4.5
1,107
recorded earthquakes
M6.3
largest
1929–2026
record span
3.88
mean magnitude
621
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.3 | 04.02.1934 13:27 | 15 km | 67 km |
| 6.2 | 15.07.1929 07:44 | 35 km | 181 km |
| 6.2 | 06.05.1999 23:00 | 23.3 km | 193 km |
| 6.1 | 14.12.1978 07:05 | 25.8 km | 177 km |
| 6.0 | 11.08.1988 16:04 | 22.3 km | 142 km |
| 6.0 | 06.04.1977 13:36 | 10 km | 115 km |
| 6.0 | 04.11.1939 10:15 | 35 km | 181 km |
| 6.0 | 27.05.1989 20:08 | 10 km | 79 km |
| 5.9 | 12.03.1946 02:21 | 15 km | 155 km |
| 5.9 | 18.04.2021 06:41 | 14.8 km | 122 km |
| 5.9 | 27.09.2010 11:22 | 25 km | 155 km |
| 5.9 | 06.12.1988 13:20 | 14 km | 127 km |
| 5.8 | 30.03.1988 02:12 | 29.5 km | 64 km |
| 5.8 | 03.05.1963 10:44 | — | 87 km |
| 5.8 | 08.07.2019 07:00 | 22.5 km | 164 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.5 | 23.07.2026 07:58 | 10 km | 73 km |
| 4.0 | 19.06.2026 02:54 | 0 km | 86 km |
| 3.4 | 11.06.2026 06:48 | 0 km | 109 km |
| 3.7 | 11.06.2026 06:19 | 0 km | 98 km |
| 3.9 | 28.05.2026 09:24 | 37.9 km | 113 km |
| 3.8 | 07.05.2026 13:54 | 0 km | 52 km |
| 3.6 | 18.04.2026 18:24 | 10 km | 116 km |
| 3.6 | 11.04.2026 08:41 | 10 km | 87 km |
| 4.0 | 10.04.2026 00:56 | 10 km | 119 km |
| 4.3 | 07.04.2026 07:39 | 10 km | 121 km |
| 4.1 | 24.03.2026 00:50 | 10 km | 61 km |
| 4.0 | 06.03.2026 17:53 | 10 km | 80 km |
| 4.2 | 06.01.2026 15:07 | 10 km | 80 km |
| 4.0 | 06.12.2025 05:07 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 4.2 | 27.11.2025 22:29 | 10 km | 115 km |
| 4.8 | 21.10.2025 08:02 | 10 km | 121 km |
| 4.0 | 13.09.2025 16:11 | 10 km | 77 km |
| 5.2 | 13.09.2025 12:37 | 0 km | 154 km |
| 3.3 | 30.08.2025 12:06 | 0 km | 103 km |
| 3.5 | 30.08.2025 10:34 | 10 km | 101 km |
| 4.2 | 25.08.2025 08:46 | 10 km | 81 km |
| 3.9 | 31.07.2025 15:58 | 10 km | 53 km |
| 4.1 | 29.07.2025 22:12 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 3.7 | 28.07.2025 20:32 | 0 km | 82 km |
| 3.8 | 23.06.2025 14:15 | 10 km | 117 km |
| 4.1 | 10.06.2025 06:04 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 3.1 | 09.06.2025 02:01 | 15 km | 70 km |
| 3.1 | 06.06.2025 22:15 | 10 km | 71 km |
| 3.8 | 04.06.2025 15:37 | 12 km | 75 km |
| 3.5 | 30.05.2025 21:05 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 3.8 | 29.05.2025 13:22 | 8 km | 37 km |
| 3.1 | 27.05.2025 21:39 | 10 km | 35 km |
| 3.4 | 27.05.2025 15:36 | 14 km | 61 km |
| 4.1 | 27.05.2025 15:06 | 10 km | 83 km |
| 3.1 | 27.05.2025 14:31 | 17 km | 40 km |
| 3.4 | 27.05.2025 02:18 | 9 km | 36 km |
| 4.9 | 27.05.2025 00:39 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 3.1 | 06.05.2025 18:40 | 5 km | 90 km |
| 3.2 | 22.04.2025 17:41 | 7 km | 46 km |
| 3.7 | 21.04.2025 10:42 | 0 km | 123 km |
| 3.1 | 21.04.2025 09:14 | 6 km | 118 km |
| 3.0 | 03.04.2025 04:11 | 8 km | 50 km |
| 4.0 | 23.03.2025 22:45 | 10 km | 92 km |
| 3.6 | 13.03.2025 04:28 | 8 km | 90 km |
| 3.5 | 09.03.2025 18:07 | 10 km | 90 km |
| 3.0 | 18.02.2025 03:05 | 10 km | 68 km |
| 3.1 | 19.01.2025 05:21 | 6 km | 86 km |
| 4.0 | 18.01.2025 22:11 | 8 km | 92 km |
| 3.4 | 13.01.2025 10:09 | 9 km | 40 km |
| 3.3 | 13.01.2025 08:18 | 10 km | 61 km |
| 4.1 | 20.12.2024 13:45 | 10 km | 140 km |
| 4.2 | 09.12.2024 04:27 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 5.1 | 05.12.2024 05:38 | 10 km | 160 km |
| 5.4 | 05.12.2024 04:02 | 17 km | 157 km |
| 3.4 | 30.11.2024 11:36 | 12 km | 80 km |
| 3.4 | 15.11.2024 00:15 | 11 km | 17 km |
| 3.5 | 08.11.2024 10:22 | 6 km | 76 km |
| 4.0 | 08.11.2024 07:07 | 10 km | 90 km |
| 3.0 | 08.11.2024 04:01 | 10 km | 68 km |
| 4.2 | 08.09.2024 21:45 | 10 km | 63 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.