4.5
448
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1924–2026
record span
4.23
mean magnitude
96
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 | 14.05.1942 02:13 | 20 km | 206 km |
| 7.1 | 04.08.1998 18:59 | 24.4 km | 177 km |
| 7.0 | 16.01.1956 23:37 | 20 km | 161 km |
| 6.7 | 18.03.2023 17:12 | 70.1 km | 153 km |
| 6.5 | 22.07.1924 04:04 | 250 km | 104 km |
| 6.4 | 05.08.1949 19:08 | 15 km | 101 km |
| 6.3 | 22.09.1987 13:43 | 14.2 km | 138 km |
| 6.2 | 07.09.2018 02:12 | 105.1 km | 73 km |
| 6.2 | 30.01.1943 05:33 | 58.7 km | 121 km |
| 6.0 | 26.08.1982 05:22 | 50.3 km | 149 km |
| 6.0 | 02.11.1935 21:05 | 130 km | 38 km |
| 5.9 | 23.02.1973 04:26 | 38.4 km | 102 km |
| 5.9 | 28.03.1996 23:03 | 17.4 km | 88 km |
| 5.9 | 03.11.1981 07:02 | 141.8 km | 90 km |
| 5.8 | 12.06.1991 00:45 | 93.8 km | 69 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.5 | 27.07.2026 04:38 | 80 km | 86 km |
| 3.5 | 28.05.2026 01:39 | 9 km | 52 km |
| 4.0 | 06.05.2026 22:06 | 83.6 km | 51 km |
| 2.8 | 21.04.2026 09:16 | 99 km | 38 km |
| 3.5 | 22.02.2026 16:37 | 21 km | 27 km |
| 3.2 | 03.01.2026 08:46 | 10.3 km | 46 km |
| 4.6 | 03.01.2026 08:46 | 8.2 km | 40 km |
| 3.5 | 13.12.2025 22:14 | 20 km | 7 km |
| 3.4 | 13.12.2025 21:34 | 17 km | 10 km |
| 4.0 | 13.12.2025 09:40 | 10 km | 13 km |
| 3.4 | 17.11.2025 21:02 | 13 km | 48 km |
| 3.8 | 24.08.2025 16:53 | 31 km | 53 km |
| 5.0 | 24.08.2025 10:50 | 94.4 km | 80 km |
| 3.6 | 29.06.2025 21:50 | 1 km | 36 km |
| 5.3 | 21.06.2025 19:18 | 50 km | 121 km |
| 3.4 | 10.06.2025 23:08 | 16 km | 36 km |
| 3.5 | 22.03.2025 01:11 | 40 km | 58 km |
| 2.8 | 16.02.2025 01:02 | 5 km | 38 km |
| 5.1 | 13.01.2025 02:20 | 90.5 km | 97 km |
| 4.4 | 28.10.2024 01:22 | 88.2 km | 86 km |
| 3.4 | 24.09.2024 19:41 | 125.8 km | 57 km |
| 3.6 | 18.09.2024 17:10 | 2 km | 75 km |
| 3.7 | 11.09.2024 18:23 | 71 km | 62 km |
| 4.2 | 21.05.2024 07:14 | 5 km | 23 km |
| 3.5 | 21.05.2024 07:12 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 3.5 | 05.03.2024 13:09 | 5 km | 56 km |
| 2.6 | 20.01.2024 05:02 | 12 km | 22 km |
| 3.5 | 20.12.2023 13:21 | 118 km | 37 km |
| 4.5 | 29.11.2023 06:57 | 69 km | 88 km |
| 5.1 | 07.11.2023 03:33 | 18 km | 88 km |
| 4.1 | 09.10.2023 14:29 | 108.7 km | 83 km |
| 4.1 | 26.07.2023 01:24 | 107.9 km | 87 km |
| 3.9 | 23.07.2023 19:24 | 23 km | 41 km |
| 3.5 | 27.05.2023 02:28 | 10 km | 31 km |
| 3.5 | 27.05.2023 02:14 | 5 km | 27 km |
| 5.2 | 08.05.2023 00:51 | 92.4 km | 116 km |
| 6.7 | 18.03.2023 17:12 | 70.1 km | 153 km |
| 3.7 | 10.01.2023 00:10 | 87 km | 45 km |
| 3.5 | 27.12.2022 22:03 | 5 km | 62 km |
| 4.0 | 18.11.2022 11:03 | 5 km | 53 km |
| 3.4 | 05.09.2022 08:32 | 25 km | 55 km |
| 3.6 | 04.09.2022 01:26 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 3.5 | 02.09.2022 23:10 | 5 km | 57 km |
| 3.5 | 30.08.2022 03:56 | 5 km | 56 km |
| 5.7 | 14.07.2022 22:30 | 76.3 km | 82 km |
| 2.9 | 28.04.2022 21:59 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 4.5 | 04.04.2022 14:18 | 112.2 km | 73 km |
| 3.5 | 20.01.2022 17:46 | 5 km | 26 km |
| 3.9 | 24.11.2021 05:27 | 78 km | 33 km |
| 3.6 | 16.08.2021 11:21 | 74 km | 39 km |
| 4.2 | 02.05.2021 08:26 | 5 km | 29 km |
| 3.5 | 25.03.2021 12:35 | 5 km | 42 km |
| 4.1 | 24.03.2021 07:08 | 5 km | 78 km |
| 4.2 | 23.03.2021 14:20 | 58 km | 89 km |
| 4.6 | 18.02.2021 07:57 | 8.5 km | 80 km |
| 3.5 | 26.01.2021 13:58 | 5 km | 68 km |
| 4.1 | 15.11.2020 22:52 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 3.5 | 12.11.2020 04:09 | 5 km | 60 km |
| 3.6 | 20.10.2020 18:11 | 5 km | 70 km |
| 4.1 | 12.09.2020 20:36 | 3.2 km | 31 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.