2.7
221
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1930–2026
record span
3.95
mean magnitude
205
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.8 | 17.12.1949 06:53 | 10 km | 208 km |
| 7.8 | 17.12.1949 15:07 | 10 km | 202 km |
| 7.5 | 02.05.2025 12:58 | 10 km | 543 km |
| 7.0 | 14.06.1970 00:00 | 13.6 km | 206 km |
| 6.8 | 30.01.1950 00:56 | 15 km | 133 km |
| 6.3 | 13.07.1930 01:12 | 10 km | 439 km |
| 6.0 | 23.05.1960 07:09 | 20 km | 564 km |
| 6.0 | 08.04.1959 11:44 | 15 km | 216 km |
| 5.9 | 24.05.1960 20:32 | 15 km | 212 km |
| 5.8 | 09.02.1972 20:44 | 27.2 km | 212 km |
| 5.7 | 01.08.1983 14:09 | 25.9 km | 556 km |
| 5.6 | 09.11.2002 06:05 | 28.3 km | 555 km |
| 5.6 | 13.08.1972 11:47 | 33.9 km | 211 km |
| 5.5 | 06.06.1979 10:54 | 17.6 km | 299 km |
| 5.5 | 12.09.2003 16:48 | 35 km | 323 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.7 | 24.07.2026 05:06 | 13 km | 235 km |
| 4.2 | 01.07.2026 21:35 | 10 km | 135 km |
| 5.0 | 15.04.2026 02:38 | 35 km | 298 km |
| 3.8 | 15.04.2026 02:38 | 0 km | 319 km |
| 3.0 | 28.03.2026 16:36 | 18.7 km | 188 km |
| 4.2 | 05.03.2026 15:08 | 10 km | 511 km |
| 4.5 | 11.02.2026 08:16 | 10 km | 107 km |
| 3.6 | 30.01.2026 17:16 | 0 km | 45 km |
| 3.0 | 09.12.2025 02:50 | 9.7 km | 139 km |
| 2.8 | 06.12.2025 15:54 | 10.8 km | 210 km |
| 4.0 | 10.11.2025 16:57 | 10 km | 466 km |
| 3.0 | 01.11.2025 05:32 | 41.9 km | 74 km |
| 4.2 | 31.10.2025 09:45 | 24 km | 57 km |
| 3.1 | 31.10.2025 09:18 | 43.6 km | 68 km |
| 3.6 | 05.10.2025 06:14 | 38.3 km | 286 km |
| 3.2 | 24.09.2025 17:03 | 10 km | 113 km |
| 3.5 | 20.08.2025 11:50 | 0 km | 313 km |
| 3.0 | 09.08.2025 23:16 | 10 km | 132 km |
| 3.1 | 02.08.2025 00:50 | 10 km | 154 km |
| 3.0 | 15.06.2025 05:35 | 16.7 km | 437 km |
| 2.7 | 13.06.2025 18:01 | 18.4 km | 140 km |
| 3.4 | 11.06.2025 01:49 | 27.4 km | 416 km |
| 3.1 | 20.05.2025 01:20 | 12.3 km | 148 km |
| 4.1 | 17.05.2025 06:11 | 10 km | 106 km |
| 4.0 | 17.05.2025 05:40 | 19.7 km | 159 km |
| 3.6 | 14.05.2025 00:19 | 10 km | 125 km |
| 3.0 | 13.05.2025 20:04 | 12.5 km | 134 km |
| 2.5 | 13.05.2025 17:59 | 13.9 km | 146 km |
| 2.7 | 13.05.2025 05:47 | 18.8 km | 128 km |
| 3.3 | 13.05.2025 02:57 | 10 km | 119 km |
| 3.0 | 13.05.2025 02:50 | 10 km | 126 km |
| 2.5 | 13.05.2025 02:34 | 8.9 km | 121 km |
| 4.1 | 13.05.2025 02:19 | 16.4 km | 121 km |
| 2.5 | 13.05.2025 01:40 | 10 km | 124 km |
| 2.9 | 13.05.2025 01:15 | 12.7 km | 125 km |
| 5.2 | 13.05.2025 00:48 | 10 km | 115 km |
| 2.7 | 05.05.2025 12:06 | 12.9 km | 49 km |
| 7.5 | 02.05.2025 12:58 | 10 km | 543 km |
| 3.7 | 26.03.2025 13:33 | 11.2 km | 24 km |
| 3.1 | 26.03.2025 08:32 | 41.4 km | 63 km |
| 2.6 | 26.03.2025 07:23 | 12 km | 52 km |
| 4.5 | 26.03.2025 07:16 | 13.4 km | 49 km |
| 3.0 | 26.03.2025 04:32 | 10.3 km | 47 km |
| 3.1 | 26.03.2025 03:43 | 9.8 km | 50 km |
| 3.2 | 26.03.2025 01:15 | 10.4 km | 46 km |
| 4.4 | 19.02.2025 16:06 | 0 km | 28 km |
| 3.1 | 06.02.2025 01:27 | 9 km | 227 km |
| 3.5 | 19.01.2025 13:26 | 9 km | 216 km |
| 3.4 | 19.01.2025 13:24 | 0 km | 194 km |
| 3.3 | 28.10.2024 06:26 | 5 km | 336 km |
| 3.3 | 15.09.2024 07:51 | 16.5 km | 117 km |
| 2.5 | 14.04.2024 16:44 | 3 km | 198 km |
| 4.1 | 14.03.2024 13:12 | 10 km | 241 km |
| 3.1 | 29.02.2024 01:41 | 13 km | 257 km |
| 3.8 | 17.12.2023 16:50 | 39.7 km | 115 km |
| 4.2 | 07.11.2023 01:00 | 10 km | 297 km |
| 2.5 | 06.11.2023 20:17 | 35.1 km | 187 km |
| 3.8 | 30.10.2023 21:01 | 10.4 km | 224 km |
| 3.0 | 01.09.2023 06:55 | 16 km | 246 km |
| 4.1 | 27.08.2023 14:47 | 25.9 km | 477 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.