4.2
851
recorded earthquakes
M5.6
largest
1906–2026
record span
2.23
mean magnitude
697
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.6 | 09.01.1906 23:04 | 15 km | 136 km |
| 5.5 | 18.09.1939 00:14 | 15 km | 61 km |
| 5.5 | 08.10.1927 19:49 | 15 km | 66 km |
| 5.5 | 03.10.1936 15:48 | 10 km | 137 km |
| 5.4 | 25.07.1927 20:35 | 15 km | 54 km |
| 5.2 | 08.11.1938 03:11 | 35 km | 61 km |
| 5.2 | 05.03.1930 23:55 | 15 km | 139 km |
| 5.2 | 04.05.1921 17:35 | 15 km | 145 km |
| 5.0 | 11.07.2000 10:56 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 4.8 | 16.04.1972 10:10 | 11.4 km | 53 km |
| 4.8 | 12.06.1973 21:02 | 5 km | 79 km |
| 4.7 | 29.01.1967 00:12 | 14.4 km | 119 km |
| 4.6 | 03.12.1994 12:28 | 12.2 km | 65 km |
| 4.5 | 09.01.1996 01:07 | 10 km | 56 km |
| 4.5 | 14.04.1983 14:52 | 10 km | 76 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.2 | 23.07.2026 23:59 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 2.0 | 17.07.2026 17:44 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 2.7 | 24.04.2026 02:11 | 10 km | 90 km |
| 2.4 | 01.03.2026 04:16 | 5 km | 68 km |
| 3.0 | 20.10.2025 11:54 | 10 km | 70 km |
| 2.3 | 13.10.2025 13:16 | 5 km | 102 km |
| 2.8 | 13.07.2025 11:13 | 17.8 km | 43 km |
| 3.1 | 01.05.2025 23:47 | 5 km | 50 km |
| 2.8 | 12.11.2024 11:11 | 10 km | 104 km |
| 3.2 | 14.04.2024 15:14 | 4 km | 53 km |
| 2.2 | 03.02.2024 05:00 | 2 km | 118 km |
| 4.0 | 01.02.2024 01:59 | 4.2 km | 63 km |
| 2.5 | 11.10.2023 21:04 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 3.1 | 24.08.2023 11:45 | 10 km | 66 km |
| 3.2 | 30.06.2023 16:41 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 3.0 | 05.06.2023 21:40 | 8 km | 113 km |
| 3.3 | 29.05.2023 16:46 | 1 km | 59 km |
| 2.9 | 29.05.2023 00:23 | 2 km | 60 km |
| 2.7 | 11.05.2023 07:43 | 1 km | 62 km |
| 4.0 | 30.03.2023 20:26 | 2.9 km | 61 km |
| 2.5 | 07.03.2023 08:02 | 10 km | 111 km |
| 2.8 | 06.01.2023 04:32 | 3 km | 54 km |
| 2.1 | 08.12.2022 12:02 | 10 km | 108 km |
| 3.1 | 02.10.2022 05:52 | 10 km | 84 km |
| 3.2 | 23.07.2022 16:00 | 12 km | 122 km |
| 2.8 | 14.01.2022 23:03 | 3 km | 61 km |
| 2.6 | 08.12.2021 05:55 | 150 km | 8 km |
| 2.7 | 18.09.2021 04:47 | 5 km | 121 km |
| 2.9 | 18.09.2021 03:07 | 15 km | 124 km |
| 3.0 | 31.08.2021 12:31 | 8 km | 113 km |
| 2.7 | 24.07.2021 03:03 | 5 km | 114 km |
| 2.3 | 21.07.2021 00:28 | 5 km | 108 km |
| 2.2 | 20.07.2021 11:47 | 5 km | 112 km |
| 2.4 | 21.05.2021 15:11 | 4 km | 82 km |
| 3.2 | 24.04.2021 09:30 | 7 km | 60 km |
| 3.4 | 23.04.2021 16:30 | 2 km | 55 km |
| 3.4 | 20.04.2021 18:01 | 1 km | 59 km |
| 2.9 | 20.04.2021 05:16 | 5 km | 55 km |
| 2.1 | 19.04.2021 23:11 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 2.0 | 19.04.2021 23:05 | 10 km | 53 km |
| 3.9 | 19.04.2021 22:57 | 12.7 km | 57 km |
| 2.5 | 04.04.2021 18:34 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 4.0 | 30.03.2021 16:25 | 7 km | 62 km |
| 3.0 | 27.01.2021 00:43 | 5 km | 106 km |
| 3.9 | 20.01.2021 07:30 | 9.6 km | 124 km |
| 2.4 | 20.11.2020 03:38 | 147 km | 42 km |
| 2.3 | 01.06.2020 17:24 | 7 km | 118 km |
| 2.5 | 13.05.2020 20:29 | 30 km | 91 km |
| 2.7 | 10.04.2020 12:28 | 156 km | 87 km |
| 2.6 | 14.06.2019 12:34 | 11 km | 93 km |
| 2.6 | 03.06.2019 09:21 | 1 km | 71 km |
| 3.0 | 16.04.2019 09:51 | 2 km | 20 km |
| 3.3 | 17.10.2017 10:11 | 1 km | 61 km |
| 2.2 | 15.10.2017 22:20 | 10 km | 58 km |
| 2.2 | 29.07.2017 23:22 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 2.6 | 08.07.2017 18:50 | 2 km | 98 km |
| 2.4 | 12.06.2017 10:57 | 5 km | 92 km |
| 2.6 | 06.05.2017 06:23 | 10 km | 121 km |
| 2.6 | 07.04.2017 03:59 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 2.3 | 29.12.2016 13:29 | 10 km | 45 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.