5.6
4,278
recorded earthquakes
M8.1
largest
1907–2026
record span
4.57
mean magnitude
3,453
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.1 | 25.03.1998 03:12 | 8.7 km | 4453 km |
| 7.8 | 17.11.2013 09:04 | 7.9 km | 2118 km |
| 7.7 | 10.10.2025 20:29 | 5.6 km | 2425 km |
| 7.6 | 04.08.2003 04:37 | 17.4 km | 2050 km |
| 7.5 | 22.08.2025 02:16 | 10 km | 2417 km |
| 7.4 | 02.01.2006 06:10 | 13.5 km | 1701 km |
| 7.3 | 15.07.2013 14:03 | 19.9 km | 1735 km |
| 7.3 | 01.09.1961 00:09 | 129.2 km | 1935 km |
| 7.3 | 11.06.1970 16:46 | 35 km | 4848 km |
| 7.2 | 28.08.1933 22:19 | 35 km | 1857 km |
| 7.2 | 17.08.1908 10:32 | 0 km | 2042 km |
| 7.2 | 26.08.1977 19:50 | 21.7 km | 1835 km |
| 7.1 | 31.03.1910 18:13 | 0 km | 504 km |
| 7.1 | 09.03.1943 09:48 | 20 km | 1842 km |
| 7.1 | 24.01.1938 10:31 | 10 km | 1916 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.6 | 29.07.2026 22:08 | 10 km | 5199 km |
| 5.6 | 18.07.2026 19:50 | 10 km | 2166 km |
| 5.7 | 15.07.2026 14:51 | 0 km | 1777 km |
| 4.8 | 08.07.2026 19:07 | 0 km | 4644 km |
| 4.0 | 06.07.2026 10:46 | 0 km | 4654 km |
| 5.3 | 03.07.2026 20:22 | 0 km | 4636 km |
| 3.9 | 03.07.2026 09:06 | 0 km | 4641 km |
| 5.4 | 02.07.2026 05:23 | 0 km | 1719 km |
| 4.2 | 23.06.2026 16:00 | 0 km | 2300 km |
| 5.0 | 21.06.2026 20:05 | 10 km | 2444 km |
| 4.5 | 18.06.2026 23:49 | 10 km | 2415 km |
| 4.1 | 05.06.2026 21:07 | 0 km | 4722 km |
| 5.7 | 05.06.2026 20:58 | 0 km | 4804 km |
| 4.3 | 22.05.2026 08:04 | 0 km | 4658 km |
| 3.7 | 17.05.2026 07:42 | 0 km | 4629 km |
| 4.0 | 13.05.2026 01:30 | 0 km | 1823 km |
| 3.5 | 07.05.2026 15:07 | 0 km | 1871 km |
| 4.1 | 02.05.2026 19:50 | 0 km | 4357 km |
| 3.7 | 01.05.2026 15:55 | 0 km | 4880 km |
| 4.1 | 26.04.2026 02:13 | 10 km | 1765 km |
| 4.0 | 22.04.2026 15:33 | 76.5 km | 2255 km |
| 5.2 | 21.04.2026 10:30 | 0 km | 4935 km |
| 4.1 | 18.04.2026 10:10 | 0 km | 4661 km |
| 3.8 | 10.04.2026 13:16 | 0 km | 2268 km |
| 4.3 | 09.04.2026 21:59 | 10 km | 2238 km |
| 3.8 | 02.04.2026 18:51 | 0 km | 5129 km |
| 5.3 | 26.03.2026 01:06 | 0 km | 4655 km |
| 3.2 | 24.03.2026 03:33 | 0 km | 2232 km |
| 4.4 | 24.03.2026 03:33 | 10 km | 2229 km |
| 4.0 | 23.03.2026 08:44 | 0 km | 1762 km |
| 3.6 | 20.03.2026 16:16 | 39.4 km | 2232 km |
| 4.5 | 20.03.2026 01:15 | 30.8 km | 2230 km |
| 4.1 | 20.03.2026 00:50 | 0 km | 2232 km |
| 6.6 | 20.03.2026 00:22 | 25.8 km | 2228 km |
| 5.3 | 16.03.2026 13:01 | 0 km | 4895 km |
| 5.0 | 06.03.2026 08:27 | 0 km | 4942 km |
| 4.8 | 04.03.2026 03:06 | 0 km | 4644 km |
| 4.8 | 27.02.2026 18:31 | 10 km | 2405 km |
| 5.7 | 21.02.2026 17:01 | 0 km | 4973 km |
| 4.0 | 20.02.2026 12:54 | 0 km | 4601 km |
| 4.1 | 20.02.2026 12:50 | 0 km | 4566 km |
| 3.4 | 13.02.2026 22:48 | 0 km | 4515 km |
| 3.7 | 08.02.2026 06:09 | 0 km | 4296 km |
| 5.0 | 08.02.2026 00:29 | 0 km | 5016 km |
| 3.8 | 04.02.2026 00:30 | 10 km | 3343 km |
| 3.8 | 13.01.2026 21:24 | 0 km | 4675 km |
| 3.7 | 13.01.2026 17:28 | 0 km | 4789 km |
| 3.7 | 09.01.2026 04:05 | 0 km | 5097 km |
| 4.2 | 07.01.2026 11:03 | 0 km | 1887 km |
| 4.7 | 25.12.2025 09:24 | 0 km | 1892 km |
| 4.2 | 25.12.2025 09:13 | 0 km | 1877 km |
| 4.2 | 25.12.2025 08:48 | 0 km | 1888 km |
| 4.7 | 25.12.2025 08:39 | 0 km | 1880 km |
| 4.8 | 25.12.2025 08:14 | 10 km | 1870 km |
| 4.8 | 25.12.2025 08:08 | 0 km | 1881 km |
| 5.1 | 21.12.2025 13:12 | 0 km | 4822 km |
| 4.5 | 20.12.2025 20:50 | 11.2 km | 5063 km |
| 4.3 | 20.12.2025 16:20 | 10 km | 5096 km |
| 4.0 | 20.12.2025 13:39 | 0 km | 5070 km |
| 5.2 | 20.12.2025 10:25 | 0 km | 5062 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.