5.0
334
recorded earthquakes
M7.3
largest
1917–2026
record span
4.17
mean magnitude
113
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.3 | 30.07.1917 23:54 | 15 km | 396 km |
| 6.1 | 25.05.2008 08:21 | 18.6 km | 349 km |
| 5.8 | 17.05.2008 17:08 | 15.7 km | 346 km |
| 5.7 | 17.06.2019 14:55 | 17.4 km | 339 km |
| 5.7 | 01.08.2008 08:32 | 18.1 km | 357 km |
| 5.6 | 12.05.2008 08:47 | 12.3 km | 340 km |
| 5.5 | 01.07.1931 07:48 | 15 km | 49 km |
| 5.5 | 12.05.2008 06:39 | 0 km | 176 km |
| 5.5 | 12.05.2008 09:23 | 13.5 km | 348 km |
| 5.4 | 15.09.2021 20:33 | 10.6 km | 254 km |
| 5.3 | 12.03.2009 08:25 | 10 km | 352 km |
| 5.3 | 16.12.2018 04:46 | 15.3 km | 340 km |
| 5.2 | 22.06.2019 14:29 | 12.6 km | 337 km |
| 5.2 | 19.05.2008 06:06 | 12.6 km | 339 km |
| 5.2 | 28.06.2026 16:12 | 0 km | 340 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | 02.08.2026 18:21 | 2.6 km | 336 km |
| 3.3 | 30.07.2026 13:39 | 6 km | 229 km |
| 5.2 | 28.06.2026 16:12 | 0 km | 340 km |
| 4.4 | 12.05.2026 14:13 | 10 km | 320 km |
| 3.8 | 02.05.2026 03:45 | 0 km | 320 km |
| 4.0 | 15.04.2026 01:43 | 10 km | 264 km |
| 3.3 | 13.04.2026 08:39 | 10 km | 253 km |
| 4.5 | 13.04.2026 08:39 | 10 km | 271 km |
| 4.0 | 11.04.2026 06:13 | 10 km | 270 km |
| 4.1 | 11.04.2026 04:38 | 10 km | 271 km |
| 3.5 | 15.03.2026 23:23 | 0 km | 144 km |
| 4.1 | 08.02.2026 03:01 | 10 km | 321 km |
| 4.1 | 08.11.2025 13:47 | 0 km | 350 km |
| 4.0 | 11.10.2025 14:11 | 0 km | 331 km |
| 4.3 | 20.09.2025 09:12 | 10 km | 249 km |
| 4.5 | 16.08.2025 19:30 | 0 km | 84 km |
| 3.6 | 16.06.2025 22:39 | 0 km | 333 km |
| 3.4 | 08.04.2025 23:51 | 0 km | 320 km |
| 4.6 | 24.03.2025 11:21 | 8 km | 345 km |
| 4.0 | 17.03.2025 13:29 | 0 km | 66 km |
| 4.3 | 02.03.2025 10:58 | 10 km | 326 km |
| 3.5 | 09.02.2025 15:11 | 0 km | 325 km |
| 4.3 | 14.01.2025 17:32 | 10 km | 336 km |
| 4.0 | 07.01.2025 00:52 | 0 km | 206 km |
| 4.1 | 09.10.2024 17:52 | 10 km | 329 km |
| 4.1 | 31.08.2024 10:40 | 10 km | 350 km |
| 3.1 | 07.07.2024 02:56 | 10 km | 221 km |
| 3.1 | 20.03.2024 03:51 | 19 km | 322 km |
| 4.5 | 19.01.2024 17:41 | 10 km | 336 km |
| 3.3 | 14.12.2023 02:39 | 29 km | 232 km |
| 4.0 | 16.08.2023 23:34 | 0 km | 115 km |
| 3.2 | 01.07.2023 03:56 | 10 km | 332 km |
| 4.2 | 16.05.2023 11:28 | 10 km | 332 km |
| 4.5 | 10.05.2023 00:38 | 10 km | 345 km |
| 4.4 | 06.05.2023 05:02 | 36.1 km | 249 km |
| 3.0 | 06.05.2023 05:01 | 10 km | 237 km |
| 4.8 | 04.05.2023 02:15 | 27.9 km | 335 km |
| 4.1 | 03.05.2023 05:04 | 32.4 km | 336 km |
| 3.5 | 03.05.2023 04:08 | 14.5 km | 334 km |
| 4.4 | 03.02.2023 01:24 | 0 km | 305 km |
| 4.4 | 10.01.2023 20:25 | 10 km | 340 km |
| 3.5 | 14.12.2022 23:18 | 10 km | 236 km |
| 4.4 | 24.10.2022 04:20 | 0 km | 232 km |
| 4.3 | 16.09.2022 04:53 | 0 km | 341 km |
| 4.2 | 29.08.2022 14:42 | 10 km | 332 km |
| 3.4 | 25.08.2022 00:00 | 9.8 km | 244 km |
| 4.6 | 25.08.2022 00:00 | 10 km | 248 km |
| 4.3 | 21.04.2022 03:33 | 10 km | 338 km |
| 3.6 | 06.04.2022 21:54 | 11.5 km | 335 km |
| 4.6 | 05.04.2022 23:50 | 14.9 km | 335 km |
| 4.4 | 29.01.2022 05:18 | 19 km | 330 km |
| 3.2 | 19.01.2022 21:52 | 10 km | 330 km |
| 4.2 | 09.01.2022 20:36 | 0 km | 292 km |
| 4.1 | 12.11.2021 01:50 | 10 km | 336 km |
| 4.1 | 07.10.2021 12:10 | 35 km | 244 km |
| 4.1 | 24.09.2021 18:16 | 35 km | 242 km |
| 5.4 | 15.09.2021 20:33 | 10.6 km | 254 km |
| 4.3 | 31.08.2021 22:37 | 10 km | 338 km |
| 4.0 | 30.08.2021 15:28 | 35 km | 284 km |
| 4.2 | 24.08.2021 11:06 | 10 km | 250 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.