4.6
665
recorded earthquakes
M7.1
largest
1923–2026
record span
3.65
mean magnitude
541
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.1 | 01.05.1929 15:37 | 10 km | 259 km |
| 7.1 | 02.07.1957 00:42 | 15 km | 228 km |
| 6.7 | 30.07.1970 00:52 | 12.4 km | 92 km |
| 6.5 | 04.02.1997 10:37 | 20.4 km | 205 km |
| 6.4 | 17.09.1923 07:09 | 15 km | 196 km |
| 6.4 | 11.04.1935 23:14 | 15 km | 144 km |
| 6.1 | 29.10.1985 13:13 | 15.5 km | 70 km |
| 6.0 | 05.03.1935 10:26 | 35 km | 194 km |
| 5.9 | 12.04.1935 01:06 | 15 km | 127 km |
| 5.7 | 12.04.1935 12:44 | 15 km | 153 km |
| 5.7 | 14.02.1971 16:27 | 13.3 km | 105 km |
| 5.7 | 12.04.1935 22:31 | 15 km | 155 km |
| 5.6 | 20.05.1932 19:16 | 35 km | 160 km |
| 5.6 | 07.10.2004 21:46 | 30.4 km | 54 km |
| 5.5 | 07.03.1974 11:36 | 13.3 km | 85 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.6 | 31.07.2026 09:08 | 10 km | 152 km |
| 4.8 | 30.07.2026 08:07 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 4.2 | 19.07.2026 05:38 | 10 km | 90 km |
| 4.0 | 16.05.2026 16:49 | 10 km | 121 km |
| 4.1 | 03.12.2025 21:51 | 10 km | 132 km |
| 4.1 | 20.11.2025 20:56 | 10 km | 117 km |
| 5.0 | 20.10.2025 11:55 | 0 km | 67 km |
| 3.3 | 27.09.2025 12:04 | 0 km | 108 km |
| 4.3 | 14.09.2025 13:48 | 10 km | 58 km |
| 3.4 | 04.08.2025 21:09 | 0 km | 53 km |
| 5.3 | 19.07.2025 21:37 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 3.8 | 18.07.2025 04:46 | 10 km | 93 km |
| 4.7 | 15.07.2025 07:14 | 0 km | 67 km |
| 3.4 | 27.06.2025 14:15 | 10 km | 75 km |
| 3.8 | 24.06.2025 17:38 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 3.0 | 15.06.2025 19:17 | 8 km | 74 km |
| 3.0 | 09.06.2025 01:33 | 9 km | 57 km |
| 3.5 | 05.06.2025 19:55 | 23 km | 36 km |
| 3.8 | 04.06.2025 13:38 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 3.0 | 28.04.2025 06:59 | 7 km | 58 km |
| 3.2 | 18.04.2025 07:20 | 8 km | 159 km |
| 3.1 | 28.03.2025 22:32 | 8 km | 55 km |
| 3.5 | 28.03.2025 00:29 | 10 km | 30 km |
| 3.1 | 05.03.2025 21:04 | 7 km | 103 km |
| 3.7 | 05.03.2025 19:33 | 8 km | 103 km |
| 3.1 | 14.02.2025 05:57 | 8 km | 117 km |
| 3.1 | 12.02.2025 17:27 | 7 km | 34 km |
| 3.1 | 31.01.2025 20:17 | 8 km | 78 km |
| 3.2 | 24.01.2025 06:56 | 8 km | 74 km |
| 3.1 | 24.01.2025 05:05 | 10 km | 77 km |
| 3.2 | 17.01.2025 09:33 | 20 km | 36 km |
| 3.0 | 09.11.2024 15:53 | 18 km | 49 km |
| 3.4 | 17.10.2024 22:37 | 0 km | 87 km |
| 3.7 | 16.10.2024 13:03 | 9 km | 62 km |
| 3.3 | 16.10.2024 12:18 | 11 km | 60 km |
| 3.5 | 02.06.2024 07:59 | 10 km | 81 km |
| 4.3 | 18.04.2024 22:32 | 10 km | 126 km |
| 4.0 | 16.04.2024 04:02 | 6 km | 73 km |
| 4.0 | 18.02.2024 04:24 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 3.1 | 12.02.2024 00:00 | 13 km | 28 km |
| 3.3 | 31.12.2023 10:29 | 8 km | 32 km |
| 3.6 | 30.11.2023 10:54 | 7 km | 81 km |
| 3.0 | 21.11.2023 10:56 | 7 km | 47 km |
| 3.0 | 21.11.2023 01:48 | 8 km | 42 km |
| 3.1 | 21.11.2023 01:37 | 8 km | 47 km |
| 4.1 | 11.11.2023 20:16 | 15 km | 25 km |
| 3.2 | 05.11.2023 00:12 | 8 km | 46 km |
| 3.5 | 04.11.2023 14:07 | 15 km | 22 km |
| 3.1 | 08.09.2023 19:53 | 10 km | 99 km |
| 3.7 | 07.09.2023 09:35 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 3.1 | 01.09.2023 01:11 | 10 km | 122 km |
| 3.4 | 28.08.2023 04:54 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 3.0 | 25.08.2023 16:13 | 10 km | 86 km |
| 3.3 | 23.08.2023 12:34 | 10 km | 58 km |
| 3.1 | 18.08.2023 12:04 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 3.4 | 14.08.2023 19:36 | 8 km | 83 km |
| 3.4 | 14.08.2023 19:26 | 8 km | 81 km |
| 3.6 | 21.07.2023 07:59 | 10 km | 118 km |
| 4.0 | 20.07.2023 03:05 | 10 km | 28 km |
| 4.3 | 19.07.2023 14:14 | 10 km | 137 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.