1.1
1,333
recorded earthquakes
M6.3
largest
1937–2026
record span
2.71
mean magnitude
1,272
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.3 | 27.06.1941 07:55 | 15 km | 718 km |
| 6.0 | 20.05.2016 18:14 | 15.7 km | 862 km |
| 6.0 | 17.04.1938 08:56 | 35 km | 459 km |
| 5.7 | 30.03.1986 08:53 | 10 km | 678 km |
| 5.6 | 26.03.1939 03:56 | 35 km | 306 km |
| 5.6 | 04.05.1941 22:07 | 35 km | 660 km |
| 5.5 | 20.12.1937 22:35 | 35 km | 698 km |
| 5.4 | 09.06.2013 14:22 | 10 km | 730 km |
| 5.3 | 29.12.1983 17:41 | 10 km | 323 km |
| 5.3 | 11.07.1986 07:17 | 10 km | 690 km |
| 5.3 | 04.04.2026 18:26 | 0 km | 781 km |
| 5.3 | 23.03.2012 09:25 | 13.2 km | 707 km |
| 5.0 | 17.10.1966 00:27 | 0 km | 280 km |
| 4.9 | 30.11.1994 19:53 | 10 km | 299 km |
| 4.9 | 16.09.2007 23:18 | 14 km | 331 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | 02.08.2026 12:41 | 10 km | 374 km |
| 2.2 | 19.07.2026 21:43 | 7.3 km | 428 km |
| 2.3 | 19.07.2026 09:33 | 5.9 km | 304 km |
| 2.1 | 12.07.2026 04:44 | 8.5 km | 344 km |
| 1.0 | 11.07.2026 23:08 | 2.8 km | 423 km |
| 2.3 | 08.07.2026 18:44 | 2.3 km | 292 km |
| 1.6 | 06.07.2026 23:21 | 1.6 km | 360 km |
| 2.8 | 03.07.2026 04:22 | 10 km | 337 km |
| 2.6 | 26.06.2026 15:23 | 5 km | 626 km |
| 2.3 | 26.06.2026 05:07 | 10 km | 375 km |
| 1.5 | 24.06.2026 03:57 | 10 km | 369 km |
| 2.4 | 23.06.2026 15:31 | 5 km | 628 km |
| 2.6 | 23.06.2026 12:02 | 5 km | 781 km |
| 3.0 | 21.06.2026 07:00 | 16.8 km | 390 km |
| 2.4 | 21.06.2026 06:54 | 5.7 km | 322 km |
| 2.7 | 20.06.2026 10:39 | 10 km | 182 km |
| 3.2 | 19.06.2026 13:56 | 10 km | 367 km |
| 2.5 | 19.06.2026 07:12 | 10 km | 332 km |
| 2.9 | 17.06.2026 20:12 | 1.4 km | 694 km |
| 3.1 | 15.06.2026 11:47 | 5 km | 782 km |
| 2.8 | 12.06.2026 15:43 | 5 km | 783 km |
| 2.1 | 11.06.2026 17:25 | 1.2 km | 235 km |
| 2.3 | 10.06.2026 19:08 | 0.7 km | 304 km |
| 2.7 | 06.06.2026 01:37 | 4.3 km | 348 km |
| 3.1 | 05.06.2026 23:21 | 1.7 km | 691 km |
| 2.1 | 04.06.2026 11:55 | 6 km | 321 km |
| 4.1 | 30.05.2026 02:44 | 11.4 km | 798 km |
| 3.0 | 29.05.2026 14:43 | 22 km | 800 km |
| 2.5 | 24.05.2026 20:47 | 10 km | 237 km |
| 2.6 | 24.05.2026 06:27 | 10 km | 417 km |
| 2.3 | 22.05.2026 09:55 | 8.9 km | 426 km |
| 2.3 | 18.05.2026 20:36 | 10 km | 505 km |
| 2.7 | 10.05.2026 05:29 | 5 km | 773 km |
| 2.4 | 09.05.2026 09:45 | 5 km | 766 km |
| 2.0 | 08.05.2026 11:34 | 10 km | 296 km |
| 3.0 | 07.05.2026 12:25 | 28.4 km | 510 km |
| 2.2 | 06.05.2026 16:55 | 10 km | 320 km |
| 2.7 | 06.05.2026 07:08 | 5 km | 771 km |
| 4.2 | 05.05.2026 00:16 | 10 km | 774 km |
| 2.1 | 03.05.2026 12:20 | 10 km | 289 km |
| 3.7 | 03.05.2026 01:54 | 5 km | 338 km |
| 2.4 | 29.04.2026 23:39 | 6.9 km | 502 km |
| 2.6 | 27.04.2026 19:00 | 5 km | 358 km |
| 2.1 | 27.04.2026 12:58 | 5.2 km | 357 km |
| 2.5 | 26.04.2026 01:40 | 5 km | 779 km |
| 2.6 | 25.04.2026 00:18 | 5 km | 777 km |
| 1.9 | 23.04.2026 12:38 | 2.7 km | 353 km |
| 3.0 | 22.04.2026 13:37 | 10 km | 288 km |
| 2.0 | 21.04.2026 02:55 | 4.5 km | 304 km |
| 3.4 | 20.04.2026 18:41 | 19.5 km | 299 km |
| 2.9 | 12.04.2026 10:45 | 5 km | 789 km |
| 3.0 | 12.04.2026 10:29 | 5 km | 792 km |
| 2.5 | 11.04.2026 11:44 | 5 km | 766 km |
| 3.5 | 09.04.2026 00:44 | 5 km | 782 km |
| 4.0 | 08.04.2026 09:17 | 5 km | 777 km |
| 2.7 | 07.04.2026 22:34 | 5 km | 774 km |
| 2.8 | 07.04.2026 18:57 | 5 km | 780 km |
| 2.7 | 06.04.2026 07:23 | 5 km | 790 km |
| 2.8 | 05.04.2026 21:30 | 5 km | 776 km |
| 3.0 | 05.04.2026 18:26 | 5 km | 779 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.