2.5
850
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1902–2026
record span
3.95
mean magnitude
771
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.2 | 24.01.1902 23:27 | 0 km | 1324 km |
| 7.1 | 23.10.1974 06:14 | 29.2 km | 1475 km |
| 7.1 | 17.07.2020 02:50 | 85.2 km | 1270 km |
| 6.8 | 04.12.1910 11:00 | 0 km | 1191 km |
| 6.6 | 11.06.1960 16:37 | 30 km | 1325 km |
| 6.6 | 13.05.1907 21:00 | 35 km | 1116 km |
| 6.6 | 11.06.1960 15:14 | 30 km | 1303 km |
| 6.4 | 29.10.1985 14:10 | 9.2 km | 1205 km |
| 6.3 | 27.06.1941 07:55 | 15 km | 1150 km |
| 6.3 | 09.03.1979 01:26 | 32 km | 1094 km |
| 6.2 | 10.10.1907 21:42 | 15 km | 1373 km |
| 6.2 | 10.11.1939 20:20 | 35 km | 1160 km |
| 6.2 | 07.06.1940 07:17 | 35 km | 1200 km |
| 6.2 | 05.10.1953 23:16 | 25 km | 1309 km |
| 6.2 | 09.12.1924 11:53 | 15 km | 1155 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 | 14.07.2026 15:20 | 9.6 km | 318 km |
| 2.6 | 21.05.2026 01:55 | 0 km | 786 km |
| 3.5 | 20.05.2026 18:06 | 10 km | 875 km |
| 3.5 | 17.05.2026 21:51 | 10 km | 878 km |
| 3.9 | 16.05.2026 22:43 | 0 km | 1140 km |
| 4.4 | 25.04.2026 01:45 | 10 km | 1382 km |
| 2.9 | 21.04.2026 01:57 | 8.1 km | 319 km |
| 4.9 | 11.03.2026 13:03 | 0 km | 1182 km |
| 3.4 | 04.03.2026 05:26 | 0 km | 1275 km |
| 3.7 | 25.02.2026 17:44 | 0 km | 1158 km |
| 3.3 | 04.02.2026 01:07 | 0 km | 1229 km |
| 3.4 | 28.01.2026 00:34 | 0 km | 451 km |
| 2.9 | 18.01.2026 04:35 | 10 km | 1066 km |
| 4.8 | 22.11.2025 19:11 | 9.2 km | 1184 km |
| 4.3 | 20.11.2025 11:37 | 10 km | 1171 km |
| 3.6 | 20.11.2025 11:37 | 0 km | 1226 km |
| 3.5 | 19.11.2025 14:00 | 0 km | 1220 km |
| 4.1 | 29.10.2025 04:14 | 0 km | 689 km |
| 4.1 | 27.10.2025 10:31 | 0 km | 761 km |
| 2.8 | 30.09.2025 09:08 | 10 km | 368 km |
| 3.1 | 20.09.2025 00:58 | 0 km | 456 km |
| 4.9 | 15.08.2025 23:49 | 10 km | 1034 km |
| 4.2 | 14.08.2025 10:21 | 0 km | 1128 km |
| 3.0 | 15.07.2025 17:32 | 10 km | 876 km |
| 3.0 | 02.07.2025 13:19 | 10 km | 1186 km |
| 3.1 | 02.07.2025 13:06 | 10 km | 1185 km |
| 2.5 | 26.06.2025 19:00 | 10 km | 875 km |
| 5.7 | 19.06.2025 16:37 | 33 km | 853 km |
| 3.4 | 13.06.2025 22:20 | 0 km | 1168 km |
| 3.5 | 02.06.2025 09:35 | 0 km | 1331 km |
| 4.9 | 02.06.2025 03:58 | 0 km | 1316 km |
| 4.7 | 02.06.2025 03:52 | 10 km | 1293 km |
| 3.2 | 01.06.2025 23:54 | 0 km | 1320 km |
| 2.7 | 23.05.2025 00:48 | 10 km | 809 km |
| 4.0 | 11.05.2025 12:13 | 10 km | 1199 km |
| 3.0 | 09.05.2025 17:39 | 5 km | 902 km |
| 2.8 | 08.05.2025 20:06 | 7 km | 904 km |
| 3.6 | 08.05.2025 14:27 | 10 km | 1209 km |
| 4.4 | 07.05.2025 19:29 | 10 km | 1221 km |
| 3.8 | 07.05.2025 11:28 | 0 km | 1236 km |
| 2.7 | 18.03.2025 02:36 | 10 km | 1289 km |
| 3.7 | 01.03.2025 11:31 | 7.8 km | 108 km |
| 4.0 | 19.02.2025 12:29 | 0 km | 1369 km |
| 5.6 | 19.02.2025 02:49 | 10 km | 1344 km |
| 4.3 | 28.12.2024 18:28 | 10 km | 1148 km |
| 4.9 | 12.12.2024 02:16 | 0 km | 1220 km |
| 4.5 | 06.12.2024 10:22 | 10 km | 1132 km |
| 4.8 | 26.11.2024 00:07 | 0 km | 1226 km |
| 2.5 | 24.11.2024 06:02 | 10 km | 1245 km |
| 4.9 | 31.10.2024 20:20 | 0 km | 1221 km |
| 2.8 | 26.10.2024 09:10 | 10 km | 904 km |
| 2.7 | 23.10.2024 13:44 | 10 km | 1204 km |
| 3.3 | 22.10.2024 19:59 | 0 km | 1201 km |
| 3.7 | 16.10.2024 01:37 | 69.9 km | 1200 km |
| 5.3 | 15.10.2024 20:40 | 10 km | 1224 km |
| 2.7 | 06.10.2024 08:10 | 10 km | 338 km |
| 2.4 | 14.09.2024 01:13 | 5 km | 44 km |
| 3.2 | 13.07.2024 10:54 | 10 km | 1146 km |
| 2.8 | 28.06.2024 21:33 | 10 km | 870 km |
| 2.7 | 15.06.2024 15:45 | 10 km | 997 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.