4.6
589
recorded earthquakes
M6.3
largest
1915–2026
record span
4.37
mean magnitude
432
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.3 | 27.09.1938 02:31 | 15 km | 296 km |
| 6.2 | 23.09.1915 08:14 | 10 km | 373 km |
| 6.2 | 31.03.1945 22:07 | 15 km | 417 km |
| 6.1 | 01.06.1961 23:29 | 25 km | 235 km |
| 6.0 | 23.10.1938 02:28 | 15 km | 329 km |
| 6.0 | 18.09.1938 00:38 | 15 km | 366 km |
| 5.9 | 05.12.2001 15:52 | 2 km | 264 km |
| 5.9 | 02.06.1961 04:51 | 20 km | 254 km |
| 5.8 | 14.02.2025 20:28 | 16 km | 363 km |
| 5.7 | 02.06.1961 05:44 | 20 km | 260 km |
| 5.7 | 04.01.2025 00:52 | 8 km | 330 km |
| 5.7 | 10.09.1952 09:06 | 15 km | 367 km |
| 5.7 | 21.09.1993 19:11 | 12.2 km | 203 km |
| 5.7 | 10.08.2002 15:56 | 20.1 km | 338 km |
| 5.6 | 23.10.1938 02:25 | 35 km | 240 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.6 | 21.07.2026 03:01 | 10 km | 339 km |
| 3.9 | 07.07.2026 05:30 | 10 km | 375 km |
| 4.4 | 25.06.2026 20:48 | 10 km | 331 km |
| 3.9 | 25.06.2026 20:12 | 10 km | 272 km |
| 4.1 | 22.05.2026 01:46 | 10 km | 346 km |
| 3.9 | 10.05.2026 22:01 | 10 km | 342 km |
| 3.7 | 21.04.2026 07:27 | 10 km | 322 km |
| 3.6 | 01.04.2026 19:46 | 10 km | 357 km |
| 3.5 | 21.03.2026 19:14 | 0 km | 345 km |
| 4.6 | 15.02.2026 19:39 | 10 km | 333 km |
| 3.3 | 21.01.2026 23:52 | 0 km | 368 km |
| 3.6 | 21.01.2026 23:19 | 0 km | 358 km |
| 4.8 | 07.01.2026 08:10 | 10 km | 397 km |
| 3.5 | 07.01.2026 08:10 | 10 km | 377 km |
| 3.5 | 04.01.2026 20:05 | 0 km | 376 km |
| 5.4 | 23.11.2025 12:53 | 3 km | 413 km |
| 4.2 | 23.11.2025 08:54 | 0 km | 345 km |
| 3.3 | 17.11.2025 21:59 | 10 km | 349 km |
| 4.5 | 17.11.2025 21:59 | 10 km | 354 km |
| 3.7 | 01.11.2025 09:57 | 10 km | 353 km |
| 4.9 | 26.10.2025 05:24 | 10 km | 301 km |
| 4.8 | 20.10.2025 16:26 | 10 km | 379 km |
| 3.2 | 17.10.2025 05:43 | 10 km | 366 km |
| 3.6 | 15.10.2025 06:01 | 0 km | 367 km |
| 3.6 | 14.10.2025 20:22 | 10 km | 373 km |
| 3.3 | 14.10.2025 13:02 | 0 km | 349 km |
| 3.4 | 14.10.2025 09:12 | 0 km | 356 km |
| 3.6 | 11.10.2025 23:57 | 0 km | 367 km |
| 3.5 | 11.10.2025 21:41 | 10 km | 373 km |
| 3.4 | 11.10.2025 21:23 | 10 km | 371 km |
| 4.9 | 11.10.2025 19:30 | 10 km | 367 km |
| 4.9 | 11.10.2025 18:38 | 10 km | 370 km |
| 4.1 | 11.10.2025 18:36 | 10 km | 368 km |
| 4.5 | 11.10.2025 16:25 | 10 km | 366 km |
| 4.1 | 11.10.2025 16:24 | 0 km | 228 km |
| 5.5 | 11.10.2025 16:18 | 10 km | 368 km |
| 5.3 | 11.10.2025 16:01 | 10 km | 367 km |
| 4.3 | 11.10.2025 12:07 | 10 km | 360 km |
| 3.2 | 29.08.2025 02:13 | 0 km | 312 km |
| 4.4 | 25.08.2025 20:00 | 10 km | 241 km |
| 4.4 | 08.08.2025 22:18 | 10 km | 324 km |
| 4.0 | 29.07.2025 04:49 | 0 km | 320 km |
| 3.4 | 21.07.2025 22:26 | 10 km | 331 km |
| 5.0 | 15.07.2025 05:54 | 10 km | 391 km |
| 3.5 | 31.03.2025 22:13 | 10 km | 328 km |
| 3.6 | 17.03.2025 12:33 | 0 km | 329 km |
| 4.2 | 16.03.2025 21:20 | 10 km | 313 km |
| 5.3 | 16.03.2025 18:53 | 10 km | 335 km |
| 5.2 | 02.03.2025 08:14 | 10 km | 404 km |
| 4.8 | 27.02.2025 08:27 | 0 km | 333 km |
| 4.1 | 26.02.2025 07:37 | 10 km | 411 km |
| 4.8 | 24.02.2025 00:52 | 10 km | 363 km |
| 4.7 | 24.02.2025 00:33 | 10 km | 349 km |
| 4.8 | 24.02.2025 00:12 | 10 km | 332 km |
| 5.2 | 23.02.2025 23:44 | 10 km | 332 km |
| 4.1 | 20.02.2025 12:39 | 10 km | 354 km |
| 4.5 | 20.02.2025 10:25 | 10 km | 356 km |
| 3.1 | 20.02.2025 10:25 | 10 km | 356 km |
| 5.8 | 14.02.2025 20:28 | 16 km | 363 km |
| 4.3 | 12.02.2025 09:42 | 10 km | 357 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.