2.9
948
recorded earthquakes
M7.7
largest
1901–2026
record span
3.45
mean magnitude
174
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 | 13.01.2001 17:33 | 57.6 km | 181 km |
| 7.3 | 14.10.2014 03:51 | 63.9 km | 136 km |
| 7.2 | 30.12.1907 05:26 | 0 km | 166 km |
| 7.2 | 28.03.1921 07:49 | 15 km | 30 km |
| 7.2 | 24.10.1956 14:42 | 35 km | 197 km |
| 7.1 | 21.05.1932 10:10 | 15 km | 106 km |
| 7.1 | 08.10.1901 02:14 | 0 km | 43 km |
| 7.1 | 08.02.1926 15:18 | 20 km | 207 km |
| 7.1 | 15.10.1967 08:00 | 168.8 km | 209 km |
| 7.0 | 05.11.1926 07:55 | 15 km | 90 km |
| 6.5 | 22.09.2021 09:57 | 47.1 km | 156 km |
| 6.5 | 31.05.1978 01:07 | 71.6 km | 85 km |
| 6.5 | 19.07.2023 00:22 | 67.8 km | 135 km |
| 6.4 | 17.11.1987 03:40 | 90.3 km | 95 km |
| 6.4 | 18.07.1983 12:52 | 89.8 km | 85 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.9 | 03.08.2026 06:49 | 10 km | 61 km |
| 4.2 | 16.05.2026 08:45 | 200 km | 54 km |
| 3.2 | 02.05.2026 05:14 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 4.3 | 27.03.2026 14:55 | 127.7 km | 66 km |
| 2.5 | 01.03.2026 20:14 | 10 km | 30 km |
| 2.5 | 22.01.2026 12:57 | 4 km | 53 km |
| 2.5 | 17.01.2026 11:34 | 11 km | 47 km |
| 3.8 | 21.12.2025 08:00 | 300 km | 48 km |
| 3.6 | 12.12.2025 12:50 | 158 km | 65 km |
| 4.1 | 20.11.2025 07:26 | 182.7 km | 63 km |
| 3.4 | 25.09.2025 21:12 | 152 km | 56 km |
| 2.9 | 15.09.2025 14:40 | 180 km | 62 km |
| 4.4 | 06.07.2025 02:28 | 170.2 km | 60 km |
| 2.8 | 16.06.2025 20:30 | 4 km | 62 km |
| 2.5 | 05.05.2025 03:22 | 15 km | 66 km |
| 2.5 | 02.05.2025 04:35 | 4 km | 55 km |
| 3.2 | 19.04.2025 20:36 | 5 km | 67 km |
| 2.6 | 18.04.2025 07:43 | 23 km | 58 km |
| 3.0 | 30.03.2025 05:56 | 9 km | 58 km |
| 2.5 | 30.03.2025 01:53 | 7 km | 56 km |
| 2.5 | 18.03.2025 15:24 | 194 km | 60 km |
| 3.2 | 17.03.2025 01:12 | 28 km | 29 km |
| 2.5 | 08.03.2025 08:35 | 62 km | 19 km |
| 2.5 | 17.02.2025 10:28 | 7 km | 57 km |
| 2.7 | 13.02.2025 15:28 | 8 km | 57 km |
| 2.5 | 13.02.2025 10:47 | 3 km | 63 km |
| 3.0 | 10.02.2025 02:07 | 7 km | 58 km |
| 3.1 | 06.02.2025 06:30 | 1 km | 55 km |
| 3.4 | 22.01.2025 08:32 | 5 km | 64 km |
| 3.0 | 19.01.2025 16:07 | 67 km | 52 km |
| 2.7 | 11.01.2025 06:18 | 5 km | 26 km |
| 2.8 | 06.01.2025 22:24 | 52 km | 32 km |
| 4.2 | 05.01.2025 23:29 | 6 km | 52 km |
| 3.0 | 05.01.2025 23:23 | 5 km | 51 km |
| 3.2 | 05.01.2025 21:57 | 161 km | 34 km |
| 3.1 | 09.12.2024 20:16 | 1 km | 57 km |
| 4.5 | 09.12.2024 13:46 | 0 km | 44 km |
| 3.3 | 09.12.2024 10:13 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 5.6 | 09.12.2024 03:50 | 10 km | 81 km |
| 4.8 | 07.12.2024 09:06 | 158.7 km | 65 km |
| 5.0 | 02.11.2024 19:59 | 68.8 km | 75 km |
| 2.7 | 26.10.2024 18:19 | 7 km | 64 km |
| 2.5 | 20.10.2024 08:13 | 1 km | 55 km |
| 3.0 | 19.10.2024 05:23 | 16 km | 39 km |
| 2.7 | 08.10.2024 08:32 | 5 km | 30 km |
| 2.8 | 02.10.2024 10:46 | 17 km | 25 km |
| 2.9 | 01.10.2024 20:18 | 266 km | 21 km |
| 3.1 | 27.09.2024 10:48 | 51 km | 49 km |
| 2.5 | 27.09.2024 08:16 | 2 km | 50 km |
| 4.0 | 22.09.2024 15:10 | 5 km | 27 km |
| 2.8 | 18.09.2024 07:54 | 88 km | 22 km |
| 4.1 | 03.09.2024 20:24 | 59.5 km | 71 km |
| 2.7 | 02.09.2024 18:48 | 201 km | 62 km |
| 2.5 | 26.08.2024 08:29 | 107 km | 33 km |
| 3.0 | 02.08.2024 22:43 | 1 km | 33 km |
| 2.5 | 29.07.2024 08:11 | 133 km | 43 km |
| 3.3 | 23.07.2024 06:41 | 36 km | 23 km |
| 2.8 | 22.07.2024 23:10 | 92 km | 11 km |
| 2.5 | 21.07.2024 02:34 | 5 km | 37 km |
| 3.4 | 06.07.2024 02:47 | 6 km | 56 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.