4.1
2,542
recorded earthquakes
M7.3
largest
1909–2026
record span
3.79
mean magnitude
2,074
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 | 23.01.1909 02:48 | 15 km | 334 km |
| 6.3 | 04.02.1934 13:27 | 15 km | 253 km |
| 6.2 | 15.07.1929 07:44 | 35 km | 73 km |
| 6.2 | 18.08.2014 02:32 | 12.9 km | 182 km |
| 6.1 | 14.12.1978 07:05 | 25.8 km | 92 km |
| 6.1 | 18.08.2014 02:32 | 34.7 km | 286 km |
| 6.1 | 31.03.2006 01:17 | 15.7 km | 238 km |
| 6.1 | 05.06.1977 04:45 | 22.2 km | 143 km |
| 6.0 | 06.04.1977 13:36 | 10 km | 166 km |
| 6.0 | 04.11.1939 10:15 | 35 km | 73 km |
| 6.0 | 27.05.1989 20:08 | 10 km | 241 km |
| 6.0 | 18.08.2014 18:08 | 14.4 km | 174 km |
| 5.9 | 18.04.2021 06:41 | 14.8 km | 253 km |
| 5.9 | 15.07.1917 17:58 | 15 km | 159 km |
| 5.8 | 30.03.1988 02:12 | 29.5 km | 139 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.1 | 19.07.2026 04:26 | 8 km | 119 km |
| 5.1 | 19.07.2026 02:25 | 10 km | 124 km |
| 4.1 | 25.06.2026 21:31 | 10 km | 155 km |
| 3.9 | 28.05.2026 09:24 | 37.9 km | 81 km |
| 3.8 | 07.05.2026 13:54 | 0 km | 164 km |
| 4.0 | 01.05.2026 04:23 | 0 km | 165 km |
| 3.9 | 22.04.2026 05:36 | 0 km | 139 km |
| 3.6 | 18.04.2026 18:24 | 10 km | 82 km |
| 4.1 | 15.04.2026 00:47 | 10 km | 115 km |
| 4.0 | 10.04.2026 00:56 | 10 km | 81 km |
| 3.8 | 19.03.2026 08:59 | 0 km | 145 km |
| 4.0 | 19.03.2026 08:55 | 10 km | 127 km |
| 3.8 | 15.03.2026 19:26 | 10 km | 111 km |
| 3.5 | 14.03.2026 00:54 | 27.5 km | 144 km |
| 3.7 | 01.03.2026 08:45 | 10 km | 27 km |
| 4.7 | 27.02.2026 01:51 | 10 km | 94 km |
| 3.2 | 27.02.2026 01:51 | 0 km | 172 km |
| 4.4 | 21.02.2026 05:09 | 10 km | 101 km |
| 3.4 | 19.01.2026 21:09 | 0 km | 147 km |
| 4.1 | 17.01.2026 16:27 | 10 km | 173 km |
| 3.5 | 12.01.2026 11:11 | 0 km | 121 km |
| 4.7 | 11.01.2026 17:02 | 10 km | 109 km |
| 3.9 | 07.01.2026 05:13 | 0 km | 60 km |
| 4.2 | 06.01.2026 15:07 | 10 km | 116 km |
| 3.4 | 03.12.2025 02:15 | 0 km | 66 km |
| 4.1 | 28.10.2025 23:35 | 10 km | 163 km |
| 4.1 | 13.10.2025 21:30 | 10 km | 106 km |
| 4.0 | 17.09.2025 00:23 | 10 km | 61 km |
| 4.0 | 13.09.2025 16:11 | 10 km | 178 km |
| 3.3 | 30.08.2025 12:06 | 0 km | 90 km |
| 3.5 | 30.08.2025 10:34 | 10 km | 107 km |
| 4.2 | 25.08.2025 08:46 | 10 km | 117 km |
| 3.5 | 21.08.2025 22:38 | 20.6 km | 119 km |
| 3.7 | 10.08.2025 13:18 | 10 km | 116 km |
| 4.0 | 07.08.2025 23:43 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 3.7 | 28.07.2025 20:32 | 0 km | 198 km |
| 3.0 | 23.06.2025 14:49 | 19 km | 167 km |
| 3.4 | 11.06.2025 05:06 | 10 km | 167 km |
| 4.1 | 10.06.2025 06:04 | 10 km | 104 km |
| 3.1 | 09.06.2025 02:01 | 15 km | 175 km |
| 3.1 | 06.06.2025 22:15 | 10 km | 164 km |
| 3.4 | 06.06.2025 17:01 | 10 km | 102 km |
| 3.8 | 04.06.2025 15:37 | 12 km | 159 km |
| 3.5 | 30.05.2025 21:05 | 10 km | 170 km |
| 3.8 | 29.05.2025 13:22 | 8 km | 162 km |
| 3.1 | 27.05.2025 21:39 | 10 km | 164 km |
| 3.4 | 27.05.2025 15:36 | 14 km | 140 km |
| 4.1 | 27.05.2025 15:06 | 10 km | 151 km |
| 3.1 | 27.05.2025 14:31 | 17 km | 162 km |
| 3.4 | 27.05.2025 02:18 | 9 km | 155 km |
| 4.9 | 27.05.2025 00:39 | 10 km | 157 km |
| 3.7 | 24.05.2025 09:10 | 10 km | 56 km |
| 3.4 | 24.05.2025 00:06 | 11 km | 83 km |
| 3.4 | 17.05.2025 23:28 | 8 km | 172 km |
| 3.0 | 17.05.2025 11:19 | 16 km | 97 km |
| 4.3 | 26.04.2025 16:48 | 6 km | 206 km |
| 3.2 | 22.04.2025 17:41 | 7 km | 144 km |
| 3.4 | 11.04.2025 17:33 | 13 km | 141 km |
| 3.6 | 06.04.2025 23:34 | 10 km | 183 km |
| 3.0 | 03.04.2025 04:11 | 8 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.