4.9
5,690
recorded earthquakes
M8.3
largest
1921–2026
record span
4.53
mean magnitude
4,779
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.3 | 12.08.2021 18:35 | 38 km | 481 km |
| 8.0 | 27.06.1929 12:47 | 15 km | 195 km |
| 7.8 | 26.05.1964 10:59 | 102.3 km | 270 km |
| 7.5 | 12.08.2021 18:32 | 28.1 km | 474 km |
| 7.5 | 19.08.2016 07:32 | 15.1 km | 98 km |
| 7.3 | 01.09.1961 00:09 | 129.2 km | 473 km |
| 7.2 | 02.11.1943 18:08 | 77.3 km | 359 km |
| 7.2 | 28.05.2016 09:47 | 89.6 km | 320 km |
| 7.1 | 27.12.1991 04:05 | 16.7 km | 423 km |
| 7.1 | 11.12.2018 02:26 | 149.1 km | 432 km |
| 7.1 | 08.09.1961 11:26 | 100.9 km | 297 km |
| 7.0 | 18.08.1930 09:53 | 35 km | 296 km |
| 6.9 | 13.09.1921 02:36 | 35 km | 220 km |
| 6.8 | 29.06.2014 07:52 | 15.1 km | 247 km |
| 6.8 | 30.01.1963 10:10 | 25 km | 230 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.9 | 07.10.2026 04:39 | 10 km | 145 km |
| 4.8 | 29.09.2026 06:38 | 35 km | 252 km |
| 4.8 | 29.09.2026 04:16 | 35.1 km | 264 km |
| 4.5 | 22.09.2026 23:30 | 74.9 km | 423 km |
| 5.0 | 19.09.2026 09:59 | 77.6 km | 258 km |
| 4.9 | 12.09.2026 11:05 | 98.2 km | 333 km |
| 5.1 | 08.09.2026 06:50 | 128.6 km | 420 km |
| 5.0 | 04.09.2026 06:45 | 10 km | 370 km |
| 6.2 | 02.09.2026 23:46 | 125.9 km | 262 km |
| 5.2 | 02.09.2026 10:54 | 84.1 km | 324 km |
| 4.4 | 31.08.2026 21:46 | 148.3 km | 252 km |
| 5.1 | 30.08.2026 03:55 | 135.7 km | 319 km |
| 4.9 | 29.08.2026 07:10 | 89.9 km | 416 km |
| 5.4 | 21.08.2026 13:06 | 159 km | 452 km |
| 4.3 | 13.08.2026 05:14 | 44.3 km | 322 km |
| 4.6 | 04.08.2026 23:08 | 10 km | 335 km |
| 4.4 | 04.08.2026 02:29 | 214.1 km | 340 km |
| 5.0 | 29.07.2026 10:31 | 60 km | 298 km |
| 4.1 | 15.07.2026 23:57 | 0 km | 248 km |
| 4.6 | 12.07.2026 15:15 | 10 km | 328 km |
| 3.3 | 12.07.2026 15:15 | 0 km | 343 km |
| 6.4 | 11.07.2026 10:26 | 18 km | 205 km |
| 3.9 | 09.07.2026 19:27 | 121 km | 287 km |
| 3.9 | 08.07.2026 12:49 | 0 km | 254 km |
| 4.3 | 03.07.2026 01:53 | 0 km | 307 km |
| 4.5 | 03.07.2026 01:49 | 0 km | 356 km |
| 5.1 | 02.07.2026 02:57 | 183.7 km | 433 km |
| 3.9 | 30.06.2026 15:15 | 10 km | 316 km |
| 4.2 | 30.06.2026 01:33 | 0 km | 343 km |
| 4.0 | 30.06.2026 00:15 | 10 km | 326 km |
| 4.0 | 29.06.2026 14:30 | 0 km | 219 km |
| 3.5 | 22.06.2026 12:45 | 0 km | 313 km |
| 4.3 | 20.06.2026 22:24 | 0 km | 163 km |
| 3.9 | 20.06.2026 22:23 | 0 km | 66 km |
| 5.0 | 20.06.2026 04:44 | 68 km | 461 km |
| 4.7 | 17.06.2026 19:48 | 0 km | 380 km |
| 3.5 | 16.06.2026 19:27 | 0 km | 362 km |
| 4.4 | 16.06.2026 17:13 | 0 km | 382 km |
| 4.4 | 16.06.2026 13:51 | 0 km | 369 km |
| 4.1 | 16.06.2026 13:24 | 0 km | 390 km |
| 4.1 | 15.06.2026 22:38 | 0 km | 371 km |
| 4.1 | 08.06.2026 03:43 | 0 km | 300 km |
| 4.3 | 05.06.2026 16:06 | 0 km | 364 km |
| 4.5 | 01.06.2026 22:10 | 10 km | 384 km |
| 4.7 | 28.05.2026 15:07 | 76.4 km | 331 km |
| 4.0 | 27.05.2026 21:37 | 98.1 km | 441 km |
| 4.2 | 22.05.2026 10:27 | 0 km | 299 km |
| 4.3 | 22.05.2026 00:29 | 0 km | 282 km |
| 4.3 | 21.05.2026 08:37 | 142.3 km | 299 km |
| 5.8 | 20.05.2026 23:00 | 98 km | 255 km |
| 4.1 | 15.05.2026 12:44 | 0 km | 302 km |
| 4.0 | 14.05.2026 22:14 | 0 km | 340 km |
| 4.0 | 14.05.2026 09:11 | 0 km | 287 km |
| 3.4 | 14.05.2026 05:38 | 0 km | 332 km |
| 4.0 | 13.05.2026 08:13 | 41.7 km | 254 km |
| 3.9 | 13.05.2026 06:36 | 30 km | 252 km |
| 3.4 | 12.05.2026 02:54 | 0 km | 159 km |
| 5.1 | 09.05.2026 14:22 | 104.9 km | 445 km |
| 3.8 | 05.05.2026 21:01 | 57.1 km | 289 km |
| 4.2 | 30.04.2026 11:24 | 0 km | 392 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.