3.1
1,980
recorded earthquakes
M7.1
largest
1910–2026
record span
3.71
mean magnitude
1,625
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.1 | 22.01.1910 08:48 | 35 km | 221 km |
| 7.0 | 06.05.1912 19:00 | 35 km | 224 km |
| 6.8 | 28.03.1963 00:15 | 10 km | 159 km |
| 6.5 | 17.06.2000 15:40 | 10.4 km | 255 km |
| 6.4 | 21.06.2000 00:51 | 8.7 km | 255 km |
| 6.3 | 13.01.1976 13:29 | 3.6 km | 84 km |
| 6.2 | 23.08.1921 20:17 | 35 km | 174 km |
| 6.2 | 02.06.1934 13:42 | 35 km | 85 km |
| 6.0 | 21.06.2020 19:07 | 9 km | 129 km |
| 5.9 | 26.07.1913 20:51 | 15 km | 167 km |
| 5.8 | 16.09.2002 18:48 | 12.8 km | 171 km |
| 5.8 | 22.10.1936 23:49 | 35 km | 193 km |
| 5.8 | 20.06.2020 19:26 | 8.5 km | 111 km |
| 5.6 | 23.10.1936 00:00 | 15 km | 186 km |
| 5.6 | 26.09.1992 05:45 | 7.8 km | 102 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 28.07.2026 05:44 | 0 km | 102 km |
| 5.5 | 28.07.2026 05:36 | 10 km | 98 km |
| 3.0 | 06.07.2026 22:43 | 5.2 km | 102 km |
| 4.2 | 06.07.2026 12:49 | 5.2 km | 110 km |
| 3.6 | 14.06.2026 01:27 | 0 km | 103 km |
| 2.8 | 14.06.2026 01:07 | 7.7 km | 99 km |
| 2.9 | 14.06.2026 00:55 | 0 km | 105 km |
| 3.4 | 14.06.2026 00:46 | 1.1 km | 103 km |
| 2.8 | 14.06.2026 00:42 | 0 km | 104 km |
| 3.0 | 14.06.2026 00:33 | 0 km | 101 km |
| 2.8 | 14.06.2026 00:21 | 4.2 km | 102 km |
| 3.5 | 14.06.2026 00:17 | 0 km | 104 km |
| 2.8 | 13.06.2026 23:45 | 3.2 km | 103 km |
| 3.0 | 13.06.2026 23:27 | 0 km | 101 km |
| 2.8 | 13.06.2026 23:20 | 0 km | 101 km |
| 3.3 | 13.06.2026 22:30 | 10 km | 99 km |
| 4.2 | 13.06.2026 20:14 | 10 km | 102 km |
| 2.8 | 06.06.2026 00:38 | 1.1 km | 126 km |
| 3.1 | 01.06.2026 14:12 | 10 km | 105 km |
| 4.0 | 25.05.2026 03:50 | 10 km | 111 km |
| 2.9 | 21.05.2026 16:12 | 0 km | 98 km |
| 4.2 | 25.04.2026 14:34 | 10 km | 121 km |
| 4.2 | 31.03.2026 07:11 | 10 km | 102 km |
| 3.5 | 31.03.2026 07:10 | 1.1 km | 98 km |
| 3.8 | 19.03.2026 23:23 | 0 km | 104 km |
| 2.8 | 12.02.2026 09:14 | 5.2 km | 121 km |
| 3.0 | 31.01.2026 19:54 | 10.8 km | 120 km |
| 5.5 | 31.01.2026 11:54 | 10 km | 97 km |
| 3.0 | 23.01.2026 20:33 | 1.1 km | 103 km |
| 4.4 | 22.01.2026 10:28 | 10 km | 102 km |
| 2.8 | 12.01.2026 15:41 | 8.3 km | 41 km |
| 2.8 | 09.01.2026 09:47 | 3.2 km | 102 km |
| 4.4 | 01.01.2026 08:52 | 10 km | 113 km |
| 3.0 | 25.12.2025 13:23 | 7.7 km | 120 km |
| 2.8 | 23.12.2025 23:50 | 2.5 km | 119 km |
| 3.4 | 15.12.2025 14:43 | 0.1 km | 99 km |
| 3.0 | 14.12.2025 21:31 | 10.4 km | 121 km |
| 3.2 | 10.12.2025 00:58 | 11.5 km | 120 km |
| 3.4 | 06.12.2025 10:13 | 0.6 km | 125 km |
| 3.1 | 06.12.2025 10:10 | 9.1 km | 125 km |
| 3.0 | 21.11.2025 05:58 | 3.3 km | 99 km |
| 2.8 | 15.11.2025 04:09 | 6.5 km | 102 km |
| 3.5 | 09.11.2025 09:39 | 3.2 km | 49 km |
| 3.2 | 08.11.2025 02:24 | 3 km | 99 km |
| 2.9 | 29.10.2025 18:33 | 3.4 km | 102 km |
| 5.5 | 29.10.2025 16:46 | 10 km | 107 km |
| 3.1 | 22.10.2025 19:08 | 4.5 km | 103 km |
| 2.8 | 21.10.2025 20:10 | 3.2 km | 105 km |
| 3.0 | 20.10.2025 10:47 | 1.1 km | 123 km |
| 3.3 | 12.10.2025 22:06 | 6.6 km | 102 km |
| 4.4 | 12.10.2025 21:59 | 10 km | 113 km |
| 3.0 | 09.10.2025 01:33 | 3.2 km | 102 km |
| 3.0 | 27.09.2025 02:50 | 1.1 km | 104 km |
| 2.9 | 19.09.2025 15:23 | 7.8 km | 116 km |
| 3.2 | 19.09.2025 04:44 | 1.1 km | 98 km |
| 3.4 | 18.09.2025 00:04 | 1.1 km | 118 km |
| 3.3 | 11.09.2025 06:57 | 1.1 km | 118 km |
| 4.2 | 04.09.2025 10:00 | 10 km | 126 km |
| 2.8 | 31.08.2025 03:01 | 8.2 km | 122 km |
| 3.3 | 25.08.2025 23:36 | 1.1 km | 65 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.