3.2
3,386
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1931–2026
record span
3.99
mean magnitude
2,914
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.8 | 15.07.2009 09:22 | 19.1 km | 93 km |
| 7.3 | 12.10.1979 10:25 | 29.8 km | 173 km |
| 7.2 | 21.08.2003 12:12 | 20.9 km | 99 km |
| 7.1 | 22.11.2004 20:26 | 17.2 km | 248 km |
| 7.0 | 16.12.1938 17:21 | 15 km | 49 km |
| 7.0 | 10.08.1993 00:51 | 24.2 km | 96 km |
| 6.9 | 01.09.1945 22:44 | 20 km | 192 km |
| 6.8 | 15.10.2007 12:29 | 18.9 km | 115 km |
| 6.7 | 03.06.1988 23:27 | 76 km | 79 km |
| 6.7 | 25.03.2025 01:43 | 21 km | 187 km |
| 6.6 | 16.12.1938 23:14 | 15 km | 152 km |
| 6.5 | 04.05.1976 13:56 | 18.7 km | 119 km |
| 6.5 | 24.05.1960 14:46 | 15 km | 176 km |
| 6.5 | 02.08.1943 00:46 | 15 km | 93 km |
| 6.4 | 31.05.1989 05:54 | 26.9 km | 88 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.2 | 13.10.2026 14:27 | 24.9 km | 77 km |
| 3.0 | 09.10.2026 08:40 | 5 km | 152 km |
| 3.2 | 07.10.2026 15:22 | 102.9 km | 46 km |
| 3.4 | 07.10.2026 02:28 | 5 km | 154 km |
| 3.0 | 01.10.2026 23:47 | 41.3 km | 80 km |
| 3.1 | 30.09.2026 20:47 | 82.1 km | 86 km |
| 3.1 | 29.09.2026 06:49 | 10.5 km | 109 km |
| 3.4 | 27.09.2026 12:25 | 81.6 km | 81 km |
| 3.3 | 24.09.2026 04:44 | 85.1 km | 63 km |
| 3.3 | 20.09.2026 01:54 | 46.2 km | 85 km |
| 3.7 | 15.09.2026 19:40 | 5 km | 153 km |
| 3.0 | 13.09.2026 17:20 | 5 km | 165 km |
| 3.2 | 11.09.2026 09:58 | 10 km | 152 km |
| 3.3 | 10.09.2026 14:45 | 5 km | 154 km |
| 4.3 | 10.09.2026 13:09 | 10 km | 147 km |
| 3.6 | 08.09.2026 07:57 | 5 km | 154 km |
| 3.5 | 07.09.2026 19:55 | 10 km | 157 km |
| 4.2 | 07.09.2026 06:36 | 5 km | 153 km |
| 3.2 | 06.09.2026 20:44 | 5 km | 151 km |
| 3.1 | 06.09.2026 13:32 | 5 km | 152 km |
| 3.0 | 05.09.2026 06:32 | 10 km | 155 km |
| 3.2 | 04.09.2026 18:26 | 5 km | 155 km |
| 3.4 | 04.09.2026 09:03 | 10 km | 156 km |
| 3.5 | 04.09.2026 04:58 | 5 km | 152 km |
| 3.4 | 03.09.2026 23:53 | 5 km | 153 km |
| 3.3 | 03.09.2026 22:18 | 5 km | 154 km |
| 3.4 | 03.09.2026 20:17 | 5 km | 155 km |
| 3.1 | 03.09.2026 18:49 | 12 km | 33 km |
| 3.4 | 03.09.2026 18:42 | 2.8 km | 153 km |
| 3.3 | 03.09.2026 12:13 | 5 km | 154 km |
| 3.6 | 03.09.2026 10:02 | 5 km | 153 km |
| 3.0 | 03.09.2026 00:50 | 5 km | 100 km |
| 3.0 | 02.09.2026 15:48 | 5 km | 149 km |
| 3.1 | 02.09.2026 14:53 | 5 km | 154 km |
| 3.1 | 02.09.2026 13:28 | 5 km | 153 km |
| 3.1 | 02.09.2026 11:47 | 5 km | 153 km |
| 3.1 | 02.09.2026 11:28 | 5 km | 154 km |
| 3.1 | 02.09.2026 10:55 | 5 km | 154 km |
| 3.7 | 02.09.2026 08:05 | 5 km | 157 km |
| 3.2 | 02.09.2026 07:29 | 5 km | 152 km |
| 3.0 | 02.09.2026 07:09 | 5 km | 152 km |
| 5.2 | 02.09.2026 06:57 | 10 km | 153 km |
| 5.3 | 02.09.2026 06:13 | 10 km | 152 km |
| 4.3 | 25.08.2026 12:26 | 10 km | 156 km |
| 3.6 | 21.08.2026 09:46 | 10 km | 96 km |
| 3.3 | 20.08.2026 05:03 | 64.3 km | 130 km |
| 3.5 | 19.08.2026 12:19 | 82.9 km | 95 km |
| 4.1 | 16.08.2026 08:32 | 55.9 km | 88 km |
| 3.1 | 16.08.2026 01:13 | 42.5 km | 83 km |
| 3.9 | 08.08.2026 15:05 | 39.6 km | 88 km |
| 3.9 | 08.08.2026 03:07 | 41.6 km | 87 km |
| 4.0 | 02.08.2026 15:16 | 10 km | 167 km |
| 3.2 | 01.08.2026 05:08 | 101.5 km | 83 km |
| 4.8 | 01.08.2026 03:23 | 112.5 km | 84 km |
| 3.5 | 30.07.2026 11:37 | 92.7 km | 85 km |
| 3.3 | 30.07.2026 02:57 | 109.4 km | 82 km |
| 3.7 | 27.07.2026 20:26 | 54.2 km | 72 km |
| 3.1 | 27.07.2026 00:57 | 31 km | 82 km |
| 3.2 | 26.07.2026 20:37 | 39 km | 87 km |
| 5.0 | 26.07.2026 07:17 | 12 km | 181 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.