4.2
967
recorded earthquakes
M6.3
largest
1905–2026
record span
2.56
mean magnitude
808
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.3 | 14.07.1905 08:51 | 15 km | 670 km |
| 5.2 | 14.04.2001 02:20 | 10.7 km | 341 km |
| 5.2 | 30.11.2022 00:55 | 0 km | 212 km |
| 5.2 | 21.08.1969 23:40 | 0 km | 523 km |
| 5.1 | 29.08.1969 23:17 | 0 km | 523 km |
| 5.1 | 30.09.1969 22:00 | 0 km | 523 km |
| 5.0 | 29.11.2022 23:45 | 4.1 km | 214 km |
| 5.0 | 26.12.1992 20:52 | 5 km | 427 km |
| 5.0 | 18.08.1969 23:21 | 0 km | 523 km |
| 4.8 | 08.03.1970 18:52 | 10 km | 115 km |
| 4.8 | 20.02.2025 15:41 | 10 km | 226 km |
| 4.7 | 16.03.2023 14:59 | 4.2 km | 206 km |
| 4.7 | 16.03.2023 14:46 | 1.9 km | 201 km |
| 4.7 | 14.05.1978 22:37 | 12.3 km | 312 km |
| 4.6 | 11.02.1984 13:38 | 10 km | 561 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.2 | 27.07.2026 00:06 | 10 km | 213 km |
| 3.2 | 10.07.2026 00:30 | 0 km | 249 km |
| 3.2 | 16.05.2026 20:36 | 14.8 km | 580 km |
| 3.9 | 09.05.2026 15:05 | 10 km | 167 km |
| 1.2 | 23.04.2026 00:40 | 0.5 km | 685 km |
| 3.8 | 18.04.2026 21:56 | 1.7 km | 120 km |
| 2.2 | 18.04.2026 00:57 | -0.5 km | 668 km |
| 2.9 | 15.04.2026 23:31 | 0 km | 523 km |
| 4.1 | 01.04.2026 23:27 | 3.8 km | 122 km |
| 2.9 | 22.03.2026 06:59 | 1 km | 152 km |
| 2.2 | 21.03.2026 07:46 | 39.9 km | 567 km |
| 2.9 | 13.03.2026 14:59 | 5 km | 594 km |
| 2.7 | 18.02.2026 09:46 | 13.6 km | 546 km |
| 3.8 | 01.02.2026 17:43 | 5 km | 80 km |
| 3.9 | 01.02.2026 17:41 | 10 km | 77 km |
| 2.7 | 30.01.2026 22:26 | 44.2 km | 610 km |
| 3.8 | 29.01.2026 12:46 | 5 km | 78 km |
| 4.0 | 23.01.2026 17:00 | 9 km | 223 km |
| 4.3 | 23.01.2026 16:32 | 10 km | 211 km |
| 0.8 | 30.12.2025 23:37 | -1 km | 652 km |
| 0.9 | 14.12.2025 03:59 | 0.8 km | 655 km |
| 1.5 | 04.12.2025 03:31 | 8.5 km | 665 km |
| 3.4 | 28.11.2025 07:19 | 9 km | 619 km |
| 1.5 | 17.11.2025 04:08 | -0.3 km | 666 km |
| 1.6 | 09.11.2025 11:05 | -0.2 km | 661 km |
| 3.0 | 13.10.2025 08:27 | 1 km | 252 km |
| 2.6 | 05.10.2025 04:02 | 1 km | 565 km |
| 1.5 | 01.10.2025 20:00 | -0.9 km | 644 km |
| 3.3 | 26.09.2025 04:25 | 5 km | 308 km |
| 1.1 | 25.09.2025 08:47 | 9 km | 653 km |
| 1.0 | 24.09.2025 15:31 | 20 km | 641 km |
| 2.3 | 21.09.2025 21:53 | 29.3 km | 621 km |
| 1.3 | 16.09.2025 13:47 | 4.4 km | 603 km |
| 1.4 | 26.08.2025 11:28 | 28.2 km | 606 km |
| 3.2 | 22.08.2025 21:47 | 10 km | 309 km |
| 1.2 | 16.08.2025 08:12 | 18.8 km | 624 km |
| 2.7 | 09.08.2025 13:30 | 3.5 km | 165 km |
| 4.2 | 27.07.2025 03:13 | 3.6 km | 244 km |
| 3.4 | 19.07.2025 11:38 | 7.5 km | 656 km |
| 1.4 | 09.07.2025 08:14 | 29.7 km | 622 km |
| 3.0 | 18.06.2025 09:54 | 5.5 km | 229 km |
| 1.8 | 17.06.2025 23:27 | -0.3 km | 650 km |
| 4.1 | 12.06.2025 06:11 | 5 km | 124 km |
| 3.1 | 30.05.2025 17:11 | 5 km | 79 km |
| 1.6 | 15.05.2025 11:50 | -0.7 km | 644 km |
| 2.3 | 10.05.2025 22:15 | -0.4 km | 650 km |
| 1.5 | 10.05.2025 17:34 | 0.5 km | 644 km |
| 1.2 | 28.04.2025 16:27 | 0.5 km | 666 km |
| 2.4 | 26.04.2025 07:00 | -1.3 km | 588 km |
| 1.6 | 16.04.2025 09:52 | -0 km | 685 km |
| 1.0 | 10.04.2025 10:36 | 4.1 km | 627 km |
| 1.4 | 22.03.2025 20:30 | -0.8 km | 653 km |
| 4.2 | 14.03.2025 03:56 | 4.7 km | 231 km |
| 1.1 | 07.03.2025 11:43 | 28.6 km | 623 km |
| 3.3 | 06.03.2025 21:08 | 10 km | 451 km |
| 3.1 | 28.02.2025 00:18 | 10 km | 450 km |
| 1.3 | 26.02.2025 09:46 | 35.7 km | 617 km |
| 4.0 | 20.02.2025 23:46 | 6.4 km | 230 km |
| 4.8 | 20.02.2025 15:41 | 10 km | 226 km |
| 1.4 | 17.02.2025 15:28 | 29.1 km | 622 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.