3.1
260
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1902–2026
record span
4.41
mean magnitude
110
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.8 | 07.09.1915 01:20 | 80 km | 216 km |
| 7.7 | 06.08.1942 23:37 | 35 km | 224 km |
| 7.5 | 19.04.1902 02:23 | 0 km | 204 km |
| 7.5 | 04.02.1976 09:01 | 7.6 km | 105 km |
| 7.0 | 04.02.1921 08:22 | 15 km | 75 km |
| 6.7 | 12.06.1912 12:43 | 15 km | 119 km |
| 6.5 | 26.06.1946 07:53 | 90 km | 119 km |
| 6.5 | 11.11.2012 22:16 | 0 km | 181 km |
| 6.5 | 02.10.1944 17:22 | 160 km | 130 km |
| 6.5 | 11.04.1942 01:25 | 140 km | 178 km |
| 6.4 | 15.09.1937 23:48 | 15 km | 169 km |
| 6.4 | 25.01.1918 01:21 | 15 km | 77 km |
| 6.4 | 17.05.2023 23:01 | 257.6 km | 105 km |
| 6.3 | 18.01.1902 23:23 | — | 188 km |
| 6.3 | 03.05.2009 16:21 | 111.5 km | 170 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 05.07.2026 15:57 | 1 km | 14 km |
| 3.6 | 05.07.2026 10:01 | 3 km | 26 km |
| 2.8 | 21.06.2026 09:01 | 26 km | 90 km |
| 3.0 | 17.05.2026 02:08 | 3 km | 100 km |
| 3.5 | 04.05.2026 12:44 | 1 km | 62 km |
| 3.1 | 19.04.2026 20:05 | 1 km | 65 km |
| 2.8 | 19.04.2026 06:33 | 2 km | 53 km |
| 3.5 | 09.04.2026 00:50 | 5 km | 17 km |
| 3.0 | 23.03.2026 12:53 | 2 km | 66 km |
| 5.0 | 18.03.2026 17:35 | 0 km | 121 km |
| 3.8 | 16.03.2026 06:51 | 1 km | 48 km |
| 3.1 | 01.03.2026 19:43 | 2 km | 31 km |
| 2.9 | 28.02.2026 10:16 | 3 km | 88 km |
| 4.2 | 28.02.2026 08:55 | 20 km | 46 km |
| 3.6 | 04.02.2026 16:40 | 2 km | 39 km |
| 4.1 | 20.01.2026 10:30 | 5 km | 119 km |
| 3.0 | 03.01.2026 05:09 | 3 km | 56 km |
| 3.2 | 31.12.2025 05:30 | 1 km | 76 km |
| 4.0 | 10.12.2025 10:18 | 1 km | 100 km |
| 5.1 | 29.11.2025 06:52 | 10 km | 66 km |
| 3.7 | 27.11.2025 03:39 | 1 km | 47 km |
| 3.0 | 23.11.2025 10:12 | 1 km | 36 km |
| 2.8 | 17.11.2025 03:51 | 3 km | 82 km |
| 3.1 | 07.11.2025 16:14 | 3 km | 38 km |
| 3.3 | 02.11.2025 14:19 | 1 km | 69 km |
| 3.0 | 28.10.2025 13:14 | 3 km | 43 km |
| 3.2 | 28.10.2025 10:53 | 1 km | 41 km |
| 2.9 | 20.10.2025 08:12 | 3 km | 5 km |
| 2.8 | 12.10.2025 08:15 | 4 km | 46 km |
| 3.5 | 28.09.2025 16:15 | 10 km | 73 km |
| 4.2 | 25.09.2025 07:55 | 4.2 km | 88 km |
| 3.4 | 03.09.2025 16:56 | 1 km | 50 km |
| 3.0 | 17.08.2025 03:41 | 2 km | 40 km |
| 3.3 | 12.08.2025 22:45 | 3 km | 45 km |
| 3.9 | 04.08.2025 17:59 | 1 km | 40 km |
| 2.8 | 29.07.2025 10:13 | 1 km | 4 km |
| 3.7 | 11.07.2025 18:46 | 3 km | 53 km |
| 3.4 | 12.12.2024 10:26 | 0.7 km | 38 km |
| 4.0 | 01.11.2024 09:06 | 111 km | 98 km |
| 4.2 | 11.10.2024 13:27 | 4.8 km | 89 km |
| 6.2 | 21.07.2024 02:53 | 273.4 km | 120 km |
| 6.4 | 17.05.2023 23:01 | 257.6 km | 105 km |
| 4.0 | 12.05.2023 03:01 | 96 km | 119 km |
| 3.9 | 21.02.2023 20:01 | 42 km | 100 km |
| 3.5 | 30.10.2022 19:28 | 27 km | 73 km |
| 3.3 | 05.12.2020 19:30 | 3.3 km | 13 km |
| 3.4 | 05.06.2020 19:20 | 18.1 km | 89 km |
| 3.4 | 16.01.2020 10:29 | 10 km | 8 km |
| 4.0 | 01.11.2019 20:25 | 8.7 km | 35 km |
| 3.1 | 18.07.2019 04:39 | 8.3 km | 91 km |
| 4.9 | 14.07.2019 01:57 | 16.6 km | 94 km |
| 4.0 | 05.07.2019 11:18 | 1.3 km | 105 km |
| 4.4 | 03.07.2019 10:13 | 1.1 km | 96 km |
| 4.0 | 03.07.2019 03:03 | 0 km | 97 km |
| 4.1 | 18.06.2019 13:05 | 15.3 km | 102 km |
| 4.2 | 22.05.2019 21:41 | 8.2 km | 54 km |
| 4.0 | 03.04.2019 21:47 | 6 km | 33 km |
| 2.7 | 17.02.2019 10:34 | 0.1 km | 76 km |
| 4.4 | 13.01.2019 14:36 | 1.1 km | 39 km |
| 4.0 | 12.01.2019 03:35 | 11.8 km | 53 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.