2.4
780
recorded earthquakes
M7.0
largest
1904–2026
record span
2.60
mean magnitude
154
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | 04.04.1904 10:26 | 15 km | 68 km |
| 6.8 | 04.04.1904 10:02 | 15 km | 59 km |
| 6.5 | 08.03.1931 01:50 | 10 km | 112 km |
| 6.4 | 26.07.1963 04:17 | 15 km | 136 km |
| 6.1 | 08.10.1905 07:27 | 15 km | 23 km |
| 5.9 | 10.08.1921 14:10 | 15 km | 70 km |
| 5.7 | 22.05.2012 00:01 | 16 km | 39 km |
| 5.6 | 22.05.2012 00:00 | 10.8 km | 34 km |
| 5.5 | 03.11.1977 02:22 | 10.1 km | 90 km |
| 5.4 | 23.02.1910 07:52 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 5.3 | 09.07.1905 23:10 | 30 km | 110 km |
| 5.3 | 07.11.1912 19:52 | 30 km | 99 km |
| 5.2 | 28.09.1985 14:50 | 4.1 km | 98 km |
| 5.2 | 13.08.1907 02:20 | 10 km | 77 km |
| 5.1 | 16.06.1959 00:32 | 15 km | 63 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.4 | 11.07.2026 09:42 | 14 km | 49 km |
| 2.6 | 15.05.2026 16:54 | 1.6 km | 62 km |
| 3.4 | 17.03.2026 19:43 | 18 km | 58 km |
| 2.4 | 13.03.2026 12:49 | 5 km | 51 km |
| 2.9 | 10.02.2026 18:00 | 14.5 km | 14 km |
| 2.7 | 24.01.2026 04:50 | 3 km | 45 km |
| 3.3 | 02.01.2026 15:52 | 16.4 km | 41 km |
| 3.1 | 02.01.2026 14:10 | 15 km | 48 km |
| 3.6 | 17.11.2025 14:48 | 5 km | 46 km |
| 2.5 | 15.10.2025 13:58 | 3 km | 46 km |
| 2.7 | 24.07.2025 22:16 | 10 km | 46 km |
| 2.4 | 24.07.2025 21:29 | 16.2 km | 47 km |
| 2.2 | 06.07.2025 20:02 | 15.1 km | 48 km |
| 2.0 | 18.06.2025 05:09 | 17.5 km | 48 km |
| 2.6 | 17.06.2025 23:37 | 15 km | 20 km |
| 2.3 | 02.05.2025 18:52 | 17.7 km | 44 km |
| 2.6 | 14.04.2025 01:21 | 15 km | 56 km |
| 2.8 | 12.04.2025 12:34 | 11.7 km | 60 km |
| 2.7 | 08.04.2025 00:58 | 5 km | 54 km |
| 2.1 | 07.04.2025 10:45 | 11.1 km | 33 km |
| 2.4 | 30.01.2025 03:28 | 14.2 km | 32 km |
| 2.2 | 13.01.2025 12:47 | 5 km | 46 km |
| 2.5 | 09.11.2024 01:22 | 16.4 km | 66 km |
| 2.0 | 01.11.2024 10:46 | 18.7 km | 45 km |
| 2.1 | 20.10.2024 13:00 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 2.4 | 21.09.2024 09:22 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 2.7 | 20.08.2024 12:59 | 7.9 km | 46 km |
| 2.5 | 18.08.2024 14:07 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 2.6 | 05.08.2024 12:33 | 5.6 km | 64 km |
| 2.0 | 05.08.2024 04:33 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 2.1 | 04.08.2024 15:22 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 2.8 | 06.06.2024 13:01 | 16 km | 47 km |
| 2.0 | 26.04.2024 06:41 | 2 km | 58 km |
| 3.9 | 29.03.2024 06:38 | 35.4 km | 69 km |
| 2.2 | 13.03.2024 05:36 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 2.9 | 24.02.2024 17:09 | 13 km | 43 km |
| 2.0 | 19.02.2024 05:49 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 2.0 | 18.02.2024 13:04 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 2.0 | 11.02.2024 00:49 | 10 km | 46 km |
| 2.5 | 02.02.2024 07:16 | 6 km | 57 km |
| 2.0 | 24.01.2024 03:23 | 15 km | 49 km |
| 2.2 | 22.12.2023 16:52 | 7 km | 46 km |
| 2.3 | 22.12.2023 11:34 | 11.6 km | 47 km |
| 2.2 | 14.12.2023 18:23 | 15 km | 48 km |
| 2.7 | 07.12.2023 11:37 | 11.8 km | 48 km |
| 3.0 | 07.12.2023 11:30 | 1 km | 47 km |
| 2.6 | 26.11.2023 21:22 | 11 km | 50 km |
| 3.1 | 24.11.2023 12:34 | 6.7 km | 62 km |
| 2.3 | 07.11.2023 04:29 | 10.8 km | 47 km |
| 2.1 | 27.10.2023 20:01 | 10 km | 43 km |
| 2.8 | 03.10.2023 18:09 | 11.1 km | 49 km |
| 2.4 | 28.09.2023 01:56 | 5 km | 51 km |
| 2.0 | 21.09.2023 02:54 | 13 km | 50 km |
| 3.0 | 16.09.2023 07:38 | 12.3 km | 49 km |
| 2.1 | 14.09.2023 19:49 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 2.0 | 13.09.2023 11:58 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 2.4 | 10.09.2023 12:32 | 12 km | 47 km |
| 2.0 | 10.09.2023 12:14 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 2.5 | 10.09.2023 09:50 | 8.6 km | 49 km |
| 3.0 | 10.09.2023 09:47 | 10.5 km | 48 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.