1.4
429
recorded earthquakes
M7.0
largest
1907–2026
record span
2.38
mean magnitude
182
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | 29.04.1991 09:12 | 14.8 km | 131 km |
| 6.5 | 07.05.1940 22:23 | 50 km | 68 km |
| 5.8 | 09.01.1925 17:38 | 15 km | 95 km |
| 5.6 | 26.01.1957 16:30 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 5.5 | 10.12.1908 04:40 | 5 km | 77 km |
| 5.5 | 29.01.1957 15:21 | 9 km | 61 km |
| 5.5 | 29.08.1907 11:40 | 15 km | 63 km |
| 5.3 | 19.01.2011 09:17 | 10.4 km | 40 km |
| 5.3 | 29.01.1957 15:17 | 40 km | 45 km |
| 5.2 | 11.07.1998 21:10 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 5.2 | 12.04.1932 07:00 | 15 km | 69 km |
| 5.1 | 20.05.1959 19:49 | 15 km | 18 km |
| 5.0 | 18.08.2011 11:57 | 10.2 km | 90 km |
| 5.0 | 26.11.1999 21:34 | 6 km | 98 km |
| 5.0 | 06.06.2003 11:30 | 1.6 km | 101 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.4 | 31.07.2026 20:27 | 7.1 km | 3 km |
| 1.5 | 11.05.2026 03:12 | 13.7 km | 56 km |
| 1.7 | 11.04.2026 18:23 | 7 km | 36 km |
| 2.3 | 24.02.2026 00:33 | 15.7 km | 36 km |
| 1.7 | 03.02.2026 08:19 | 7 km | 33 km |
| 1.6 | 17.11.2025 10:50 | 7 km | 12 km |
| 1.9 | 17.11.2025 09:29 | 10.1 km | 4 km |
| 1.1 | 03.11.2025 21:00 | 7.3 km | 17 km |
| 0.7 | 03.10.2025 13:16 | 6.3 km | 36 km |
| 1.4 | 15.08.2025 01:16 | 7 km | 28 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2025 21:17 | 11.1 km | 21 km |
| 1.3 | 18.03.2025 22:51 | 7.3 km | 14 km |
| 1.3 | 05.02.2025 20:33 | 8.8 km | 56 km |
| 1.4 | 03.01.2025 09:25 | 6.2 km | 14 km |
| 1.2 | 30.12.2024 23:20 | 9.2 km | 44 km |
| 2.3 | 15.12.2024 07:13 | 11.7 km | 17 km |
| 2.0 | 12.12.2024 16:16 | 8.9 km | 12 km |
| 2.4 | 12.12.2024 16:15 | 6.5 km | 19 km |
| 2.7 | 13.11.2024 20:27 | 7 km | 20 km |
| 2.0 | 11.08.2024 13:47 | 6.9 km | 21 km |
| 1.7 | 07.08.2024 07:13 | 7 km | 23 km |
| 1.9 | 08.07.2024 12:55 | 7 km | 51 km |
| 1.6 | 08.07.2024 12:54 | 7.3 km | 17 km |
| 1.4 | 04.07.2024 15:06 | 7 km | 32 km |
| 1.5 | 13.06.2024 22:47 | 7 km | 25 km |
| 1.1 | 26.05.2024 09:03 | 7 km | 18 km |
| 1.8 | 21.05.2024 13:51 | 7 km | 10 km |
| 1.1 | 16.03.2024 03:32 | 7 km | 16 km |
| 1.9 | 25.01.2024 17:35 | 7.2 km | 24 km |
| 1.0 | 23.01.2024 23:34 | 7 km | 14 km |
| 2.0 | 17.01.2024 03:52 | 7 km | 22 km |
| 1.7 | 20.12.2023 04:09 | 5.4 km | 13 km |
| 2.0 | 22.11.2023 00:53 | 7 km | 40 km |
| 2.6 | 08.11.2023 20:39 | 9.6 km | 14 km |
| 1.7 | 08.11.2023 07:20 | 32.4 km | 21 km |
| 1.6 | 12.10.2023 22:56 | 7 km | 25 km |
| 1.7 | 24.09.2023 05:28 | 7 km | 22 km |
| 1.2 | 13.09.2023 16:53 | 7 km | 23 km |
| 1.6 | 22.08.2023 13:41 | 6.8 km | 26 km |
| 1.7 | 24.07.2023 12:22 | 6.8 km | 19 km |
| 1.8 | 23.07.2023 22:24 | 4.1 km | 22 km |
| 1.9 | 17.06.2023 09:38 | 11.6 km | 16 km |
| 3.5 | 17.05.2023 04:30 | 7 km | 22 km |
| 2.4 | 13.05.2023 14:21 | 16 km | 7 km |
| 1.1 | 13.05.2023 01:04 | 7.3 km | 18 km |
| 2.6 | 27.04.2023 15:54 | 14 km | 39 km |
| 2.8 | 25.04.2023 07:08 | 7 km | 32 km |
| 1.5 | 18.04.2023 01:41 | 5.7 km | 20 km |
| 1.7 | 03.04.2023 08:04 | 10 km | 34 km |
| 2.3 | 01.04.2023 16:38 | 5.8 km | 14 km |
| 2.1 | 01.04.2023 14:47 | 7.8 km | 14 km |
| 2.3 | 01.04.2023 13:50 | 8.1 km | 14 km |
| 1.6 | 28.03.2023 22:12 | 5 km | 18 km |
| 2.0 | 24.03.2023 03:50 | 7 km | 29 km |
| 2.3 | 18.03.2023 23:17 | 3 km | 25 km |
| 1.5 | 18.03.2023 03:10 | 7 km | 30 km |
| 1.7 | 09.03.2023 03:47 | 7 km | 12 km |
| 1.9 | 09.03.2023 00:25 | 7.6 km | 9 km |
| 1.6 | 05.03.2023 16:50 | 9.3 km | 21 km |
| 3.0 | 01.03.2023 06:45 | 14 km | 25 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.