4.8
69,372
recorded earthquakes
M9.2
largest
1900–2026
record span
4.08
mean magnitude
67,434
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.2 | 26.08.2024 04:26 | — | 2757 km |
| 8.6 | 15.08.1950 14:09 | 15 km | 1090 km |
| 8.3 | 23.07.1905 02:46 | 15 km | 1632 km |
| 8.1 | 20.12.1946 19:19 | 15 km | 2877 km |
| 8.1 | 12.04.1910 00:22 | 235 km | 2125 km |
| 8.1 | 04.12.1957 03:37 | 30 km | 1123 km |
| 8.1 | 07.12.1944 04:35 | 15 km | 2899 km |
| 8.0 | 15.01.1934 08:43 | 15 km | 1877 km |
| 8.0 | 16.12.1920 12:05 | 15 km | 170 km |
| 8.0 | 09.07.1905 09:40 | 15 km | 1622 km |
| 7.9 | 10.08.1931 21:18 | 10 km | 1771 km |
| 7.9 | 15.06.1911 14:25 | 150 km | 2344 km |
| 7.9 | 12.05.2008 06:28 | 10.4 km | 549 km |
| 7.9 | 05.06.1920 04:21 | 20 km | 2103 km |
| 7.9 | 25.04.2015 06:11 | 13.4 km | 1956 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.8 | 05.08.2026 00:11 | 102.3 km | 1780 km |
| 4.1 | 04.08.2026 22:43 | 1 km | 2392 km |
| 3.2 | 04.08.2026 20:24 | 23 km | 2347 km |
| 4.8 | 04.08.2026 19:56 | 45 km | 2504 km |
| 4.0 | 04.08.2026 18:21 | 30 km | 2407 km |
| 2.9 | 04.08.2026 18:08 | 10 km | 1284 km |
| 2.9 | 04.08.2026 18:02 | 125 km | 1466 km |
| 3.0 | 04.08.2026 17:22 | 7 km | 816 km |
| 3.6 | 04.08.2026 16:16 | 10 km | 1682 km |
| 4.4 | 04.08.2026 15:58 | 10 km | 820 km |
| 3.9 | 04.08.2026 10:05 | 10 km | 1735 km |
| 3.5 | 04.08.2026 09:31 | 10 km | 1685 km |
| 3.0 | 04.08.2026 08:57 | 10 km | 2405 km |
| 3.1 | 04.08.2026 05:19 | 10 km | 2404 km |
| 4.4 | 04.08.2026 05:06 | 0 km | 2404 km |
| 3.7 | 04.08.2026 03:15 | 20 km | 2412 km |
| 3.1 | 04.08.2026 03:10 | 5 km | 1732 km |
| 3.9 | 04.08.2026 02:56 | 10 km | 1634 km |
| 3.4 | 04.08.2026 02:25 | 5 km | 820 km |
| 3.0 | 04.08.2026 01:47 | 10 km | 2411 km |
| 3.5 | 04.08.2026 00:03 | 9 km | 1662 km |
| 3.7 | 03.08.2026 22:12 | 10 km | 2404 km |
| 3.9 | 03.08.2026 21:04 | 10 km | 2411 km |
| 4.1 | 03.08.2026 20:32 | 10 km | 2420 km |
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 18:15 | 11 km | 1680 km |
| 3.5 | 03.08.2026 15:08 | 25 km | 2131 km |
| 3.1 | 03.08.2026 13:21 | 30 km | 2386 km |
| 3.1 | 03.08.2026 11:21 | 10 km | 2404 km |
| 3.2 | 03.08.2026 08:25 | 7 km | 1154 km |
| 3.8 | 03.08.2026 07:57 | 212.1 km | 2720 km |
| 3.0 | 03.08.2026 07:24 | 10 km | 2425 km |
| 3.4 | 03.08.2026 06:55 | 5 km | 2312 km |
| 4.9 | 03.08.2026 05:00 | 10 km | 803 km |
| 3.7 | 03.08.2026 04:32 | 10 km | 2405 km |
| 3.6 | 03.08.2026 03:11 | 5 km | 819 km |
| 3.5 | 03.08.2026 01:57 | 10 km | 1756 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2026 00:35 | 4 km | 1658 km |
| 3.3 | 02.08.2026 23:05 | 105 km | 1455 km |
| 3.1 | 02.08.2026 21:41 | 10 km | 2407 km |
| 4.0 | 02.08.2026 21:22 | 30 km | 2126 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2026 21:21 | 10 km | 1466 km |
| 2.9 | 02.08.2026 20:07 | 5 km | 2645 km |
| 3.3 | 02.08.2026 19:54 | 6 km | 818 km |
| 3.3 | 02.08.2026 19:29 | 5 km | 818 km |
| 3.0 | 02.08.2026 18:32 | 10 km | 817 km |
| 5.0 | 02.08.2026 18:21 | 2.6 km | 811 km |
| 3.6 | 02.08.2026 14:37 | 10 km | 425 km |
| 4.9 | 02.08.2026 14:31 | 10 km | 441 km |
| 3.5 | 02.08.2026 13:58 | 10 km | 2412 km |
| 3.2 | 02.08.2026 11:20 | 10 km | 2404 km |
| 3.2 | 02.08.2026 11:07 | 0 km | 2420 km |
| 3.4 | 02.08.2026 10:39 | 10 km | 2404 km |
| 3.1 | 02.08.2026 10:22 | 10 km | 2418 km |
| 3.9 | 02.08.2026 10:10 | 40 km | 2400 km |
| 3.7 | 02.08.2026 10:05 | 10 km | 2404 km |
| 4.6 | 02.08.2026 10:00 | 10 km | 2422 km |
| 2.4 | 02.08.2026 04:22 | 10 km | 2768 km |
| 3.4 | 02.08.2026 04:04 | 53 km | 1585 km |
| 3.1 | 02.08.2026 03:43 | 8 km | 2501 km |
| 4.2 | 02.08.2026 03:15 | 10 km | 1176 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.