4.5
2,944
recorded earthquakes
M6.6
largest
1913–2026
record span
3.89
mean magnitude
2,596
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.6 | 10.04.1972 02:06 | 18.9 km | 123 km |
| 6.3 | 04.02.1934 13:27 | 15 km | 201 km |
| 6.3 | 09.04.2013 11:52 | 12.8 km | 40 km |
| 6.2 | 06.05.1999 23:00 | 23.3 km | 83 km |
| 6.1 | 14.09.1968 13:48 | 25 km | 166 km |
| 6.0 | 11.08.1988 16:04 | 22.3 km | 117 km |
| 6.0 | 01.03.1994 03:49 | 12.8 km | 115 km |
| 6.0 | 24.03.1913 10:34 | 15 km | 293 km |
| 6.0 | 27.05.1989 20:08 | 10 km | 158 km |
| 5.9 | 12.03.1946 02:21 | 15 km | 104 km |
| 5.9 | 18.04.2021 06:41 | 14.8 km | 133 km |
| 5.9 | 27.09.2010 11:22 | 25 km | 97 km |
| 5.9 | 20.06.1994 09:09 | 12.4 km | 115 km |
| 5.9 | 06.12.1988 13:20 | 14 km | 124 km |
| 5.8 | 30.03.1988 02:12 | 29.5 km | 252 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.5 | 23.07.2026 07:58 | 10 km | 167 km |
| 4.0 | 26.06.2026 21:12 | 10 km | 110 km |
| 3.4 | 11.06.2026 06:48 | 0 km | 155 km |
| 3.7 | 11.06.2026 06:19 | 0 km | 170 km |
| 3.8 | 05.06.2026 15:38 | 10 km | 40 km |
| 3.9 | 29.05.2026 10:58 | 0 km | 30 km |
| 3.9 | 21.05.2026 00:17 | 0 km | 83 km |
| 3.3 | 06.05.2026 05:37 | 0 km | 156 km |
| 4.1 | 25.04.2026 15:47 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 3.6 | 11.04.2026 08:41 | 10 km | 161 km |
| 4.1 | 09.04.2026 19:06 | 10 km | 68 km |
| 4.3 | 07.04.2026 07:39 | 10 km | 148 km |
| 4.1 | 24.03.2026 00:50 | 10 km | 179 km |
| 4.0 | 20.03.2026 07:38 | 10 km | 186 km |
| 4.0 | 20.03.2026 05:47 | 0 km | 194 km |
| 4.0 | 20.03.2026 05:24 | 10 km | 200 km |
| 3.7 | 20.03.2026 05:01 | 0 km | 132 km |
| 4.5 | 17.03.2026 06:59 | 10 km | 194 km |
| 3.7 | 06.03.2026 06:06 | 0 km | 193 km |
| 4.0 | 25.02.2026 15:38 | 0 km | 172 km |
| 4.1 | 23.02.2026 05:02 | 10 km | 194 km |
| 3.5 | 19.02.2026 03:43 | 10 km | 191 km |
| 4.3 | 18.02.2026 14:08 | 10 km | 113 km |
| 4.0 | 17.02.2026 08:07 | 0 km | 179 km |
| 3.3 | 16.02.2026 13:32 | 10 km | 183 km |
| 3.7 | 13.02.2026 19:50 | 10 km | 194 km |
| 4.2 | 13.02.2026 19:44 | 0 km | 199 km |
| 5.0 | 13.02.2026 11:08 | 10 km | 193 km |
| 4.4 | 13.02.2026 10:45 | 10 km | 176 km |
| 3.8 | 13.02.2026 10:33 | 10 km | 178 km |
| 3.3 | 11.02.2026 23:56 | 10 km | 193 km |
| 3.9 | 08.02.2026 12:40 | 0 km | 188 km |
| 3.7 | 08.02.2026 06:03 | 0 km | 192 km |
| 4.8 | 04.02.2026 17:17 | 10 km | 191 km |
| 3.3 | 04.02.2026 14:52 | 0 km | 166 km |
| 3.9 | 02.02.2026 21:43 | 10 km | 183 km |
| 5.3 | 01.02.2026 05:11 | 10 km | 191 km |
| 5.1 | 23.01.2026 11:18 | 10 km | 251 km |
| 4.0 | 20.01.2026 03:45 | 10 km | 107 km |
| 4.1 | 30.12.2025 17:56 | 169.4 km | 118 km |
| 4.1 | 23.12.2025 22:43 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 4.0 | 22.12.2025 23:52 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 4.1 | 16.12.2025 23:55 | 10 km | 102 km |
| 4.0 | 06.12.2025 05:07 | 10 km | 191 km |
| 4.2 | 02.12.2025 13:30 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 4.1 | 01.12.2025 19:57 | 10 km | 67 km |
| 4.0 | 01.12.2025 12:28 | 10 km | 161 km |
| 4.2 | 27.11.2025 22:29 | 10 km | 152 km |
| 4.0 | 18.11.2025 15:46 | 0 km | 165 km |
| 3.9 | 17.11.2025 23:54 | 10 km | 66 km |
| 3.9 | 14.11.2025 19:33 | 0 km | 134 km |
| 4.0 | 14.11.2025 15:22 | 0 km | 126 km |
| 4.1 | 10.11.2025 12:22 | 10 km | 166 km |
| 4.3 | 06.11.2025 22:30 | 10 km | 203 km |
| 3.3 | 06.11.2025 22:06 | 10 km | 206 km |
| 3.6 | 05.11.2025 12:22 | 0 km | 211 km |
| 4.0 | 05.11.2025 11:12 | 10 km | 194 km |
| 4.0 | 30.10.2025 00:10 | 10 km | 234 km |
| 3.7 | 24.10.2025 16:36 | 10 km | 168 km |
| 4.8 | 21.10.2025 08:02 | 10 km | 163 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.