2.1
1,724
recorded earthquakes
M6.5
largest
1906–2026
record span
2.35
mean magnitude
1,044
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.5 | 26.01.1916 07:38 | 35 km | 365 km |
| 6.4 | 29.12.2020 11:19 | 10.6 km | 313 km |
| 6.1 | 26.10.1969 15:36 | 23.7 km | 302 km |
| 6.0 | 13.04.1964 08:30 | 15 km | 237 km |
| 6.0 | 08.10.1909 09:59 | 15 km | 318 km |
| 5.8 | 12.01.1956 05:46 | 15 km | 36 km |
| 5.8 | 02.01.1906 04:26 | 15 km | 298 km |
| 5.8 | 29.01.1917 08:22 | 15 km | 326 km |
| 5.8 | 08.07.1911 01:01 | 15 km | 84 km |
| 5.6 | 09.01.1906 23:04 | 15 km | 223 km |
| 5.6 | 27.03.1938 11:16 | 35 km | 228 km |
| 5.6 | 17.04.1974 01:31 | 33 km | 182 km |
| 5.5 | 12.07.1991 10:42 | 8.1 km | 223 km |
| 5.5 | 18.09.1939 00:14 | 15 km | 269 km |
| 5.5 | 02.12.1991 08:49 | 13.9 km | 226 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1 | 03.08.2026 01:55 | 10 km | 253 km |
| 2.1 | 01.08.2026 02:19 | 6 km | 301 km |
| 2.2 | 01.08.2026 02:11 | 5 km | 302 km |
| 4.2 | 23.07.2026 23:59 | 10 km | 279 km |
| 2.0 | 17.07.2026 17:44 | 10 km | 255 km |
| 5.0 | 16.07.2026 21:26 | 10 km | 201 km |
| 2.1 | 15.07.2026 18:51 | 6 km | 253 km |
| 2.1 | 12.07.2026 02:01 | 0 km | 130 km |
| 2.1 | 08.07.2026 03:50 | 4 km | 14 km |
| 3.4 | 29.06.2026 21:56 | 103 km | 133 km |
| 1.5 | 20.06.2026 22:33 | 56 km | 240 km |
| 1.8 | 15.06.2026 07:07 | 10 km | 288 km |
| 1.9 | 20.05.2026 08:57 | 10 km | 260 km |
| 2.5 | 13.05.2026 17:16 | 9 km | 201 km |
| 2.0 | 08.05.2026 06:47 | 35 km | 294 km |
| 2.5 | 05.05.2026 00:44 | 10 km | 151 km |
| 4.0 | 05.05.2026 00:35 | 10 km | 156 km |
| 1.0 | 03.05.2026 06:07 | 0 km | 298 km |
| 2.7 | 24.04.2026 02:11 | 10 km | 216 km |
| 2.2 | 15.04.2026 23:30 | 2 km | 209 km |
| 1.6 | 10.04.2026 07:34 | 3.1 km | 292 km |
| 1.5 | 30.03.2026 08:11 | 9.4 km | 297 km |
| 2.4 | 27.03.2026 01:42 | 0 km | 302 km |
| 1.4 | 23.03.2026 18:23 | 9 km | 243 km |
| 2.7 | 10.03.2026 20:39 | 10 km | 187 km |
| 2.9 | 10.03.2026 08:02 | 11 km | 188 km |
| 2.1 | 10.03.2026 01:50 | 10 km | 250 km |
| 2.6 | 21.02.2026 20:17 | 7 km | 188 km |
| 2.5 | 21.02.2026 17:44 | 10 km | 187 km |
| 3.4 | 21.02.2026 12:44 | 3.6 km | 181 km |
| 2.0 | 13.02.2026 09:39 | 35 km | 279 km |
| 1.1 | 09.02.2026 03:13 | 10 km | 287 km |
| 1.2 | 22.01.2026 00:32 | 8.9 km | 276 km |
| 2.7 | 20.01.2026 16:52 | 9 km | 282 km |
| 1.6 | 19.12.2025 02:38 | 10 km | 252 km |
| 4.1 | 21.10.2025 22:50 | 13.9 km | 62 km |
| 2.1 | 16.10.2025 17:17 | 15 km | 20 km |
| 3.7 | 15.10.2025 04:57 | 10 km | 275 km |
| 1.2 | 08.10.2025 02:42 | 3 km | 279 km |
| 2.5 | 25.09.2025 10:45 | 10 km | 211 km |
| 1.6 | 29.08.2025 09:09 | 3 km | 297 km |
| 2.3 | 13.08.2025 09:22 | 10 km | 143 km |
| 1.9 | 10.08.2025 04:12 | 1 km | 249 km |
| 2.6 | 02.08.2025 15:15 | 15.1 km | 181 km |
| 3.1 | 02.08.2025 09:28 | 14.8 km | 182 km |
| 2.5 | 16.07.2025 13:48 | 8 km | 68 km |
| 2.8 | 13.07.2025 11:13 | 17.8 km | 271 km |
| 2.0 | 09.07.2025 16:11 | 9 km | 64 km |
| 2.1 | 08.07.2025 14:37 | 8 km | 65 km |
| 2.5 | 08.07.2025 07:04 | 12 km | 66 km |
| 2.7 | 08.07.2025 00:34 | 16.3 km | 67 km |
| 4.0 | 05.07.2025 18:55 | 7.3 km | 64 km |
| 2.7 | 04.07.2025 14:25 | 10 km | 66 km |
| 1.5 | 03.07.2025 10:11 | 1.4 km | 283 km |
| 1.6 | 24.06.2025 20:29 | 30.2 km | 310 km |
| 2.5 | 24.06.2025 18:56 | 6 km | 156 km |
| 1.4 | 23.06.2025 21:57 | 11 km | 304 km |
| 1.3 | 14.06.2025 20:00 | 0 km | 302 km |
| 3.0 | 12.06.2025 05:18 | 10 km | 244 km |
| 1.9 | 01.06.2025 05:24 | 13 km | 305 km |
Regions
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.