4.2
1,314
recorded earthquakes
M7.1
largest
1905–2026
record span
3.46
mean magnitude
1,270
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.1 | 20.11.1933 23:21 | 15 km | 1085 km |
| 7.0 | 01.01.1945 01:20 | 35 km | 1078 km |
| 6.3 | 31.08.1934 05:02 | 15 km | 1069 km |
| 6.3 | 14.07.1905 08:51 | 15 km | 1364 km |
| 6.1 | 08.01.2017 23:47 | 31.9 km | 756 km |
| 6.0 | 07.07.2009 19:11 | 17 km | 1155 km |
| 6.0 | 04.09.1963 13:32 | 15 km | 864 km |
| 6.0 | 10.07.1947 10:48 | 35 km | 1043 km |
| 6.0 | 25.12.1989 14:24 | 10.9 km | 1100 km |
| 5.9 | 27.12.1972 22:59 | 19.2 km | 1237 km |
| 5.7 | 07.10.2008 10:00 | 15.4 km | 1714 km |
| 5.7 | 19.12.1933 17:48 | 10 km | 1357 km |
| 5.7 | 17.11.2008 12:55 | 15.5 km | 1715 km |
| 5.6 | 19.12.1933 17:48 | 35 km | 1158 km |
| 5.6 | 22.08.1935 20:30 | 35 km | 1043 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.2 | 27.07.2026 00:06 | 10 km | 1851 km |
| 3.2 | 10.07.2026 00:30 | 0 km | 1840 km |
| 3.9 | 09.05.2026 15:05 | 10 km | 1770 km |
| 3.8 | 18.04.2026 21:56 | 1.7 km | 1790 km |
| 4.1 | 01.04.2026 23:27 | 3.8 km | 1790 km |
| 2.9 | 22.03.2026 06:59 | 1 km | 1767 km |
| 3.5 | 07.03.2026 20:29 | 10 km | 1083 km |
| 4.7 | 07.03.2026 20:29 | 10 km | 1063 km |
| 3.8 | 01.02.2026 17:43 | 5 km | 1756 km |
| 3.9 | 01.02.2026 17:41 | 10 km | 1748 km |
| 3.8 | 29.01.2026 12:46 | 5 km | 1754 km |
| 4.0 | 23.01.2026 17:00 | 9 km | 1882 km |
| 4.3 | 23.01.2026 16:32 | 10 km | 1853 km |
| 3.4 | 08.12.2025 11:57 | 0 km | 947 km |
| 3.0 | 13.10.2025 08:27 | 1 km | 2000 km |
| 3.3 | 26.09.2025 04:25 | 5 km | 2047 km |
| 3.0 | 11.09.2025 04:59 | 18 km | 1017 km |
| 4.3 | 11.09.2025 00:55 | 9.6 km | 1213 km |
| 3.2 | 22.08.2025 21:47 | 10 km | 2047 km |
| 2.7 | 09.08.2025 13:30 | 3.5 km | 1856 km |
| 5.1 | 31.07.2025 14:55 | 10 km | 1038 km |
| 4.2 | 27.07.2025 03:13 | 3.6 km | 1842 km |
| 2.8 | 20.06.2025 06:24 | 18 km | 390 km |
| 3.0 | 18.06.2025 09:54 | 5.5 km | 1884 km |
| 4.1 | 12.06.2025 06:11 | 5 km | 1853 km |
| 3.1 | 30.05.2025 17:11 | 5 km | 1718 km |
| 2.8 | 07.05.2025 10:58 | 18 km | 968 km |
| 2.9 | 29.03.2025 04:09 | 18 km | 979 km |
| 4.2 | 14.03.2025 03:56 | 4.7 km | 1868 km |
| 3.5 | 01.03.2025 00:39 | 10 km | 1631 km |
| 4.0 | 20.02.2025 23:46 | 6.4 km | 1883 km |
| 4.8 | 20.02.2025 15:41 | 10 km | 1877 km |
| 4.0 | 30.01.2025 05:20 | 4 km | 1864 km |
| 4.1 | 24.01.2025 03:23 | 5 km | 1862 km |
| 4.1 | 13.01.2025 20:50 | 10 km | 780 km |
| 3.0 | 12.01.2025 10:52 | 1 km | 1884 km |
| 2.7 | 04.01.2025 10:53 | 4.7 km | 1970 km |
| 3.5 | 22.12.2024 11:07 | 7.9 km | 1867 km |
| 2.7 | 15.12.2024 19:12 | 2.2 km | 1869 km |
| 2.8 | 14.12.2024 01:47 | 18 km | 947 km |
| 2.7 | 12.12.2024 03:13 | 18 km | 1221 km |
| 2.6 | 08.12.2024 13:03 | 0 km | 1850 km |
| 3.0 | 23.11.2024 11:21 | 1 km | 1856 km |
| 2.6 | 18.11.2024 03:26 | 5.3 km | 1855 km |
| 3.2 | 18.11.2024 02:38 | 2 km | 1866 km |
| 3.7 | 17.11.2024 20:48 | 5.7 km | 1866 km |
| 2.8 | 17.11.2024 16:25 | 4.9 km | 1855 km |
| 2.7 | 17.11.2024 12:30 | 2.6 km | 1854 km |
| 2.9 | 17.11.2024 01:55 | 3.3 km | 1855 km |
| 3.1 | 16.11.2024 18:18 | 0 km | 1855 km |
| 2.5 | 16.11.2024 11:05 | 5.3 km | 1856 km |
| 2.7 | 16.11.2024 07:44 | 2.5 km | 1855 km |
| 2.8 | 16.11.2024 01:32 | 3.9 km | 1855 km |
| 4.4 | 11.11.2024 16:24 | 18 km | 945 km |
| 2.8 | 10.11.2024 21:44 | 6 km | 1855 km |
| 3.1 | 09.11.2024 20:06 | 6 km | 1855 km |
| 3.6 | 08.11.2024 05:51 | 3.5 km | 1877 km |
| 4.0 | 02.11.2024 07:49 | 8 km | 1847 km |
| 2.7 | 01.11.2024 02:56 | 5.1 km | 1689 km |
| 2.8 | 28.10.2024 19:20 | 1.1 km | 1689 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.