4.7
10,397
recorded earthquakes
M9.2
largest
1902–2026
record span
3.82
mean magnitude
8,441
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.2 | 26.08.2024 04:26 | — | 886 km |
| 7.8 | 15.11.1921 20:36 | 240 km | 766 km |
| 7.7 | 07.07.1909 21:37 | 200 km | 741 km |
| 7.6 | 26.10.2015 09:09 | 216.7 km | 758 km |
| 7.6 | 10.07.1949 03:53 | 20 km | 583 km |
| 7.5 | 04.03.1949 10:19 | 228.7 km | 741 km |
| 7.4 | 21.10.1907 04:23 | 20 km | 374 km |
| 7.4 | 14.03.1965 15:53 | 215.3 km | 753 km |
| 7.4 | 04.07.1911 13:33 | 100 km | 796 km |
| 7.4 | 30.12.1983 23:52 | 215.6 km | 755 km |
| 7.4 | 29.07.1985 07:54 | 99.8 km | 787 km |
| 7.3 | 03.03.2002 12:08 | 204.8 km | 750 km |
| 7.3 | 02.11.1946 18:28 | 25 km | 611 km |
| 7.3 | 23.02.2023 00:37 | 18.4 km | 812 km |
| 7.2 | 06.10.1902 09:15 | 200 km | 735 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.7 | 13.10.2026 09:41 | 10 km | 481 km |
| 4.5 | 12.10.2026 03:04 | 26.9 km | 682 km |
| 2.6 | 09.10.2026 16:45 | 7 km | 625 km |
| 2.4 | 09.10.2026 08:05 | 0 km | 668 km |
| 2.5 | 09.10.2026 07:30 | 0 km | 667 km |
| 2.8 | 08.10.2026 13:57 | 10 km | 687 km |
| 2.3 | 08.10.2026 12:03 | 10 km | 477 km |
| 4.3 | 08.10.2026 04:09 | 133 km | 791 km |
| 2.5 | 07.10.2026 17:15 | 0 km | 724 km |
| 2.2 | 07.10.2026 06:00 | 1 km | 681 km |
| 2.4 | 05.10.2026 23:42 | 15 km | 698 km |
| 3.3 | 04.10.2026 02:55 | 10 km | 513 km |
| 2.9 | 04.10.2026 01:21 | 0 km | 689 km |
| 4.5 | 01.10.2026 08:17 | 10 km | 717 km |
| 4.1 | 28.09.2026 04:03 | 33 km | 434 km |
| 2.6 | 27.09.2026 13:23 | 5 km | 463 km |
| 2.7 | 27.09.2026 11:55 | 10 km | 463 km |
| 2.9 | 27.09.2026 00:19 | 10 km | 423 km |
| 2.5 | 26.09.2026 13:28 | 50 km | 655 km |
| 2.7 | 26.09.2026 11:38 | 0 km | 624 km |
| 4.3 | 25.09.2026 05:35 | 212.6 km | 774 km |
| 4.7 | 23.09.2026 05:46 | 141.2 km | 755 km |
| 4.7 | 21.09.2026 10:48 | 129.3 km | 766 km |
| 2.6 | 18.09.2026 10:00 | 0 km | 695 km |
| 2.7 | 18.09.2026 07:48 | 1 km | 658 km |
| 4.1 | 18.09.2026 01:29 | 106 km | 754 km |
| 2.8 | 17.09.2026 04:23 | 0 km | 678 km |
| 3.5 | 16.09.2026 20:49 | 2 km | 582 km |
| 3.0 | 16.09.2026 10:55 | 0 km | 611 km |
| 3.1 | 16.09.2026 07:32 | 0 km | 726 km |
| 4.4 | 14.09.2026 18:01 | 10 km | 697 km |
| 4.3 | 12.09.2026 09:47 | 33 km | 628 km |
| 2.2 | 10.09.2026 06:33 | 2 km | 629 km |
| 4.6 | 09.09.2026 20:17 | 29.6 km | 574 km |
| 2.2 | 09.09.2026 11:23 | 10 km | 488 km |
| 2.3 | 09.09.2026 10:50 | 10 km | 450 km |
| 2.7 | 08.09.2026 02:38 | 11 km | 683 km |
| 2.5 | 02.09.2026 08:24 | 10 km | 431 km |
| 2.9 | 02.09.2026 02:36 | 0 km | 595 km |
| 2.5 | 31.08.2026 20:35 | 0 km | 670 km |
| 3.2 | 26.08.2026 15:06 | 30 km | 621 km |
| 2.7 | 25.08.2026 17:02 | 7 km | 544 km |
| 3.1 | 24.08.2026 15:52 | 0 km | 564 km |
| 2.3 | 24.08.2026 09:30 | 10 km | 473 km |
| 3.6 | 24.08.2026 04:00 | 0 km | 565 km |
| 2.1 | 22.08.2026 07:17 | 2 km | 671 km |
| 2.5 | 21.08.2026 03:01 | 3 km | 729 km |
| 3.1 | 21.08.2026 00:22 | 0 km | 698 km |
| 2.8 | 20.08.2026 09:11 | 10 km | 462 km |
| 4.1 | 19.08.2026 08:34 | 122 km | 764 km |
| 2.7 | 18.08.2026 21:14 | 10 km | 609 km |
| 2.8 | 18.08.2026 14:54 | 10 km | 572 km |
| 4.2 | 17.08.2026 01:01 | 10 km | 540 km |
| 2.4 | 14.08.2026 20:29 | 10 km | 664 km |
| 2.5 | 14.08.2026 12:45 | 0 km | 677 km |
| 2.6 | 14.08.2026 12:05 | 0 km | 678 km |
| 2.1 | 14.08.2026 11:23 | 0 km | 676 km |
| 2.7 | 14.08.2026 09:18 | 2 km | 449 km |
| 3.0 | 14.08.2026 07:27 | 0 km | 421 km |
| 4.9 | 14.08.2026 03:39 | 11.5 km | 550 km |
Regions
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.