1.5
128,421
recorded earthquakes
M8.1
largest
1909–2026
record span
1.98
mean magnitude
127,323
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.1 | 25.11.1941 18:03 | 10 km | 1105 km |
| 7.8 | 28.02.1969 02:40 | 18.5 km | 339 km |
| 7.8 | 29.03.1954 06:17 | 626.2 km | 331 km |
| 7.8 | 26.05.1975 09:11 | 18.5 km | 965 km |
| 7.2 | 20.05.1931 02:22 | 10 km | 868 km |
| 7.1 | 10.10.1980 12:25 | 12.9 km | 753 km |
| 7.0 | 08.09.2023 22:11 | 18.5 km | 537 km |
| 6.8 | 21.05.2003 18:44 | 16.5 km | 965 km |
| 6.8 | 27.12.1941 18:17 | 60 km | 325 km |
| 6.7 | 09.09.1954 01:04 | 15 km | 772 km |
| 6.6 | 15.03.1964 22:30 | 32.3 km | 87 km |
| 6.4 | 24.06.1910 13:27 | 35 km | 988 km |
| 6.4 | 25.01.2016 04:22 | 11.2 km | 293 km |
| 6.4 | 17.10.1983 19:36 | 7.7 km | 961 km |
| 6.3 | 11.04.2010 22:08 | 620.6 km | 343 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.5 | 12.10.2026 22:40 | 3 km | 1000 km |
| 1.8 | 12.10.2026 19:51 | 25 km | 301 km |
| 2.0 | 12.10.2026 19:48 | 20.5 km | 298 km |
| 1.7 | 12.10.2026 16:56 | 2.8 km | 927 km |
| 1.6 | 12.10.2026 16:21 | 0 km | 919 km |
| 1.5 | 12.10.2026 15:34 | 5.8 km | 335 km |
| 1.5 | 12.10.2026 15:17 | 8.2 km | 918 km |
| 1.5 | 12.10.2026 15:12 | 0 km | 919 km |
| 2.0 | 12.10.2026 10:52 | 30.9 km | 276 km |
| 1.6 | 12.10.2026 06:34 | 12.3 km | 672 km |
| 2.1 | 12.10.2026 06:26 | 3.8 km | 1194 km |
| 2.3 | 12.10.2026 05:57 | 28.1 km | 1340 km |
| 1.8 | 12.10.2026 05:45 | 21.7 km | 769 km |
| 1.7 | 11.10.2026 20:34 | 2 km | 337 km |
| 1.5 | 11.10.2026 19:45 | 5.2 km | 337 km |
| 1.7 | 11.10.2026 19:13 | 0 km | 606 km |
| 2.1 | 11.10.2026 18:31 | 3.9 km | 337 km |
| 2.1 | 11.10.2026 10:35 | 40 km | 113 km |
| 2.2 | 11.10.2026 08:42 | 0 km | 1017 km |
| 2.2 | 11.10.2026 08:09 | 16.4 km | 759 km |
| 2.0 | 11.10.2026 06:52 | 8.3 km | 370 km |
| 1.6 | 11.10.2026 01:40 | 0 km | 976 km |
| 2.0 | 11.10.2026 01:26 | 29.6 km | 194 km |
| 1.9 | 10.10.2026 23:10 | 0 km | 981 km |
| 2.0 | 10.10.2026 20:48 | 24.5 km | 859 km |
| 2.2 | 10.10.2026 14:47 | 23.9 km | 961 km |
| 1.5 | 10.10.2026 11:39 | 6.2 km | 927 km |
| 1.7 | 10.10.2026 08:52 | 9 km | 675 km |
| 1.7 | 10.10.2026 07:12 | 90.5 km | 242 km |
| 1.8 | 10.10.2026 06:59 | 12.2 km | 1149 km |
| 2.4 | 10.10.2026 06:52 | 20.9 km | 884 km |
| 1.6 | 10.10.2026 04:07 | 0 km | 1010 km |
| 1.8 | 10.10.2026 03:43 | 10.9 km | 1143 km |
| 1.6 | 10.10.2026 02:12 | 0 km | 929 km |
| 1.9 | 10.10.2026 00:19 | 11.6 km | 366 km |
| 2.1 | 09.10.2026 23:18 | 105.6 km | 209 km |
| 2.1 | 09.10.2026 19:49 | 0 km | 462 km |
| 1.6 | 09.10.2026 18:47 | 9.7 km | 833 km |
| 1.8 | 09.10.2026 18:28 | 6.1 km | 675 km |
| 2.1 | 09.10.2026 16:01 | 5 km | 1186 km |
| 1.6 | 09.10.2026 13:33 | 17.4 km | 356 km |
| 1.6 | 09.10.2026 11:25 | 31.7 km | 154 km |
| 3.4 | 09.10.2026 08:49 | 3.2 km | 928 km |
| 2.6 | 09.10.2026 08:42 | 0 km | 928 km |
| 2.1 | 09.10.2026 05:08 | 2.3 km | 1153 km |
| 2.3 | 09.10.2026 04:39 | 25.8 km | 231 km |
| 2.8 | 09.10.2026 03:03 | 28 km | 366 km |
| 2.3 | 09.10.2026 02:27 | 0 km | 781 km |
| 2.1 | 09.10.2026 02:22 | 17.7 km | 305 km |
| 1.9 | 09.10.2026 01:58 | 0 km | 781 km |
| 2.0 | 08.10.2026 20:26 | 4.7 km | 985 km |
| 1.6 | 08.10.2026 20:21 | 0 km | 643 km |
| 1.5 | 08.10.2026 20:14 | 1.6 km | 312 km |
| 1.7 | 08.10.2026 12:01 | 1 km | 959 km |
| 1.8 | 08.10.2026 10:00 | 11.6 km | 341 km |
| 2.3 | 08.10.2026 08:04 | 6.3 km | 340 km |
| 2.5 | 08.10.2026 06:03 | 18 km | 278 km |
| 2.6 | 08.10.2026 05:43 | 13.2 km | 221 km |
| 1.8 | 08.10.2026 03:20 | 0.2 km | 337 km |
| 1.7 | 08.10.2026 02:04 | 9.3 km | 1278 km |
Regions
Santa Cruz de Tenerife15,368Navarre13,230Granada11,750Málaga11,499Zaragoza9,989León8,182Lleida7,340Seville7,161Huesca6,383Córdoba6,136Almería6,039Asturias5,296Barcelona5,285Lugo5,224Murcia4,882Cádiz4,584Ourense4,519Jaén3,863Albacete3,539Huelva3,119A Coruña2,940Girona2,890Tarragona2,838Badajoz2,783Pontevedra2,713Ciudad Real2,626Teruel2,609Zamora2,518Valencia2,428La Rioja2,315Alicante2,145Toledo2,036Cuenca1,845Gipuzkoa1,704Community of Madrid1,370Castellón1,339Guadalajara1,339Burgos1,200Araba / Álava1,162Las Palmas853Cáceres775Biscay464Soria449Salamanca442Cantabria354Ávila254Segovia211Palencia165
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.