4.3
307
recorded earthquakes
M7.5
largest
1912–2026
record span
4.48
mean magnitude
107
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 | 12.12.1953 17:31 | 25 km | 203 km |
| 7.4 | 27.07.1971 02:02 | 105.6 km | 229 km |
| 7.3 | 14.05.1928 22:14 | 10 km | 146 km |
| 7.2 | 10.12.1970 04:34 | 17.4 km | 192 km |
| 7.1 | 18.07.1928 19:05 | 35 km | 174 km |
| 7.0 | 24.07.1912 11:59 | 0 km | 152 km |
| 7.0 | 03.10.1995 01:51 | 26.3 km | 202 km |
| 7.0 | 12.04.1983 12:07 | 119.3 km | 137 km |
| 6.7 | 18.03.2023 17:12 | 70.1 km | 184 km |
| 6.4 | 03.11.1963 03:10 | 25 km | 151 km |
| 6.4 | 03.10.1995 12:44 | 15.1 km | 186 km |
| 6.3 | 15.05.1928 02:36 | 35 km | 133 km |
| 6.2 | 29.10.1934 23:25 | 110 km | 138 km |
| 6.1 | 25.05.1958 21:11 | 45.8 km | 155 km |
| 6.0 | 26.08.1982 05:22 | 50.3 km | 196 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.3 | 30.07.2026 16:15 | 15 km | 56 km |
| 3.7 | 17.06.2026 11:51 | 67 km | 98 km |
| 3.4 | 01.06.2026 22:51 | 83 km | 69 km |
| 3.7 | 28.05.2026 11:58 | 130 km | 76 km |
| 3.7 | 28.01.2026 19:58 | 102 km | 40 km |
| 3.2 | 06.01.2026 04:51 | 94 km | 38 km |
| 4.2 | 17.11.2025 03:47 | 5 km | 81 km |
| 5.6 | 22.10.2025 00:05 | 77.1 km | 120 km |
| 4.8 | 16.09.2025 03:42 | 5 km | 119 km |
| 3.6 | 27.08.2025 15:24 | 34 km | 70 km |
| 3.9 | 06.07.2025 03:40 | 103 km | 65 km |
| 3.6 | 10.04.2025 03:12 | 0 km | 70 km |
| 4.2 | 21.02.2025 22:52 | 30 km | 57 km |
| 4.2 | 29.01.2025 20:34 | 0 km | 101 km |
| 4.5 | 29.01.2025 20:34 | 5 km | 67 km |
| 4.2 | 28.08.2024 16:05 | 40.1 km | 121 km |
| 4.4 | 04.08.2024 06:57 | 97.7 km | 65 km |
| 4.4 | 21.07.2024 23:56 | 35 km | 83 km |
| 3.8 | 29.06.2024 12:33 | 32 km | 111 km |
| 4.2 | 28.06.2024 12:09 | 10 km | 75 km |
| 5.2 | 21.05.2024 02:43 | 81.4 km | 106 km |
| 4.0 | 17.05.2024 20:10 | 5 km | 123 km |
| 4.0 | 25.03.2024 18:48 | 5 km | 135 km |
| 4.0 | 25.03.2024 15:40 | 87 km | 95 km |
| 3.8 | 23.02.2024 03:53 | 97 km | 84 km |
| 3.8 | 22.02.2024 00:07 | 5 km | 24 km |
| 4.3 | 17.02.2024 03:45 | 4.1 km | 76 km |
| 4.1 | 14.02.2024 02:47 | 55.7 km | 95 km |
| 4.2 | 01.02.2024 00:07 | 128 km | 119 km |
| 4.6 | 28.11.2023 08:07 | 116.2 km | 51 km |
| 4.2 | 19.11.2023 15:10 | 30 km | 50 km |
| 4.0 | 25.10.2023 13:03 | 115 km | 69 km |
| 5.4 | 21.08.2023 05:24 | 39.8 km | 159 km |
| 3.5 | 20.07.2023 20:18 | 0 km | 72 km |
| 4.0 | 17.07.2023 04:46 | 24 km | 112 km |
| 4.0 | 13.06.2023 02:23 | 6 km | 74 km |
| 4.1 | 10.06.2023 08:15 | 86 km | 71 km |
| 3.7 | 17.05.2023 12:39 | 48 km | 88 km |
| 4.6 | 11.05.2023 11:34 | 10 km | 80 km |
| 4.1 | 29.03.2023 07:09 | 63.8 km | 77 km |
| 6.7 | 18.03.2023 17:12 | 70.1 km | 184 km |
| 3.7 | 03.01.2023 13:06 | 74 km | 48 km |
| 4.2 | 24.12.2022 02:29 | 1.1 km | 139 km |
| 4.1 | 25.11.2022 23:01 | 106 km | 30 km |
| 3.6 | 30.10.2022 03:57 | 48 km | 89 km |
| 4.0 | 21.10.2022 03:11 | 5 km | 133 km |
| 4.2 | 04.09.2022 20:52 | 10 km | 94 km |
| 4.0 | 25.08.2022 08:00 | 2.2 km | 139 km |
| 3.7 | 25.06.2022 16:11 | 27.7 km | 95 km |
| 4.1 | 27.04.2022 21:10 | 5 km | 81 km |
| 3.8 | 07.02.2022 07:24 | 50 km | 68 km |
| 4.0 | 03.02.2022 07:02 | 70.6 km | 81 km |
| 3.9 | 24.01.2022 07:33 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 4.0 | 12.10.2021 14:54 | 92.6 km | 40 km |
| 4.4 | 31.08.2021 11:36 | 10 km | 109 km |
| 4.6 | 31.08.2021 09:11 | 31.5 km | 127 km |
| 3.7 | 26.08.2021 10:03 | 51 km | 93 km |
| 5.3 | 21.07.2021 15:07 | 30 km | 113 km |
| 3.6 | 13.07.2021 22:39 | 73 km | 25 km |
| 4.0 | 06.06.2021 18:50 | 100 km | 82 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.