2.4
780
recorded earthquakes
M7.0
largest
1904–2026
record span
2.77
mean magnitude
491
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 | 102 km |
| 6.9 | 18.04.1928 19:22 | 15 km | 127 km |
| 6.8 | 04.04.1904 10:02 | 15 km | 102 km |
| 6.5 | 08.03.1931 01:50 | 10 km | 164 km |
| 6.1 | 08.10.1905 07:27 | 15 km | 43 km |
| 5.9 | 10.08.1921 14:10 | 15 km | 124 km |
| 5.7 | 22.05.2012 00:01 | 16 km | 48 km |
| 5.7 | 18.04.1928 19:41 | 45 km | 128 km |
| 5.6 | 28.04.1928 17:59 | 15 km | 121 km |
| 5.6 | 22.05.2012 00:00 | 10.8 km | 49 km |
| 5.5 | 03.11.1977 02:22 | 10.1 km | 64 km |
| 5.4 | 19.04.1928 22:21 | 26 km | 132 km |
| 5.4 | 23.02.1910 07:52 | 10 km | 97 km |
| 5.3 | 09.07.1905 23:10 | 30 km | 86 km |
| 5.3 | 07.11.1912 19:52 | 30 km | 88 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.4 | 11.07.2026 09:42 | 14 km | 82 km |
| 2.6 | 15.05.2026 16:54 | 1.6 km | 53 km |
| 2.9 | 10.02.2026 18:00 | 14.5 km | 56 km |
| 2.4 | 05.02.2026 12:33 | 2.6 km | 40 km |
| 2.7 | 24.01.2026 04:50 | 3 km | 81 km |
| 3.3 | 02.01.2026 15:52 | 16.4 km | 83 km |
| 3.1 | 02.01.2026 14:10 | 15 km | 81 km |
| 2.4 | 23.09.2025 11:30 | 10.4 km | 36 km |
| 3.7 | 02.09.2025 19:06 | 19.4 km | 79 km |
| 2.1 | 31.07.2025 18:48 | 8 km | 72 km |
| 2.6 | 17.06.2025 23:37 | 15 km | 85 km |
| 2.6 | 14.06.2025 16:48 | 15.7 km | 33 km |
| 2.3 | 02.05.2025 18:52 | 17.7 km | 86 km |
| 2.8 | 12.04.2025 12:34 | 11.7 km | 29 km |
| 2.1 | 07.04.2025 10:45 | 11.1 km | 45 km |
| 2.4 | 30.01.2025 03:28 | 14.2 km | 71 km |
| 1.5 | 29.01.2025 21:18 | 0.4 km | 51 km |
| 3.2 | 29.12.2024 17:57 | 10.2 km | 83 km |
| 2.8 | 28.12.2024 17:35 | 5.4 km | 45 km |
| 3.0 | 23.12.2024 23:33 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 2.5 | 09.11.2024 01:22 | 16.4 km | 6 km |
| 2.0 | 01.11.2024 10:46 | 18.7 km | 85 km |
| 2.3 | 30.10.2024 09:07 | 19 km | 39 km |
| 2.0 | 21.10.2024 01:07 | 17.5 km | 81 km |
| 2.6 | 26.09.2024 02:21 | 4.2 km | 58 km |
| 2.0 | 23.09.2024 10:37 | 11.6 km | 33 km |
| 2.4 | 03.09.2024 19:18 | 7 km | 84 km |
| 2.7 | 20.08.2024 12:59 | 7.9 km | 25 km |
| 2.8 | 17.08.2024 06:58 | 17.6 km | 60 km |
| 2.4 | 15.08.2024 08:09 | 9.6 km | 74 km |
| 2.6 | 05.08.2024 12:33 | 5.6 km | 51 km |
| 2.0 | 05.08.2024 04:33 | 10 km | 82 km |
| 2.6 | 12.07.2024 23:04 | 10 km | 82 km |
| 2.1 | 17.06.2024 07:46 | 13 km | 39 km |
| 2.5 | 18.05.2024 23:39 | 2.9 km | 58 km |
| 2.0 | 26.04.2024 06:41 | 2 km | 62 km |
| 2.2 | 11.04.2024 18:07 | 14 km | 44 km |
| 2.8 | 11.04.2024 05:06 | 14 km | 43 km |
| 3.9 | 29.03.2024 06:38 | 35.4 km | 74 km |
| 2.2 | 13.03.2024 05:36 | 10 km | 82 km |
| 2.0 | 19.02.2024 05:49 | 10 km | 90 km |
| 2.5 | 02.02.2024 07:16 | 6 km | 38 km |
| 2.1 | 21.12.2023 13:14 | 10 km | 100 km |
| 3.1 | 24.11.2023 12:34 | 6.7 km | 4 km |
| 3.0 | 17.09.2023 11:15 | 35 km | 44 km |
| 2.4 | 16.09.2023 14:46 | 9 km | 45 km |
| 2.0 | 13.09.2023 11:58 | 10 km | 85 km |
| 2.3 | 20.07.2023 18:17 | 9.2 km | 48 km |
| 2.3 | 14.06.2023 21:00 | 12 km | 66 km |
| 2.9 | 07.06.2023 13:07 | 4.4 km | 97 km |
| 2.4 | 12.04.2023 17:28 | 10 km | 87 km |
| 2.6 | 20.02.2023 18:36 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 2.6 | 12.01.2023 13:58 | 15 km | 11 km |
| 2.4 | 27.12.2022 14:34 | 2 km | 35 km |
| 2.6 | 21.12.2022 01:19 | 2 km | 14 km |
| 2.3 | 19.12.2022 17:02 | 12 km | 26 km |
| 2.7 | 07.12.2022 06:25 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 2.4 | 31.10.2022 05:35 | 10 km | 74 km |
| 3.0 | 25.07.2022 11:55 | 10 km | 70 km |
| 2.8 | 15.07.2022 02:44 | 20 km | 53 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.