2.9
2,097
recorded earthquakes
M7.0
largest
1912–2026
record span
3.71
mean magnitude
1,411
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | 06.05.1912 19:00 | 35 km | 33 km |
| 6.5 | 17.06.2000 15:40 | 10.4 km | 67 km |
| 6.4 | 21.06.2000 00:51 | 8.7 km | 71 km |
| 6.3 | 23.07.1929 18:43 | 10 km | 120 km |
| 6.3 | 29.05.2008 15:46 | 4.2 km | 84 km |
| 6.0 | 10.06.1933 12:06 | 35 km | 175 km |
| 6.0 | 25.05.1987 11:31 | 6.7 km | 49 km |
| 6.0 | 05.12.1968 09:44 | 10 km | 118 km |
| 5.9 | 09.10.1935 22:08 | 15 km | 151 km |
| 5.7 | 14.05.1920 17:57 | 10 km | 99 km |
| 5.7 | 17.06.2000 15:42 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 5.6 | 20.10.2020 13:43 | 3.2 km | 133 km |
| 5.6 | 26.09.1992 05:45 | 7.8 km | 102 km |
| 5.6 | 04.09.1924 16:01 | 35 km | 179 km |
| 5.6 | 15.09.1990 23:07 | 7.7 km | 100 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.9 | 02.08.2026 17:54 | 0 km | 51 km |
| 3.4 | 28.07.2026 16:57 | 1.1 km | 39 km |
| 3.1 | 28.07.2026 05:44 | 0 km | 114 km |
| 5.5 | 28.07.2026 05:36 | 10 km | 114 km |
| 3.9 | 27.07.2026 00:36 | 3 km | 92 km |
| 3.8 | 15.07.2026 19:25 | 0 km | 59 km |
| 3.0 | 08.07.2026 14:44 | 12.4 km | 86 km |
| 3.0 | 06.07.2026 22:43 | 5.2 km | 115 km |
| 4.2 | 06.07.2026 12:49 | 5.2 km | 130 km |
| 3.6 | 30.06.2026 21:35 | 5.2 km | 57 km |
| 2.9 | 27.06.2026 01:00 | 1.7 km | 83 km |
| 3.3 | 24.06.2026 00:07 | 2 km | 83 km |
| 3.6 | 14.06.2026 01:27 | 0 km | 106 km |
| 2.8 | 14.06.2026 01:07 | 7.7 km | 111 km |
| 2.9 | 14.06.2026 00:55 | 0 km | 104 km |
| 2.8 | 14.06.2026 00:42 | 0 km | 106 km |
| 3.0 | 14.06.2026 00:33 | 0 km | 109 km |
| 2.8 | 14.06.2026 00:21 | 4.2 km | 108 km |
| 3.5 | 14.06.2026 00:17 | 0 km | 105 km |
| 2.8 | 13.06.2026 23:45 | 3.2 km | 107 km |
| 3.0 | 13.06.2026 23:27 | 0 km | 110 km |
| 2.8 | 13.06.2026 23:20 | 0 km | 110 km |
| 3.3 | 13.06.2026 22:30 | 10 km | 102 km |
| 4.2 | 13.06.2026 20:14 | 10 km | 107 km |
| 2.8 | 05.06.2026 19:06 | 3.7 km | 82 km |
| 3.5 | 03.06.2026 23:08 | 2.8 km | 83 km |
| 3.2 | 03.06.2026 10:40 | 3 km | 105 km |
| 2.8 | 03.06.2026 10:05 | 7.9 km | 82 km |
| 3.4 | 01.06.2026 16:46 | 4 km | 101 km |
| 3.8 | 01.06.2026 16:17 | 2.7 km | 101 km |
| 3.1 | 01.06.2026 14:12 | 10 km | 113 km |
| 3.6 | 01.06.2026 13:45 | 0 km | 98 km |
| 2.9 | 31.05.2026 18:28 | 3.7 km | 101 km |
| 3.5 | 31.05.2026 17:15 | 4.5 km | 101 km |
| 2.9 | 31.05.2026 17:01 | 2.6 km | 100 km |
| 2.8 | 31.05.2026 06:55 | 3.5 km | 101 km |
| 4.0 | 25.05.2026 03:50 | 10 km | 96 km |
| 3.4 | 24.05.2026 06:14 | 0 km | 28 km |
| 2.9 | 21.05.2026 16:12 | 0 km | 114 km |
| 3.6 | 13.05.2026 00:31 | 0 km | 97 km |
| 2.9 | 11.05.2026 14:24 | 2.7 km | 82 km |
| 4.2 | 25.04.2026 14:34 | 10 km | 87 km |
| 3.0 | 01.04.2026 18:49 | 8.5 km | 92 km |
| 4.2 | 31.03.2026 07:11 | 10 km | 106 km |
| 3.5 | 31.03.2026 07:10 | 1.1 km | 114 km |
| 3.1 | 26.03.2026 00:29 | 0 km | 60 km |
| 3.8 | 19.03.2026 23:23 | 0 km | 112 km |
| 3.3 | 12.03.2026 11:47 | 0.3 km | 22 km |
| 3.0 | 03.03.2026 06:41 | 6.6 km | 57 km |
| 2.8 | 19.02.2026 10:29 | 0.3 km | 61 km |
| 2.8 | 12.02.2026 22:53 | 0.3 km | 59 km |
| 2.8 | 12.02.2026 09:14 | 5.2 km | 91 km |
| 3.0 | 31.01.2026 19:54 | 10.8 km | 92 km |
| 3.0 | 31.01.2026 11:56 | 5.2 km | 53 km |
| 5.5 | 31.01.2026 11:54 | 10 km | 109 km |
| 3.0 | 28.01.2026 20:27 | 0.1 km | 60 km |
| 3.0 | 28.01.2026 02:01 | 6.6 km | 103 km |
| 2.8 | 24.01.2026 11:59 | 2.6 km | 89 km |
| 2.9 | 24.01.2026 08:05 | 18 km | 141 km |
| 3.0 | 23.01.2026 20:33 | 1.1 km | 110 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.