4.5
807
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1917–2026
record span
4.20
mean magnitude
345
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 | 157 km |
| 7.8 | 16.04.2016 23:58 | 8.7 km | 190 km |
| 7.1 | 04.08.1998 18:59 | 24.4 km | 123 km |
| 7.0 | 16.01.1956 23:37 | 20 km | 107 km |
| 6.7 | 18.03.2023 17:12 | 70.1 km | 170 km |
| 6.6 | 12.07.1942 05:05 | 15 km | 142 km |
| 6.5 | 22.07.1924 04:04 | 250 km | 93 km |
| 6.4 | 05.08.1949 19:08 | 15 km | 129 km |
| 6.4 | 28.09.2000 23:23 | 22.7 km | 173 km |
| 6.2 | 03.10.1933 10:21 | 35 km | 148 km |
| 6.2 | 07.09.2018 02:12 | 105.1 km | 123 km |
| 6.2 | 29.03.1917 02:01 | 15 km | 178 km |
| 6.2 | 30.01.1943 05:33 | 58.7 km | 108 km |
| 6.2 | 02.09.1990 04:26 | 17.5 km | 157 km |
| 6.2 | 03.12.2017 11:19 | 22.6 km | 137 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.5 | 27.07.2026 04:38 | 80 km | 102 km |
| 3.3 | 12.06.2026 18:12 | 89 km | 78 km |
| 3.2 | 08.06.2026 06:06 | 57 km | 82 km |
| 3.5 | 28.05.2026 01:39 | 9 km | 95 km |
| 4.0 | 06.05.2026 22:06 | 83.6 km | 102 km |
| 4.1 | 23.04.2026 14:39 | 10 km | 105 km |
| 2.8 | 21.04.2026 09:16 | 99 km | 18 km |
| 4.2 | 12.03.2026 14:03 | 58 km | 91 km |
| 3.5 | 03.03.2026 13:59 | 94 km | 51 km |
| 3.5 | 22.02.2026 16:37 | 21 km | 80 km |
| 3.9 | 19.01.2026 07:03 | 16 km | 68 km |
| 3.6 | 15.01.2026 06:35 | 95 km | 42 km |
| 4.6 | 03.01.2026 08:46 | 8.2 km | 94 km |
| 4.7 | 14.12.2025 20:23 | 10 km | 127 km |
| 3.5 | 13.12.2025 22:14 | 20 km | 55 km |
| 3.4 | 13.12.2025 21:34 | 17 km | 61 km |
| 4.0 | 13.12.2025 09:40 | 10 km | 67 km |
| 3.0 | 09.12.2025 00:08 | 57 km | 64 km |
| 2.7 | 25.11.2025 11:03 | 98 km | 60 km |
| 3.4 | 17.11.2025 21:02 | 13 km | 10 km |
| 3.5 | 03.11.2025 07:46 | 75 km | 83 km |
| 3.1 | 02.09.2025 23:22 | 79 km | 22 km |
| 3.8 | 24.08.2025 16:53 | 31 km | 78 km |
| 5.0 | 24.08.2025 10:50 | 94.4 km | 126 km |
| 3.8 | 18.08.2025 23:58 | 52 km | 97 km |
| 4.0 | 14.08.2025 19:37 | 5 km | 109 km |
| 4.4 | 03.07.2025 11:02 | 5 km | 113 km |
| 4.7 | 27.06.2025 06:31 | 61.6 km | 113 km |
| 5.3 | 21.06.2025 19:18 | 50 km | 143 km |
| 3.1 | 29.04.2025 02:54 | 66 km | 90 km |
| 3.5 | 22.03.2025 01:11 | 40 km | 84 km |
| 2.8 | 16.02.2025 01:02 | 5 km | 17 km |
| 3.2 | 06.02.2025 19:05 | 43 km | 33 km |
| 5.1 | 13.01.2025 02:20 | 90.5 km | 108 km |
| 4.6 | 05.12.2024 18:05 | 88 km | 102 km |
| 4.0 | 09.11.2024 14:44 | 78.3 km | 116 km |
| 3.0 | 03.11.2024 02:18 | 127.2 km | 55 km |
| 3.0 | 30.10.2024 13:55 | 10 km | 105 km |
| 4.4 | 28.10.2024 01:22 | 88.2 km | 114 km |
| 3.6 | 17.10.2024 13:14 | 58.7 km | 81 km |
| 3.6 | 15.10.2024 06:21 | 11 km | 78 km |
| 3.1 | 21.09.2024 02:04 | 112.5 km | 58 km |
| 3.7 | 11.09.2024 18:23 | 71 km | 20 km |
| 3.5 | 29.08.2024 07:51 | 97 km | 55 km |
| 4.0 | 20.08.2024 06:25 | 53 km | 30 km |
| 3.5 | 14.08.2024 04:58 | 63.2 km | 64 km |
| 4.0 | 25.06.2024 05:04 | 5 km | 66 km |
| 3.6 | 23.06.2024 21:31 | 5 km | 60 km |
| 4.2 | 21.05.2024 07:14 | 5 km | 39 km |
| 3.5 | 21.05.2024 07:12 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 3.2 | 12.05.2024 06:43 | 72 km | 97 km |
| 3.7 | 25.04.2024 21:43 | 88 km | 52 km |
| 4.1 | 11.04.2024 04:20 | 62.9 km | 106 km |
| 4.3 | 31.03.2024 11:18 | 75 km | 94 km |
| 3.5 | 05.03.2024 13:09 | 5 km | 84 km |
| 3.9 | 17.02.2024 12:14 | 26 km | 78 km |
| 3.8 | 03.02.2024 15:04 | 10 km | 107 km |
| 3.8 | 30.01.2024 11:44 | 31 km | 88 km |
| 4.5 | 06.01.2024 11:51 | 70.7 km | 103 km |
| 3.5 | 04.01.2024 13:47 | 5 km | 87 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.