10.2026 14:51 | 6.6 km | 374 km |
| 1.3 | 07.10.2026 14:03 | 4.7 km | 397 km |
| 1.6 | 07.10.2026 13:12 | 6.5 km | 381 km |
| 1.8 | 07.10.2026 10:12 | 6.1 km | 382 km |
| 1.1 | 07.10.2026 09:49 | 6.1 km | 398 km |
| 2.4 | 07.10.2026 08:11 | 6.5 km | 374 km |
| 2.1 | 07.10.2026 07:41 | 6.1 km | 382 km |
| 2.0 | 07.10.2026 05:35 | 6.1 km | 374 km |
| 1.8 | 07.10.2026 05:11 | 6.1 km | 377 km |
| 2.0 | 07.10.2026 03:13 | 6.1 km | 374 km |
| 1.6 | 07.10.2026 02:36 | 6.1 km | 377 km |
| 2.0 | 06.10.2026 20:39 | 7.6 km | 369 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.