2.3
2,672
recorded earthquakes
M6.6
largest
1923–2026
record span
3.80
mean magnitude
1,965
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.6 | 30.12.2006 08:30 | 10.1 km | 409 km |
| 6.6 | 21.12.1959 11:19 | 15 km | 401 km |
| 6.6 | 30.07.1970 04:58 | 27.2 km | 406 km |
| 6.4 | 23.11.1967 08:35 | 17.9 km | 395 km |
| 6.4 | 21.08.1989 01:09 | 19.5 km | 838 km |
| 6.4 | 31.08.2001 16:05 | 15 km | 446 km |
| 6.2 | 20.04.1924 14:27 | 35 km | 379 km |
| 6.2 | 11.01.1941 08:31 | 35 km | 611 km |
| 6.2 | 20.12.1949 00:34 | 15 km | 577 km |
| 6.2 | 05.03.1992 08:55 | 9.8 km | 766 km |
| 6.2 | 13.12.1982 09:12 | 10.1 km | 467 km |
| 6.1 | 26.08.2005 18:16 | 12.4 km | 434 km |
| 6.1 | 11.03.1961 08:41 | 15 km | 737 km |
| 6.1 | 19.07.2001 18:15 | 13 km | 588 km |
| 6.1 | 20.08.1989 11:46 | 27.3 km | 829 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.3 | 12.10.2026 01:02 | 10 km | 489 km |
| 2.6 | 10.10.2026 05:39 | 10 km | 587 km |
| 4.4 | 29.09.2026 00:11 | 10 km | 366 km |
| 4.8 | 28.09.2026 17:37 | 10 km | 406 km |
| 3.0 | 28.09.2026 00:10 | 11 km | 557 km |
| 2.8 | 27.09.2026 12:08 | 10 km | 519 km |
| 3.2 | 27.09.2026 05:36 | 10 km | 533 km |
| 2.1 | 27.09.2026 00:16 | 4 km | 519 km |
| 5.2 | 26.09.2026 16:33 | 10 km | 410 km |
| 2.8 | 23.09.2026 22:06 | 11 km | 434 km |
| 2.8 | 20.09.2026 22:46 | 9.6 km | 477 km |
| 2.2 | 19.09.2026 01:22 | 11.9 km | 474 km |
| 4.7 | 15.09.2026 23:46 | 10 km | 345 km |
| 3.1 | 10.09.2026 10:40 | 10 km | 598 km |
| 3.9 | 08.09.2026 04:48 | 10 km | 618 km |
| 4.4 | 07.09.2026 15:43 | 10 km | 352 km |
| 2.4 | 06.09.2026 00:39 | 16.4 km | 495 km |
| 2.9 | 04.09.2026 21:31 | 1.7 km | 494 km |
| 2.9 | 04.09.2026 08:17 | 2.9 km | 496 km |
| 4.6 | 29.08.2026 19:36 | 10 km | 343 km |
| 2.1 | 29.08.2026 01:08 | 17.3 km | 452 km |
| 2.6 | 28.08.2026 15:25 | 10 km | 526 km |
| 6.0 | 27.08.2026 21:07 | 10 km | 343 km |
| 4.1 | 26.08.2026 22:32 | 7 km | 249 km |
| 2.8 | 24.08.2026 02:20 | 10 km | 609 km |
| 2.9 | 20.08.2026 02:52 | 10.3 km | 471 km |
| 2.8 | 10.08.2026 14:44 | 6 km | 468 km |
| 3.9 | 08.08.2026 22:35 | 5.5 km | 544 km |
| 3.3 | 03.08.2026 12:17 | 4.9 km | 548 km |
| 2.3 | 03.08.2026 02:57 | 4.7 km | 551 km |
| 2.4 | 02.08.2026 23:39 | 14.6 km | 553 km |
| 3.0 | 21.07.2026 03:42 | 8 km | 466 km |
| 3.1 | 17.07.2026 16:36 | 10 km | 574 km |
| 5.3 | 17.07.2026 12:01 | 10 km | 616 km |
| 4.8 | 17.07.2026 11:48 | 10 km | 605 km |
| 3.4 | 13.07.2026 02:16 | 2.8 km | 471 km |
| 2.9 | 13.07.2026 00:02 | 10 km | 473 km |
| 3.0 | 12.07.2026 08:10 | 10 km | 476 km |
| 3.2 | 12.07.2026 05:14 | 10 km | 475 km |
| 4.2 | 11.07.2026 05:19 | 15.1 km | 477 km |
| 3.2 | 11.07.2026 03:13 | 10 km | 464 km |
| 3.1 | 10.07.2026 22:12 | 10 km | 460 km |
| 3.0 | 10.07.2026 20:14 | 10 km | 465 km |
| 3.5 | 10.07.2026 19:18 | 10 km | 461 km |
| 3.4 | 10.07.2026 15:14 | 8 km | 458 km |
| 2.7 | 09.07.2026 18:03 | 10 km | 467 km |
| 2.6 | 03.07.2026 19:17 | 3 km | 510 km |
| 3.0 | 03.07.2026 02:50 | 13.1 km | 463 km |
| 3.0 | 03.07.2026 01:41 | 5 km | 471 km |
| 2.6 | 02.07.2026 22:54 | 3.3 km | 476 km |
| 2.9 | 02.07.2026 19:16 | 5 km | 482 km |
| 4.4 | 28.06.2026 23:40 | 10 km | 567 km |
| 3.8 | 25.06.2026 05:37 | 0 km | 378 km |
| 5.3 | 25.06.2026 03:53 | 10 km | 363 km |
| 2.8 | 22.06.2026 23:01 | 10 km | 466 km |
| 3.2 | 15.06.2026 23:06 | 10 km | 407 km |
| 5.3 | 31.05.2026 21:40 | 0 km | 676 km |
| 4.2 | 31.05.2026 08:31 | 10 km | 666 km |
| 2.8 | 31.05.2026 02:39 | 11 km | 376 km |
| 4.4 | 30.05.2026 12:22 | 10 km | 377 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.