1.8
5,939
recorded earthquakes
M6.2
largest
1911–2026
record span
2.02
mean magnitude
4,340
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.2 | 16.11.1911 21:25 | 40 km | 182 km |
| 5.8 | 28.05.1943 00:24 | 15 km | 198 km |
| 5.6 | 27.06.1935 17:19 | 35 km | 166 km |
| 5.5 | 20.07.1913 12:06 | 15 km | 212 km |
| 5.5 | 23.06.1975 13:17 | 3.3 km | 231 km |
| 5.4 | 22.02.1953 20:16 | 10 km | 250 km |
| 5.3 | 07.10.1930 23:27 | 15 km | 190 km |
| 5.3 | 30.09.1958 08:45 | 15 km | 172 km |
| 5.3 | 08.07.1958 05:02 | 15 km | 232 km |
| 5.2 | 22.05.1955 04:57 | 15 km | 163 km |
| 5.2 | 03.09.1978 05:08 | 11 km | 191 km |
| 5.2 | 13.03.1989 13:02 | 5.1 km | 233 km |
| 5.1 | 21.12.1985 10:16 | 10 km | 172 km |
| 5.0 | 12.10.2008 07:44 | 12.2 km | 156 km |
| 5.0 | 19.03.1958 16:04 | 15 km | 307 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8 | 04.08.2026 05:35 | 0.3 km | 227 km |
| 1.0 | 03.08.2026 23:21 | 15 km | 97 km |
| 1.9 | 02.08.2026 02:09 | 4 km | 228 km |
| 2.2 | 30.07.2026 07:52 | 6.2 km | 205 km |
| 2.4 | 24.07.2026 16:33 | 1.8 km | 230 km |
| 0.6 | 23.07.2026 11:54 | 10 km | 213 km |
| 0.3 | 20.07.2026 21:25 | 9 km | 188 km |
| 1.8 | 19.07.2026 11:00 | 5.6 km | 189 km |
| 0.9 | 18.07.2026 19:13 | 9 km | 173 km |
| 0.8 | 17.07.2026 11:34 | 9 km | 168 km |
| 0.7 | 14.07.2026 00:55 | 14 km | 188 km |
| 1.0 | 12.07.2026 00:52 | 5.1 km | 236 km |
| 0.4 | 10.07.2026 19:27 | 8 km | 191 km |
| 0.5 | 09.07.2026 15:40 | 14 km | 185 km |
| 0.5 | 09.07.2026 11:14 | 14 km | 185 km |
| 1.1 | 08.07.2026 18:27 | 20 km | 214 km |
| 0.5 | 07.07.2026 12:18 | 8 km | 182 km |
| 2.3 | 07.07.2026 08:41 | 0 km | 218 km |
| 1.3 | 05.07.2026 03:45 | 26.4 km | 215 km |
| 1.1 | 04.07.2026 18:44 | 14 km | 188 km |
| 0.5 | 03.07.2026 04:06 | 14 km | 188 km |
| 1.3 | 03.07.2026 04:03 | 14 km | 188 km |
| 2.0 | 02.07.2026 19:26 | 10 km | 169 km |
| 0.7 | 01.07.2026 00:56 | 14 km | 188 km |
| 0.8 | 01.07.2026 00:31 | 2.3 km | 245 km |
| 0.6 | 30.06.2026 02:56 | 14 km | 188 km |
| 0.7 | 29.06.2026 11:27 | 14 km | 188 km |
| 2.2 | 29.06.2026 09:52 | 3 km | 206 km |
| 2.3 | 28.06.2026 23:17 | 13 km | 196 km |
| 0.4 | 28.06.2026 16:45 | 14 km | 188 km |
| 1.1 | 26.06.2026 22:53 | 23 km | 157 km |
| 1.5 | 23.06.2026 14:39 | 20.6 km | 246 km |
| 2.2 | 23.06.2026 07:58 | 3 km | 207 km |
| 2.2 | 17.06.2026 19:19 | 10 km | 181 km |
| 0.8 | 13.06.2026 21:23 | 5 km | 172 km |
| 0.9 | 12.06.2026 00:32 | 14.3 km | 243 km |
| 2.1 | 09.06.2026 18:50 | 11 km | 169 km |
| 1.1 | 02.06.2026 12:36 | -0.4 km | 234 km |
| 0.7 | 01.06.2026 23:04 | 6 km | 196 km |
| 1.9 | 01.06.2026 19:31 | 1 km | 237 km |
| 2.1 | 01.06.2026 18:18 | 1 km | 237 km |
| 1.7 | 30.05.2026 15:31 | 10 km | 154 km |
| 1.4 | 28.05.2026 06:47 | 2.4 km | 228 km |
| 0.8 | 26.05.2026 17:41 | 7 km | 125 km |
| 0.9 | 23.05.2026 22:57 | 23 km | 167 km |
| 1.4 | 21.05.2026 04:44 | 10 km | 234 km |
| 0.6 | 18.05.2026 01:55 | 4.2 km | 240 km |
| 0.9 | 16.05.2026 18:59 | 12 km | 213 km |
| 1.0 | 10.05.2026 05:46 | 9 km | 173 km |
| 1.1 | 05.05.2026 18:02 | 9 km | 189 km |
| 1.0 | 05.05.2026 17:18 | 3.7 km | 245 km |
| 0.5 | 03.05.2026 03:47 | 9 km | 167 km |
| 2.1 | 27.04.2026 08:37 | 20.3 km | 219 km |
| 4.2 | 26.04.2026 02:24 | 5 km | 251 km |
| 1.0 | 23.04.2026 19:21 | 18 km | 227 km |
| 0.5 | 23.04.2026 02:36 | 12.5 km | 235 km |
| 1.3 | 22.04.2026 07:24 | 9.7 km | 226 km |
| 1.3 | 22.04.2026 03:23 | 4 km | 134 km |
| 1.0 | 20.04.2026 23:29 | 8 km | 139 km |
| 0.7 | 20.04.2026 02:10 | 17 km | 156 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.