2.2
1,252
recorded earthquakes
M5.5
largest
1914–2026
record span
2.32
mean magnitude
857
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.5 | 26.10.1914 03:43 | 15 km | 102 km |
| 5.5 | 15.05.1951 22:54 | 35 km | 80 km |
| 5.1 | 25.10.1972 21:56 | 10 km | 103 km |
| 5.0 | 16.11.1975 13:04 | 10 km | 66 km |
| 4.9 | 21.08.2000 17:14 | 23.4 km | 17 km |
| 4.8 | 11.04.2003 09:26 | 9.3 km | 16 km |
| 4.6 | 06.08.1982 13:29 | 10 km | 38 km |
| 4.6 | 17.12.2020 15:59 | 47.2 km | 82 km |
| 4.5 | 19.04.2009 12:39 | 40.2 km | 65 km |
| 4.4 | 05.08.1982 13:29 | — | 37 km |
| 4.3 | 13.11.1975 19:55 | 5 km | 75 km |
| 4.3 | 05.03.2012 15:15 | 12 km | 64 km |
| 4.2 | 25.12.1988 18:27 | 22.8 km | 34 km |
| 4.2 | 20.10.2011 06:10 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 4.2 | 18.07.2001 22:47 | 9.8 km | 17 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.2 | 14.07.2026 17:11 | 7.9 km | 45 km |
| 2.3 | 25.06.2026 15:09 | 5.9 km | 72 km |
| 2.0 | 20.06.2026 23:38 | 23.2 km | 40 km |
| 2.0 | 22.04.2026 04:46 | 8.7 km | 30 km |
| 2.1 | 16.03.2026 20:44 | 7.2 km | 37 km |
| 2.1 | 05.02.2026 02:03 | 9.1 km | 51 km |
| 2.6 | 04.02.2026 12:09 | 9.9 km | 51 km |
| 3.0 | 03.10.2025 18:57 | 27.1 km | 54 km |
| 2.1 | 25.09.2025 19:13 | 9.9 km | 43 km |
| 2.5 | 02.07.2025 05:07 | 9 km | 27 km |
| 2.4 | 30.05.2025 11:10 | 9.8 km | 25 km |
| 2.0 | 28.02.2025 07:40 | 11.1 km | 47 km |
| 2.5 | 08.10.2024 01:09 | 7.1 km | 60 km |
| 2.7 | 07.10.2024 23:07 | 6.2 km | 60 km |
| 2.4 | 28.09.2024 10:12 | 19.2 km | 18 km |
| 2.0 | 18.07.2024 01:34 | 9.2 km | 63 km |
| 2.0 | 08.07.2024 19:33 | 7.5 km | 63 km |
| 2.3 | 07.03.2024 01:25 | 40.3 km | 70 km |
| 2.1 | 20.02.2024 08:12 | 9.3 km | 61 km |
| 2.2 | 02.01.2024 02:04 | 8.7 km | 48 km |
| 2.3 | 02.01.2024 00:53 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 3.0 | 27.09.2023 10:37 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 2.0 | 19.09.2023 08:55 | 44.4 km | 20 km |
| 2.6 | 17.09.2023 17:50 | 7.5 km | 29 km |
| 2.2 | 02.09.2023 04:33 | 43.3 km | 19 km |
| 2.2 | 22.08.2023 18:16 | 23.1 km | 16 km |
| 2.0 | 12.07.2023 16:30 | 10 km | 66 km |
| 2.0 | 07.07.2023 16:35 | 10.7 km | 40 km |
| 2.4 | 19.05.2023 09:32 | 9 km | 54 km |
| 2.1 | 30.03.2023 02:18 | 50 km | 14 km |
| 2.0 | 28.03.2023 23:33 | 10 km | 32 km |
| 2.4 | 09.02.2023 03:42 | 24 km | 41 km |
| 3.2 | 07.02.2023 22:35 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 2.0 | 05.12.2022 16:47 | 37 km | 19 km |
| 2.7 | 04.11.2022 07:53 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 2.0 | 04.10.2022 23:19 | 8 km | 56 km |
| 3.1 | 04.10.2022 21:41 | 8.4 km | 59 km |
| 2.0 | 30.09.2022 14:25 | 9 km | 54 km |
| 2.3 | 27.09.2022 11:10 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 2.5 | 26.09.2022 16:10 | 9 km | 55 km |
| 2.2 | 26.09.2022 07:27 | 9 km | 55 km |
| 2.6 | 25.09.2022 13:38 | 9 km | 56 km |
| 2.4 | 22.09.2022 22:44 | 6 km | 57 km |
| 2.7 | 22.09.2022 15:32 | 8 km | 54 km |
| 4.0 | 22.09.2022 13:39 | 10.4 km | 55 km |
| 2.8 | 19.09.2022 08:15 | 25 km | 31 km |
| 2.0 | 12.09.2022 18:08 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 2.6 | 01.09.2022 21:35 | 8 km | 54 km |
| 2.0 | 25.07.2022 06:26 | 11 km | 48 km |
| 2.5 | 23.07.2022 09:30 | 9 km | 54 km |
| 2.0 | 08.03.2022 14:32 | 8 km | 46 km |
| 2.0 | 12.11.2021 10:05 | 8 km | 40 km |
| 3.1 | 11.10.2021 23:18 | 35 km | 73 km |
| 2.2 | 02.10.2021 23:36 | 9 km | 44 km |
| 2.1 | 27.09.2021 02:42 | 9 km | 54 km |
| 2.0 | 30.08.2021 06:55 | 9 km | 44 km |
| 2.8 | 29.08.2021 08:15 | 9 km | 49 km |
| 2.0 | 29.08.2021 01:05 | 10 km | 43 km |
| 2.1 | 28.08.2021 18:30 | 9 km | 43 km |
| 2.5 | 27.08.2021 13:47 | 9 km | 40 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.