3.9
503
recorded earthquakes
M7.7
largest
1902–2026
record span
4.53
mean magnitude
185
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.7 | 06.08.1942 23:37 | 35 km | 178 km |
| 7.5 | 19.04.1902 02:23 | 0 km | 161 km |
| 7.5 | 30.03.1914 00:41 | 150 km | 211 km |
| 7.5 | 23.10.1950 16:13 | 65.3 km | 168 km |
| 7.5 | 04.02.1976 09:01 | 7.6 km | 182 km |
| 7.4 | 07.11.2012 16:35 | 38.7 km | 202 km |
| 7.2 | 14.12.1935 22:05 | 35 km | 180 km |
| 7.2 | 17.07.2026 14:48 | 30 km | 214 km |
| 7.0 | 04.02.1921 08:22 | 15 km | 28 km |
| 7.0 | 14.06.2017 07:29 | 103.7 km | 126 km |
| 7.0 | 14.07.1930 22:40 | 15 km | 173 km |
| 6.8 | 17.04.1919 20:53 | 35 km | 162 km |
| 6.7 | 05.12.1939 08:30 | 45 km | 154 km |
| 6.7 | 19.11.1936 21:10 | 45 km | 173 km |
| 6.6 | 03.11.1988 14:47 | 74 km | 172 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.9 | 29.07.2026 08:57 | 1 km | 28 km |
| 7.2 | 17.07.2026 14:48 | 30 km | 214 km |
| 3.1 | 28.06.2026 03:16 | 1 km | 40 km |
| 3.5 | 04.05.2026 12:44 | 1 km | 79 km |
| 3.1 | 25.04.2026 06:23 | 5 km | 66 km |
| 3.1 | 19.04.2026 20:05 | 1 km | 27 km |
| 3.9 | 19.04.2026 11:14 | 3 km | 29 km |
| 3.5 | 01.04.2026 21:32 | 171 km | 88 km |
| 3.0 | 23.03.2026 12:53 | 2 km | 26 km |
| 2.9 | 28.02.2026 10:16 | 3 km | 17 km |
| 4.2 | 28.02.2026 08:55 | 20 km | 40 km |
| 4.3 | 22.02.2026 17:15 | 277 km | 61 km |
| 3.6 | 04.02.2026 22:05 | 182.8 km | 63 km |
| 3.2 | 03.02.2026 05:03 | 4 km | 83 km |
| 3.1 | 02.02.2026 14:53 | 1 km | 28 km |
| 3.5 | 31.01.2026 15:56 | 158 km | 86 km |
| 3.6 | 21.01.2026 06:05 | 3 km | 22 km |
| 4.1 | 20.01.2026 10:30 | 5 km | 93 km |
| 3.0 | 03.01.2026 05:09 | 3 km | 58 km |
| 2.6 | 19.12.2025 19:25 | 205 km | 80 km |
| 3.5 | 11.12.2025 16:49 | 3 km | 59 km |
| 4.0 | 10.12.2025 10:18 | 1 km | 39 km |
| 4.3 | 02.12.2025 12:59 | 169.3 km | 76 km |
| 3.2 | 27.11.2025 05:53 | 35 km | 68 km |
| 2.8 | 17.11.2025 03:51 | 3 km | 44 km |
| 4.1 | 12.11.2025 20:19 | 9 km | 76 km |
| 3.5 | 28.09.2025 16:15 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 4.2 | 25.09.2025 07:55 | 4.2 km | 86 km |
| 2.5 | 24.08.2025 11:18 | 5 km | 89 km |
| 3.9 | 04.08.2025 17:59 | 1 km | 47 km |
| 2.9 | 19.07.2025 10:42 | 1 km | 79 km |
| 4.0 | 10.07.2025 08:29 | 6.7 km | 102 km |
| 4.2 | 08.07.2025 22:39 | 7.4 km | 102 km |
| 5.7 | 08.07.2025 21:41 | 10 km | 113 km |
| 4.5 | 06.06.2025 00:07 | 192.3 km | 60 km |
| 3.6 | 04.04.2025 00:21 | 0 km | 50 km |
| 4.1 | 13.03.2025 19:01 | 10 km | 89 km |
| 4.0 | 26.02.2025 04:28 | 20 km | 73 km |
| 4.1 | 19.11.2024 14:56 | 179.1 km | 101 km |
| 4.0 | 01.11.2024 09:06 | 111 km | 20 km |
| 4.2 | 11.10.2024 13:27 | 4.8 km | 15 km |
| 4.1 | 12.08.2024 03:13 | 3.5 km | 47 km |
| 6.2 | 21.07.2024 02:53 | 273.4 km | 142 km |
| 3.7 | 20.07.2024 08:12 | 16.1 km | 95 km |
| 3.8 | 26.06.2024 22:17 | 25.5 km | 89 km |
| 5.0 | 12.06.2024 02:55 | 5.1 km | 82 km |
| 4.1 | 17.04.2024 09:09 | 221.7 km | 71 km |
| 4.3 | 27.03.2024 21:02 | 75.7 km | 84 km |
| 6.1 | 27.01.2024 05:52 | 96.3 km | 155 km |
| 3.5 | 09.10.2023 07:53 | 80.6 km | 87 km |
| 3.4 | 15.08.2023 05:26 | 95.3 km | 84 km |
| 3.7 | 05.08.2023 09:26 | 10 km | 90 km |
| 3.6 | 02.08.2023 05:00 | 10 km | 78 km |
| 3.7 | 31.07.2023 08:45 | 30.7 km | 82 km |
| 4.0 | 24.07.2023 14:22 | 6.1 km | 82 km |
| 3.9 | 24.07.2023 10:42 | 52.7 km | 76 km |
| 4.7 | 23.07.2023 18:23 | 13 km | 80 km |
| 4.6 | 01.06.2023 10:02 | 212.6 km | 92 km |
| 6.4 | 17.05.2023 23:01 | 257.6 km | 44 km |
| 4.0 | 12.05.2023 03:01 | 96 km | 80 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.