No records in the last 30 days.
253
recorded earthquakes
M7.5
largest
1918–2026
record span
4.09
mean magnitude
158
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.5 | 08.07.1918 10:22 | 15 km | 247 km |
| 7.1 | 16.08.1938 04:28 | 75 km | 238 km |
| 6.9 | 09.09.1923 22:03 | 15 km | 287 km |
| 6.4 | 30.03.1921 10:26 | 15 km | 100 km |
| 6.3 | 24.12.1944 14:46 | 15 km | 268 km |
| 6.2 | 25.11.2021 23:45 | 42.7 km | 198 km |
| 6.1 | 14.12.1955 10:51 | 35 km | 131 km |
| 6.1 | 31.05.1973 23:40 | 53.5 km | 279 km |
| 6.1 | 21.11.1997 11:23 | 41.3 km | 108 km |
| 6.0 | 30.12.1984 23:33 | 3.1 km | 278 km |
| 5.9 | 12.05.1977 12:20 | 43.3 km | 162 km |
| 5.8 | 06.02.1988 14:50 | 30.6 km | 246 km |
| 5.8 | 19.05.1945 05:02 | 35 km | 248 km |
| 5.7 | 23.10.1926 14:30 | 15 km | 242 km |
| 5.7 | 02.11.1959 13:15 | 35 km | 135 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.4 | 28.06.2026 15:53 | 49 km | 140 km |
| 4.4 | 22.06.2026 15:28 | 10 km | 186 km |
| 2.8 | 19.06.2026 17:04 | 8 km | 144 km |
| 2.8 | 28.05.2026 04:59 | 11 km | 227 km |
| 3.2 | 21.05.2026 04:51 | 12 km | 142 km |
| 2.9 | 30.04.2026 19:14 | 30 km | 140 km |
| 3.8 | 15.04.2026 20:39 | 22 km | 170 km |
| 3.1 | 08.04.2026 17:53 | 25 km | 214 km |
| 3.9 | 04.04.2026 19:04 | 49.3 km | 112 km |
| 2.9 | 04.04.2026 14:48 | 10 km | 67 km |
| 2.7 | 25.03.2026 20:22 | 10 km | 93 km |
| 2.5 | 15.03.2026 05:17 | 17 km | 194 km |
| 2.9 | 05.03.2026 20:53 | 9 km | 207 km |
| 2.9 | 05.03.2026 02:42 | 19 km | 196 km |
| 3.1 | 04.03.2026 22:46 | 10 km | 211 km |
| 2.9 | 04.03.2026 15:18 | 10 km | 205 km |
| 3.8 | 04.03.2026 12:52 | 12 km | 210 km |
| 2.7 | 03.03.2026 12:44 | 10 km | 207 km |
| 3.0 | 18.02.2026 08:08 | 25 km | 142 km |
| 2.6 | 15.02.2026 01:08 | 10 km | 130 km |
| 3.9 | 04.01.2026 22:03 | 54 km | 131 km |
| 3.9 | 26.12.2025 12:43 | 10 km | 103 km |
| 2.9 | 08.12.2025 12:06 | 5 km | 197 km |
| 4.1 | 04.12.2025 00:14 | 10 km | 183 km |
| 4.1 | 27.11.2025 10:15 | 10 km | 198 km |
| 3.6 | 23.11.2025 11:58 | 10 km | 223 km |
| 3.9 | 22.11.2025 12:06 | 10 km | 172 km |
| 3.3 | 22.11.2025 04:36 | 10 km | 194 km |
| 5.4 | 21.11.2025 04:38 | 28.1 km | 186 km |
| 4.1 | 21.09.2025 07:42 | 238.1 km | 127 km |
| 3.1 | 18.09.2025 17:35 | 20 km | 153 km |
| 3.7 | 08.09.2025 14:57 | 10 km | 205 km |
| 3.1 | 11.04.2025 10:52 | 10 km | 174 km |
| 3.7 | 02.03.2025 07:33 | 10 km | 144 km |
| 3.3 | 23.12.2024 13:34 | 10 km | 144 km |
| 3.6 | 24.11.2024 22:26 | 10 km | 201 km |
| 3.1 | 22.07.2024 17:25 | 7 km | 136 km |
| 4.4 | 04.07.2024 21:12 | 19.5 km | 234 km |
| 3.3 | 20.04.2024 16:46 | 50 km | 116 km |
| 3.0 | 24.02.2024 14:06 | 55 km | 156 km |
| 3.5 | 05.01.2024 01:48 | 10 km | 111 km |
| 3.3 | 30.12.2023 22:47 | 24 km | 192 km |
| 2.9 | 04.12.2023 15:17 | 5 km | 196 km |
| 5.5 | 02.12.2023 03:35 | 43.2 km | 105 km |
| 4.1 | 01.11.2023 21:44 | 22.2 km | 171 km |
| 3.5 | 22.10.2023 20:39 | 20 km | 180 km |
| 3.1 | 26.09.2023 20:47 | 5 km | 192 km |
| 4.0 | 17.09.2023 06:49 | 10 km | 207 km |
| 3.8 | 24.07.2023 10:04 | 31 km | 148 km |
| 4.0 | 04.05.2023 23:57 | 27.4 km | 194 km |
| 4.0 | 24.04.2023 20:15 | 29 km | 174 km |
| 4.2 | 25.02.2023 10:39 | 10 km | 187 km |
| 4.0 | 16.01.2023 20:20 | 10 km | 136 km |
| 3.2 | 24.03.2022 07:20 | 24 km | 136 km |
| 3.7 | 10.12.2021 19:19 | 10 km | 196 km |
| 6.2 | 25.11.2021 23:45 | 42.7 km | 198 km |
| 4.2 | 19.10.2021 00:44 | 35 km | 110 km |
| 3.3 | 13.05.2021 03:45 | 10 km | 153 km |
| 3.5 | 20.03.2021 17:52 | 10 km | 25 km |
| 3.5 | 03.11.2020 11:58 | 20 km | 230 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.