3.1
1,002
recorded earthquakes
M7.5
largest
1906–2026
record span
3.19
mean magnitude
438
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 | 03.12.1906 22:59 | 100 km | 138 km |
| 7.4 | 03.10.1914 17:22 | 100 km | 47 km |
| 7.4 | 29.11.2007 19:00 | 148.6 km | 134 km |
| 7.2 | 25.12.1969 21:32 | 2.1 km | 192 km |
| 6.9 | 08.10.1974 09:50 | 40.3 km | 142 km |
| 6.5 | 08.09.1962 13:03 | 0 km | 95 km |
| 6.4 | 24.12.1967 20:03 | 24.8 km | 129 km |
| 6.4 | 08.01.1959 01:33 | 138.8 km | 123 km |
| 6.3 | 16.03.1985 14:54 | 18 km | 145 km |
| 6.3 | 21.11.2004 11:41 | 16.2 km | 63 km |
| 6.2 | 10.11.1935 18:27 | 100 km | 123 km |
| 6.2 | 10.03.1976 09:05 | 49.4 km | 75 km |
| 6.2 | 20.01.2023 11:23 | 168.4 km | 83 km |
| 6.0 | 30.01.1982 02:35 | 54.8 km | 58 km |
| 6.0 | 15.05.1969 20:43 | 47.3 km | 67 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 06.07.2026 16:20 | 24.3 km | 39 km |
| 3.1 | 03.06.2026 03:18 | 58.2 km | 46 km |
| 3.8 | 20.01.2026 09:31 | 133.5 km | 38 km |
| 3.2 | 02.01.2026 04:38 | 31.3 km | 62 km |
| 3.4 | 04.10.2025 07:12 | 27.1 km | 36 km |
| 5.1 | 15.09.2025 09:16 | 59.3 km | 58 km |
| 3.2 | 20.08.2025 01:29 | 22.6 km | 57 km |
| 3.2 | 10.08.2025 22:34 | 16.3 km | 52 km |
| 3.8 | 30.07.2025 14:13 | 74.8 km | 43 km |
| 3.4 | 09.07.2025 19:38 | 148.3 km | 41 km |
| 3.2 | 28.03.2025 08:51 | 59.6 km | 38 km |
| 3.7 | 18.03.2025 00:20 | 15.4 km | 50 km |
| 3.2 | 11.03.2025 08:56 | 0 km | 69 km |
| 3.2 | 04.03.2025 02:25 | 102.1 km | 65 km |
| 4.5 | 03.03.2025 22:44 | 30.5 km | 55 km |
| 3.1 | 20.11.2024 02:57 | 7.5 km | 43 km |
| 4.3 | 31.10.2024 15:22 | 80.4 km | 55 km |
| 3.3 | 12.10.2024 17:21 | 137.1 km | 14 km |
| 3.0 | 07.10.2024 03:59 | 145.4 km | 49 km |
| 3.1 | 03.10.2024 09:19 | 15.2 km | 52 km |
| 3.0 | 03.10.2024 08:45 | 22.1 km | 53 km |
| 4.4 | 23.09.2024 17:59 | 144.3 km | 66 km |
| 3.4 | 16.08.2024 00:55 | 70.9 km | 44 km |
| 3.5 | 15.05.2024 15:16 | 102.3 km | 60 km |
| 3.1 | 15.05.2024 03:49 | 112.6 km | 60 km |
| 3.0 | 16.02.2024 07:59 | 58.7 km | 43 km |
| 3.1 | 27.12.2023 22:10 | 143.7 km | 28 km |
| 4.4 | 02.12.2023 10:29 | 38.9 km | 69 km |
| 5.3 | 02.12.2023 08:48 | 43.1 km | 61 km |
| 4.1 | 24.09.2023 04:42 | 13 km | 25 km |
| 3.2 | 14.09.2023 22:07 | 18.9 km | 24 km |
| 3.1 | 06.08.2023 16:55 | 176.3 km | 51 km |
| 3.4 | 07.07.2023 15:55 | 7.2 km | 43 km |
| 4.1 | 12.05.2023 19:54 | 137.2 km | 56 km |
| 4.8 | 16.04.2023 11:22 | 101.9 km | 39 km |
| 4.0 | 12.04.2023 11:03 | 26 km | 52 km |
| 4.6 | 02.02.2023 13:13 | 18.5 km | 79 km |
| 3.9 | 20.01.2023 23:47 | 38 km | 42 km |
| 6.2 | 20.01.2023 11:23 | 168.4 km | 83 km |
| 3.3 | 08.08.2022 02:05 | 30 km | 59 km |
| 4.3 | 09.07.2022 04:58 | 79 km | 36 km |
| 4.0 | 09.06.2022 12:54 | 101 km | 25 km |
| 4.2 | 26.05.2022 08:17 | 155.6 km | 41 km |
| 4.2 | 19.04.2022 12:39 | 153.9 km | 43 km |
| 3.3 | 15.03.2022 15:17 | 72 km | 52 km |
| 3.0 | 21.02.2022 05:10 | 37 km | 55 km |
| 5.0 | 15.02.2022 08:03 | 50.7 km | 65 km |
| 4.0 | 05.10.2021 05:12 | 112.7 km | 58 km |
| 4.0 | 08.05.2021 12:31 | 49.5 km | 60 km |
| 4.1 | 26.03.2021 05:21 | 23.9 km | 83 km |
| 5.9 | 26.03.2021 04:51 | 26.5 km | 84 km |
| 4.2 | 18.12.2020 08:50 | 30.1 km | 68 km |
| 4.0 | 05.09.2020 05:13 | 152.1 km | 25 km |
| 4.0 | 31.05.2020 22:52 | 37.9 km | 55 km |
| 4.0 | 23.03.2020 01:24 | 44.8 km | 69 km |
| 4.4 | 29.02.2020 18:16 | 106.6 km | 48 km |
| 4.6 | 06.02.2020 21:10 | 28.8 km | 73 km |
| 4.1 | 25.10.2019 07:20 | 25.5 km | 22 km |
| 4.1 | 19.10.2019 06:05 | 38.7 km | 68 km |
| 4.6 | 25.07.2019 10:15 | 20.1 km | 36 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.