3.0
305
recorded earthquakes
M7.5
largest
1908–2026
record span
4.43
mean magnitude
54
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.5 | 11.11.2004 21:26 | 17.7 km | 95 km |
| 7.4 | 22.06.1982 04:18 | 448.5 km | 128 km |
| 7.2 | 14.02.1952 03:38 | 25 km | 113 km |
| 7.0 | 27.08.1977 07:12 | 24.6 km | 45 km |
| 7.0 | 26.03.1930 07:12 | 10 km | 73 km |
| 6.9 | 25.02.1941 05:37 | 180 km | 101 km |
| 6.8 | 14.05.1995 11:33 | 28 km | 71 km |
| 6.8 | 23.03.1908 12:23 | 35 km | 78 km |
| 6.8 | 04.04.1972 22:43 | 399.9 km | 108 km |
| 6.6 | 14.07.1989 20:42 | 44.4 km | 67 km |
| 6.5 | 04.11.2015 03:44 | 24.6 km | 82 km |
| 6.5 | 30.03.1930 15:19 | 10 km | 112 km |
| 6.4 | 05.12.1995 06:32 | 35.6 km | 124 km |
| 6.2 | 11.06.1940 08:42 | 35 km | 85 km |
| 6.2 | 11.11.2004 22:49 | 30.9 km | 100 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 20.07.2026 16:25 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 3.3 | 23.06.2026 17:10 | 21 km | 37 km |
| 3.3 | 29.05.2026 07:48 | 163 km | 26 km |
| 3.3 | 06.05.2026 01:11 | 123 km | 36 km |
| 2.7 | 26.04.2026 22:48 | 96 km | 41 km |
| 2.6 | 16.04.2026 22:29 | 3 km | 22 km |
| 3.2 | 25.02.2026 12:10 | 10 km | 42 km |
| 2.5 | 23.02.2026 15:35 | 18 km | 33 km |
| 3.9 | 11.01.2026 23:53 | 10 km | 38 km |
| 4.1 | 31.10.2025 22:09 | 0 km | 50 km |
| 3.2 | 27.07.2025 21:23 | 10 km | 34 km |
| 3.0 | 01.07.2025 13:45 | 65 km | 18 km |
| 3.4 | 01.01.2025 18:14 | 10 km | 28 km |
| 5.1 | 22.08.2024 18:42 | 29 km | 84 km |
| 2.9 | 29.03.2024 05:59 | 43 km | 43 km |
| 4.0 | 02.12.2023 23:39 | 35 km | 34 km |
| 4.4 | 12.11.2023 23:44 | 10 km | 56 km |
| 5.5 | 28.10.2023 13:04 | 19.4 km | 83 km |
| 3.0 | 15.09.2023 17:06 | 10 km | 21 km |
| 3.3 | 05.06.2023 20:34 | 43 km | 4 km |
| 3.3 | 14.04.2023 14:59 | 81 km | 18 km |
| 4.1 | 18.12.2022 18:36 | 85.8 km | 21 km |
| 4.2 | 04.04.2022 20:47 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 5.0 | 03.02.2022 15:40 | 4.9 km | 87 km |
| 5.5 | 30.10.2021 11:11 | 18.3 km | 80 km |
| 4.7 | 12.06.2021 19:35 | 100 km | 9 km |
| 4.4 | 13.04.2021 20:49 | 0 km | 57 km |
| 4.1 | 16.01.2021 06:42 | 291 km | 55 km |
| 4.1 | 21.04.2020 21:05 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 5.5 | 02.04.2020 02:13 | 33.4 km | 32 km |
| 4.0 | 16.03.2020 10:18 | 10 km | 14 km |
| 3.8 | 19.05.2019 07:32 | 108 km | 32 km |
| 4.3 | 17.05.2019 09:02 | 106 km | 17 km |
| 4.2 | 21.03.2019 01:53 | 50 km | 32 km |
| 4.0 | 20.03.2019 11:33 | 35 km | 33 km |
| 4.0 | 21.02.2018 09:28 | 35 km | 43 km |
| 4.0 | 17.02.2018 19:29 | 0 km | 29 km |
| 4.2 | 14.02.2018 22:29 | 35 km | 54 km |
| 4.2 | 20.01.2017 17:40 | 35 km | 55 km |
| 4.0 | 16.09.2016 06:37 | 0 km | 50 km |
| 4.0 | 24.05.2016 20:39 | 150 km | 3 km |
| 5.2 | 12.03.2016 04:25 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 4.2 | 12.03.2016 03:51 | 35 km | 43 km |
| 4.0 | 11.03.2016 13:21 | 10 km | 53 km |
| 4.5 | 11.03.2016 10:58 | 35 km | 56 km |
| 4.2 | 24.12.2015 12:30 | 35 km | 33 km |
| 4.0 | 04.12.2015 23:23 | 35 km | 11 km |
| 4.1 | 01.12.2015 02:57 | 35 km | 19 km |
| 4.0 | 26.11.2015 13:13 | 35 km | 4 km |
| 4.2 | 16.11.2015 08:11 | 26 km | 38 km |
| 4.2 | 07.11.2015 23:54 | 31.4 km | 47 km |
| 4.0 | 07.11.2015 02:24 | 0 km | 20 km |
| 4.4 | 06.11.2015 19:33 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 4.0 | 06.11.2015 17:22 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 4.1 | 05.11.2015 18:06 | 35 km | 22 km |
| 4.0 | 05.11.2015 07:32 | 24 km | 51 km |
| 4.0 | 05.11.2015 05:15 | 24 km | 48 km |
| 4.0 | 04.11.2015 14:44 | 35 km | 24 km |
| 4.1 | 04.11.2015 12:27 | 26 km | 43 km |
| 4.2 | 04.11.2015 11:19 | 35 km | 26 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.