2.9
217
recorded earthquakes
M6.9
largest
1905–2026
record span
3.38
mean magnitude
182
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.9 | 26.09.1905 01:25 | 20 km | 102 km |
| 6.7 | 10.10.1956 15:31 | 15 km | 212 km |
| 5.6 | 14.01.1929 09:45 | 15 km | 246 km |
| 5.5 | 20.10.1937 01:23 | 35 km | 269 km |
| 5.4 | 16.07.1986 22:03 | 15.2 km | 276 km |
| 5.0 | 05.02.1976 12:04 | 11 km | 236 km |
| 4.9 | 06.11.1975 00:11 | 10 km | 184 km |
| 4.9 | 01.01.1971 01:06 | 33 km | 172 km |
| 4.8 | 14.05.2020 02:18 | 10 km | 196 km |
| 4.8 | 27.04.1980 17:00 | 13.6 km | 175 km |
| 4.8 | 20.06.1966 13:42 | 14 km | 105 km |
| 4.7 | 18.10.2007 05:54 | 10 km | 228 km |
| 4.6 | 25.09.1981 02:50 | 35 km | 228 km |
| 4.6 | 21.02.2014 06:46 | 16 km | 80 km |
| 4.6 | 09.09.2018 11:07 | 10 km | 105 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.9 | 01.08.2026 22:44 | 8 km | 111 km |
| 3.2 | 31.07.2026 17:11 | 5 km | 72 km |
| 3.2 | 29.07.2026 11:18 | 0.4 km | 138 km |
| 3.2 | 22.07.2026 18:22 | 38.5 km | 129 km |
| 2.9 | 21.07.2026 00:32 | 7.1 km | 11 km |
| 2.8 | 20.07.2026 14:22 | 5 km | 110 km |
| 4.4 | 28.05.2026 00:03 | 10 km | 133 km |
| 3.8 | 18.05.2026 17:37 | 16.3 km | 125 km |
| 4.4 | 05.05.2026 23:11 | 62.6 km | 190 km |
| 3.0 | 29.04.2026 15:07 | 5 km | 155 km |
| 3.7 | 17.04.2026 09:32 | 5.5 km | 72 km |
| 2.5 | 29.03.2026 01:23 | 5 km | 85 km |
| 2.5 | 29.03.2026 01:17 | 5 km | 93 km |
| 2.8 | 09.03.2026 01:31 | 5 km | 117 km |
| 2.8 | 26.02.2026 18:44 | 5 km | 170 km |
| 3.2 | 22.02.2026 14:14 | 6.7 km | 182 km |
| 3.2 | 29.01.2026 21:21 | 5 km | 119 km |
| 2.8 | 19.01.2026 03:14 | 5 km | 112 km |
| 3.4 | 14.01.2026 07:19 | 5 km | 78 km |
| 3.3 | 21.12.2025 06:43 | 5 km | 90 km |
| 3.7 | 15.12.2025 10:24 | 212.2 km | 205 km |
| 2.6 | 11.12.2025 08:23 | 10 km | 138 km |
| 3.2 | 01.12.2025 15:52 | 5 km | 113 km |
| 2.7 | 23.11.2025 02:27 | 5 km | 159 km |
| 4.4 | 14.10.2025 14:00 | 15.4 km | 223 km |
| 4.4 | 08.10.2025 20:36 | 26.3 km | 244 km |
| 3.7 | 07.10.2025 17:10 | 101.9 km | 161 km |
| 3.4 | 26.09.2025 20:17 | 10 km | 98 km |
| 3.8 | 25.09.2025 11:19 | 54.4 km | 42 km |
| 3.9 | 18.09.2025 18:52 | 117.6 km | 191 km |
| 3.3 | 15.09.2025 23:15 | 88.1 km | 182 km |
| 3.1 | 10.08.2025 10:40 | 10 km | 101 km |
| 3.2 | 22.07.2025 00:30 | 5 km | 161 km |
| 2.5 | 17.07.2025 07:04 | 5 km | 102 km |
| 3.3 | 16.07.2025 19:16 | 10 km | 86 km |
| 4.1 | 11.07.2025 14:19 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 4.5 | 10.07.2025 03:34 | 10 km | 95 km |
| 3.3 | 10.07.2025 03:34 | 10 km | 95 km |
| 2.8 | 28.06.2025 14:03 | 5 km | 118 km |
| 4.0 | 24.06.2025 01:21 | 0 km | 83 km |
| 2.5 | 23.06.2025 16:32 | 5 km | 143 km |
| 3.1 | 04.05.2025 04:00 | 10 km | 149 km |
| 2.5 | 04.03.2025 01:05 | 6 km | 165 km |
| 2.8 | 23.02.2025 09:54 | 10 km | 159 km |
| 4.2 | 17.02.2025 00:06 | 10 km | 131 km |
| 3.0 | 04.01.2025 22:27 | 10 km | 91 km |
| 2.6 | 26.12.2024 04:12 | 10 km | 101 km |
| 3.5 | 25.12.2024 06:58 | 5 km | 105 km |
| 3.0 | 12.11.2024 02:20 | 7 km | 96 km |
| 2.5 | 06.11.2024 03:55 | 10 km | 162 km |
| 2.7 | 28.10.2024 01:36 | 10 km | 179 km |
| 2.8 | 21.09.2024 11:44 | 5 km | 81 km |
| 2.8 | 24.08.2024 07:56 | 5 km | 67 km |
| 3.0 | 23.08.2024 03:46 | 10 km | 133 km |
| 2.6 | 03.08.2024 16:46 | 7 km | 146 km |
| 3.2 | 28.07.2024 01:34 | 5 km | 183 km |
| 2.5 | 14.06.2024 10:18 | 7 km | 101 km |
| 4.0 | 08.06.2024 18:17 | 10.7 km | 176 km |
| 3.2 | 25.04.2024 12:40 | 10 km | 146 km |
| 2.8 | 13.04.2024 17:04 | 5 km | 74 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.