4.2
319
recorded earthquakes
M5.5
largest
1921–2026
record span
2.72
mean magnitude
235
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.5 | 18.09.1939 00:14 | 15 km | 49 km |
| 5.5 | 08.10.1927 19:49 | 15 km | 46 km |
| 5.4 | 25.07.1927 20:35 | 15 km | 81 km |
| 5.2 | 08.11.1938 03:11 | 35 km | 59 km |
| 5.2 | 05.03.1930 23:55 | 15 km | 100 km |
| 5.2 | 04.05.1921 17:35 | 15 km | 138 km |
| 5.0 | 11.07.2000 10:56 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 4.8 | 16.04.1972 10:10 | 11.4 km | 52 km |
| 4.6 | 03.12.1994 12:28 | 12.2 km | 41 km |
| 4.5 | 09.01.1996 01:07 | 10 km | 56 km |
| 4.4 | 22.05.1984 19:33 | 19.3 km | 56 km |
| 4.4 | 14.01.1978 19:43 | 8 km | 49 km |
| 4.4 | 27.01.1989 03:55 | 22.1 km | 57 km |
| 4.4 | 24.05.1984 19:56 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 4.4 | 11.07.2000 02:49 | 7.8 km | 60 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.2 | 23.07.2026 23:59 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 2.0 | 17.07.2026 17:44 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 1.5 | 20.06.2026 22:33 | 56 km | 45 km |
| 2.7 | 24.04.2026 02:11 | 10 km | 46 km |
| 2.9 | 10.03.2026 08:02 | 11 km | 83 km |
| 2.6 | 21.02.2026 20:17 | 7 km | 83 km |
| 3.0 | 20.10.2025 11:54 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 2.8 | 13.07.2025 11:13 | 17.8 km | 61 km |
| 3.2 | 14.04.2024 15:14 | 4 km | 51 km |
| 2.2 | 03.02.2024 05:00 | 2 km | 53 km |
| 4.0 | 01.02.2024 01:59 | 4.2 km | 59 km |
| 2.5 | 11.10.2023 21:04 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 3.1 | 24.08.2023 11:45 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 3.2 | 30.06.2023 16:41 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 3.3 | 29.05.2023 16:46 | 1 km | 55 km |
| 2.9 | 29.05.2023 00:23 | 2 km | 53 km |
| 2.7 | 11.05.2023 07:43 | 1 km | 53 km |
| 4.0 | 30.03.2023 20:26 | 2.9 km | 52 km |
| 2.8 | 06.01.2023 04:32 | 3 km | 57 km |
| 3.2 | 23.07.2022 16:00 | 12 km | 23 km |
| 2.8 | 14.01.2022 23:03 | 3 km | 47 km |
| 2.7 | 18.09.2021 04:47 | 5 km | 19 km |
| 2.9 | 18.09.2021 03:07 | 15 km | 22 km |
| 2.4 | 21.05.2021 15:11 | 4 km | 50 km |
| 3.2 | 24.04.2021 09:30 | 7 km | 45 km |
| 3.4 | 23.04.2021 16:30 | 2 km | 54 km |
| 3.4 | 20.04.2021 18:01 | 1 km | 53 km |
| 2.9 | 20.04.2021 05:16 | 5 km | 51 km |
| 2.1 | 19.04.2021 23:11 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 2.0 | 19.04.2021 23:05 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 3.9 | 19.04.2021 22:57 | 12.7 km | 48 km |
| 2.5 | 04.04.2021 18:34 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 4.0 | 30.03.2021 16:25 | 7 km | 43 km |
| 2.3 | 01.06.2020 17:24 | 7 km | 61 km |
| 2.6 | 14.06.2019 12:34 | 11 km | 19 km |
| 3.3 | 17.10.2017 10:11 | 1 km | 59 km |
| 2.2 | 29.07.2017 23:22 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 2.6 | 08.07.2017 18:50 | 2 km | 43 km |
| 2.6 | 07.04.2017 03:59 | 10 km | 61 km |
| 2.3 | 29.12.2016 13:29 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 2.5 | 25.12.2016 10:14 | 6 km | 72 km |
| 2.2 | 12.08.2016 23:39 | 3 km | 42 km |
| 2.3 | 23.05.2016 12:26 | 2 km | 63 km |
| 2.7 | 10.05.2016 05:52 | 10 km | 84 km |
| 4.2 | 25.04.2016 10:28 | 3.5 km | 76 km |
| 2.2 | 26.10.2015 11:49 | 10 km | 77 km |
| 3.0 | 01.10.2015 05:37 | 5 km | 52 km |
| 3.1 | 08.06.2014 21:57 | 2 km | 51 km |
| 3.3 | 21.04.2014 01:15 | 2 km | 60 km |
| 2.5 | 13.04.2014 01:29 | 5 km | 55 km |
| 2.0 | 31.03.2014 02:08 | 2 km | 71 km |
| 3.1 | 11.12.2013 17:14 | 2 km | 38 km |
| 2.9 | 23.10.2013 19:34 | 10 km | 61 km |
| 3.0 | 20.10.2013 14:32 | 5 km | 35 km |
| 2.7 | 06.10.2013 10:53 | 2 km | 57 km |
| 2.7 | 02.10.2013 19:42 | 5 km | 54 km |
| 3.6 | 02.10.2013 17:17 | 11.6 km | 55 km |
| 3.2 | 24.09.2013 13:53 | 16 km | 45 km |
| 4.2 | 20.09.2013 02:06 | 14.6 km | 51 km |
| 2.6 | 27.06.2013 18:59 | 2 km | 61 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.