3.4
328
recorded earthquakes
M7.4
largest
1909–2026
record span
3.38
mean magnitude
135
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 | 200 km |
| 6.3 | 25.11.2018 16:37 | 17.3 km | 187 km |
| 6.1 | 18.12.1980 12:34 | 42.1 km | 165 km |
| 6.1 | 11.01.1967 11:20 | 22.9 km | 192 km |
| 6.0 | 17.07.1944 10:53 | 15 km | 166 km |
| 5.7 | 11.04.1909 04:02 | 30 km | 197 km |
| 5.7 | 22.11.2013 06:51 | 21.7 km | 170 km |
| 5.6 | 07.05.1932 14:54 | 35 km | 220 km |
| 5.5 | 28.06.1944 02:57 | 5 km | 197 km |
| 5.4 | 16.04.1963 18:47 | 70 km | 156 km |
| 5.4 | 17.02.1993 07:22 | 42 km | 142 km |
| 5.3 | 22.11.2013 06:51 | 0 km | 55 km |
| 5.3 | 02.11.1935 18:17 | 15 km | 63 km |
| 5.2 | 23.08.2017 13:42 | 14.7 km | 206 km |
| 5.2 | 12.11.2017 18:29 | 10 km | 174 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.4 | 02.08.2026 21:54 | 7 km | 115 km |
| 4.6 | 01.08.2026 20:27 | 35 km | 102 km |
| 2.6 | 01.08.2026 00:09 | 7 km | 134 km |
| 4.1 | 31.07.2026 04:49 | 10 km | 120 km |
| 3.2 | 30.07.2026 16:26 | 6.8 km | 159 km |
| 4.2 | 30.07.2026 14:58 | 10 km | 112 km |
| 3.7 | 25.07.2026 07:40 | 7 km | 131 km |
| 4.1 | 20.02.2026 08:37 | 10 km | 165 km |
| 4.0 | 08.01.2026 05:59 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 3.5 | 22.11.2025 16:29 | 10 km | 39 km |
| 4.0 | 01.09.2025 08:36 | 16 km | 142 km |
| 3.1 | 06.05.2025 05:26 | 10 km | 138 km |
| 3.4 | 06.05.2025 02:22 | 7 km | 140 km |
| 3.6 | 05.05.2025 15:21 | 10 km | 145 km |
| 2.8 | 29.04.2025 13:53 | 7 km | 149 km |
| 2.5 | 31.01.2025 20:59 | 7 km | 108 km |
| 4.1 | 30.01.2025 08:39 | 9.7 km | 91 km |
| 2.7 | 30.12.2024 15:55 | 7 km | 149 km |
| 4.3 | 12.12.2024 14:20 | 0 km | 87 km |
| 2.1 | 20.11.2024 00:03 | 7 km | 142 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2024 05:34 | 9.3 km | 106 km |
| 3.2 | 05.07.2024 10:45 | 5.3 km | 73 km |
| 3.2 | 27.04.2024 11:11 | 7 km | 115 km |
| 3.4 | 15.02.2024 14:03 | 10 km | 123 km |
| 3.1 | 15.02.2024 12:39 | 8 km | 118 km |
| 2.7 | 23.01.2024 10:50 | 9.9 km | 128 km |
| 3.0 | 23.01.2024 07:42 | 7.3 km | 109 km |
| 2.8 | 23.01.2024 06:49 | 7 km | 123 km |
| 3.2 | 11.09.2023 06:45 | 13 km | 120 km |
| 4.9 | 10.09.2023 21:43 | 17.3 km | 108 km |
| 4.6 | 10.09.2023 21:42 | 10 km | 108 km |
| 3.6 | 10.09.2023 21:37 | 56.2 km | 125 km |
| 3.3 | 05.04.2023 19:42 | 7 km | 155 km |
| 3.7 | 24.03.2023 21:49 | 15 km | 42 km |
| 2.0 | 18.01.2023 02:11 | 11.1 km | 136 km |
| 3.4 | 03.09.2022 04:49 | 5.1 km | 75 km |
| 2.8 | 27.05.2022 09:50 | 7.1 km | 112 km |
| 2.8 | 30.01.2022 04:43 | 9.6 km | 127 km |
| 3.4 | 30.01.2022 02:54 | 6.2 km | 122 km |
| 4.6 | 10.01.2022 20:11 | 10 km | 148 km |
| 3.4 | 10.01.2022 18:29 | 13.6 km | 152 km |
| 3.6 | 05.06.2021 08:11 | 10 km | 180 km |
| 4.0 | 10.01.2021 23:00 | 24 km | 155 km |
| 2.7 | 01.01.2021 13:49 | 6.7 km | 146 km |
| 3.5 | 07.12.2020 22:25 | 6.7 km | 113 km |
| 4.8 | 09.11.2020 23:18 | 7.4 km | 163 km |
| 4.1 | 18.10.2020 17:23 | 10 km | 138 km |
| 2.9 | 24.07.2020 00:12 | 15 km | 118 km |
| 3.1 | 19.07.2020 23:56 | 2.9 km | 106 km |
| 3.2 | 17.05.2020 00:05 | 79.1 km | 160 km |
| 4.8 | 29.04.2020 17:01 | 6.1 km | 164 km |
| 3.6 | 14.04.2020 23:57 | 11.2 km | 122 km |
| 3.6 | 12.04.2020 23:19 | 11 km | 141 km |
| 4.1 | 10.04.2020 13:19 | 12 km | 141 km |
| 4.0 | 09.04.2020 05:36 | 10 km | 131 km |
| 4.1 | 06.04.2020 07:56 | 10 km | 140 km |
| 3.4 | 16.03.2020 07:13 | 10 km | 139 km |
| 3.2 | 18.12.2019 09:34 | 5.4 km | 143 km |
| 3.6 | 24.08.2019 13:48 | 10 km | 162 km |
| 4.1 | 19.06.2019 08:07 | 8.2 km | 149 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.