No records in the last 30 days.
222
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1902–2026
record span
4.76
mean magnitude
30
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 | 193 km |
| 7.7 | 06.08.1942 23:37 | 35 km | 158 km |
| 7.5 | 19.04.1902 02:23 | 0 km | 138 km |
| 7.5 | 23.10.1950 16:13 | 65.3 km | 185 km |
| 7.5 | 04.02.1976 09:01 | 7.6 km | 132 km |
| 7.0 | 04.02.1921 08:22 | 15 km | 79 km |
| 7.0 | 14.07.1930 22:40 | 15 km | 116 km |
| 6.7 | 12.06.1912 12:43 | 15 km | 139 km |
| 6.6 | 10.01.1998 08:20 | 62.1 km | 152 km |
| 6.5 | 11.04.1942 01:25 | 140 km | 125 km |
| 6.5 | 02.10.1944 17:22 | 160 km | 95 km |
| 6.5 | 26.06.1946 07:53 | 90 km | 54 km |
| 6.5 | 11.11.2012 22:16 | 0 km | 126 km |
| 6.5 | 08.08.1942 22:36 | 35 km | 151 km |
| 6.4 | 15.09.1937 23:48 | 15 km | 109 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.2 | 09.06.2026 07:57 | 8 km | 38 km |
| 3.1 | 19.04.2026 20:05 | 1 km | 41 km |
| 3.0 | 23.03.2026 12:53 | 2 km | 41 km |
| 2.9 | 28.02.2026 10:16 | 3 km | 54 km |
| 3.0 | 03.01.2026 05:09 | 3 km | 12 km |
| 4.3 | 02.12.2025 12:59 | 169.3 km | 79 km |
| 5.1 | 29.11.2025 06:52 | 10 km | 96 km |
| 3.2 | 27.11.2025 05:53 | 35 km | 53 km |
| 3.0 | 23.11.2025 10:12 | 1 km | 40 km |
| 3.1 | 07.11.2025 16:14 | 3 km | 36 km |
| 3.0 | 28.10.2025 13:14 | 3 km | 55 km |
| 3.2 | 28.10.2025 10:53 | 1 km | 55 km |
| 3.0 | 17.08.2025 03:41 | 2 km | 27 km |
| 2.9 | 19.07.2025 10:42 | 1 km | 24 km |
| 5.7 | 08.07.2025 21:41 | 10 km | 76 km |
| 3.6 | 04.04.2025 00:21 | 0 km | 47 km |
| 3.4 | 12.12.2024 10:26 | 0.7 km | 54 km |
| 4.2 | 11.10.2024 13:27 | 4.8 km | 57 km |
| 6.2 | 21.07.2024 02:53 | 273.4 km | 77 km |
| 5.0 | 12.06.2024 02:55 | 5.1 km | 25 km |
| 6.1 | 27.01.2024 05:52 | 96.3 km | 118 km |
| 4.6 | 01.06.2023 10:02 | 212.6 km | 64 km |
| 6.4 | 17.05.2023 23:01 | 257.6 km | 54 km |
| 4.1 | 06.08.2022 15:07 | 203.4 km | 62 km |
| 4.3 | 26.06.2022 07:05 | 197 km | 70 km |
| 6.2 | 16.02.2022 07:12 | 71.6 km | 148 km |
| 5.6 | 09.11.2019 08:32 | 203.2 km | 74 km |
| 4.3 | 30.04.2019 14:13 | 231.2 km | 70 km |
| 4.0 | 03.04.2019 21:47 | 6 km | 35 km |
| 4.4 | 13.01.2019 14:36 | 1.1 km | 57 km |
| 4.0 | 02.01.2019 19:35 | 147.8 km | 59 km |
| 3.3 | 04.10.2018 00:38 | 5.2 km | 65 km |
| 3.4 | 03.10.2018 23:51 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 3.9 | 02.02.2018 12:22 | 10 km | 29 km |
| 3.5 | 04.01.2018 11:43 | 15.6 km | 39 km |
| 4.3 | 08.11.2017 08:28 | 191.9 km | 79 km |
| 5.2 | 14.09.2017 20:15 | 0 km | 54 km |
| 4.7 | 20.06.2016 20:46 | 107.9 km | 66 km |
| 5.1 | 17.04.2016 00:02 | 153.7 km | 35 km |
| 4.4 | 04.01.2016 13:26 | 200 km | 54 km |
| 4.5 | 01.08.2015 23:35 | 211.2 km | 71 km |
| 4.0 | 16.10.2014 19:00 | 4.8 km | 62 km |
| 4.0 | 02.10.2014 14:10 | 28.1 km | 26 km |
| 4.6 | 22.09.2014 11:03 | 47.9 km | 64 km |
| 5.1 | 22.06.2013 17:35 | 242 km | 86 km |
| 6.2 | 25.03.2013 23:02 | 193.7 km | 56 km |
| 4.3 | 14.11.2012 00:09 | 80 km | 38 km |
| 6.5 | 11.11.2012 22:16 | 0 km | 126 km |
| 4.5 | 27.07.2012 02:06 | 200 km | 55 km |
| 5.2 | 12.07.2012 01:43 | 201.5 km | 70 km |
| 4.6 | 26.01.2012 17:13 | 17.3 km | 76 km |
| 4.4 | 30.10.2011 06:28 | 303 km | 50 km |
| 3.6 | 11.10.2011 00:20 | 9.4 km | 29 km |
| 4.0 | 23.07.2011 11:48 | 214.1 km | 21 km |
| 4.0 | 09.07.2011 23:20 | 12.9 km | 55 km |
| 4.2 | 09.07.2011 15:38 | 91.3 km | 74 km |
| 4.0 | 23.05.2011 07:55 | 12.4 km | 27 km |
| 4.8 | 10.03.2011 14:30 | 15 km | 51 km |
| 4.0 | 15.10.2010 15:47 | 16 km | 79 km |
| 4.1 | 26.08.2009 14:10 | 6.3 km | 41 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.