4.3
2,069
recorded earthquakes
M7.3
largest
1911–2026
record span
3.67
mean magnitude
1,918
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 | 16.09.1978 15:35 | 17.5 km | 201 km |
| 7.2 | 28.07.1981 17:22 | 12.5 km | 360 km |
| 7.2 | 10.05.1997 07:57 | 15 km | 425 km |
| 7.1 | 31.08.1968 10:47 | 14.1 km | 377 km |
| 7.1 | 02.07.1957 00:42 | 15 km | 493 km |
| 7.0 | 27.11.1979 17:10 | 7.9 km | 435 km |
| 6.9 | 23.09.1947 12:28 | 15 km | 318 km |
| 6.8 | 22.09.1923 20:47 | 15 km | 387 km |
| 6.6 | 12.02.1953 08:15 | 15 km | 326 km |
| 6.6 | 11.06.1981 07:24 | 17.7 km | 364 km |
| 6.6 | 14.03.1998 19:40 | 26.4 km | 330 km |
| 6.4 | 18.04.1911 18:14 | 15 km | 238 km |
| 6.4 | 22.02.2005 02:25 | 10.8 km | 229 km |
| 6.3 | 22.07.1927 03:55 | 10 km | 240 km |
| 6.3 | 16.02.1941 16:39 | 15 km | 325 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.3 | 26.07.2026 00:16 | 81 km | 344 km |
| 4.0 | 07.06.2026 20:35 | 0 km | 226 km |
| 3.9 | 14.05.2026 07:47 | 0 km | 279 km |
| 4.8 | 13.01.2026 18:13 | 10 km | 97 km |
| 4.0 | 18.12.2025 05:50 | 12 km | 276 km |
| 4.8 | 27.11.2025 21:44 | 0 km | 78 km |
| 4.1 | 27.11.2025 21:41 | 0 km | 94 km |
| 3.6 | 01.11.2025 13:11 | 0 km | 106 km |
| 5.0 | 02.10.2025 20:35 | 10 km | 284 km |
| 4.1 | 31.08.2025 19:56 | 10 km | 293 km |
| 4.3 | 27.07.2025 07:05 | 100 km | 402 km |
| 4.1 | 25.06.2025 01:33 | 8 km | 341 km |
| 5.0 | 20.06.2025 17:49 | 10 km | 399 km |
| 3.4 | 15.06.2025 10:24 | 13 km | 249 km |
| 3.9 | 14.06.2025 20:21 | 9 km | 345 km |
| 3.8 | 10.06.2025 03:12 | 8 km | 344 km |
| 4.2 | 02.06.2025 02:25 | 12 km | 340 km |
| 3.5 | 27.05.2025 13:28 | 12 km | 225 km |
| 3.4 | 27.05.2025 11:20 | 8 km | 234 km |
| 3.3 | 19.05.2025 20:41 | 11 km | 305 km |
| 3.2 | 19.05.2025 17:07 | 8 km | 343 km |
| 3.2 | 16.05.2025 18:18 | 15 km | 98 km |
| 3.0 | 11.05.2025 19:38 | 15 km | 336 km |
| 3.0 | 11.05.2025 08:47 | 10 km | 258 km |
| 3.1 | 08.05.2025 12:22 | 16 km | 342 km |
| 4.0 | 08.05.2025 09:15 | 12 km | 341 km |
| 3.2 | 08.05.2025 08:05 | 12 km | 344 km |
| 3.3 | 08.05.2025 08:02 | 10 km | 344 km |
| 3.7 | 08.05.2025 07:53 | 0 km | 325 km |
| 3.7 | 08.05.2025 05:45 | 10 km | 342 km |
| 3.0 | 08.05.2025 05:42 | 28 km | 331 km |
| 4.9 | 08.05.2025 05:23 | 0 km | 344 km |
| 3.1 | 03.05.2025 01:18 | 9 km | 162 km |
| 3.1 | 02.05.2025 18:11 | 13 km | 13 km |
| 3.0 | 30.04.2025 00:11 | 10 km | 250 km |
| 3.2 | 29.04.2025 10:57 | 6 km | 161 km |
| 3.1 | 25.04.2025 20:08 | 10 km | 357 km |
| 3.1 | 24.04.2025 15:31 | 10 km | 255 km |
| 3.4 | 17.04.2025 20:00 | 10 km | 268 km |
| 3.2 | 15.04.2025 10:28 | 8 km | 316 km |
| 3.2 | 15.04.2025 01:57 | 10 km | 289 km |
| 3.4 | 14.04.2025 15:05 | 10 km | 195 km |
| 3.4 | 06.04.2025 07:29 | 10 km | 199 km |
| 3.2 | 04.04.2025 23:54 | 9 km | 259 km |
| 3.0 | 02.04.2025 17:21 | 8 km | 78 km |
| 3.5 | 02.04.2025 12:52 | 8 km | 41 km |
| 3.0 | 28.03.2025 04:46 | 5 km | 257 km |
| 3.1 | 25.03.2025 23:27 | 10 km | 257 km |
| 3.4 | 25.03.2025 02:43 | 8 km | 258 km |
| 3.0 | 24.03.2025 18:50 | 5 km | 262 km |
| 3.7 | 24.03.2025 17:48 | 10 km | 257 km |
| 3.0 | 24.03.2025 14:25 | 5 km | 261 km |
| 3.4 | 24.03.2025 14:16 | 10 km | 262 km |
| 3.3 | 24.03.2025 13:46 | 10 km | 256 km |
| 3.9 | 24.03.2025 11:41 | 5 km | 261 km |
| 5.0 | 24.03.2025 11:17 | 10 km | 262 km |
| 3.2 | 21.03.2025 02:36 | 10 km | 67 km |
| 3.1 | 19.03.2025 12:06 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 3.0 | 17.03.2025 06:43 | 8 km | 193 km |
| 3.2 | 14.03.2025 05:11 | 8 km | 170 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.