4.6
2,852
recorded earthquakes
M7.6
largest
1907–2026
record span
3.84
mean magnitude
2,154
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.6 | 10.07.1949 03:53 | 20 km | 81 km |
| 7.5 | 04.03.1949 10:19 | 228.7 km | 249 km |
| 7.4 | 21.10.1907 04:23 | 20 km | 192 km |
| 7.3 | 23.02.2023 00:37 | 18.4 km | 279 km |
| 7.2 | 18.02.1911 18:41 | 15 km | 222 km |
| 7.2 | 21.10.1907 04:23 | 20 km | 61 km |
| 7.2 | 07.12.2015 07:50 | 14.2 km | 249 km |
| 7.1 | 11.08.1974 01:13 | 7.9 km | 327 km |
| 6.9 | 10.07.1949 16:24 | 20 km | 97 km |
| 6.9 | 23.10.1908 20:14 | 220 km | 284 km |
| 6.7 | 10.07.1949 15:49 | 20 km | 106 km |
| 6.6 | 01.12.1918 02:35 | 20 km | 234 km |
| 6.6 | 01.11.1978 19:48 | 15.3 km | 228 km |
| 6.5 | 30.05.1998 06:22 | 27.4 km | 176 km |
| 6.5 | 27.10.1907 05:16 | 15 km | 170 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.6 | 12.10.2026 03:04 | 25 km | 189 km |
| 3.3 | 04.10.2026 02:55 | 10 km | 42 km |
| 2.9 | 04.10.2026 01:21 | 0 km | 169 km |
| 4.7 | 21.09.2026 10:48 | 129.3 km | 225 km |
| 2.6 | 18.09.2026 10:00 | 0 km | 172 km |
| 2.7 | 18.09.2026 07:48 | 1 km | 169 km |
| 4.4 | 14.09.2026 18:01 | 10 km | 164 km |
| 4.6 | 09.09.2026 20:17 | 29.6 km | 52 km |
| 2.7 | 08.09.2026 02:38 | 11 km | 202 km |
| 2.9 | 02.09.2026 02:36 | 0 km | 81 km |
| 3.2 | 26.08.2026 15:06 | 30 km | 120 km |
| 3.1 | 24.08.2026 15:52 | 0 km | 44 km |
| 3.6 | 24.08.2026 04:00 | 0 km | 17 km |
| 4.1 | 19.08.2026 08:34 | 122 km | 224 km |
| 2.7 | 18.08.2026 21:14 | 10 km | 141 km |
| 2.8 | 18.08.2026 14:54 | 10 km | 106 km |
| 4.2 | 17.08.2026 01:01 | 10 km | 66 km |
| 4.9 | 14.08.2026 03:39 | 11.5 km | 27 km |
| 3.2 | 10.08.2026 02:12 | 17 km | 205 km |
| 3.0 | 09.08.2026 19:08 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 3.8 | 09.08.2026 15:58 | 10 km | 75 km |
| 3.6 | 09.08.2026 12:33 | 0 km | 189 km |
| 2.8 | 05.08.2026 13:40 | 6 km | 130 km |
| 2.7 | 05.08.2026 01:55 | 10 km | 158 km |
| 3.8 | 04.08.2026 11:53 | 119 km | 186 km |
| 4.4 | 31.07.2026 20:26 | 45.8 km | 108 km |
| 2.8 | 23.07.2026 10:51 | 96 km | 70 km |
| 3.1 | 22.07.2026 16:04 | 127 km | 131 km |
| 2.8 | 22.07.2026 12:42 | 5 km | 156 km |
| 3.3 | 20.07.2026 03:13 | 129 km | 111 km |
| 3.9 | 20.07.2026 01:09 | 10 km | 176 km |
| 3.4 | 18.07.2026 02:39 | 0 km | 58 km |
| 3.4 | 16.07.2026 21:17 | 10 km | 137 km |
| 2.6 | 16.07.2026 10:18 | 10 km | 153 km |
| 2.7 | 14.07.2026 19:12 | 10 km | 163 km |
| 3.0 | 11.07.2026 02:33 | 0 km | 194 km |
| 3.8 | 07.07.2026 22:42 | 56.5 km | 139 km |
| 3.7 | 04.07.2026 17:12 | 0 km | 70 km |
| 4.0 | 04.07.2026 14:04 | 179.9 km | 187 km |
| 3.4 | 02.07.2026 21:28 | 1 km | 77 km |
| 3.0 | 02.07.2026 18:00 | 0 km | 114 km |
| 3.3 | 02.07.2026 10:35 | 0 km | 8 km |
| 3.3 | 02.07.2026 09:19 | 0 km | 34 km |
| 4.3 | 02.07.2026 07:50 | 10 km | 58 km |
| 3.0 | 30.06.2026 20:16 | 0 km | 70 km |
| 2.7 | 29.06.2026 12:11 | 0 km | 126 km |
| 3.2 | 29.06.2026 01:46 | 0 km | 82 km |
| 2.8 | 27.06.2026 21:06 | 0 km | 188 km |
| 3.9 | 27.06.2026 01:54 | 0 km | 175 km |
| 3.3 | 26.06.2026 22:40 | 0 km | 170 km |
| 2.9 | 21.06.2026 11:53 | 4 km | 165 km |
| 4.2 | 18.06.2026 06:46 | 0 km | 46 km |
| 2.5 | 13.06.2026 06:47 | 2 km | 107 km |
| 3.2 | 09.06.2026 12:23 | 9 km | 74 km |
| 3.3 | 05.06.2026 16:34 | 2 km | 161 km |
| 3.9 | 05.06.2026 14:12 | 0 km | 177 km |
| 3.5 | 04.06.2026 12:07 | 0 km | 47 km |
| 4.1 | 03.06.2026 06:58 | 10 km | 160 km |
| 3.1 | 01.06.2026 18:40 | 0 km | 86 km |
| 2.8 | 31.05.2026 23:17 | 10 km | 62 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.