2.5
25,420
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1905–2026
record span
2.93
mean magnitude
19,249
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.2 | 12.08.1953 09:23 | 10 km | 83 km |
| 6.8 | 17.01.1983 12:41 | 23 km | 72 km |
| 6.8 | 25.10.2018 22:54 | 16.8 km | 145 km |
| 6.7 | 15.11.1959 17:08 | 15 km | 102 km |
| 6.7 | 18.12.1961 21:35 | — | 39 km |
| 6.6 | 18.11.1997 13:07 | 34 km | 144 km |
| 6.5 | 13.05.1995 08:47 | 14.6 km | 192 km |
| 6.5 | 11.08.1953 03:32 | 10 km | 67 km |
| 6.5 | 22.04.1948 10:42 | 15 km | 25 km |
| 6.5 | 06.07.1925 12:15 | 120 km | 136 km |
| 6.5 | 17.11.2015 07:10 | 11.4 km | 20 km |
| 6.5 | 20.09.1939 00:19 | 80 km | 84 km |
| 6.5 | 07.08.1915 15:04 | 15 km | 28 km |
| 6.5 | 27.01.1915 01:09 | 15 km | 76 km |
| 6.4 | 17.09.1972 14:07 | 11 km | 45 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 | 31.07.2026 03:15 | 18.9 km | 112 km |
| 2.4 | 28.07.2026 20:15 | 0 km | 118 km |
| 3.2 | 28.07.2026 20:11 | 0 km | 115 km |
| 4.6 | 28.07.2026 20:10 | 1 km | 120 km |
| 2.6 | 27.07.2026 06:10 | 31.2 km | 74 km |
| 3.4 | 26.07.2026 15:25 | 16.8 km | 106 km |
| 2.5 | 23.07.2026 18:30 | 13.3 km | 122 km |
| 2.8 | 23.07.2026 10:24 | 0 km | 108 km |
| 2.7 | 22.07.2026 21:34 | 18.4 km | 89 km |
| 2.4 | 21.07.2026 09:21 | 15 km | 103 km |
| 3.0 | 20.07.2026 18:28 | 0 km | 117 km |
| 2.8 | 20.07.2026 08:00 | 13.2 km | 109 km |
| 2.5 | 19.07.2026 18:19 | 13.1 km | 26 km |
| 2.5 | 18.07.2026 05:53 | 8 km | 102 km |
| 3.1 | 18.07.2026 05:40 | 9 km | 103 km |
| 2.3 | 16.07.2026 12:48 | 15 km | 123 km |
| 2.6 | 12.07.2026 21:46 | 11.3 km | 106 km |
| 2.8 | 10.07.2026 03:32 | 11 km | 109 km |
| 2.5 | 09.07.2026 04:36 | 0 km | 55 km |
| 2.6 | 07.07.2026 19:38 | 8.5 km | 107 km |
| 2.4 | 06.07.2026 19:59 | 15 km | 93 km |
| 3.2 | 05.07.2026 06:44 | 9.5 km | 97 km |
| 2.5 | 05.07.2026 02:28 | 13.6 km | 119 km |
| 3.4 | 04.07.2026 15:07 | 0 km | 99 km |
| 2.3 | 04.07.2026 05:29 | 0 km | 73 km |
| 2.5 | 04.07.2026 03:37 | 12.7 km | 29 km |
| 2.6 | 03.07.2026 04:48 | 19.1 km | 126 km |
| 2.8 | 01.07.2026 20:24 | 13.7 km | 28 km |
| 2.8 | 30.06.2026 13:09 | 6 km | 92 km |
| 2.6 | 30.06.2026 12:01 | 17.9 km | 110 km |
| 2.7 | 28.06.2026 16:54 | 13.8 km | 71 km |
| 2.3 | 28.06.2026 15:49 | 15 km | 104 km |
| 2.5 | 27.06.2026 16:23 | 14 km | 72 km |
| 2.9 | 27.06.2026 09:16 | 16.4 km | 118 km |
| 3.2 | 24.06.2026 15:32 | 14 km | 58 km |
| 2.5 | 24.06.2026 11:26 | 16.9 km | 123 km |
| 2.8 | 23.06.2026 05:14 | 0 km | 114 km |
| 2.5 | 23.06.2026 02:18 | 13.2 km | 106 km |
| 2.6 | 22.06.2026 18:41 | 17.2 km | 98 km |
| 2.2 | 21.06.2026 23:11 | 15 km | 117 km |
| 2.4 | 21.06.2026 21:49 | 15 km | 101 km |
| 3.2 | 20.06.2026 17:07 | 10 km | 104 km |
| 2.9 | 20.06.2026 04:33 | 0 km | 105 km |
| 2.7 | 20.06.2026 04:23 | 8.2 km | 106 km |
| 3.0 | 20.06.2026 03:38 | 0 km | 104 km |
| 4.3 | 20.06.2026 03:37 | 10 km | 110 km |
| 3.5 | 20.06.2026 01:50 | 0 km | 106 km |
| 2.8 | 19.06.2026 14:57 | 14 km | 107 km |
| 2.6 | 18.06.2026 15:19 | 15 km | 95 km |
| 3.2 | 17.06.2026 15:38 | 0 km | 107 km |
| 2.7 | 17.06.2026 10:16 | 8.9 km | 105 km |
| 2.6 | 16.06.2026 20:22 | 10.1 km | 40 km |
| 2.8 | 15.06.2026 00:05 | 14 km | 118 km |
| 2.8 | 14.06.2026 12:39 | 18 km | 109 km |
| 2.0 | 13.06.2026 10:36 | 15 km | 106 km |
| 3.5 | 12.06.2026 10:13 | 6.9 km | 107 km |
| 2.8 | 12.06.2026 05:18 | 11.8 km | 64 km |
| 2.7 | 11.06.2026 10:37 | 9 km | 108 km |
| 2.5 | 10.06.2026 16:44 | 14 km | 119 km |
| 2.5 | 10.06.2026 16:32 | 11 km | 60 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.