2.8
3,251
recorded earthquakes
M8.0
largest
1908–2026
record span
3.99
mean magnitude
2,973
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.0 | 15.01.1934 08:43 | 15 km | 294 km |
| 7.9 | 25.04.2015 06:11 | 13.4 km | 66 km |
| 7.3 | 15.12.1934 01:57 | 15 km | 590 km |
| 7.2 | 12.05.2015 07:05 | 12.3 km | 208 km |
| 7.2 | 28.08.1916 06:39 | 20 km | 362 km |
| 7.1 | 07.01.2025 01:05 | 10 km | 321 km |
| 6.9 | 20.08.1908 09:53 | 15 km | 484 km |
| 6.9 | 18.09.2011 12:40 | 29.6 km | 401 km |
| 6.8 | 17.10.1944 18:36 | 20 km | 336 km |
| 6.8 | 20.08.1988 23:09 | 58.1 km | 308 km |
| 6.8 | 27.05.1936 06:19 | 15 km | 78 km |
| 6.7 | 25.08.2008 13:22 | 23.9 km | 293 km |
| 6.7 | 26.04.2015 07:09 | 13.4 km | 197 km |
| 6.7 | 25.04.2015 06:45 | 14.7 km | 76 km |
| 6.5 | 29.07.1980 14:58 | 17.5 km | 328 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.8 | 10.10.2026 10:10 | 5 km | 446 km |
| 3.2 | 09.10.2026 06:04 | 10 km | 387 km |
| 2.9 | 09.10.2026 02:15 | 10 km | 327 km |
| 3.7 | 07.10.2026 15:52 | 10 km | 316 km |
| 5.1 | 06.10.2026 16:53 | 16.5 km | 484 km |
| 4.5 | 05.10.2026 22:54 | 10 km | 374 km |
| 4.4 | 04.10.2026 05:30 | 13.7 km | 87 km |
| 4.0 | 01.10.2026 15:56 | 10 km | 308 km |
| 3.4 | 29.09.2026 20:58 | 72 km | 388 km |
| 2.9 | 28.09.2026 00:38 | 101.6 km | 300 km |
| 4.0 | 22.09.2026 07:49 | 80 km | 233 km |
| 2.7 | 20.09.2026 11:21 | 10 km | 347 km |
| 2.6 | 16.09.2026 20:57 | 10 km | 286 km |
| 3.5 | 16.09.2026 17:28 | 10 km | 366 km |
| 2.9 | 16.09.2026 08:22 | 30 km | 403 km |
| 4.0 | 15.09.2026 22:43 | 98 km | 248 km |
| 4.4 | 15.09.2026 20:06 | 34 km | 261 km |
| 4.2 | 13.09.2026 08:19 | 70 km | 383 km |
| 3.2 | 12.09.2026 19:29 | 15 km | 290 km |
| 3.8 | 11.09.2026 12:34 | 10 km | 185 km |
| 3.7 | 10.09.2026 22:32 | 30 km | 342 km |
| 3.1 | 09.09.2026 01:53 | 20 km | 334 km |
| 4.9 | 08.09.2026 16:08 | 10 km | 93 km |
| 3.2 | 06.09.2026 15:50 | 10 km | 271 km |
| 3.8 | 06.09.2026 13:29 | 20 km | 213 km |
| 3.4 | 04.09.2026 15:33 | 15 km | 149 km |
| 2.8 | 01.09.2026 23:27 | 8 km | 390 km |
| 3.0 | 30.08.2026 01:42 | 15 km | 418 km |
| 2.8 | 28.08.2026 20:28 | 50 km | 388 km |
| 3.2 | 27.08.2026 15:48 | 10 km | 395 km |
| 4.2 | 26.08.2026 06:00 | 0 km | 138 km |
| 5.2 | 26.08.2026 02:52 | 0 km | 138 km |
| 5.2 | 26.08.2026 02:52 | 0 km | 138 km |
| 3.8 | 21.08.2026 04:39 | 11.4 km | 229 km |
| 3.2 | 20.08.2026 17:57 | 70 km | 377 km |
| 4.0 | 18.08.2026 19:58 | 7 km | 11 km |
| 2.7 | 18.08.2026 01:14 | 10 km | 328 km |
| 2.8 | 17.08.2026 19:37 | 10 km | 328 km |
| 4.1 | 14.08.2026 22:37 | 10 km | 39 km |
| 4.3 | 14.08.2026 02:23 | 234.3 km | 66 km |
| 3.6 | 13.08.2026 21:01 | 15 km | 275 km |
| 2.8 | 12.08.2026 21:59 | 10 km | 330 km |
| 3.9 | 12.08.2026 08:27 | 90 km | 352 km |
| 3.8 | 11.08.2026 03:23 | 12 km | 208 km |
| 4.0 | 07.08.2026 21:38 | 15 km | 287 km |
| 3.0 | 07.08.2026 09:32 | 10 km | 343 km |
| 3.1 | 04.08.2026 03:10 | 5 km | 365 km |
| 3.5 | 03.08.2026 15:08 | 25 km | 173 km |
| 4.0 | 02.08.2026 21:22 | 30 km | 163 km |
| 3.0 | 01.08.2026 00:01 | 9.5 km | 417 km |
| 3.1 | 30.07.2026 21:25 | 14 km | 261 km |
| 3.4 | 30.07.2026 19:48 | 15 km | 363 km |
| 4.1 | 30.07.2026 19:20 | 90 km | 238 km |
| 4.3 | 30.07.2026 17:55 | 130 km | 277 km |
| 3.1 | 28.07.2026 23:19 | 15 km | 303 km |
| 3.0 | 25.07.2026 18:14 | 10 km | 390 km |
| 4.0 | 21.07.2026 22:55 | 10 km | 239 km |
| 4.5 | 19.07.2026 10:45 | 10 km | 127 km |
| 3.9 | 17.07.2026 17:57 | 10 km | 328 km |
| 3.8 | 16.07.2026 18:23 | 258.9 km | 183 km |
Regions
Bagmati Zone870Janakpur Zone781Karnali Zone547Sagarmatha Zone537Seti Zone513Narayani Zone464Mahakali Zone402Gandaki Zone390Mechi Zone291Bhojpur273Bheri Zone228
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.