3.1
1,045
recorded earthquakes
M6.3
largest
1934–2026
record span
3.95
mean magnitude
244
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.3 | 13.01.1976 13:29 | 3.6 km | 169 km |
| 6.2 | 02.06.1934 13:42 | 35 km | 182 km |
| 6.0 | 21.06.2020 19:07 | 9 km | 227 km |
| 5.6 | 26.09.1992 05:45 | 7.8 km | 110 km |
| 5.6 | 15.09.1990 23:07 | 7.7 km | 111 km |
| 5.5 | 29.09.1996 10:48 | 9.5 km | 114 km |
| 5.5 | 15.10.2014 11:16 | 4.5 km | 107 km |
| 5.5 | 29.10.2025 16:46 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 5.5 | 07.10.2014 10:22 | 10 km | 101 km |
| 5.5 | 29.09.2014 13:43 | 10 km | 107 km |
| 5.5 | 07.09.2014 07:08 | 10 km | 94 km |
| 5.5 | 01.09.2014 11:41 | 2.2 km | 99 km |
| 5.5 | 21.09.2014 10:51 | 2.6 km | 99 km |
| 5.5 | 12.08.1980 12:11 | 10 km | 108 km |
| 5.5 | 28.07.2026 05:36 | 10 km | 96 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 28.07.2026 05:44 | 0 km | 94 km |
| 5.5 | 28.07.2026 05:36 | 10 km | 96 km |
| 3.0 | 06.07.2026 22:43 | 5.2 km | 92 km |
| 4.2 | 06.07.2026 12:49 | 5.2 km | 78 km |
| 3.6 | 14.06.2026 01:27 | 0 km | 103 km |
| 2.8 | 14.06.2026 01:07 | 7.7 km | 98 km |
| 2.9 | 14.06.2026 00:55 | 0 km | 105 km |
| 3.4 | 14.06.2026 00:46 | 1.1 km | 54 km |
| 2.8 | 14.06.2026 00:42 | 0 km | 102 km |
| 3.0 | 14.06.2026 00:33 | 0 km | 100 km |
| 2.8 | 14.06.2026 00:21 | 4.2 km | 101 km |
| 3.5 | 14.06.2026 00:17 | 0 km | 104 km |
| 2.8 | 13.06.2026 23:45 | 3.2 km | 102 km |
| 3.0 | 13.06.2026 23:27 | 0 km | 99 km |
| 2.8 | 13.06.2026 23:20 | 0 km | 99 km |
| 4.2 | 13.06.2026 20:14 | 10 km | 102 km |
| 3.1 | 01.06.2026 14:12 | 10 km | 94 km |
| 4.0 | 25.05.2026 03:50 | 10 km | 113 km |
| 2.9 | 21.05.2026 16:12 | 0 km | 95 km |
| 4.2 | 25.04.2026 14:34 | 10 km | 120 km |
| 4.2 | 31.03.2026 07:11 | 10 km | 103 km |
| 3.5 | 31.03.2026 07:10 | 1.1 km | 95 km |
| 3.8 | 19.03.2026 23:23 | 0 km | 96 km |
| 3.0 | 31.01.2026 19:54 | 10.8 km | 114 km |
| 5.5 | 31.01.2026 11:54 | 10 km | 102 km |
| 2.8 | 24.01.2026 11:59 | 2.6 km | 123 km |
| 3.0 | 23.01.2026 20:33 | 1.1 km | 98 km |
| 4.4 | 22.01.2026 10:28 | 10 km | 99 km |
| 2.8 | 12.01.2026 15:41 | 8.3 km | 56 km |
| 2.8 | 09.01.2026 09:47 | 3.2 km | 98 km |
| 4.4 | 01.01.2026 08:52 | 10 km | 109 km |
| 2.9 | 29.12.2025 13:08 | 0.7 km | 112 km |
| 3.0 | 25.12.2025 13:23 | 7.7 km | 114 km |
| 2.8 | 23.12.2025 23:50 | 2.5 km | 110 km |
| 3.4 | 15.12.2025 14:43 | 0.1 km | 96 km |
| 3.0 | 21.11.2025 05:58 | 3.3 km | 97 km |
| 2.8 | 15.11.2025 04:09 | 6.5 km | 97 km |
| 3.5 | 09.11.2025 09:39 | 3.2 km | 66 km |
| 3.2 | 08.11.2025 02:24 | 3 km | 98 km |
| 2.9 | 29.10.2025 18:33 | 3.4 km | 99 km |
| 5.5 | 29.10.2025 16:46 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 3.1 | 22.10.2025 19:08 | 4.5 km | 96 km |
| 2.8 | 21.10.2025 20:10 | 3.2 km | 101 km |
| 3.3 | 12.10.2025 22:06 | 6.6 km | 96 km |
| 4.4 | 12.10.2025 21:59 | 10 km | 105 km |
| 3.0 | 09.10.2025 01:33 | 3.2 km | 102 km |
| 3.0 | 27.09.2025 02:50 | 1.1 km | 98 km |
| 3.2 | 19.09.2025 04:44 | 1.1 km | 96 km |
| 3.4 | 18.09.2025 00:04 | 1.1 km | 110 km |
| 3.3 | 11.09.2025 06:57 | 1.1 km | 109 km |
| 4.2 | 04.09.2025 10:00 | 10 km | 128 km |
| 3.3 | 25.08.2025 23:36 | 1.1 km | 160 km |
| 3.1 | 27.07.2025 23:41 | 0.1 km | 98 km |
| 5.3 | 27.07.2025 23:40 | 10 km | 94 km |
| 2.9 | 21.07.2025 22:13 | 4.7 km | 99 km |
| 3.0 | 16.07.2025 14:07 | 2.4 km | 100 km |
| 2.8 | 16.07.2025 12:44 | 1.1 km | 97 km |
| 2.9 | 07.07.2025 09:26 | 0.2 km | 98 km |
| 3.6 | 04.07.2025 12:27 | 0.1 km | 100 km |
| 2.8 | 30.06.2025 21:22 | 1.1 km | 99 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.