3.4
937
recorded earthquakes
M7.5
largest
1924–2026
record span
4.24
mean magnitude
389
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 | 12.12.1953 17:31 | 25 km | 180 km |
| 7.4 | 27.07.1971 02:02 | 105.6 km | 196 km |
| 7.2 | 10.12.1970 04:34 | 17.4 km | 203 km |
| 7.0 | 03.10.1995 01:51 | 26.3 km | 146 km |
| 6.8 | 16.11.2007 03:12 | 123.1 km | 158 km |
| 6.7 | 18.03.2023 17:12 | 70.1 km | 91 km |
| 6.5 | 22.07.1924 04:04 | 250 km | 156 km |
| 6.4 | 03.11.1963 03:10 | 25 km | 163 km |
| 6.4 | 03.10.1995 12:44 | 15.1 km | 136 km |
| 6.2 | 07.09.2018 02:12 | 105.1 km | 87 km |
| 6.2 | 30.01.1943 05:33 | 58.7 km | 163 km |
| 6.2 | 10.05.1963 22:22 | 20 km | 190 km |
| 6.1 | 25.05.1958 21:11 | 45.8 km | 136 km |
| 6.0 | 26.08.1982 05:22 | 50.3 km | 102 km |
| 6.0 | 02.11.1935 21:05 | 130 km | 119 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.4 | 01.08.2026 09:30 | 14 km | 73 km |
| 4.5 | 27.07.2026 04:38 | 80 km | 109 km |
| 3.8 | 18.07.2026 15:26 | 89 km | 24 km |
| 3.2 | 14.07.2026 08:49 | 37 km | 64 km |
| 3.7 | 17.06.2026 11:51 | 67 km | 69 km |
| 3.4 | 01.06.2026 22:51 | 83 km | 75 km |
| 3.4 | 01.05.2026 17:12 | 76 km | 59 km |
| 3.8 | 29.04.2026 22:25 | 91 km | 13 km |
| 3.0 | 29.03.2026 07:56 | 88 km | 79 km |
| 3.5 | 27.03.2026 18:01 | 29 km | 97 km |
| 3.4 | 26.02.2026 10:21 | 14 km | 69 km |
| 3.5 | 16.02.2026 20:11 | 20 km | 77 km |
| 3.7 | 14.12.2025 01:33 | 18 km | 79 km |
| 3.6 | 14.12.2025 01:24 | 22 km | 88 km |
| 2.9 | 13.12.2025 23:38 | 35 km | 76 km |
| 3.2 | 13.12.2025 23:05 | 16 km | 79 km |
| 3.6 | 13.12.2025 21:54 | 30 km | 82 km |
| 3.3 | 13.12.2025 20:52 | 17 km | 75 km |
| 3.5 | 04.12.2025 09:47 | 8 km | 68 km |
| 4.2 | 17.11.2025 03:47 | 5 km | 70 km |
| 3.4 | 10.11.2025 00:31 | 63 km | 90 km |
| 4.0 | 23.10.2025 04:18 | 79 km | 122 km |
| 3.2 | 23.10.2025 00:52 | 13 km | 70 km |
| 3.9 | 22.10.2025 18:50 | 13 km | 71 km |
| 5.6 | 22.10.2025 00:05 | 77.1 km | 103 km |
| 3.4 | 12.10.2025 20:58 | 64 km | 57 km |
| 4.8 | 16.09.2025 03:42 | 5 km | 73 km |
| 3.8 | 13.09.2025 03:43 | 10 km | 82 km |
| 3.6 | 27.08.2025 15:24 | 34 km | 72 km |
| 5.0 | 24.08.2025 10:50 | 94.4 km | 76 km |
| 4.4 | 28.07.2025 12:34 | 59.2 km | 107 km |
| 4.0 | 17.07.2025 06:04 | 10 km | 94 km |
| 3.9 | 07.07.2025 17:20 | 94 km | 63 km |
| 3.6 | 27.06.2025 13:42 | 19 km | 83 km |
| 3.9 | 25.06.2025 16:13 | 29 km | 90 km |
| 5.3 | 21.06.2025 19:18 | 50 km | 82 km |
| 3.6 | 28.05.2025 09:24 | 71 km | 90 km |
| 3.7 | 11.05.2025 18:20 | 12 km | 68 km |
| 4.2 | 11.05.2025 18:14 | 12 km | 66 km |
| 4.4 | 10.05.2025 12:12 | 10 km | 86 km |
| 3.2 | 05.05.2025 09:17 | 63.4 km | 89 km |
| 4.0 | 19.04.2025 01:57 | 68 km | 62 km |
| 3.4 | 16.04.2025 16:19 | 6 km | 100 km |
| 3.8 | 21.03.2025 17:42 | 10 km | 79 km |
| 3.1 | 27.02.2025 10:21 | 69 km | 69 km |
| 4.2 | 21.02.2025 22:52 | 30 km | 70 km |
| 3.4 | 18.02.2025 17:33 | 55 km | 9 km |
| 4.0 | 10.02.2025 07:06 | 20 km | 94 km |
| 4.6 | 04.02.2025 07:45 | 70.9 km | 118 km |
| 4.2 | 29.01.2025 20:34 | 0 km | 44 km |
| 3.5 | 14.01.2025 19:31 | 63 km | 82 km |
| 5.1 | 13.01.2025 02:20 | 90.5 km | 114 km |
| 4.6 | 05.12.2024 18:05 | 88 km | 111 km |
| 4.3 | 24.11.2024 00:56 | 112.4 km | 118 km |
| 3.5 | 21.11.2024 06:48 | 3 km | 58 km |
| 3.5 | 31.10.2024 18:14 | 50.9 km | 86 km |
| 4.4 | 28.10.2024 01:22 | 88.2 km | 87 km |
| 3.8 | 11.10.2024 22:00 | 54 km | 47 km |
| 4.2 | 20.09.2024 02:10 | 71.1 km | 103 km |
| 3.7 | 15.09.2024 04:49 | 104 km | 58 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.