2.7
477
recorded earthquakes
M7.5
largest
1917–2026
record span
4.09
mean magnitude
245
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.5 | 08.07.1918 10:22 | 15 km | 255 km |
| 7.1 | 16.08.1938 04:28 | 75 km | 122 km |
| 6.7 | 03.01.2016 23:05 | 49.5 km | 196 km |
| 6.5 | 28.09.1948 21:36 | 65 km | 148 km |
| 6.5 | 11.05.1940 21:00 | 80 km | 156 km |
| 6.3 | 24.12.1944 14:46 | 15 km | 170 km |
| 6.2 | 22.09.1930 14:19 | 35 km | 231 km |
| 6.2 | 12.04.1917 02:55 | 35 km | 193 km |
| 6.2 | 25.11.2021 23:45 | 42.7 km | 88 km |
| 6.1 | 16.04.2020 11:45 | 22.2 km | 129 km |
| 6.1 | 14.12.1955 10:51 | 35 km | 157 km |
| 6.1 | 29.02.1956 20:51 | 52.7 km | 147 km |
| 6.1 | 31.05.1973 23:40 | 53.5 km | 138 km |
| 6.1 | 01.07.1957 19:30 | 65 km | 162 km |
| 6.1 | 21.11.1997 11:23 | 41.3 km | 101 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.7 | 03.08.2026 18:15 | 11 km | 71 km |
| 2.9 | 31.07.2026 23:09 | 10 km | 73 km |
| 2.7 | 07.07.2026 19:28 | 5 km | 105 km |
| 3.6 | 05.07.2026 16:34 | 55 km | 120 km |
| 2.8 | 19.06.2026 17:04 | 8 km | 42 km |
| 4.4 | 19.06.2026 07:52 | 62 km | 170 km |
| 3.4 | 07.06.2026 11:20 | 107 km | 63 km |
| 2.8 | 28.05.2026 04:59 | 11 km | 115 km |
| 2.9 | 27.05.2026 22:40 | 20 km | 150 km |
| 2.7 | 27.05.2026 09:37 | 11 km | 101 km |
| 3.3 | 22.05.2026 18:42 | 55 km | 138 km |
| 2.5 | 22.05.2026 11:14 | 5 km | 153 km |
| 3.2 | 21.05.2026 04:51 | 12 km | 16 km |
| 3.4 | 19.05.2026 01:18 | 76 km | 122 km |
| 3.8 | 15.04.2026 20:39 | 22 km | 60 km |
| 2.9 | 10.04.2026 10:17 | 10 km | 160 km |
| 3.2 | 09.04.2026 02:38 | 8 km | 150 km |
| 3.4 | 31.03.2026 22:26 | 22 km | 78 km |
| 2.7 | 25.03.2026 20:22 | 10 km | 56 km |
| 2.8 | 18.03.2026 16:50 | 30 km | 64 km |
| 2.5 | 15.03.2026 05:17 | 17 km | 89 km |
| 2.9 | 05.03.2026 20:53 | 9 km | 131 km |
| 2.9 | 05.03.2026 02:42 | 19 km | 129 km |
| 3.1 | 04.03.2026 22:46 | 10 km | 132 km |
| 2.9 | 04.03.2026 15:18 | 10 km | 128 km |
| 3.8 | 04.03.2026 12:52 | 12 km | 133 km |
| 3.4 | 03.03.2026 13:44 | 32 km | 99 km |
| 3.4 | 22.02.2026 01:41 | 90 km | 103 km |
| 3.3 | 21.02.2026 21:49 | 29 km | 146 km |
| 3.0 | 18.02.2026 08:08 | 25 km | 49 km |
| 3.2 | 14.02.2026 19:22 | 25 km | 71 km |
| 2.8 | 03.02.2026 01:07 | 36 km | 109 km |
| 3.5 | 29.01.2026 08:01 | 20 km | 148 km |
| 3.6 | 26.01.2026 03:33 | 0 km | 11 km |
| 3.5 | 25.01.2026 10:57 | 30 km | 51 km |
| 3.4 | 24.01.2026 14:18 | 40 km | 62 km |
| 3.3 | 15.01.2026 17:35 | 45 km | 97 km |
| 3.6 | 11.01.2026 16:03 | 45 km | 142 km |
| 3.9 | 26.12.2025 12:43 | 10 km | 132 km |
| 2.9 | 21.12.2025 13:33 | 25 km | 161 km |
| 3.1 | 08.12.2025 18:38 | 5 km | 17 km |
| 2.9 | 08.12.2025 12:06 | 5 km | 127 km |
| 3.5 | 27.11.2025 00:12 | 26 km | 155 km |
| 3.6 | 23.11.2025 11:58 | 10 km | 130 km |
| 3.4 | 02.11.2025 02:08 | 37 km | 93 km |
| 3.2 | 29.10.2025 12:42 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 4.6 | 29.10.2025 05:30 | 47 km | 158 km |
| 3.3 | 29.10.2025 05:30 | 10 km | 160 km |
| 3.4 | 28.09.2025 08:18 | 0 km | 107 km |
| 3.3 | 23.09.2025 14:48 | 5 km | 50 km |
| 4.1 | 21.09.2025 07:42 | 238.1 km | 141 km |
| 3.1 | 18.09.2025 17:35 | 20 km | 45 km |
| 3.4 | 18.09.2025 16:33 | 10 km | 24 km |
| 3.4 | 15.09.2025 13:53 | 25 km | 156 km |
| 3.3 | 10.08.2025 18:33 | 10 km | 75 km |
| 3.4 | 10.08.2025 08:46 | 12 km | 145 km |
| 3.4 | 06.07.2025 16:45 | 10 km | 144 km |
| 3.4 | 13.06.2025 17:32 | 80 km | 70 km |
| 2.5 | 27.05.2025 20:56 | 25 km | 161 km |
| 5.2 | 27.05.2025 20:24 | 60 km | 172 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.