3.8
222
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1912–2026
record span
4.20
mean magnitude
125
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 | 169 km |
| 7.5 | 04.02.1976 09:01 | 7.6 km | 36 km |
| 7.0 | 04.02.1921 08:22 | 15 km | 201 km |
| 6.7 | 12.06.1912 12:43 | 15 km | 44 km |
| 6.7 | 11.07.1999 14:14 | 16.8 km | 57 km |
| 6.5 | 02.10.1944 17:22 | 160 km | 143 km |
| 6.5 | 09.08.1980 05:45 | 27.3 km | 69 km |
| 6.4 | 25.01.1918 01:21 | 15 km | 144 km |
| 6.2 | 03.12.1934 02:38 | 35 km | 61 km |
| 6.2 | 04.01.1918 04:32 | 10 km | 168 km |
| 6.2 | 21.07.2024 02:53 | 273.4 km | 153 km |
| 6.0 | 10.08.1945 11:20 | 25 km | 32 km |
| 6.0 | 22.05.1932 22:40 | 80 km | 181 km |
| 6.0 | 24.06.1946 15:48 | 260 km | 86 km |
| 5.9 | 28.11.1925 12:33 | 15 km | 59 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.8 | 15.07.2026 23:56 | 2 km | 48 km |
| 3.0 | 15.07.2026 23:50 | 2 km | 50 km |
| 3.5 | 21.06.2026 21:08 | 3 km | 69 km |
| 2.8 | 21.06.2026 09:01 | 26 km | 82 km |
| 3.1 | 15.06.2026 00:28 | 1 km | 24 km |
| 3.0 | 17.05.2026 02:08 | 3 km | 63 km |
| 2.9 | 16.05.2026 10:12 | 1 km | 22 km |
| 3.4 | 13.05.2026 07:15 | 5 km | 52 km |
| 2.8 | 19.04.2026 06:33 | 2 km | 75 km |
| 4.1 | 19.03.2026 02:36 | 1 km | 27 km |
| 5.0 | 18.03.2026 17:35 | 0 km | 14 km |
| 3.8 | 16.03.2026 06:51 | 1 km | 84 km |
| 2.8 | 28.02.2026 07:26 | 2 km | 64 km |
| 3.6 | 04.02.2026 16:40 | 2 km | 89 km |
| 3.0 | 24.01.2026 15:19 | 3 km | 94 km |
| 4.2 | 20.01.2026 22:33 | 1 km | 96 km |
| 3.0 | 16.01.2026 13:38 | 1 km | 96 km |
| 3.0 | 16.01.2026 12:42 | 1 km | 95 km |
| 3.0 | 16.01.2026 07:10 | 2 km | 95 km |
| 3.5 | 16.01.2026 06:52 | 1 km | 93 km |
| 3.5 | 16.01.2026 06:28 | 1 km | 92 km |
| 5.2 | 16.01.2026 06:08 | 10 km | 99 km |
| 3.2 | 31.12.2025 05:30 | 1 km | 49 km |
| 5.1 | 29.11.2025 06:52 | 10 km | 68 km |
| 3.7 | 27.11.2025 03:39 | 1 km | 82 km |
| 3.3 | 02.11.2025 14:19 | 1 km | 57 km |
| 3.1 | 12.10.2025 09:06 | 10 km | 98 km |
| 2.8 | 12.10.2025 08:15 | 4 km | 84 km |
| 3.3 | 03.10.2025 06:07 | 1 km | 70 km |
| 2.7 | 29.09.2025 03:45 | 1 km | 13 km |
| 2.8 | 20.09.2025 06:26 | 3 km | 31 km |
| 3.0 | 05.09.2025 12:34 | 2 km | 73 km |
| 3.4 | 03.09.2025 16:56 | 1 km | 87 km |
| 4.2 | 22.08.2025 16:41 | 1 km | 64 km |
| 3.3 | 12.08.2025 22:45 | 3 km | 83 km |
| 3.2 | 27.07.2025 00:23 | 3 km | 66 km |
| 3.7 | 11.07.2025 18:46 | 3 km | 93 km |
| 4.2 | 19.11.2024 14:56 | 20 km | 55 km |
| 6.2 | 21.07.2024 02:53 | 273.4 km | 153 km |
| 4.0 | 22.01.2024 05:45 | 10 km | 35 km |
| 3.3 | 11.11.2023 21:07 | 7.4 km | 38 km |
| 2.8 | 07.10.2023 04:17 | 1 km | 58 km |
| 4.1 | 30.09.2022 12:56 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 4.1 | 30.09.2022 12:05 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 5.1 | 25.09.2022 21:30 | 7.6 km | 59 km |
| 4.5 | 25.09.2022 21:28 | 10 km | 67 km |
| 5.2 | 25.08.2021 21:04 | 10.2 km | 64 km |
| 4.1 | 24.04.2021 17:40 | 10 km | 58 km |
| 4.2 | 26.01.2021 17:58 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 4.2 | 23.01.2021 00:49 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 4.0 | 15.10.2020 21:40 | 10 km | 26 km |
| 3.0 | 14.10.2020 10:17 | 1.4 km | 21 km |
| 3.5 | 14.10.2020 00:40 | 6.8 km | 25 km |
| 4.0 | 14.03.2019 01:08 | 3.7 km | 73 km |
| 4.4 | 13.01.2019 14:36 | 1.1 km | 108 km |
| 4.0 | 22.09.2018 15:02 | 1 km | 24 km |
| 3.9 | 10.04.2018 17:15 | 10 km | 79 km |
| 4.2 | 15.02.2018 07:54 | 0 km | 65 km |
| 3.2 | 09.02.2018 10:19 | 9.3 km | 22 km |
| 3.8 | 28.11.2016 06:37 | 4.6 km | 59 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.