2.8
252
recorded earthquakes
M6.5
largest
1967–2026
record span
3.32
mean magnitude
196
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 | 10.12.1967 22:51 | 19.3 km | 371 km |
| 6.2 | 29.09.1993 22:25 | 17.2 km | 332 km |
| 5.5 | 13.09.1967 06:48 | 4 km | 386 km |
| 5.2 | 05.09.2000 00:32 | 11 km | 361 km |
| 5.1 | 12.12.1967 06:18 | 17 km | 362 km |
| 5.1 | 08.12.1993 01:42 | 9 km | 362 km |
| 5.0 | 24.12.1967 23:49 | 17 km | 359 km |
| 5.0 | 20.09.1980 10:45 | 23.4 km | 376 km |
| 5.0 | 12.12.1967 15:48 | 17 km | 359 km |
| 5.0 | 11.12.1967 20:49 | 9 km | 362 km |
| 5.0 | 12.03.2000 18:03 | 9 km | 366 km |
| 5.0 | 29.10.1993 23:45 | 10 km | 286 km |
| 5.0 | 29.09.1993 23:10 | 9 km | 337 km |
| 4.9 | 14.03.2005 09:43 | 15.7 km | 358 km |
| 4.8 | 12.12.2009 11:51 | 17 km | 360 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 14:11 | 10 km | 222 km |
| 3.0 | 15.07.2026 14:22 | 10 km | 346 km |
| 2.8 | 12.07.2026 12:31 | 19 km | 137 km |
| 3.0 | 16.06.2026 08:26 | 5 km | 455 km |
| 3.0 | 10.06.2026 05:59 | 5 km | 173 km |
| 2.5 | 01.06.2026 12:37 | 5 km | 200 km |
| 2.7 | 23.05.2026 12:53 | 10 km | 345 km |
| 3.0 | 23.05.2026 01:23 | 10 km | 187 km |
| 3.0 | 22.05.2026 22:32 | 9 km | 16 km |
| 2.8 | 22.05.2026 12:35 | 5 km | 344 km |
| 2.9 | 21.05.2026 14:56 | 5 km | 186 km |
| 2.5 | 16.05.2026 08:22 | 5 km | 414 km |
| 2.8 | 25.04.2026 09:52 | 7 km | 338 km |
| 2.7 | 16.04.2026 13:10 | 5 km | 343 km |
| 2.7 | 04.04.2026 07:02 | 5 km | 214 km |
| 2.8 | 25.03.2026 08:38 | 5 km | 380 km |
| 4.1 | 20.03.2026 21:49 | 10 km | 271 km |
| 2.5 | 27.02.2026 13:15 | 10 km | 318 km |
| 2.5 | 26.02.2026 12:37 | 10 km | 275 km |
| 2.8 | 22.02.2026 10:32 | 10 km | 179 km |
| 2.9 | 21.02.2026 03:01 | 5 km | 355 km |
| 2.7 | 10.02.2026 06:13 | 10 km | 229 km |
| 2.6 | 07.02.2026 11:43 | 5 km | 315 km |
| 3.1 | 07.02.2026 01:35 | 5 km | 217 km |
| 3.5 | 05.02.2026 20:58 | 328.2 km | 268 km |
| 2.9 | 02.02.2026 03:33 | 10 km | 28 km |
| 2.9 | 01.02.2026 10:18 | 5 km | 189 km |
| 3.0 | 31.01.2026 12:56 | 10 km | 287 km |
| 2.8 | 30.01.2026 21:48 | 5 km | 369 km |
| 2.9 | 29.01.2026 08:05 | 7 km | 359 km |
| 3.5 | 27.01.2026 20:04 | 10 km | 266 km |
| 2.6 | 27.01.2026 08:13 | 5 km | 37 km |
| 2.6 | 23.01.2026 08:01 | 10 km | 318 km |
| 2.5 | 16.01.2026 13:09 | 5 km | 383 km |
| 2.7 | 02.01.2026 08:39 | 5 km | 120 km |
| 2.5 | 13.12.2025 03:47 | 5 km | 296 km |
| 2.6 | 06.12.2025 13:09 | 10 km | 345 km |
| 2.7 | 26.11.2025 10:54 | 5 km | 38 km |
| 2.9 | 19.11.2025 03:24 | 10 km | 352 km |
| 2.5 | 08.11.2025 07:06 | 5 km | 337 km |
| 3.1 | 04.11.2025 02:19 | 5 km | 217 km |
| 2.9 | 01.11.2025 04:42 | 5 km | 301 km |
| 3.4 | 31.10.2025 13:47 | 5 km | 307 km |
| 3.2 | 31.10.2025 00:17 | 5 km | 304 km |
| 2.8 | 30.10.2025 15:33 | 10 km | 305 km |
| 3.1 | 25.10.2025 22:12 | 5 km | 311 km |
| 3.2 | 22.10.2025 02:13 | 5 km | 186 km |
| 2.9 | 16.10.2025 11:21 | 5 km | 194 km |
| 2.8 | 16.10.2025 07:40 | 5 km | 191 km |
| 3.4 | 16.10.2025 05:18 | 5 km | 194 km |
| 2.6 | 11.10.2025 20:36 | 5 km | 269 km |
| 2.8 | 10.10.2025 16:31 | 10 km | 206 km |
| 2.7 | 05.10.2025 07:56 | 5 km | 353 km |
| 2.8 | 01.10.2025 10:35 | 5 km | 360 km |
| 2.5 | 24.09.2025 15:54 | 10 km | 336 km |
| 2.7 | 14.09.2025 08:14 | 10 km | 116 km |
| 2.5 | 11.09.2025 02:47 | 5 km | 282 km |
| 3.0 | 15.08.2025 08:08 | 10 km | 341 km |
| 3.1 | 13.08.2025 22:26 | 10 km | 308 km |
| 2.9 | 04.08.2025 06:11 | 10 km | 217 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.