2.3
1,017
recorded earthquakes
M6.2
largest
1907–2026
record span
3.04
mean magnitude
646
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.2 | 14.02.1927 03:43 | 50 km | 143 km |
| 6.2 | 11.01.1962 05:05 | 15 km | 70 km |
| 6.1 | 07.01.1962 10:03 | 15 km | 84 km |
| 6.1 | 26.10.1969 15:36 | 23.7 km | 106 km |
| 6.1 | 15.03.1923 05:40 | 15 km | 101 km |
| 6.1 | 27.10.1969 08:10 | 23.7 km | 99 km |
| 6.0 | 13.04.1964 08:30 | 15 km | 170 km |
| 5.8 | 15.08.1956 12:02 | 15 km | 111 km |
| 5.7 | 13.08.1981 02:58 | 7.6 km | 107 km |
| 5.6 | 29.12.1942 03:42 | 35 km | 111 km |
| 5.5 | 27.11.1990 04:38 | 28.3 km | 24 km |
| 5.5 | 25.11.1986 13:59 | 23.1 km | 43 km |
| 5.4 | 25.08.1928 21:08 | 15 km | 108 km |
| 5.4 | 20.01.1943 12:38 | 15 km | 54 km |
| 5.4 | 20.07.1937 07:01 | 15 km | 78 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.3 | 24.07.2026 23:28 | 0 km | 82 km |
| 1.8 | 21.07.2026 16:58 | 29 km | 25 km |
| 2.2 | 20.07.2026 04:46 | 1 km | 18 km |
| 3.3 | 08.07.2026 03:57 | 5.4 km | 39 km |
| 2.2 | 19.06.2026 14:13 | 22 km | 23 km |
| 2.1 | 04.06.2026 08:19 | 13 km | 24 km |
| 1.3 | 29.05.2026 00:20 | 14 km | 68 km |
| 2.1 | 26.05.2026 11:33 | 25 km | 29 km |
| 3.6 | 25.05.2026 15:38 | 10 km | 29 km |
| 3.8 | 25.05.2026 15:25 | 10 km | 29 km |
| 1.8 | 21.05.2026 18:38 | 1 km | 58 km |
| 1.3 | 19.05.2026 13:13 | 12 km | 59 km |
| 2.5 | 26.04.2026 13:54 | 7 km | 12 km |
| 2.4 | 20.04.2026 16:55 | 25.2 km | 33 km |
| 2.6 | 16.04.2026 19:43 | 9.5 km | 59 km |
| 3.6 | 04.03.2026 00:23 | 10 km | 53 km |
| 3.4 | 23.02.2026 19:35 | 10 km | 82 km |
| 3.2 | 19.02.2026 17:19 | 7.4 km | 56 km |
| 4.4 | 17.02.2026 16:31 | 0 km | 22 km |
| 2.9 | 15.02.2026 21:11 | 6 km | 56 km |
| 3.0 | 13.02.2026 10:18 | 10 km | 73 km |
| 3.0 | 02.02.2026 09:20 | 12 km | 84 km |
| 3.3 | 02.02.2026 09:17 | 7 km | 82 km |
| 2.8 | 07.01.2026 17:09 | 7.6 km | 39 km |
| 2.4 | 14.11.2025 18:00 | 10.5 km | 45 km |
| 3.4 | 07.11.2025 08:26 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 1.7 | 10.10.2025 03:52 | 3 km | 38 km |
| 2.4 | 02.10.2025 23:47 | 9 km | 55 km |
| 3.7 | 02.10.2025 21:39 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 2.4 | 19.08.2025 14:16 | 7 km | 76 km |
| 3.1 | 12.08.2025 01:28 | 10.5 km | 23 km |
| 2.9 | 16.07.2025 17:18 | 4 km | 57 km |
| 2.8 | 08.07.2025 04:18 | 4 km | 39 km |
| 3.2 | 06.07.2025 01:55 | 10 km | 66 km |
| 3.2 | 16.06.2025 17:00 | 10 km | 25 km |
| 2.4 | 14.06.2025 20:24 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 2.5 | 01.05.2025 06:55 | 4 km | 59 km |
| 2.4 | 15.04.2025 15:10 | 12 km | 21 km |
| 3.2 | 31.01.2025 04:02 | 10 km | 79 km |
| 2.3 | 30.12.2024 03:12 | 4 km | 29 km |
| 2.4 | 20.12.2024 10:08 | 0 km | 75 km |
| 2.4 | 02.12.2024 09:07 | 9 km | 71 km |
| 3.1 | 24.11.2024 20:54 | 7 km | 71 km |
| 3.4 | 24.11.2024 20:45 | 5.3 km | 73 km |
| 3.4 | 22.11.2024 08:15 | 6.6 km | 71 km |
| 2.6 | 18.11.2024 10:50 | 5 km | 38 km |
| 2.4 | 22.10.2024 15:23 | 10 km | 28 km |
| 2.7 | 15.10.2024 02:51 | 5 km | 85 km |
| 4.1 | 22.09.2024 12:23 | 7.7 km | 86 km |
| 2.9 | 06.07.2024 02:17 | 9 km | 45 km |
| 2.8 | 18.06.2024 17:39 | 9 km | 67 km |
| 2.8 | 14.06.2024 11:12 | 2 km | 82 km |
| 2.8 | 26.02.2024 15:47 | 5 km | 69 km |
| 4.7 | 30.12.2023 20:43 | 15.1 km | 90 km |
| 2.6 | 29.12.2023 06:59 | 5 km | 68 km |
| 3.8 | 27.12.2023 18:56 | 10 km | 76 km |
| 2.7 | 27.12.2023 05:32 | 10 km | 75 km |
| 2.9 | 17.12.2023 12:13 | 10 km | 40 km |
| 2.3 | 17.12.2023 04:21 | 11 km | 44 km |
| 2.1 | 15.11.2023 06:38 | 14 km | 42 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.