2.7
604
recorded earthquakes
M6.5
largest
1938–2026
record span
3.34
mean magnitude
574
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 | 348 km |
| 6.2 | 14.03.1938 00:48 | 50 km | 317 km |
| 6.2 | 29.09.1993 22:25 | 17.2 km | 92 km |
| 5.7 | 13.04.1969 15:24 | 12 km | 437 km |
| 5.5 | 25.08.1957 21:04 | — | 491 km |
| 5.5 | 13.09.1967 06:48 | 4 km | 360 km |
| 5.4 | 27.03.1967 08:09 | 11.2 km | 509 km |
| 5.3 | 23.03.1970 01:53 | 13.9 km | 499 km |
| 5.2 | 05.09.2000 00:32 | 11 km | 353 km |
| 5.1 | 12.12.1967 06:18 | 17 km | 344 km |
| 5.1 | 08.12.1993 01:42 | 9 km | 365 km |
| 5.0 | 24.12.1967 23:49 | 17 km | 339 km |
| 5.0 | 20.09.1980 10:45 | 23.4 km | 362 km |
| 5.0 | 12.03.2000 18:03 | 9 km | 357 km |
| 5.0 | 12.12.1967 15:48 | 17 km | 338 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 12:21 | 5 km | 399 km |
| 3.5 | 31.07.2026 11:17 | 5 km | 398 km |
| 3.0 | 30.07.2026 20:11 | 7 km | 346 km |
| 3.1 | 30.07.2026 12:28 | 8 km | 396 km |
| 3.8 | 29.07.2026 21:07 | 5 km | 370 km |
| 3.4 | 29.07.2026 08:23 | 5 km | 369 km |
| 2.8 | 28.07.2026 12:22 | 5 km | 388 km |
| 3.7 | 28.07.2026 10:12 | 6 km | 371 km |
| 3.9 | 28.07.2026 09:57 | 10 km | 376 km |
| 3.5 | 28.07.2026 07:39 | 5 km | 430 km |
| 3.5 | 28.07.2026 04:16 | 5 km | 372 km |
| 2.9 | 27.07.2026 11:51 | 5 km | 377 km |
| 3.6 | 25.07.2026 21:14 | 5 km | 372 km |
| 3.7 | 25.07.2026 18:25 | 5 km | 371 km |
| 3.1 | 25.07.2026 13:19 | 5 km | 99 km |
| 3.4 | 25.07.2026 06:40 | 5 km | 373 km |
| 3.1 | 25.07.2026 05:27 | 9 km | 428 km |
| 3.6 | 25.07.2026 04:25 | 5 km | 375 km |
| 2.7 | 21.07.2026 00:25 | 10 km | 430 km |
| 2.6 | 13.07.2026 08:47 | 10 km | 366 km |
| 2.8 | 12.07.2026 12:31 | 19 km | 345 km |
| 3.5 | 11.07.2026 05:56 | 5 km | 98 km |
| 3.9 | 08.07.2026 21:53 | 0 km | 86 km |
| 3.7 | 08.07.2026 20:47 | 0 km | 83 km |
| 3.6 | 08.07.2026 20:45 | 10 km | 95 km |
| 4.2 | 08.07.2026 20:07 | 0 km | 78 km |
| 3.5 | 02.07.2026 04:44 | 5 km | 90 km |
| 3.6 | 01.07.2026 19:50 | 5 km | 93 km |
| 3.4 | 25.06.2026 19:17 | 5 km | 424 km |
| 3.0 | 16.06.2026 08:26 | 5 km | 290 km |
| 3.0 | 15.06.2026 23:14 | 5 km | 92 km |
| 3.5 | 13.06.2026 20:56 | 10 km | 459 km |
| 3.0 | 10.06.2026 05:59 | 5 km | 256 km |
| 3.0 | 08.06.2026 11:38 | 12 km | 250 km |
| 3.1 | 06.06.2026 23:31 | 22 km | 453 km |
| 3.1 | 02.06.2026 11:04 | 10 km | 260 km |
| 2.9 | 02.06.2026 10:43 | 9 km | 334 km |
| 2.7 | 02.06.2026 09:57 | 5 km | 353 km |
| 2.6 | 02.06.2026 09:54 | 5 km | 362 km |
| 2.5 | 01.06.2026 12:37 | 5 km | 369 km |
| 3.5 | 31.05.2026 09:57 | 10 km | 104 km |
| 2.9 | 25.05.2026 09:10 | 10 km | 369 km |
| 2.7 | 23.05.2026 12:53 | 10 km | 345 km |
| 3.0 | 23.05.2026 01:23 | 10 km | 263 km |
| 2.7 | 22.05.2026 14:10 | 6 km | 410 km |
| 2.8 | 22.05.2026 12:35 | 5 km | 346 km |
| 3.1 | 22.05.2026 11:21 | 10 km | 266 km |
| 3.3 | 21.05.2026 11:03 | 5 km | 302 km |
| 2.8 | 21.05.2026 09:03 | 10 km | 348 km |
| 2.6 | 21.05.2026 05:15 | 5 km | 397 km |
| 3.1 | 17.05.2026 03:46 | 10 km | 363 km |
| 2.5 | 16.05.2026 20:59 | 10 km | 371 km |
| 3.1 | 16.05.2026 16:47 | 10 km | 368 km |
| 3.3 | 16.05.2026 16:13 | 10 km | 360 km |
| 3.0 | 16.05.2026 16:10 | 10 km | 355 km |
| 3.9 | 16.05.2026 16:01 | 10 km | 400 km |
| 2.5 | 16.05.2026 08:22 | 5 km | 282 km |
| 2.8 | 14.05.2026 15:49 | 10 km | 357 km |
| 2.6 | 14.05.2026 09:12 | 5 km | 355 km |
| 2.9 | 13.05.2026 11:50 | 5 km | 275 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.