4.6
585
recorded earthquakes
M6.5
largest
1906–2026
record span
4.33
mean magnitude
535
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.5 | 30.06.1919 07:26 | 15 km | 248 km |
| 6.5 | 25.08.1906 13:47 | 15 km | 261 km |
| 6.3 | 27.09.1938 02:31 | 15 km | 438 km |
| 6.3 | 30.11.1937 12:57 | 10 km | 301 km |
| 6.2 | 16.09.1913 11:56 | 35 km | 245 km |
| 6.2 | 25.10.1987 16:46 | 15.1 km | 255 km |
| 6.1 | 01.06.1961 23:29 | 25 km | 414 km |
| 6.0 | 23.10.1938 02:28 | 15 km | 395 km |
| 6.0 | 31.10.1926 11:43 | 15 km | 646 km |
| 6.0 | 04.10.1928 18:22 | 35 km | 55 km |
| 6.0 | 06.09.1944 13:27 | 35 km | 119 km |
| 6.0 | 25.08.1906 11:54 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 6.0 | 18.09.1938 00:38 | 15 km | 339 km |
| 6.0 | 28.10.1987 08:58 | 14.6 km | 246 km |
| 5.9 | 02.06.1961 04:51 | 20 km | 384 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.6 | 21.07.2026 03:01 | 10 km | 260 km |
| 3.9 | 07.07.2026 05:30 | 10 km | 273 km |
| 4.4 | 25.06.2026 20:48 | 10 km | 279 km |
| 3.9 | 25.06.2026 20:12 | 10 km | 330 km |
| 4.1 | 22.05.2026 01:46 | 10 km | 275 km |
| 3.7 | 14.05.2026 00:14 | 10 km | 281 km |
| 3.9 | 10.05.2026 22:01 | 10 km | 277 km |
| 3.7 | 21.04.2026 07:27 | 10 km | 285 km |
| 3.6 | 01.04.2026 19:46 | 10 km | 270 km |
| 3.5 | 21.03.2026 19:14 | 0 km | 271 km |
| 4.6 | 15.02.2026 19:39 | 10 km | 267 km |
| 4.8 | 07.01.2026 08:10 | 10 km | 301 km |
| 3.5 | 07.01.2026 08:10 | 10 km | 250 km |
| 4.5 | 07.01.2026 08:09 | 10 km | 176 km |
| 3.3 | 17.11.2025 21:59 | 10 km | 277 km |
| 4.5 | 17.11.2025 21:59 | 10 km | 271 km |
| 4.9 | 26.10.2025 05:24 | 10 km | 338 km |
| 4.2 | 15.09.2025 18:03 | 10 km | 457 km |
| 4.4 | 08.08.2025 22:18 | 10 km | 323 km |
| 3.5 | 31.03.2025 22:13 | 10 km | 331 km |
| 3.6 | 17.03.2025 12:33 | 0 km | 323 km |
| 4.2 | 16.03.2025 21:20 | 10 km | 318 km |
| 5.3 | 16.03.2025 18:53 | 10 km | 339 km |
| 4.8 | 27.02.2025 08:27 | 0 km | 332 km |
| 4.1 | 26.02.2025 07:37 | 10 km | 262 km |
| 3.7 | 24.02.2025 01:39 | 0 km | 402 km |
| 4.8 | 24.02.2025 00:52 | 10 km | 301 km |
| 4.7 | 24.02.2025 00:33 | 10 km | 267 km |
| 4.8 | 24.02.2025 00:12 | 10 km | 327 km |
| 5.2 | 23.02.2025 23:44 | 10 km | 340 km |
| 4.1 | 20.02.2025 12:39 | 10 km | 275 km |
| 4.0 | 20.02.2025 10:59 | 0 km | 314 km |
| 4.5 | 20.02.2025 10:25 | 10 km | 273 km |
| 3.1 | 20.02.2025 10:25 | 10 km | 273 km |
| 5.8 | 14.02.2025 20:28 | 16 km | 230 km |
| 4.3 | 12.02.2025 09:42 | 10 km | 261 km |
| 5.0 | 07.02.2025 09:57 | 10 km | 304 km |
| 4.8 | 07.02.2025 08:19 | 0 km | 307 km |
| 4.2 | 04.02.2025 19:03 | 0 km | 300 km |
| 4.3 | 04.02.2025 18:37 | 10 km | 301 km |
| 3.8 | 04.02.2025 18:12 | 0 km | 283 km |
| 4.2 | 04.02.2025 17:58 | 10 km | 279 km |
| 4.2 | 04.02.2025 17:39 | 10 km | 256 km |
| 4.2 | 04.02.2025 17:38 | 10 km | 264 km |
| 3.8 | 04.02.2025 17:29 | 0 km | 252 km |
| 4.7 | 02.02.2025 01:35 | 0 km | 291 km |
| 4.7 | 02.02.2025 00:58 | 14.7 km | 300 km |
| 4.5 | 31.01.2025 09:23 | 10 km | 311 km |
| 4.5 | 31.01.2025 09:22 | 10 km | 313 km |
| 4.4 | 31.01.2025 09:02 | 10 km | 333 km |
| 4.4 | 31.01.2025 09:01 | 10 km | 304 km |
| 4.7 | 31.01.2025 09:01 | 10 km | 206 km |
| 3.9 | 28.01.2025 20:22 | 0 km | 318 km |
| 5.1 | 27.01.2025 07:38 | 0 km | 320 km |
| 4.8 | 24.01.2025 14:06 | 0 km | 305 km |
| 3.7 | 24.01.2025 14:04 | 0 km | 311 km |
| 4.8 | 24.01.2025 13:56 | 0 km | 302 km |
| 4.7 | 24.01.2025 13:54 | 10 km | 304 km |
| 3.4 | 24.01.2025 12:28 | 0 km | 300 km |
| 3.6 | 24.01.2025 12:03 | 0 km | 296 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.