4.5
1,854
recorded earthquakes
M6.6
largest
1905–2026
record span
2.21
mean magnitude
499
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.6 | 13.01.1915 06:52 | 15 km | 108 km |
| 6.3 | 06.04.2009 01:32 | 11.7 km | 124 km |
| 6.0 | 09.03.2026 23:03 | 370.9 km | 101 km |
| 5.9 | 07.05.1984 17:49 | 18.2 km | 80 km |
| 5.9 | 27.12.1978 17:46 | 394.9 km | 43 km |
| 5.7 | 22.10.1919 06:05 | 15 km | 46 km |
| 5.6 | 29.12.1922 12:22 | 15 km | 53 km |
| 5.6 | 26.09.1933 03:33 | 35 km | 120 km |
| 5.5 | 11.05.1984 10:41 | 17.4 km | 84 km |
| 5.4 | 04.10.1913 18:26 | 15 km | 122 km |
| 5.3 | 11.10.1927 14:45 | 15 km | 83 km |
| 5.2 | 25.08.1905 20:40 | 15 km | 94 km |
| 5.2 | 23.11.1933 01:12 | 15 km | 77 km |
| 5.2 | 29.12.2013 17:08 | 7 km | 103 km |
| 5.0 | 16.02.2013 21:16 | 18.4 km | 60 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.5 | 31.07.2026 17:46 | 5 km | 90 km |
| 2.2 | 25.07.2026 01:41 | 9.2 km | 82 km |
| 4.3 | 24.07.2026 22:08 | 10 km | 81 km |
| 2.1 | 13.07.2026 21:13 | 21.4 km | 83 km |
| 2.1 | 06.06.2026 16:31 | 12.6 km | 77 km |
| 2.0 | 24.05.2026 06:41 | 8 km | 23 km |
| 2.4 | 24.05.2026 00:42 | 8.3 km | 74 km |
| 4.1 | 21.05.2026 03:50 | 14.7 km | 88 km |
| 2.5 | 29.04.2026 11:36 | 14 km | 68 km |
| 2.1 | 24.04.2026 20:08 | 8.7 km | 66 km |
| 2.1 | 31.03.2026 17:59 | 12 km | 71 km |
| 2.1 | 13.03.2026 02:28 | 8.6 km | 67 km |
| 6.0 | 09.03.2026 23:03 | 370.9 km | 101 km |
| 2.6 | 06.03.2026 14:26 | 1.4 km | 81 km |
| 2.1 | 05.03.2026 23:23 | 11 km | 60 km |
| 2.5 | 22.01.2026 00:38 | 16.4 km | 69 km |
| 3.4 | 20.01.2026 21:06 | 9.9 km | 50 km |
| 2.6 | 29.12.2025 16:20 | 11.6 km | 69 km |
| 2.5 | 28.12.2025 19:50 | 7.6 km | 60 km |
| 2.5 | 28.11.2025 20:25 | 3.2 km | 53 km |
| 3.2 | 17.09.2025 02:10 | 6.1 km | 34 km |
| 2.1 | 12.09.2025 03:28 | 7.9 km | 65 km |
| 4.0 | 01.09.2025 02:55 | 0.3 km | 89 km |
| 2.1 | 31.08.2025 08:53 | 10.9 km | 62 km |
| 3.0 | 26.08.2025 04:03 | 12.9 km | 58 km |
| 2.3 | 24.08.2025 04:41 | 5.8 km | 53 km |
| 2.7 | 18.08.2025 10:24 | 8 km | 36 km |
| 4.0 | 18.07.2025 07:14 | 2.5 km | 92 km |
| 2.0 | 05.07.2025 10:34 | 8 km | 64 km |
| 4.6 | 30.06.2025 10:47 | 4.9 km | 88 km |
| 2.0 | 17.06.2025 09:47 | 11.9 km | 61 km |
| 2.0 | 30.05.2025 01:36 | 11.1 km | 83 km |
| 2.7 | 30.05.2025 00:17 | 17.1 km | 82 km |
| 2.6 | 30.05.2025 00:16 | 18.8 km | 83 km |
| 2.2 | 30.05.2025 00:13 | 17.2 km | 83 km |
| 4.0 | 30.05.2025 00:06 | 72.5 km | 103 km |
| 2.4 | 29.05.2025 23:51 | 17.3 km | 83 km |
| 4.0 | 13.05.2025 10:07 | 10 km | 86 km |
| 2.7 | 08.05.2025 01:42 | 9.5 km | 75 km |
| 2.1 | 21.04.2025 17:17 | 10.2 km | 48 km |
| 2.2 | 20.04.2025 18:39 | 8.4 km | 48 km |
| 4.0 | 20.03.2025 02:45 | 19.8 km | 71 km |
| 3.8 | 13.03.2025 00:25 | 8 km | 87 km |
| 2.0 | 24.02.2025 22:44 | 5.3 km | 66 km |
| 2.3 | 24.02.2025 08:58 | 11 km | 75 km |
| 2.2 | 17.02.2025 19:27 | 4.6 km | 62 km |
| 2.2 | 03.02.2025 10:01 | 4.6 km | 69 km |
| 2.4 | 02.02.2025 06:04 | 4.3 km | 63 km |
| 2.8 | 02.02.2025 01:18 | 3.3 km | 61 km |
| 2.0 | 31.01.2025 23:17 | 6.3 km | 67 km |
| 2.0 | 29.01.2025 01:07 | 6.4 km | 65 km |
| 2.5 | 28.01.2025 12:47 | 5.2 km | 66 km |
| 2.5 | 26.01.2025 05:35 | 7.7 km | 31 km |
| 2.8 | 26.01.2025 05:28 | 7.6 km | 30 km |
| 2.0 | 21.01.2025 14:46 | 8 km | 63 km |
| 2.3 | 07.01.2025 00:51 | 7.3 km | 64 km |
| 2.4 | 31.12.2024 21:38 | 6.9 km | 62 km |
| 2.6 | 25.12.2024 20:32 | 13.5 km | 65 km |
| 2.4 | 25.12.2024 14:45 | 16.5 km | 65 km |
| 2.6 | 19.12.2024 11:18 | 14.3 km | 65 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.