4.2
1,549
recorded earthquakes
M6.5
largest
1908–2026
record span
2.09
mean magnitude
1,093
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.5 | 06.05.1976 20:00 | 13.4 km | 155 km |
| 6.1 | 17.06.1976 14:28 | 24 km | 191 km |
| 6.0 | 15.09.1976 09:21 | 7.6 km | 165 km |
| 6.0 | 15.09.1976 03:15 | 3.8 km | 164 km |
| 5.9 | 07.05.1976 09:41 | 33 km | 174 km |
| 5.7 | 23.11.1976 07:30 | 33 km | 171 km |
| 5.6 | 12.04.1998 10:55 | 24.5 km | 147 km |
| 5.6 | 27.03.1928 08:32 | 35 km | 162 km |
| 5.5 | 17.02.1960 15:32 | — | 125 km |
| 5.5 | 18.09.1939 00:14 | 15 km | 105 km |
| 5.5 | 11.09.1976 16:35 | 11.8 km | 161 km |
| 5.5 | 08.10.1927 19:49 | 15 km | 143 km |
| 5.5 | 03.10.1936 15:48 | 10 km | 8 km |
| 5.4 | 25.07.1927 20:35 | 15 km | 81 km |
| 5.4 | 26.03.1928 14:40 | 15 km | 143 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.2 | 23.07.2026 23:59 | 10 km | 93 km |
| 2.0 | 17.07.2026 17:44 | 10 km | 125 km |
| 1.5 | 20.06.2026 22:33 | 56 km | 111 km |
| 0.7 | 02.06.2026 13:59 | 0 km | 117 km |
| 1.5 | 13.04.2026 11:29 | 0 km | 115 km |
| 1.1 | 07.03.2026 14:35 | 12 km | 105 km |
| 2.4 | 01.03.2026 04:16 | 5 km | 78 km |
| 2.1 | 24.02.2026 18:07 | 10.6 km | 62 km |
| 1.1 | 07.01.2026 12:05 | 0 km | 93 km |
| 1.2 | 06.01.2026 06:41 | 8 km | 105 km |
| 0.9 | 06.01.2026 06:06 | 0 km | 111 km |
| 1.1 | 10.11.2025 12:27 | 8 km | 109 km |
| 0.6 | 31.10.2025 20:38 | 10 km | 102 km |
| 1.0 | 21.10.2025 12:44 | 18 km | 111 km |
| 3.0 | 20.10.2025 11:54 | 10 km | 87 km |
| 2.3 | 13.10.2025 13:16 | 5 km | 29 km |
| 1.1 | 10.10.2025 13:43 | 100 km | 103 km |
| 1.2 | 09.10.2025 08:23 | 8 km | 109 km |
| 1.3 | 22.09.2025 13:28 | 0 km | 115 km |
| 1.1 | 02.09.2025 11:28 | 6 km | 109 km |
| 2.8 | 13.07.2025 11:13 | 17.8 km | 121 km |
| 0.5 | 04.07.2025 14:33 | 2 km | 131 km |
| 1.3 | 10.06.2025 13:33 | 8 km | 109 km |
| 1.0 | 06.06.2025 07:20 | 20 km | 102 km |
| 1.1 | 29.05.2025 10:37 | 18 km | 92 km |
| 1.6 | 21.05.2025 08:14 | 6 km | 116 km |
| 1.2 | 09.05.2025 23:32 | 16 km | 85 km |
| 3.1 | 01.05.2025 23:47 | 5 km | 86 km |
| 1.3 | 11.04.2025 20:58 | 4 km | 103 km |
| 1.1 | 27.03.2025 07:59 | 0 km | 115 km |
| 2.1 | 17.03.2025 03:41 | 14 km | 111 km |
| 0.8 | 16.02.2025 12:38 | 0 km | 117 km |
| 0.5 | 08.01.2025 21:33 | 10 km | 117 km |
| 0.8 | 21.12.2024 18:31 | 2 km | 127 km |
| 2.8 | 12.11.2024 11:11 | 10 km | 26 km |
| 1.2 | 07.11.2024 23:51 | 14 km | 107 km |
| 1.4 | 31.10.2024 11:56 | 0 km | 115 km |
| 0.8 | 21.10.2024 12:58 | 0 km | 115 km |
| 2.4 | 17.09.2024 14:36 | 10 km | 91 km |
| 1.0 | 27.08.2024 12:59 | 6 km | 109 km |
| 1.2 | 30.07.2024 13:30 | 6 km | 109 km |
| 2.1 | 24.06.2024 20:31 | 2 km | 93 km |
| 1.2 | 07.06.2024 03:33 | 0 km | 100 km |
| 1.2 | 08.05.2024 06:59 | 6 km | 109 km |
| 1.1 | 22.04.2024 23:34 | 6 km | 120 km |
| 3.2 | 14.04.2024 15:14 | 4 km | 119 km |
| 0.9 | 24.03.2024 05:25 | 14 km | 106 km |
| 2.2 | 24.02.2024 11:33 | 10 km | 26 km |
| 0.5 | 17.02.2024 03:22 | 6 km | 127 km |
| 2.1 | 01.02.2024 16:20 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 4.0 | 01.02.2024 01:59 | 4.2 km | 89 km |
| 2.6 | 05.01.2024 02:20 | 4.2 km | 85 km |
| 0.9 | 02.01.2024 02:09 | 0 km | 111 km |
| 1.2 | 14.11.2023 13:30 | 6 km | 109 km |
| 2.5 | 11.10.2023 21:04 | 10 km | 103 km |
| 1.1 | 05.10.2023 19:11 | 8 km | 111 km |
| 1.3 | 05.10.2023 14:31 | 0 km | 115 km |
| 0.9 | 04.10.2023 08:25 | 8 km | 109 km |
| 1.1 | 25.09.2023 13:42 | 4 km | 112 km |
| 0.8 | 18.09.2023 13:47 | 0 km | 117 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.