4.1
2,011
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1902–2026
record span
4.49
mean magnitude
532
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 | 86 km |
| 7.7 | 07.07.1909 21:37 | 200 km | 102 km |
| 7.6 | 26.10.2015 09:09 | 216.7 km | 106 km |
| 7.5 | 04.03.1949 10:19 | 228.7 km | 122 km |
| 7.4 | 14.03.1965 15:53 | 215.3 km | 104 km |
| 7.4 | 04.07.1911 13:33 | 100 km | 102 km |
| 7.4 | 30.12.1983 23:52 | 215.6 km | 103 km |
| 7.4 | 29.07.1985 07:54 | 99.8 km | 79 km |
| 7.3 | 03.03.2002 12:08 | 204.8 km | 102 km |
| 7.2 | 06.10.1902 09:15 | 200 km | 117 km |
| 7.1 | 21.04.1917 00:49 | 200 km | 101 km |
| 7.0 | 13.04.1907 17:57 | 260 km | 117 km |
| 7.0 | 24.10.1908 21:16 | 220 km | 79 km |
| 7.0 | 30.07.1974 05:12 | 222.9 km | 103 km |
| 7.0 | 09.08.1993 12:42 | 217.5 km | 108 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.1 | 25.07.2026 16:56 | 126 km | 118 km |
| 4.7 | 19.07.2026 22:58 | 91.8 km | 75 km |
| 3.6 | 12.07.2026 09:52 | 97.4 km | 98 km |
| 5.5 | 01.07.2026 17:57 | 198.8 km | 117 km |
| 6.2 | 27.06.2026 13:34 | 203 km | 111 km |
| 5.2 | 22.06.2026 10:22 | 209.1 km | 108 km |
| 4.1 | 19.06.2026 02:01 | 115.2 km | 67 km |
| 4.1 | 19.06.2026 02:01 | 0 km | 74 km |
| 3.7 | 09.06.2026 16:03 | 0 km | 79 km |
| 4.0 | 18.05.2026 08:49 | 101.2 km | 73 km |
| 3.5 | 14.05.2026 19:56 | 151.6 km | 40 km |
| 3.8 | 07.05.2026 19:43 | 223.4 km | 77 km |
| 4.1 | 30.04.2026 03:41 | 67.6 km | 108 km |
| 5.4 | 18.04.2026 02:54 | 191 km | 118 km |
| 4.2 | 07.04.2026 20:04 | 10 km | 90 km |
| 5.8 | 03.04.2026 16:12 | 159 km | 105 km |
| 3.9 | 21.03.2026 02:01 | 64 km | 87 km |
| 3.7 | 15.03.2026 06:37 | 103.6 km | 92 km |
| 3.5 | 13.03.2026 22:34 | 98.3 km | 69 km |
| 5.2 | 07.03.2026 18:24 | 212.9 km | 127 km |
| 3.5 | 03.03.2026 12:40 | 103 km | 77 km |
| 3.6 | 28.02.2026 15:38 | 93 km | 72 km |
| 5.8 | 20.02.2026 13:09 | 82 km | 87 km |
| 4.4 | 08.02.2026 15:33 | 120 km | 83 km |
| 3.6 | 23.01.2026 01:14 | 55.6 km | 22 km |
| 4.0 | 15.01.2026 07:38 | 75.8 km | 70 km |
| 3.7 | 09.01.2026 10:35 | 106.6 km | 45 km |
| 3.8 | 06.01.2026 13:35 | 76.9 km | 72 km |
| 3.6 | 01.01.2026 20:20 | 81.6 km | 55 km |
| 4.1 | 28.12.2025 21:19 | 121 km | 85 km |
| 5.3 | 19.12.2025 05:39 | 25.3 km | 150 km |
| 3.6 | 15.12.2025 01:02 | 81 km | 50 km |
| 3.7 | 08.12.2025 09:41 | 74.9 km | 70 km |
| 3.8 | 04.12.2025 04:34 | 51.2 km | 48 km |
| 4.6 | 20.11.2025 21:39 | 104.8 km | 101 km |
| 5.2 | 21.10.2025 18:14 | 239 km | 126 km |
| 4.1 | 10.10.2025 15:01 | 112.6 km | 65 km |
| 4.2 | 06.10.2025 22:44 | 0 km | 65 km |
| 3.7 | 27.09.2025 22:46 | 53.3 km | 74 km |
| 4.0 | 12.09.2025 01:11 | 0 km | 93 km |
| 4.0 | 08.09.2025 12:46 | 0 km | 64 km |
| 4.1 | 07.09.2025 12:32 | 10 km | 90 km |
| 4.5 | 07.09.2025 00:01 | 10 km | 89 km |
| 4.3 | 05.09.2025 07:52 | 10 km | 84 km |
| 4.0 | 05.09.2025 05:32 | 0 km | 63 km |
| 4.9 | 05.09.2025 01:30 | 9 km | 72 km |
| 4.7 | 04.09.2025 21:46 | 10 km | 86 km |
| 5.6 | 04.09.2025 16:56 | 16.5 km | 86 km |
| 4.9 | 02.09.2025 12:29 | 10 km | 76 km |
| 4.3 | 02.09.2025 07:24 | 0 km | 54 km |
| 4.6 | 01.09.2025 05:01 | 10 km | 93 km |
| 4.3 | 01.09.2025 02:59 | 10 km | 84 km |
| 5.3 | 31.08.2025 23:46 | 10 km | 98 km |
| 4.3 | 31.08.2025 21:44 | 73.6 km | 74 km |
| 4.5 | 31.08.2025 21:41 | 10 km | 79 km |
| 4.4 | 31.08.2025 21:40 | 10 km | 90 km |
| 4.1 | 31.08.2025 21:33 | 10 km | 81 km |
| 4.3 | 31.08.2025 19:31 | 0 km | 93 km |
| 6.0 | 31.08.2025 19:17 | 8 km | 84 km |
| 5.1 | 27.08.2025 13:27 | 138.8 km | 125 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.