4.7
768
recorded earthquakes
M6.8
largest
1906–2026
record span
4.26
mean magnitude
726
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.8 | 26.02.1909 16:46 | 10 km | 186 km |
| 6.8 | 03.03.1906 08:35 | 0 km | 220 km |
| 6.2 | 04.06.1954 06:50 | 15 km | 177 km |
| 6.0 | 25.03.1976 22:16 | 10 km | 108 km |
| 5.9 | 06.02.1957 13:06 | 15 km | 98 km |
| 5.9 | 04.02.2006 09:17 | 5.5 km | 108 km |
| 5.9 | 21.10.2000 15:52 | 10.6 km | 175 km |
| 5.8 | 09.01.2018 00:05 | 10 km | 170 km |
| 5.7 | 31.05.1955 17:57 | 15 km | 154 km |
| 5.7 | 15.03.1982 04:42 | 9.5 km | 163 km |
| 5.6 | 27.07.1991 09:39 | 10.7 km | 179 km |
| 5.6 | 22.12.1999 22:08 | 10 km | 170 km |
| 5.6 | 18.04.1971 17:41 | 13.9 km | 109 km |
| 5.6 | 29.12.1940 18:05 | 35 km | 158 km |
| 5.6 | 27.07.1931 16:28 | 35 km | 153 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.7 | 31.07.2026 16:04 | 10 km | 160 km |
| 5.1 | 19.02.2026 17:34 | 0 km | 116 km |
| 4.9 | 19.02.2026 17:22 | 10 km | 132 km |
| 5.0 | 19.02.2026 17:17 | 10 km | 141 km |
| 4.1 | 19.02.2026 17:16 | 0 km | 116 km |
| 3.1 | 18.11.2025 13:52 | 1 km | 114 km |
| 4.4 | 18.11.2025 00:02 | 10 km | 144 km |
| 4.4 | 17.11.2025 05:06 | 0 km | 156 km |
| 3.1 | 23.09.2025 14:50 | 0 km | 107 km |
| 3.4 | 23.09.2025 14:47 | 11 km | 124 km |
| 3.0 | 16.09.2025 09:32 | 0 km | 115 km |
| 3.1 | 08.08.2025 10:19 | 28 km | 146 km |
| 3.2 | 19.06.2025 05:00 | 14 km | 91 km |
| 3.4 | 04.02.2025 12:47 | 0 km | 195 km |
| 2.7 | 04.12.2024 10:00 | 23 km | 75 km |
| 3.2 | 25.11.2024 02:10 | 10 km | 128 km |
| 2.8 | 30.10.2024 16:57 | 0 km | 122 km |
| 2.8 | 15.09.2024 15:37 | 12 km | 40 km |
| 2.7 | 13.09.2024 01:13 | -1 km | 111 km |
| 3.0 | 09.09.2024 13:41 | 0 km | 87 km |
| 2.8 | 08.09.2024 02:39 | 8 km | 147 km |
| 2.8 | 06.09.2024 08:43 | 1 km | 60 km |
| 3.2 | 24.06.2024 08:25 | 22 km | 72 km |
| 3.4 | 01.06.2024 08:26 | 15 km | 59 km |
| 5.0 | 13.03.2024 04:20 | 10 km | 98 km |
| 4.2 | 02.03.2024 07:07 | 10 km | 104 km |
| 4.5 | 31.05.2023 11:02 | 10 km | 117 km |
| 5.4 | 31.05.2023 10:55 | 10 km | 139 km |
| 4.1 | 03.01.2023 18:23 | 0 km | 159 km |
| 3.7 | 02.12.2022 04:29 | 23 km | 129 km |
| 4.4 | 24.06.2022 05:32 | 10 km | 163 km |
| 3.2 | 24.06.2022 05:32 | 10 km | 160 km |
| 4.0 | 24.06.2022 04:47 | 10 km | 94 km |
| 5.3 | 24.06.2022 04:26 | 10 km | 162 km |
| 4.7 | 18.06.2022 19:16 | 10 km | 140 km |
| 3.6 | 18.06.2022 19:16 | 10 km | 150 km |
| 3.6 | 24.04.2022 06:40 | 15 km | 114 km |
| 4.5 | 11.08.2021 19:34 | 10 km | 153 km |
| 2.8 | 02.02.2021 18:48 | 2 km | 207 km |
| 4.2 | 01.02.2021 14:25 | 10 km | 217 km |
| 4.9 | 13.07.2020 23:41 | 10 km | 177 km |
| 3.5 | 17.03.2020 06:39 | 1 km | 114 km |
| 5.5 | 10.03.2020 11:13 | 10 km | 107 km |
| 3.3 | 14.02.2020 15:42 | 1 km | 116 km |
| 3.8 | 02.02.2020 10:08 | 23 km | 116 km |
| 3.3 | 01.02.2020 21:53 | 9 km | 117 km |
| 3.2 | 01.02.2020 00:38 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 4.2 | 30.01.2020 12:04 | 1 km | 117 km |
| 3.2 | 30.01.2020 12:02 | 2 km | 118 km |
| 3.6 | 29.01.2020 15:58 | 11 km | 116 km |
| 3.4 | 27.01.2020 11:03 | 8 km | 115 km |
| 3.2 | 27.01.2020 10:29 | 9 km | 115 km |
| 3.5 | 27.01.2020 03:10 | 12 km | 115 km |
| 3.5 | 27.01.2020 00:46 | 12 km | 117 km |
| 3.5 | 26.01.2020 10:05 | 6 km | 130 km |
| 4.3 | 25.01.2020 21:40 | 10 km | 171 km |
| 3.1 | 25.01.2020 21:11 | 10 km | 117 km |
| 3.4 | 25.01.2020 11:18 | 7 km | 118 km |
| 3.1 | 25.01.2020 10:58 | 2 km | 125 km |
| 4.0 | 24.01.2020 08:27 | 7 km | 115 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.