2.0
6,790
recorded earthquakes
M6.6
largest
1905–2026
record span
2.11
mean magnitude
1,170
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 | 30.10.2016 06:40 | 9.6 km | 119 km |
| 6.6 | 13.01.1915 06:52 | 15 km | 95 km |
| 6.3 | 06.04.2009 01:32 | 11.7 km | 89 km |
| 6.2 | 24.08.2016 01:36 | 11.6 km | 107 km |
| 6.1 | 26.10.2016 19:18 | 7.9 km | 127 km |
| 5.9 | 27.12.1978 17:46 | 394.9 km | 131 km |
| 5.9 | 07.05.1984 17:49 | 18.2 km | 114 km |
| 5.8 | 19.09.1979 21:35 | 9.8 km | 110 km |
| 5.7 | 18.01.2017 10:14 | 10.1 km | 98 km |
| 5.7 | 22.10.1919 06:05 | 15 km | 64 km |
| 5.7 | 05.09.1950 04:09 | 10 km | 102 km |
| 5.7 | 18.01.2017 10:25 | 12.3 km | 95 km |
| 5.6 | 29.12.1922 12:22 | 15 km | 100 km |
| 5.6 | 03.10.1943 08:28 | 35 km | 94 km |
| 5.6 | 24.08.2016 02:33 | 11.1 km | 114 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.0 | 17.07.2026 00:41 | 13 km | 79 km |
| 2.1 | 15.07.2026 22:25 | 6.8 km | 60 km |
| 2.2 | 07.07.2026 08:51 | 11 km | 55 km |
| 2.1 | 27.06.2026 23:12 | 8.5 km | 62 km |
| 2.4 | 26.06.2026 19:41 | 9.5 km | 78 km |
| 2.1 | 18.06.2026 08:34 | 10.9 km | 86 km |
| 2.2 | 18.06.2026 08:34 | 14 km | 85 km |
| 2.0 | 24.05.2026 06:41 | 8 km | 69 km |
| 2.1 | 12.04.2026 08:39 | 9.3 km | 73 km |
| 2.0 | 01.04.2026 16:40 | 8.5 km | 48 km |
| 2.0 | 28.03.2026 16:37 | 11.1 km | 66 km |
| 2.8 | 27.03.2026 18:00 | 9.5 km | 66 km |
| 2.0 | 14.03.2026 21:44 | 9.2 km | 6 km |
| 2.1 | 05.03.2026 23:23 | 11 km | 33 km |
| 3.4 | 20.01.2026 21:06 | 9.9 km | 79 km |
| 2.4 | 09.01.2026 12:05 | 9.8 km | 87 km |
| 2.6 | 29.12.2025 16:20 | 11.6 km | 20 km |
| 2.6 | 27.11.2025 12:20 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 2.2 | 31.10.2025 03:08 | 10.3 km | 82 km |
| 2.0 | 23.10.2025 08:05 | 10.4 km | 20 km |
| 3.2 | 17.09.2025 02:10 | 6.1 km | 55 km |
| 2.0 | 21.08.2025 00:40 | 9.2 km | 61 km |
| 2.7 | 18.08.2025 10:24 | 8 km | 53 km |
| 2.2 | 08.08.2025 09:15 | 9.9 km | 52 km |
| 2.0 | 30.06.2025 07:58 | 9.5 km | 74 km |
| 2.1 | 21.06.2025 05:53 | 9 km | 71 km |
| 2.2 | 05.06.2025 17:00 | 13.3 km | 77 km |
| 2.7 | 08.05.2025 01:42 | 9.5 km | 19 km |
| 2.1 | 05.05.2025 18:00 | 10.9 km | 62 km |
| 2.1 | 21.04.2025 17:17 | 10.2 km | 45 km |
| 2.2 | 20.04.2025 18:39 | 8.4 km | 76 km |
| 2.5 | 26.01.2025 05:35 | 7.7 km | 60 km |
| 2.8 | 26.01.2025 05:28 | 7.6 km | 60 km |
| 2.2 | 25.12.2024 15:20 | 10.3 km | 73 km |
| 2.0 | 24.12.2024 04:55 | 8 km | 73 km |
| 2.0 | 04.12.2024 19:13 | 8.1 km | 63 km |
| 2.5 | 19.11.2024 13:14 | 9.3 km | 30 km |
| 2.1 | 13.11.2024 02:05 | 5.6 km | 53 km |
| 2.6 | 11.10.2024 01:25 | 12.2 km | 80 km |
| 2.2 | 08.07.2024 16:46 | 7.8 km | 46 km |
| 2.8 | 26.05.2024 10:22 | 10.1 km | 68 km |
| 2.4 | 16.05.2024 21:37 | 9.2 km | 31 km |
| 2.0 | 21.04.2024 06:50 | 10.4 km | 81 km |
| 2.0 | 10.04.2024 20:14 | 9.9 km | 71 km |
| 3.1 | 10.04.2024 20:11 | 7.3 km | 70 km |
| 2.4 | 17.03.2024 11:55 | 8.2 km | 66 km |
| 2.0 | 20.02.2024 19:03 | 12.2 km | 22 km |
| 2.1 | 05.01.2024 01:04 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 3.7 | 22.11.2023 16:52 | 9.5 km | 86 km |
| 2.4 | 20.09.2023 23:17 | 9.7 km | 87 km |
| 2.0 | 19.09.2023 08:10 | 10.6 km | 82 km |
| 2.3 | 12.09.2023 02:59 | 9 km | 54 km |
| 2.9 | 15.08.2023 00:25 | 10.3 km | 81 km |
| 2.1 | 07.08.2023 11:00 | 12.7 km | 76 km |
| 2.2 | 02.08.2023 10:39 | 10.9 km | 76 km |
| 2.1 | 07.07.2023 09:15 | 9.4 km | 35 km |
| 2.2 | 05.07.2023 18:49 | 9.4 km | 35 km |
| 2.5 | 05.07.2023 12:08 | 9.8 km | 36 km |
| 2.6 | 23.06.2023 11:19 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 2.1 | 22.06.2023 05:48 | 9 km | 35 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.