3.4
2,113
recorded earthquakes
M7.5
largest
1927–2026
record span
4.24
mean magnitude
1,011
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 | 56 km |
| 7.4 | 27.07.1971 02:02 | 105.6 km | 128 km |
| 7.1 | 06.03.1987 04:10 | 18.5 km | 223 km |
| 7.1 | 12.08.2010 11:54 | 206.6 km | 79 km |
| 7.0 | 03.10.1995 01:51 | 26.3 km | 147 km |
| 6.8 | 23.11.1986 01:39 | 94.2 km | 195 km |
| 6.8 | 16.11.2007 03:12 | 123.1 km | 127 km |
| 6.7 | 17.05.1971 11:04 | 170.5 km | 80 km |
| 6.5 | 18.11.1982 14:57 | 195.9 km | 35 km |
| 6.5 | 17.09.1965 11:13 | 187.6 km | 78 km |
| 6.5 | 24.01.1941 05:44 | 120 km | 163 km |
| 6.5 | 11.05.1955 11:04 | 15 km | 207 km |
| 6.4 | 05.08.1949 19:08 | 15 km | 172 km |
| 6.4 | 03.10.1995 12:44 | 15.1 km | 162 km |
| 6.3 | 22.09.1987 13:43 | 14.2 km | 149 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.4 | 03.08.2026 15:11 | 20 km | 99 km |
| 4.3 | 30.06.2026 06:02 | 13 km | 95 km |
| 3.7 | 16.06.2026 20:12 | 21 km | 125 km |
| 3.5 | 27.05.2026 06:27 | 186 km | 83 km |
| 3.9 | 23.05.2026 08:44 | 131.2 km | 89 km |
| 3.6 | 21.05.2026 17:47 | 10 km | 118 km |
| 3.4 | 15.05.2026 02:35 | 20 km | 144 km |
| 3.7 | 25.04.2026 02:13 | 13 km | 96 km |
| 4.0 | 10.04.2026 14:15 | 176.4 km | 96 km |
| 3.5 | 26.03.2026 18:10 | 171.7 km | 109 km |
| 3.4 | 15.03.2026 18:31 | 240.7 km | 86 km |
| 3.5 | 02.03.2026 18:41 | 7 km | 155 km |
| 3.8 | 12.02.2026 21:52 | 119.9 km | 86 km |
| 3.5 | 10.02.2026 08:20 | 179.7 km | 132 km |
| 2.9 | 30.01.2026 07:13 | 169 km | 134 km |
| 3.3 | 27.01.2026 17:58 | 199 km | 89 km |
| 3.4 | 18.01.2026 03:28 | 16 km | 86 km |
| 3.4 | 02.01.2026 20:59 | 152.7 km | 120 km |
| 5.0 | 19.12.2025 21:59 | 10 km | 165 km |
| 3.5 | 16.12.2025 00:30 | 182.5 km | 93 km |
| 3.7 | 14.12.2025 20:23 | 165.2 km | 112 km |
| 3.4 | 24.11.2025 07:46 | 17 km | 127 km |
| 3.4 | 17.11.2025 23:13 | 176.1 km | 106 km |
| 4.9 | 06.11.2025 23:11 | 195.2 km | 94 km |
| 4.2 | 26.09.2025 17:25 | 6.6 km | 85 km |
| 4.5 | 25.09.2025 23:40 | 171.3 km | 128 km |
| 4.0 | 25.09.2025 21:59 | 0 km | 103 km |
| 3.9 | 22.09.2025 04:30 | 5 km | 158 km |
| 3.9 | 09.09.2025 08:27 | 95 km | 114 km |
| 5.4 | 03.09.2025 14:56 | 161.8 km | 114 km |
| 3.7 | 31.07.2025 13:24 | 129 km | 38 km |
| 4.1 | 27.07.2025 07:36 | 171.4 km | 125 km |
| 4.4 | 19.06.2025 01:06 | 10 km | 174 km |
| 3.7 | 18.06.2025 01:11 | 176 km | 120 km |
| 3.7 | 17.06.2025 18:19 | 3 km | 169 km |
| 4.2 | 17.06.2025 06:47 | 4.9 km | 171 km |
| 5.2 | 17.06.2025 02:46 | 10 km | 178 km |
| 3.7 | 10.06.2025 14:58 | 2 km | 158 km |
| 3.5 | 06.06.2025 02:08 | 5 km | 165 km |
| 4.3 | 04.06.2025 16:44 | 10 km | 167 km |
| 4.4 | 27.05.2025 11:29 | 164.5 km | 117 km |
| 4.2 | 10.05.2025 18:02 | 172.9 km | 92 km |
| 4.2 | 06.05.2025 20:33 | 156.9 km | 106 km |
| 3.8 | 04.05.2025 08:51 | 5 km | 59 km |
| 4.0 | 15.04.2025 00:07 | 161.5 km | 131 km |
| 4.4 | 13.04.2025 22:11 | 161.9 km | 116 km |
| 4.1 | 06.04.2025 11:46 | 5 km | 140 km |
| 5.3 | 08.03.2025 05:37 | 191.9 km | 90 km |
| 5.0 | 23.02.2025 07:25 | 10 km | 102 km |
| 3.9 | 22.02.2025 12:49 | 5 km | 108 km |
| 3.2 | 18.02.2025 12:07 | 50 km | 148 km |
| 2.8 | 14.02.2025 16:05 | 148 km | 148 km |
| 3.6 | 12.02.2025 00:58 | 130.3 km | 87 km |
| 3.1 | 07.02.2025 18:37 | 153 km | 145 km |
| 2.5 | 07.02.2025 03:50 | 5 km | 171 km |
| 4.9 | 05.02.2025 08:21 | 147.7 km | 139 km |
| 3.6 | 03.02.2025 16:03 | 170.1 km | 124 km |
| 4.9 | 01.02.2025 11:05 | 10 km | 178 km |
| 4.3 | 01.02.2025 01:50 | 10 km | 175 km |
| 3.7 | 01.02.2025 01:49 | 5 km | 165 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.