2.3
9,039
recorded earthquakes
M6.9
largest
1917–2026
record span
2.36
mean magnitude
8,788
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.9 | 01.01.1980 16:42 | 8.3 km | 55 km |
| 6.6 | 08.05.1939 01:46 | 10 km | 357 km |
| 6.3 | 05.04.2007 03:56 | 13.6 km | 323 km |
| 6.1 | 09.07.1998 05:19 | 13.6 km | 38 km |
| 6.0 | 07.04.2007 07:09 | 14.4 km | 332 km |
| 6.0 | 05.04.1926 23:29 | 50 km | 105 km |
| 5.9 | 12.05.1946 13:20 | 15 km | 82 km |
| 5.8 | 27.06.1997 04:39 | 13.4 km | 128 km |
| 5.8 | 21.11.1988 16:55 | 13.1 km | 181 km |
| 5.8 | 30.04.2013 06:25 | 19.7 km | 291 km |
| 5.8 | 26.06.1989 10:38 | 9.3 km | 64 km |
| 5.7 | 24.01.1959 19:55 | 15 km | 341 km |
| 5.7 | 14.11.1925 22:35 | 10 km | 39 km |
| 5.7 | 09.03.1996 22:35 | 19.8 km | 353 km |
| 5.6 | 21.01.1989 02:52 | 7 km | 171 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.3 | 10.10.2026 22:48 | 5.9 km | 51 km |
| 2.3 | 09.10.2026 04:40 | 5.1 km | 288 km |
| 2.2 | 05.10.2026 22:29 | 7.2 km | 102 km |
| 2.7 | 01.10.2026 22:37 | 7.2 km | 173 km |
| 2.3 | 25.09.2026 06:45 | 27.5 km | 73 km |
| 2.4 | 25.09.2026 02:27 | 28.2 km | 74 km |
| 2.1 | 19.09.2026 09:05 | 1.3 km | 162 km |
| 2.2 | 18.09.2026 17:20 | 4 km | 92 km |
| 2.3 | 12.09.2026 19:27 | 5 km | 139 km |
| 2.6 | 12.09.2026 10:03 | 2 km | 67 km |
| 2.3 | 12.09.2026 04:38 | 2 km | 117 km |
| 3.0 | 12.09.2026 04:31 | 5 km | 121 km |
| 3.3 | 11.09.2026 20:47 | 8 km | 125 km |
| 2.2 | 09.09.2026 19:52 | 7 km | 106 km |
| 2.2 | 09.09.2026 19:51 | 5.1 km | 107 km |
| 2.0 | 09.09.2026 14:34 | 2 km | 102 km |
| 2.2 | 09.09.2026 07:42 | 0 km | 57 km |
| 2.7 | 09.09.2026 00:30 | 10.2 km | 66 km |
| 3.0 | 08.09.2026 16:41 | 4.5 km | 252 km |
| 2.3 | 08.09.2026 13:44 | 7.8 km | 252 km |
| 2.0 | 02.09.2026 16:29 | 27.4 km | 106 km |
| 2.1 | 02.09.2026 05:24 | 2 km | 165 km |
| 3.4 | 01.09.2026 23:13 | 1 km | 165 km |
| 2.7 | 01.09.2026 22:40 | 2 km | 165 km |
| 2.0 | 01.09.2026 11:04 | 4 km | 161 km |
| 2.1 | 31.08.2026 20:46 | 3 km | 179 km |
| 2.5 | 31.08.2026 00:15 | 6.3 km | 111 km |
| 2.0 | 30.08.2026 01:06 | 4.7 km | 272 km |
| 3.0 | 29.08.2026 03:00 | 1 km | 163 km |
| 2.9 | 28.08.2026 17:36 | 0.1 km | 164 km |
| 2.0 | 28.08.2026 14:40 | 20.2 km | 63 km |
| 3.0 | 28.08.2026 05:21 | 2 km | 165 km |
| 2.4 | 27.08.2026 04:12 | 1 km | 114 km |
| 2.0 | 25.08.2026 18:59 | 6 km | 24 km |
| 2.2 | 23.08.2026 17:49 | 15 km | 276 km |
| 2.0 | 21.08.2026 17:12 | 6 km | 277 km |
| 2.8 | 18.08.2026 13:37 | 0 km | 165 km |
| 2.2 | 17.08.2026 19:45 | 2 km | 165 km |
| 2.0 | 17.08.2026 03:32 | 5 km | 127 km |
| 2.7 | 16.08.2026 12:25 | 5 km | 105 km |
| 2.0 | 13.08.2026 10:42 | 9.6 km | 195 km |
| 2.3 | 13.08.2026 03:59 | 5 km | 118 km |
| 2.7 | 12.08.2026 14:56 | 15 km | 197 km |
| 3.7 | 12.08.2026 13:33 | 5 km | 115 km |
| 2.4 | 10.08.2026 01:06 | 5 km | 156 km |
| 2.1 | 04.08.2026 18:45 | 1.5 km | 91 km |
| 2.3 | 03.08.2026 16:19 | 5 km | 180 km |
| 2.3 | 03.08.2026 16:18 | 4.8 km | 173 km |
| 2.4 | 01.08.2026 01:33 | 6 km | 281 km |
| 2.8 | 23.07.2026 05:50 | 0 km | 27 km |
| 2.0 | 23.07.2026 05:48 | 0 km | 26 km |
| 3.5 | 21.07.2026 18:16 | 11.5 km | 214 km |
| 4.7 | 21.07.2026 18:16 | 10 km | 202 km |
| 5.4 | 21.07.2026 13:13 | 10 km | 224 km |
| 2.0 | 20.07.2026 03:29 | 11.6 km | 290 km |
| 4.5 | 11.07.2026 01:09 | 10 km | 168 km |
| 1.9 | 10.07.2026 03:12 | 1 km | 134 km |
| 2.4 | 08.07.2026 04:38 | 5 km | 99 km |
| 3.0 | 06.07.2026 18:42 | 13.5 km | 45 km |
| 3.1 | 06.07.2026 18:15 | 13 km | 46 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.