3.0
8,770
recorded earthquakes
M7.7
largest
1901–2026
record span
2.72
mean magnitude
8,312
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.7 | 10.11.1940 01:39 | 150 km | 116 km |
| 7.5 | 04.03.1977 19:21 | 85.3 km | 130 km |
| 7.2 | 30.08.1986 21:28 | 137.4 km | 118 km |
| 7.2 | 31.03.1901 07:10 | 14 km | 406 km |
| 6.9 | 30.05.1990 10:40 | 92.5 km | 131 km |
| 6.7 | 14.06.1913 09:33 | 15 km | 319 km |
| 6.6 | 06.10.1908 21:39 | 150 km | 129 km |
| 6.5 | 22.10.1940 06:37 | 150 km | 121 km |
| 6.5 | 26.01.1916 07:38 | 35 km | 75 km |
| 6.5 | 07.09.1945 15:48 | 100 km | 137 km |
| 6.3 | 31.05.1990 00:17 | 91.1 km | 137 km |
| 6.2 | 29.03.1934 20:06 | 150 km | 121 km |
| 6.0 | 30.07.1901 03:30 | 15 km | 406 km |
| 6.0 | 25.05.1912 18:01 | 100 km | 178 km |
| 6.0 | 09.12.1945 06:08 | 100 km | 160 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 12.10.2026 14:53 | 100.3 km | 134 km |
| 3.4 | 11.10.2026 15:41 | 118.4 km | 124 km |
| 3.4 | 08.10.2026 07:48 | 134.7 km | 113 km |
| 2.8 | 07.10.2026 00:59 | 5 km | 270 km |
| 3.7 | 05.10.2026 05:36 | 133.5 km | 130 km |
| 3.4 | 04.10.2026 08:09 | 124.7 km | 122 km |
| 3.1 | 04.10.2026 03:05 | 114.6 km | 125 km |
| 3.5 | 03.10.2026 01:22 | 140.9 km | 123 km |
| 2.9 | 02.10.2026 23:41 | 136.9 km | 132 km |
| 3.4 | 29.09.2026 07:43 | 84 km | 125 km |
| 3.3 | 28.09.2026 03:48 | 80.7 km | 136 km |
| 3.2 | 25.09.2026 19:11 | 118.3 km | 111 km |
| 2.0 | 25.09.2026 14:08 | 3 km | 282 km |
| 2.0 | 25.09.2026 06:12 | 2 km | 271 km |
| 3.3 | 24.09.2026 22:33 | 142.8 km | 116 km |
| 2.9 | 22.09.2026 15:14 | 111.7 km | 143 km |
| 3.1 | 20.09.2026 18:18 | 4.1 km | 227 km |
| 3.1 | 18.09.2026 01:09 | 21.4 km | 176 km |
| 2.7 | 17.09.2026 19:18 | 5 km | 327 km |
| 2.9 | 14.09.2026 10:08 | 111.3 km | 142 km |
| 2.2 | 13.09.2026 04:57 | 13.9 km | 163 km |
| 3.0 | 06.09.2026 22:09 | 8.5 km | 231 km |
| 4.1 | 06.09.2026 04:04 | 149.6 km | 115 km |
| 3.0 | 01.09.2026 19:49 | 147.6 km | 123 km |
| 3.3 | 01.09.2026 06:54 | 22.2 km | 157 km |
| 1.3 | 31.08.2026 22:12 | 3 km | 290 km |
| 3.2 | 31.08.2026 17:37 | 84.5 km | 142 km |
| 2.5 | 31.08.2026 15:46 | 20.1 km | 157 km |
| 3.4 | 31.08.2026 04:12 | 98 km | 143 km |
| 2.8 | 29.08.2026 20:23 | 15.4 km | 337 km |
| 2.9 | 28.08.2026 16:54 | 132.7 km | 115 km |
| 2.7 | 27.08.2026 23:21 | 222 km | 356 km |
| 1.7 | 26.08.2026 15:44 | 7 km | 241 km |
| 4.4 | 25.08.2026 01:56 | 143.6 km | 111 km |
| 2.9 | 18.08.2026 23:28 | 142.3 km | 121 km |
| 3.3 | 18.08.2026 20:58 | 133.3 km | 128 km |
| 2.6 | 15.08.2026 06:50 | 120.9 km | 143 km |
| 4.6 | 11.08.2026 17:21 | 140 km | 106 km |
| 2.8 | 11.08.2026 08:56 | 133.8 km | 123 km |
| 2.7 | 09.08.2026 03:13 | 104 km | 399 km |
| 1.4 | 08.08.2026 16:40 | 5 km | 262 km |
| 2.5 | 08.08.2026 11:28 | 2 km | 370 km |
| 2.6 | 08.08.2026 07:03 | 11 km | 215 km |
| 2.8 | 07.08.2026 23:47 | 136.7 km | 127 km |
| 2.8 | 07.08.2026 19:28 | 8 km | 283 km |
| 3.2 | 07.08.2026 11:23 | 114.7 km | 118 km |
| 3.4 | 06.08.2026 10:22 | 128.7 km | 122 km |
| 3.0 | 03.08.2026 20:47 | 89.6 km | 129 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 15:46 | 17.7 km | 169 km |
| 3.1 | 03.08.2026 09:34 | 121.9 km | 131 km |
| 3.4 | 28.07.2026 14:01 | 119.6 km | 133 km |
| 3.3 | 27.07.2026 19:47 | 103.6 km | 132 km |
| 2.4 | 26.07.2026 01:52 | 18.8 km | 157 km |
| 3.5 | 25.07.2026 23:35 | 147.7 km | 115 km |
| 3.2 | 25.07.2026 20:20 | 89 km | 125 km |
| 3.1 | 25.07.2026 12:13 | 103.1 km | 133 km |
| 3.3 | 24.07.2026 02:19 | 109.3 km | 131 km |
| 2.5 | 22.07.2026 01:13 | 120.2 km | 127 km |
| 2.8 | 21.07.2026 12:27 | 125.6 km | 128 km |
| 2.8 | 21.07.2026 00:07 | 116.6 km | 125 km |
Regions
Buzău4,708Vrancea4,592Covasna3,286Prahova2,638Mehedinți1,025Brașov614Brăila408Caraș-Severin377Galați371Dâmbovița363Gorj346Bacău311Timiș286Hunedoara280Tulcea163Vaslui157
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.