3.3
584
recorded earthquakes
M7.3
largest
1905–2026
record span
4.01
mean magnitude
296
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.3 | 17.02.1905 11:42 | 0 km | 171 km |
| 7.3 | 12.09.1946 15:17 | 15 km | 268 km |
| 7.2 | 06.08.1988 00:36 | 98.1 km | 147 km |
| 7.1 | 23.10.1943 17:23 | 15 km | 72 km |
| 7.0 | 29.07.1970 10:16 | 73.5 km | 105 km |
| 6.7 | 03.01.2016 23:05 | 49.5 km | 159 km |
| 6.5 | 12.05.1906 05:48 | 35 km | 26 km |
| 6.5 | 15.03.1927 16:56 | 130 km | 194 km |
| 6.5 | 02.06.1934 05:54 | 130 km | 194 km |
| 6.5 | 27.01.1941 02:30 | 180 km | 184 km |
| 6.4 | 06.05.1995 01:59 | 115.6 km | 167 km |
| 6.3 | 24.12.1944 14:46 | 15 km | 230 km |
| 6.3 | 04.02.2011 13:53 | 86.5 km | 174 km |
| 6.3 | 09.01.1990 18:51 | 112.7 km | 180 km |
| 6.2 | 22.09.1930 14:19 | 35 km | 128 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.3 | 02.08.2026 23:05 | 105 km | 110 km |
| 2.6 | 19.07.2026 19:23 | 10 km | 109 km |
| 3.6 | 18.07.2026 13:17 | 96 km | 122 km |
| 3.4 | 17.07.2026 17:14 | 107 km | 102 km |
| 3.3 | 16.07.2026 01:16 | 18 km | 43 km |
| 3.4 | 09.07.2026 02:37 | 15 km | 77 km |
| 2.8 | 08.07.2026 16:01 | 15 km | 45 km |
| 3.0 | 05.07.2026 18:15 | 121 km | 121 km |
| 3.2 | 28.06.2026 19:40 | 10 km | 128 km |
| 3.4 | 23.06.2026 18:04 | 10 km | 108 km |
| 2.5 | 21.06.2026 22:20 | 17 km | 115 km |
| 3.1 | 20.06.2026 12:45 | 35 km | 133 km |
| 3.4 | 19.06.2026 22:59 | 80 km | 97 km |
| 3.3 | 18.06.2026 02:55 | 32 km | 99 km |
| 2.6 | 17.06.2026 21:10 | 5 km | 86 km |
| 2.7 | 17.06.2026 18:22 | 10 km | 87 km |
| 3.2 | 09.06.2026 11:57 | 15 km | 30 km |
| 3.5 | 07.06.2026 07:44 | 21 km | 135 km |
| 3.2 | 31.05.2026 19:21 | 50 km | 88 km |
| 2.9 | 29.05.2026 23:51 | 94 km | 69 km |
| 2.5 | 29.05.2026 17:25 | 10 km | 117 km |
| 2.6 | 27.05.2026 18:15 | 15 km | 39 km |
| 3.0 | 25.05.2026 11:13 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 3.3 | 25.05.2026 06:21 | 20 km | 31 km |
| 3.0 | 24.05.2026 18:33 | 17 km | 84 km |
| 3.0 | 21.05.2026 01:26 | 16 km | 47 km |
| 2.5 | 18.05.2026 15:21 | 60 km | 17 km |
| 4.0 | 15.05.2026 03:52 | 106 km | 139 km |
| 2.8 | 13.05.2026 18:05 | 10 km | 81 km |
| 3.6 | 12.05.2026 14:15 | 103 km | 107 km |
| 3.3 | 12.05.2026 01:16 | 95 km | 115 km |
| 2.8 | 08.05.2026 10:37 | 20 km | 72 km |
| 3.6 | 07.05.2026 22:35 | 10 km | 125 km |
| 3.0 | 06.05.2026 22:12 | 112 km | 126 km |
| 3.4 | 28.04.2026 06:00 | 99 km | 118 km |
| 3.2 | 24.04.2026 18:30 | 96 km | 114 km |
| 3.7 | 16.04.2026 21:19 | 100 km | 114 km |
| 2.7 | 10.04.2026 23:55 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 3.8 | 09.04.2026 20:02 | 100.7 km | 137 km |
| 3.2 | 09.04.2026 10:45 | 35 km | 63 km |
| 3.5 | 29.03.2026 16:00 | 10 km | 110 km |
| 3.4 | 28.03.2026 16:05 | 15 km | 48 km |
| 2.8 | 26.03.2026 21:49 | 15 km | 46 km |
| 4.2 | 23.03.2026 17:27 | 118.4 km | 138 km |
| 2.8 | 17.03.2026 20:55 | 5 km | 91 km |
| 2.9 | 09.03.2026 18:47 | 10 km | 7 km |
| 2.9 | 08.03.2026 23:34 | 5 km | 65 km |
| 3.6 | 06.03.2026 16:03 | 113 km | 117 km |
| 3.2 | 06.03.2026 14:45 | 90 km | 86 km |
| 3.1 | 24.02.2026 19:23 | 80 km | 135 km |
| 4.2 | 17.02.2026 16:28 | 120 km | 123 km |
| 4.2 | 16.02.2026 22:53 | 10 km | 120 km |
| 2.9 | 06.02.2026 15:59 | 32 km | 110 km |
| 3.6 | 30.01.2026 20:44 | 80 km | 105 km |
| 3.7 | 24.01.2026 09:31 | 90 km | 120 km |
| 4.0 | 22.01.2026 21:50 | 90 km | 69 km |
| 3.5 | 10.01.2026 08:00 | 10 km | 107 km |
| 2.9 | 08.01.2026 20:00 | 10 km | 105 km |
| 2.9 | 18.12.2025 21:28 | 35 km | 104 km |
| 3.4 | 10.12.2025 22:41 | 40 km | 95 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.