3.1
15,575
recorded earthquakes
M8.2
largest
1902–2026
record span
4.14
mean magnitude
14,288
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.2 | 27.10.1945 21:57 | — | 1009 km |
| 8.1 | 30.05.1935 21:32 | 25 km | 287 km |
| 8.0 | 27.11.1945 21:56 | 15 km | 796 km |
| 7.8 | 04.04.1905 00:49 | 20 km | 793 km |
| 7.8 | 15.11.1921 20:36 | 240 km | 671 km |
| 7.8 | 24.09.2013 11:29 | 15.5 km | 508 km |
| 7.7 | 16.04.2013 10:44 | 63.1 km | 707 km |
| 7.7 | 07.07.1909 21:37 | 200 km | 674 km |
| 7.6 | 26.01.2001 03:16 | 16 km | 793 km |
| 7.6 | 26.10.2015 09:09 | 216.7 km | 694 km |
| 7.6 | 09.06.1956 23:13 | 25 km | 545 km |
| 7.6 | 08.10.2005 03:50 | 8.2 km | 645 km |
| 7.5 | 04.03.1949 10:19 | 228.7 km | 707 km |
| 7.4 | 14.03.1965 15:53 | 215.3 km | 689 km |
| 7.4 | 04.07.1911 13:33 | 100 km | 692 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 12.10.2026 11:10 | 5 km | 745 km |
| 3.6 | 11.10.2026 20:24 | 144.2 km | 604 km |
| 2.9 | 11.10.2026 18:01 | 5 km | 707 km |
| 4.2 | 11.10.2026 07:07 | 198.6 km | 727 km |
| 4.1 | 10.10.2026 23:11 | 203.5 km | 736 km |
| 4.4 | 09.10.2026 11:39 | 203.1 km | 699 km |
| 2.6 | 09.10.2026 00:04 | 10 km | 706 km |
| 4.3 | 08.10.2026 04:09 | 133 km | 794 km |
| 2.6 | 07.10.2026 06:25 | 10 km | 733 km |
| 4.3 | 05.10.2026 21:38 | 203.4 km | 741 km |
| 4.3 | 05.10.2026 15:07 | 190.8 km | 695 km |
| 3.2 | 05.10.2026 13:14 | 5 km | 699 km |
| 4.8 | 04.10.2026 20:27 | 248.9 km | 720 km |
| 2.5 | 04.10.2026 18:18 | 9 km | 719 km |
| 2.9 | 03.10.2026 13:24 | 5 km | 895 km |
| 3.2 | 01.10.2026 22:10 | 9 km | 634 km |
| 4.2 | 01.10.2026 16:02 | 105.1 km | 721 km |
| 2.8 | 01.10.2026 04:09 | 5 km | 752 km |
| 5.2 | 01.10.2026 01:29 | 49.6 km | 635 km |
| 3.2 | 30.09.2026 15:50 | 12 km | 498 km |
| 3.7 | 30.09.2026 13:54 | 157 km | 864 km |
| 4.2 | 30.09.2026 07:39 | 171.4 km | 744 km |
| 4.5 | 27.09.2026 15:00 | 148 km | 873 km |
| 4.7 | 23.09.2026 05:46 | 141.2 km | 813 km |
| 4.4 | 22.09.2026 11:29 | 192.7 km | 707 km |
| 3.3 | 22.09.2026 09:50 | 10 km | 676 km |
| 3.7 | 22.09.2026 06:30 | 11.3 km | 625 km |
| 4.2 | 22.09.2026 00:07 | 194.3 km | 707 km |
| 4.5 | 20.09.2026 20:41 | 10 km | 353 km |
| 4.2 | 18.09.2026 12:07 | 179.5 km | 710 km |
| 4.4 | 18.09.2026 08:03 | 67.2 km | 798 km |
| 4.1 | 18.09.2026 01:29 | 106 km | 786 km |
| 3.0 | 15.09.2026 04:23 | 10 km | 964 km |
| 4.1 | 14.09.2026 19:48 | 217.5 km | 686 km |
| 2.7 | 13.09.2026 10:17 | 5 km | 731 km |
| 4.2 | 10.09.2026 18:57 | 34.2 km | 770 km |
| 4.4 | 09.09.2026 18:02 | 108.5 km | 713 km |
| 3.2 | 09.09.2026 00:10 | 10 km | 811 km |
| 4.3 | 08.09.2026 23:01 | 133.5 km | 739 km |
| 3.4 | 08.09.2026 17:00 | 15 km | 914 km |
| 3.9 | 07.09.2026 00:06 | 158.8 km | 653 km |
| 4.1 | 06.09.2026 09:24 | 14 km | 721 km |
| 2.7 | 03.09.2026 22:15 | 10 km | 771 km |
| 4.3 | 03.09.2026 21:58 | 209.9 km | 688 km |
| 4.3 | 03.09.2026 01:22 | 109.7 km | 734 km |
| 4.2 | 02.09.2026 01:47 | 10 km | 440 km |
| 3.0 | 01.09.2026 20:14 | 5 km | 686 km |
| 4.4 | 01.09.2026 18:51 | 212.6 km | 686 km |
| 4.4 | 31.08.2026 22:01 | 44.2 km | 496 km |
| 2.8 | 31.08.2026 20:24 | 5.6 km | 742 km |
| 4.2 | 31.08.2026 19:36 | 103.9 km | 716 km |
| 2.7 | 31.08.2026 17:23 | 5 km | 741 km |
| 4.2 | 30.08.2026 04:06 | 119.1 km | 711 km |
| 4.2 | 29.08.2026 19:53 | 208.1 km | 691 km |
| 4.1 | 29.08.2026 10:38 | 210.6 km | 712 km |
| 4.5 | 26.08.2026 02:24 | 93.7 km | 717 km |
| 2.5 | 25.08.2026 23:08 | 10 km | 732 km |
| 4.4 | 25.08.2026 22:00 | 50 km | 884 km |
| 4.9 | 25.08.2026 01:18 | 10 km | 476 km |
| 3.0 | 23.08.2026 22:10 | 8 km | 746 km |
Regions
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa9,807Balochistan2,077Gilgit-Baltistan1,906Punjab1,171Azad Kashmir1,005Federally Administered Tribal Areas625Sindh412
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.