1.6
453
recorded earthquakes
M6.5
largest
1902–2026
record span
2.90
mean magnitude
245
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 | 16.07.1963 18:27 | 30 km | 46 km |
| 6.5 | 07.05.1940 22:23 | 50 km | 192 km |
| 6.3 | 21.10.1905 11:01 | 15 km | 50 km |
| 5.8 | 23.12.2012 13:31 | 12.9 km | 61 km |
| 5.6 | 26.01.1957 16:30 | 10 km | 117 km |
| 5.6 | 21.10.1905 13:20 | 15 km | 87 km |
| 5.5 | 29.01.1957 15:21 | 9 km | 121 km |
| 5.5 | 29.08.1907 11:40 | 15 km | 95 km |
| 5.4 | 18.06.1902 23:53 | 30 km | 76 km |
| 5.4 | 25.12.2012 22:44 | 13.5 km | 60 km |
| 5.3 | 29.01.1957 15:17 | 40 km | 132 km |
| 5.3 | 25.09.1906 00:48 | 26 km | 148 km |
| 5.2 | 28.05.2013 00:09 | 9.2 km | 53 km |
| 5.1 | 20.05.1959 19:49 | 15 km | 143 km |
| 5.1 | 13.05.1968 02:46 | 14.4 km | 82 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.6 | 11.07.2026 21:28 | 7.1 km | 98 km |
| 3.1 | 05.06.2026 13:07 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 3.1 | 31.05.2026 13:26 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 1.8 | 20.04.2026 21:07 | 13.6 km | 73 km |
| 2.8 | 20.04.2026 10:34 | 7.5 km | 102 km |
| 2.3 | 18.04.2026 18:28 | 8.1 km | 88 km |
| 2.8 | 26.03.2026 05:34 | 5 km | 122 km |
| 1.5 | 21.03.2026 06:38 | 6.3 km | 46 km |
| 2.3 | 24.02.2026 00:33 | 15.7 km | 113 km |
| 2.9 | 21.01.2026 12:53 | 10 km | 23 km |
| 2.3 | 15.11.2025 17:01 | 4.6 km | 22 km |
| 1.9 | 20.10.2025 14:59 | 8.9 km | 99 km |
| 3.6 | 20.08.2025 14:39 | 0 km | 116 km |
| 3.4 | 20.08.2025 14:13 | 6 km | 110 km |
| 4.4 | 18.05.2025 03:06 | 3.6 km | 43 km |
| 3.1 | 18.05.2025 03:06 | 7 km | 6 km |
| 3.6 | 09.05.2025 07:53 | 7 km | 81 km |
| 1.4 | 02.04.2025 01:21 | 11.6 km | 71 km |
| 2.3 | 03.03.2025 20:39 | 7.4 km | 98 km |
| 1.7 | 17.02.2025 01:00 | 7 km | 62 km |
| 3.1 | 11.01.2025 17:43 | 10 km | 123 km |
| 1.9 | 24.12.2024 01:30 | 7 km | 20 km |
| 3.3 | 24.11.2024 15:33 | 5 km | 122 km |
| 3.8 | 27.07.2024 05:45 | 9.1 km | 95 km |
| 4.4 | 19.04.2024 11:07 | 17.8 km | 76 km |
| 3.2 | 05.03.2024 00:39 | 1 km | 58 km |
| 3.0 | 09.02.2024 09:10 | 4.8 km | 30 km |
| 2.2 | 25.01.2024 10:33 | 6.5 km | 40 km |
| 3.1 | 19.10.2023 14:06 | 1 km | 87 km |
| 1.8 | 30.09.2023 23:18 | 7 km | 67 km |
| 3.3 | 22.09.2023 00:57 | 750 km | 89 km |
| 3.8 | 24.08.2023 14:02 | 5.2 km | 31 km |
| 2.5 | 31.03.2023 23:22 | 45 km | 113 km |
| 2.4 | 24.12.2022 20:08 | 6.7 km | 6 km |
| 2.3 | 30.11.2022 04:14 | 8.4 km | 40 km |
| 3.8 | 30.11.2022 03:43 | 6.5 km | 40 km |
| 3.8 | 13.11.2022 11:20 | 34.8 km | 22 km |
| 2.2 | 23.10.2022 02:26 | 6.9 km | 72 km |
| 2.0 | 03.09.2022 10:35 | 5.5 km | 14 km |
| 1.8 | 28.08.2022 00:01 | 7 km | 81 km |
| 3.3 | 20.08.2022 04:55 | 5 km | 112 km |
| 2.6 | 02.03.2022 19:56 | 4.2 km | 98 km |
| 2.4 | 01.02.2022 21:33 | 9.5 km | 75 km |
| 2.6 | 10.12.2021 18:17 | 7.1 km | 112 km |
| 3.2 | 04.12.2021 14:26 | 8 km | 87 km |
| 2.3 | 03.10.2021 12:39 | 12.9 km | 6 km |
| 2.2 | 30.04.2021 22:39 | 9 km | 41 km |
| 1.5 | 21.03.2021 12:26 | 7 km | 72 km |
| 2.5 | 25.01.2021 21:07 | 5.6 km | 16 km |
| 2.9 | 07.01.2021 15:01 | 7 km | 51 km |
| 2.0 | 08.12.2020 04:51 | 7.1 km | 117 km |
| 2.1 | 07.12.2020 11:02 | 11 km | 53 km |
| 2.5 | 24.10.2020 19:00 | 12.9 km | 23 km |
| 1.4 | 13.08.2020 00:36 | 7.5 km | 83 km |
| 3.3 | 12.08.2020 07:30 | 5.5 km | 25 km |
| 2.4 | 28.04.2020 04:24 | 8.1 km | 110 km |
| 2.1 | 18.02.2020 09:38 | 7 km | 103 km |
| 2.2 | 22.12.2019 14:01 | 10.5 km | 97 km |
| 2.5 | 04.12.2019 16:36 | 6.7 km | 105 km |
| 3.5 | 09.10.2019 09:19 | 8 km | 61 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.