3.4
478
recorded earthquakes
M7.5
largest
1927–2026
record span
4.35
mean magnitude
151
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 | 22.02.2019 10:17 | 149.9 km | 177 km |
| 7.4 | 27.07.1971 02:02 | 105.6 km | 250 km |
| 7.1 | 06.03.1987 04:10 | 18.5 km | 177 km |
| 7.1 | 12.08.2010 11:54 | 206.6 km | 122 km |
| 6.8 | 16.11.2007 03:12 | 123.1 km | 238 km |
| 6.7 | 17.05.1971 11:04 | 170.5 km | 155 km |
| 6.5 | 18.11.1982 14:57 | 195.9 km | 98 km |
| 6.5 | 17.09.1965 11:13 | 187.6 km | 140 km |
| 6.5 | 11.05.1955 11:04 | 15 km | 174 km |
| 6.4 | 05.08.1949 19:08 | 15 km | 217 km |
| 6.4 | 06.03.1987 01:54 | 14 km | 174 km |
| 6.3 | 22.09.1987 13:43 | 14.2 km | 181 km |
| 6.2 | 12.06.1942 10:21 | 15 km | 152 km |
| 6.2 | 28.07.1961 01:05 | 142.1 km | 179 km |
| 6.2 | 24.11.1930 06:06 | 100 km | 148 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.4 | 03.08.2026 15:11 | 20 km | 152 km |
| 3.5 | 27.05.2026 06:27 | 186 km | 153 km |
| 3.9 | 25.04.2026 09:37 | 20 km | 97 km |
| 4.0 | 10.04.2026 14:15 | 176.4 km | 174 km |
| 3.5 | 26.03.2026 18:10 | 171.7 km | 144 km |
| 3.4 | 15.03.2026 18:31 | 240.7 km | 93 km |
| 3.3 | 27.01.2026 17:58 | 199 km | 148 km |
| 5.0 | 19.12.2025 21:59 | 10 km | 163 km |
| 3.5 | 16.12.2025 00:30 | 182.5 km | 149 km |
| 3.4 | 24.11.2025 07:46 | 17 km | 132 km |
| 3.4 | 17.11.2025 23:13 | 176.1 km | 144 km |
| 4.9 | 06.11.2025 23:11 | 195.2 km | 126 km |
| 5.4 | 03.09.2025 14:56 | 161.8 km | 178 km |
| 4.4 | 27.05.2025 11:29 | 164.5 km | 177 km |
| 2.4 | 12.05.2025 01:53 | 13 km | 160 km |
| 4.2 | 10.05.2025 18:02 | 172.9 km | 168 km |
| 4.4 | 13.04.2025 22:11 | 161.9 km | 173 km |
| 4.1 | 06.04.2025 11:46 | 5 km | 132 km |
| 5.3 | 08.03.2025 05:37 | 191.9 km | 139 km |
| 5.0 | 23.02.2025 07:25 | 10 km | 134 km |
| 3.8 | 20.02.2025 23:09 | 5 km | 152 km |
| 2.2 | 07.02.2025 22:42 | 10 km | 150 km |
| 2.4 | 07.02.2025 22:06 | 2 km | 130 km |
| 2.3 | 07.02.2025 21:32 | 5 km | 153 km |
| 2.2 | 07.02.2025 20:23 | 5 km | 149 km |
| 2.2 | 07.02.2025 18:58 | 5 km | 147 km |
| 2.2 | 07.02.2025 18:49 | 5 km | 145 km |
| 2.3 | 07.02.2025 16:52 | 5 km | 143 km |
| 2.2 | 07.02.2025 15:06 | 5 km | 164 km |
| 2.7 | 06.02.2025 21:47 | 0 km | 148 km |
| 2.5 | 06.02.2025 18:00 | 0 km | 147 km |
| 5.6 | 31.01.2025 23:02 | 8 km | 186 km |
| 2.6 | 20.12.2024 04:07 | 10 km | 28 km |
| 4.3 | 04.12.2024 12:55 | 5 km | 113 km |
| 4.1 | 04.12.2024 12:55 | 28 km | 116 km |
| 2.4 | 21.11.2024 20:12 | 20 km | 135 km |
| 5.2 | 08.11.2024 10:37 | 190.8 km | 138 km |
| 2.6 | 31.10.2024 08:22 | 10 km | 107 km |
| 2.6 | 28.10.2024 05:57 | 10 km | 157 km |
| 2.5 | 28.09.2024 17:23 | 13.2 km | 106 km |
| 4.4 | 04.09.2024 13:57 | 184.8 km | 166 km |
| 2.3 | 31.08.2024 05:04 | 7.7 km | 159 km |
| 4.0 | 30.08.2024 09:41 | 6.8 km | 152 km |
| 3.5 | 16.08.2024 22:09 | 5 km | 139 km |
| 4.2 | 04.08.2024 06:00 | 197.7 km | 126 km |
| 5.0 | 06.05.2024 15:17 | 10 km | 190 km |
| 4.9 | 18.11.2023 06:35 | 194.2 km | 166 km |
| 4.9 | 08.09.2023 20:45 | 10 km | 94 km |
| 4.6 | 31.08.2023 09:38 | 191.3 km | 169 km |
| 5.1 | 18.06.2023 09:10 | 21.4 km | 136 km |
| 3.5 | 17.06.2023 19:37 | 5 km | 140 km |
| 3.7 | 02.06.2023 05:52 | 5 km | 140 km |
| 3.9 | 24.05.2023 12:03 | 1 km | 87 km |
| 4.2 | 21.05.2023 18:39 | 16.7 km | 151 km |
| 3.7 | 09.05.2023 13:20 | 204 km | 153 km |
| 3.7 | 19.04.2023 06:54 | 3 km | 128 km |
| 4.5 | 02.04.2023 12:32 | 180.6 km | 181 km |
| 3.6 | 22.02.2023 20:11 | 1 km | 130 km |
| 5.0 | 05.02.2023 10:38 | 223.4 km | 148 km |
| 3.6 | 05.02.2023 10:38 | 224 km | 140 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.