5.2
1,441
recorded earthquakes
M7.4
largest
1917–2026
record span
3.88
mean magnitude
984
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.4 | 12.11.2017 18:18 | 20.1 km | 218 km |
| 6.6 | 16.08.1958 19:13 | 15 km | 167 km |
| 6.5 | 13.12.1957 01:45 | 15 km | 170 km |
| 6.3 | 25.11.2018 16:37 | 17.3 km | 175 km |
| 6.2 | 18.08.2014 02:32 | 12.9 km | 93 km |
| 6.1 | 18.08.2014 02:32 | 34.7 km | 17 km |
| 6.1 | 11.01.1967 11:20 | 22.9 km | 148 km |
| 6.1 | 31.03.2006 01:17 | 15.7 km | 197 km |
| 6.1 | 05.06.1977 04:45 | 22.2 km | 132 km |
| 6.0 | 25.08.2018 22:13 | 11.1 km | 176 km |
| 6.0 | 18.08.2014 18:08 | 14.4 km | 100 km |
| 5.9 | 15.07.1917 17:58 | 15 km | 112 km |
| 5.8 | 24.03.1963 12:44 | 20 km | 182 km |
| 5.8 | 15.10.2014 13:35 | 8.1 km | 114 km |
| 5.8 | 27.08.2008 21:52 | 19.3 km | 98 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.2 | 20.07.2026 03:48 | 10 km | 169 km |
| 3.7 | 08.07.2026 15:22 | 10 km | 67 km |
| 4.1 | 25.06.2026 21:31 | 10 km | 116 km |
| 3.9 | 08.06.2026 09:37 | 0 km | 48 km |
| 4.2 | 01.06.2026 11:24 | 10 km | 42 km |
| 3.8 | 19.05.2026 11:50 | 10 km | 144 km |
| 3.3 | 09.05.2026 04:13 | 0 km | 78 km |
| 4.2 | 05.05.2026 20:53 | 10 km | 162 km |
| 4.0 | 01.05.2026 04:23 | 0 km | 131 km |
| 4.0 | 09.12.2025 04:08 | 0 km | 102 km |
| 4.1 | 28.10.2025 23:35 | 10 km | 114 km |
| 3.4 | 11.06.2025 05:06 | 10 km | 113 km |
| 3.0 | 10.05.2025 22:59 | 14 km | 16 km |
| 3.2 | 04.05.2025 01:38 | 11 km | 62 km |
| 3.6 | 06.04.2025 23:34 | 10 km | 95 km |
| 3.0 | 01.04.2025 19:31 | 7 km | 122 km |
| 3.6 | 01.03.2025 16:06 | 8 km | 72 km |
| 3.0 | 27.02.2025 10:58 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 3.3 | 21.02.2025 14:46 | 13 km | 61 km |
| 3.6 | 21.02.2025 06:28 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 5.2 | 16.02.2025 18:55 | 21 km | 152 km |
| 3.4 | 01.02.2025 23:17 | 8 km | 127 km |
| 3.1 | 22.01.2025 18:02 | 10 km | 104 km |
| 3.5 | 10.01.2025 05:48 | 10 km | 92 km |
| 3.2 | 09.01.2025 12:57 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 3.5 | 16.10.2024 18:57 | 9 km | 76 km |
| 4.0 | 09.09.2024 00:03 | 10 km | 137 km |
| 4.0 | 26.08.2024 07:58 | 0 km | 169 km |
| 3.2 | 16.08.2024 22:39 | 8 km | 43 km |
| 5.0 | 25.07.2024 21:35 | 12.6 km | 146 km |
| 4.2 | 07.06.2024 05:54 | 15 km | 147 km |
| 3.3 | 19.05.2024 00:35 | 6.2 km | 122 km |
| 4.2 | 14.05.2024 00:00 | 26.8 km | 110 km |
| 3.1 | 10.04.2024 17:02 | 11 km | 79 km |
| 4.3 | 24.02.2024 00:47 | 15.4 km | 76 km |
| 3.9 | 22.02.2024 00:06 | 17.1 km | 140 km |
| 3.0 | 20.02.2024 09:30 | 13 km | 153 km |
| 3.4 | 03.02.2024 10:21 | 15 km | 81 km |
| 4.6 | 24.11.2023 06:13 | 10.8 km | 85 km |
| 4.9 | 10.11.2023 15:36 | 19.4 km | 90 km |
| 4.0 | 05.11.2023 09:03 | 17.3 km | 87 km |
| 3.5 | 30.10.2023 12:21 | 10 km | 114 km |
| 4.5 | 09.10.2023 07:07 | 19.1 km | 172 km |
| 3.1 | 08.09.2023 08:41 | 10 km | 91 km |
| 3.5 | 06.09.2023 18:33 | 8 km | 69 km |
| 3.6 | 04.09.2023 08:24 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 3.5 | 02.07.2023 21:51 | 15.6 km | 87 km |
| 4.8 | 28.06.2023 19:08 | 21.7 km | 88 km |
| 4.0 | 06.06.2023 13:24 | 10.2 km | 86 km |
| 4.4 | 04.06.2023 04:54 | 10 km | 133 km |
| 4.8 | 04.06.2023 04:51 | 14.3 km | 133 km |
| 3.7 | 25.03.2023 19:13 | 15 km | 100 km |
| 4.0 | 12.03.2023 06:35 | 10 km | 172 km |
| 3.6 | 28.01.2023 13:53 | 6.9 km | 115 km |
| 4.2 | 24.11.2022 15:56 | 30.8 km | 68 km |
| 4.0 | 28.09.2022 16:18 | 9.5 km | 41 km |
| 3.2 | 07.08.2022 06:49 | 13.2 km | 64 km |
| 4.1 | 02.08.2022 17:10 | 5 km | 153 km |
| 4.2 | 05.06.2022 02:26 | 10 km | 104 km |
| 3.7 | 17.05.2022 19:04 | 10 km | 136 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.