4.5
714
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1902–2026
record span
4.34
mean magnitude
285
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.8 | 15.11.1921 20:36 | 240 km | 189 km |
| 7.7 | 07.07.1909 21:37 | 200 km | 159 km |
| 7.6 | 09.06.1956 23:13 | 25 km | 208 km |
| 7.6 | 26.10.2015 09:09 | 216.7 km | 194 km |
| 7.5 | 04.03.1949 10:19 | 228.7 km | 182 km |
| 7.4 | 14.03.1965 15:53 | 215.3 km | 185 km |
| 7.4 | 30.12.1983 23:52 | 215.6 km | 185 km |
| 7.4 | 29.07.1985 07:54 | 99.8 km | 213 km |
| 7.3 | 03.03.2002 12:08 | 204.8 km | 177 km |
| 7.2 | 06.10.1902 09:15 | 200 km | 166 km |
| 7.1 | 21.04.1917 00:49 | 200 km | 162 km |
| 7.1 | 24.10.1906 14:43 | 35 km | 148 km |
| 7.0 | 24.10.1908 21:16 | 220 km | 161 km |
| 7.0 | 13.04.1907 17:57 | 260 km | 166 km |
| 7.0 | 30.07.1974 05:12 | 222.9 km | 195 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.5 | 18.07.2026 23:47 | 117.8 km | 89 km |
| 4.0 | 26.06.2026 16:15 | 91 km | 101 km |
| 4.3 | 30.03.2026 03:38 | 0 km | 70 km |
| 4.4 | 21.01.2026 12:34 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 4.0 | 12.01.2026 03:18 | 0 km | 60 km |
| 4.0 | 06.01.2026 18:37 | 0 km | 80 km |
| 4.3 | 06.01.2026 05:25 | 121.1 km | 88 km |
| 4.2 | 19.12.2025 06:34 | 25 km | 87 km |
| 5.3 | 19.12.2025 05:39 | 25.3 km | 92 km |
| 4.0 | 09.12.2025 09:06 | 0 km | 71 km |
| 3.7 | 06.12.2025 13:07 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 4.1 | 25.11.2025 23:09 | 63.2 km | 80 km |
| 4.0 | 21.11.2025 03:08 | 161.8 km | 81 km |
| 6.3 | 02.11.2025 20:29 | 28.2 km | 104 km |
| 4.2 | 19.10.2025 22:50 | 129.3 km | 95 km |
| 5.0 | 07.10.2025 11:35 | 10 km | 102 km |
| 4.3 | 24.09.2025 09:55 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 4.2 | 08.09.2025 10:34 | 0 km | 55 km |
| 3.8 | 17.07.2025 06:22 | 10 km | 79 km |
| 4.3 | 18.06.2025 23:34 | 0 km | 72 km |
| 4.3 | 06.06.2025 19:35 | 10 km | 73 km |
| 4.3 | 06.06.2025 19:26 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 3.3 | 31.05.2025 20:20 | 47.3 km | 46 km |
| 6.6 | 22.05.2025 23:06 | 23.3 km | 8 km |
| 4.0 | 17.05.2025 10:56 | 140.2 km | 100 km |
| 4.1 | 26.04.2025 23:58 | 67.4 km | 73 km |
| 4.1 | 13.04.2025 09:50 | 0 km | 76 km |
| 4.2 | 12.02.2025 11:11 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 3.4 | 06.01.2025 07:17 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 4.2 | 02.01.2025 03:54 | 57.4 km | 34 km |
| 3.5 | 17.11.2024 20:45 | 10 km | 39 km |
| 4.4 | 29.07.2024 06:06 | 75.7 km | 63 km |
| 4.2 | 04.06.2024 22:50 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 4.0 | 23.04.2024 01:30 | 50 km | 26 km |
| 3.8 | 23.03.2024 19:54 | 10.2 km | 84 km |
| 4.0 | 23.02.2024 04:28 | 10 km | 39 km |
| 4.2 | 23.02.2024 01:50 | 10 km | 31 km |
| 5.0 | 10.02.2024 17:44 | 140.7 km | 132 km |
| 4.1 | 18.01.2024 23:53 | 209.4 km | 76 km |
| 4.1 | 21.11.2023 09:22 | 100 km | 98 km |
| 4.0 | 05.11.2023 23:27 | 30 km | 27 km |
| 4.1 | 05.11.2023 23:04 | 24 km | 25 km |
| 4.1 | 05.11.2023 07:23 | 51.5 km | 18 km |
| 4.2 | 03.11.2023 19:15 | 45.6 km | 20 km |
| 4.4 | 03.11.2023 07:33 | 49.8 km | 26 km |
| 4.3 | 03.11.2023 07:29 | 24 km | 31 km |
| 4.5 | 28.10.2023 10:53 | 24 km | 17 km |
| 4.7 | 27.10.2023 17:12 | 20.1 km | 19 km |
| 4.3 | 15.10.2023 05:10 | 100 km | 62 km |
| 4.8 | 13.10.2023 00:03 | 10 km | 84 km |
| 4.1 | 21.09.2023 06:34 | 116.6 km | 77 km |
| 3.1 | 04.08.2023 17:50 | 43 km | 62 km |
| 4.3 | 02.08.2023 04:54 | 10 km | 66 km |
| 4.1 | 05.07.2023 13:42 | 35 km | 83 km |
| 4.5 | 11.04.2023 04:52 | 38.8 km | 91 km |
| 3.3 | 11.04.2023 04:52 | 40.3 km | 89 km |
| 4.0 | 01.02.2023 14:29 | 69.4 km | 68 km |
| 4.0 | 18.01.2023 14:09 | 48 km | 89 km |
| 3.4 | 05.01.2023 22:45 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 4.3 | 13.12.2022 02:05 | 12.3 km | 76 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.