3.1
325
recorded earthquakes
M7.5
largest
1912–2026
record span
4.26
mean magnitude
194
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.5 | 30.03.1914 00:41 | 150 km | 183 km |
| 7.5 | 04.02.1976 09:01 | 7.6 km | 207 km |
| 7.0 | 04.02.1921 08:22 | 15 km | 139 km |
| 6.7 | 12.06.1912 12:43 | 15 km | 226 km |
| 6.7 | 11.07.1999 14:14 | 16.8 km | 235 km |
| 6.6 | 12.06.1912 12:43 | 35 km | 139 km |
| 6.5 | 09.08.1980 05:45 | 27.3 km | 221 km |
| 6.4 | 17.05.2023 23:01 | 257.6 km | 208 km |
| 6.3 | 08.10.1920 16:50 | 10 km | 124 km |
| 6.2 | 27.06.1941 17:11 | 220 km | 232 km |
| 6.2 | 28.09.1939 14:58 | 110 km | 196 km |
| 6.2 | 09.05.1927 20:05 | 15 km | 199 km |
| 6.2 | 17.03.2005 13:37 | 192.8 km | 225 km |
| 6.2 | 01.10.1979 14:14 | 163.4 km | 247 km |
| 6.0 | 10.08.1945 11:20 | 25 km | 237 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 05.07.2026 15:57 | 1 km | 125 km |
| 3.6 | 05.07.2026 10:01 | 3 km | 115 km |
| 4.0 | 03.06.2026 10:46 | 10 km | 152 km |
| 3.5 | 04.05.2026 12:44 | 1 km | 90 km |
| 5.0 | 18.03.2026 17:35 | 0 km | 210 km |
| 3.8 | 16.03.2026 06:51 | 1 km | 136 km |
| 4.2 | 16.03.2026 04:10 | 10 km | 140 km |
| 3.7 | 04.03.2026 21:27 | 5 km | 61 km |
| 3.9 | 04.03.2026 21:12 | 5 km | 71 km |
| 3.1 | 01.03.2026 19:43 | 2 km | 125 km |
| 4.2 | 28.02.2026 08:55 | 20 km | 141 km |
| 4.3 | 22.02.2026 17:15 | 277 km | 173 km |
| 4.3 | 17.02.2026 10:27 | 1 km | 102 km |
| 4.3 | 14.02.2026 05:42 | 131.9 km | 94 km |
| 4.1 | 20.01.2026 10:30 | 5 km | 97 km |
| 3.0 | 12.12.2025 09:25 | 4 km | 170 km |
| 3.5 | 11.12.2025 16:49 | 3 km | 125 km |
| 4.0 | 10.12.2025 10:18 | 1 km | 142 km |
| 5.1 | 29.11.2025 06:52 | 10 km | 181 km |
| 3.7 | 27.11.2025 03:39 | 1 km | 141 km |
| 2.8 | 17.11.2025 03:51 | 3 km | 124 km |
| 2.8 | 12.10.2025 08:15 | 4 km | 138 km |
| 3.5 | 28.09.2025 16:15 | 10 km | 113 km |
| 4.2 | 25.09.2025 07:55 | 4.2 km | 81 km |
| 3.4 | 03.09.2025 16:56 | 1 km | 130 km |
| 4.1 | 10.08.2025 06:14 | 20 km | 110 km |
| 4.2 | 17.07.2025 19:03 | 10 km | 143 km |
| 3.7 | 11.07.2025 18:46 | 3 km | 121 km |
| 4.1 | 13.03.2025 19:01 | 10 km | 143 km |
| 3.8 | 04.01.2025 10:25 | 5 km | 98 km |
| 4.0 | 15.08.2024 23:12 | 18.6 km | 102 km |
| 4.2 | 07.08.2024 15:26 | 10 km | 125 km |
| 3.7 | 20.07.2024 08:12 | 16.1 km | 140 km |
| 4.0 | 11.07.2024 20:39 | 15 km | 80 km |
| 3.8 | 26.06.2024 22:17 | 25.5 km | 118 km |
| 4.3 | 27.03.2024 21:02 | 75.7 km | 136 km |
| 3.8 | 19.03.2024 10:27 | 111.9 km | 99 km |
| 3.3 | 11.11.2023 21:07 | 7.4 km | 169 km |
| 3.5 | 09.10.2023 07:53 | 80.6 km | 141 km |
| 3.4 | 15.08.2023 05:26 | 95.3 km | 142 km |
| 3.7 | 05.08.2023 09:26 | 10 km | 133 km |
| 3.6 | 02.08.2023 05:00 | 10 km | 133 km |
| 3.7 | 31.07.2023 08:45 | 30.7 km | 135 km |
| 4.0 | 24.07.2023 14:22 | 6.1 km | 138 km |
| 3.9 | 24.07.2023 10:42 | 52.7 km | 125 km |
| 4.7 | 23.07.2023 18:23 | 13 km | 133 km |
| 3.9 | 01.06.2023 19:50 | 7.1 km | 103 km |
| 6.4 | 17.05.2023 23:01 | 257.6 km | 208 km |
| 4.0 | 12.05.2023 03:01 | 96 km | 113 km |
| 3.7 | 22.02.2023 14:53 | 32 km | 77 km |
| 3.8 | 22.02.2023 07:46 | 10 km | 81 km |
| 3.9 | 21.02.2023 20:01 | 42 km | 97 km |
| 3.8 | 26.01.2023 22:38 | 5 km | 114 km |
| 3.7 | 22.01.2023 09:51 | 10 km | 140 km |
| 3.8 | 21.01.2023 09:11 | 14 km | 142 km |
| 3.7 | 19.01.2023 10:57 | 20 km | 112 km |
| 3.5 | 03.01.2023 10:32 | 5 km | 123 km |
| 3.6 | 03.01.2023 10:30 | 5 km | 116 km |
| 4.1 | 22.12.2022 08:46 | 5 km | 159 km |
| 4.2 | 02.12.2022 07:40 | 121 km | 112 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.