3.3
11,969
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1901–2026
record span
3.00
mean magnitude
6,312
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.2 | 31.12.1934 18:45 | 10 km | 438 km |
| 7.2 | 16.10.1907 13:57 | 35 km | 169 km |
| 7.2 | 04.04.2010 22:40 | 5.5 km | 471 km |
| 7.1 | 09.12.1901 02:17 | 0 km | 412 km |
| 7.1 | 12.12.1902 23:10 | 0 km | 222 km |
| 7.1 | 29.04.1954 11:34 | 10 km | 127 km |
| 7.1 | 21.11.1915 00:13 | 35 km | 430 km |
| 7.1 | 02.05.1939 13:14 | 10 km | 174 km |
| 7.0 | 12.04.2012 07:15 | 10 km | 146 km |
| 7.0 | 09.02.1956 14:32 | 15 km | 487 km |
| 6.9 | 03.08.2009 17:59 | 11.1 km | 113 km |
| 6.9 | 19.05.1940 04:36 | 10 km | 561 km |
| 6.8 | 20.11.1949 07:09 | 10 km | 114 km |
| 6.8 | 23.05.1918 11:57 | 10 km | 298 km |
| 6.8 | 07.07.1932 16:15 | 10 km | 145 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.3 | 12.10.2026 21:43 | 10.7 km | 402 km |
| 3.6 | 10.10.2026 10:30 | 11.9 km | 356 km |
| 3.2 | 10.10.2026 09:34 | 14.9 km | 364 km |
| 3.1 | 09.10.2026 20:38 | 6.3 km | 348 km |
| 3.2 | 09.10.2026 09:35 | 5.3 km | 202 km |
| 3.6 | 09.10.2026 09:30 | 13.4 km | 362 km |
| 3.6 | 09.10.2026 09:18 | 9.3 km | 362 km |
| 3.1 | 09.10.2026 01:01 | 10 km | 361 km |
| 3.1 | 08.10.2026 19:14 | 5.4 km | 364 km |
| 3.4 | 08.10.2026 10:16 | 10 km | 313 km |
| 3.7 | 08.10.2026 09:09 | 10 km | 163 km |
| 3.6 | 07.10.2026 10:53 | 10 km | 274 km |
| 3.8 | 07.10.2026 10:46 | 10 km | 277 km |
| 3.4 | 06.10.2026 22:43 | 6.4 km | 311 km |
| 3.9 | 06.10.2026 20:56 | 10 km | 266 km |
| 3.7 | 06.10.2026 19:34 | 10 km | 268 km |
| 3.2 | 05.10.2026 10:18 | 16.6 km | 414 km |
| 3.5 | 05.10.2026 08:55 | 16.2 km | 371 km |
| 3.7 | 05.10.2026 07:55 | 18 km | 366 km |
| 3.7 | 05.10.2026 07:35 | 10.8 km | 364 km |
| 3.7 | 30.09.2026 09:07 | 8 km | 299 km |
| 4.0 | 29.09.2026 11:49 | 10 km | 184 km |
| 3.2 | 29.09.2026 10:02 | 9.6 km | 372 km |
| 3.5 | 29.09.2026 07:59 | 10 km | 279 km |
| 3.8 | 29.09.2026 07:55 | 10 km | 289 km |
| 3.6 | 27.09.2026 21:42 | 3.1 km | 302 km |
| 3.3 | 27.09.2026 10:39 | 9.9 km | 338 km |
| 3.0 | 25.09.2026 10:05 | 19.7 km | 359 km |
| 3.4 | 23.09.2026 23:01 | 11.4 km | 328 km |
| 3.0 | 23.09.2026 07:10 | 5.5 km | 363 km |
| 3.6 | 22.09.2026 09:01 | 10 km | 179 km |
| 3.0 | 20.09.2026 19:50 | 19.1 km | 446 km |
| 2.4 | 20.09.2026 19:49 | 19.5 km | 446 km |
| 3.8 | 18.09.2026 10:27 | 2.7 km | 268 km |
| 3.8 | 18.09.2026 10:21 | 20.4 km | 261 km |
| 3.6 | 18.09.2026 10:20 | 19.5 km | 253 km |
| 3.9 | 18.09.2026 10:16 | 12.5 km | 257 km |
| 3.9 | 18.09.2026 10:12 | 20.3 km | 255 km |
| 3.9 | 18.09.2026 10:09 | 5 km | 251 km |
| 3.3 | 17.09.2026 20:56 | 3 km | 426 km |
| 3.3 | 16.09.2026 09:52 | 5 km | 369 km |
| 3.8 | 16.09.2026 09:10 | 12.3 km | 266 km |
| 3.4 | 11.09.2026 18:57 | 3.3 km | 191 km |
| 3.9 | 11.09.2026 10:28 | 4.8 km | 295 km |
| 3.1 | 10.09.2026 20:47 | 5.7 km | 366 km |
| 3.5 | 10.09.2026 10:32 | 8.5 km | 299 km |
| 3.3 | 09.09.2026 08:01 | 4.8 km | 295 km |
| 3.3 | 05.09.2026 18:53 | 5 km | 362 km |
| 3.0 | 29.08.2026 10:24 | 10 km | 360 km |
| 2.0 | 28.08.2026 01:35 | 9.5 km | 449 km |
| 3.1 | 23.08.2026 09:14 | 3.7 km | 369 km |
| 3.7 | 19.08.2026 10:54 | 14.3 km | 295 km |
| 3.5 | 18.08.2026 22:20 | 10.9 km | 346 km |
| 3.3 | 17.08.2026 10:18 | 5 km | 162 km |
| 4.1 | 16.08.2026 22:30 | 7.2 km | 335 km |
| 3.4 | 16.08.2026 22:19 | 10 km | 330 km |
| 3.6 | 16.08.2026 21:49 | 10.7 km | 326 km |
| 3.6 | 16.08.2026 21:47 | 11.3 km | 330 km |
| 3.8 | 16.08.2026 21:36 | 12.8 km | 287 km |
| 4.0 | 16.08.2026 09:57 | 16.4 km | 316 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.