5.5
942
recorded earthquakes
M8.2
largest
1900–2026
record span
4.73
mean magnitude
326
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.2 | 16.05.1968 00:48 | 12.1 km | 211 km |
| 7.8 | 20.03.1960 17:07 | 15 km | 236 km |
| 7.8 | 16.05.1968 10:39 | 18 km | 182 km |
| 7.7 | 28.12.1994 12:19 | 10.6 km | 224 km |
| 7.7 | 26.05.1983 03:00 | 16.5 km | 146 km |
| 7.7 | 09.03.1931 03:49 | 35 km | 141 km |
| 7.6 | 08.12.2025 14:15 | 44.2 km | 119 km |
| 7.5 | 09.08.1901 18:33 | 35 km | 133 km |
| 7.4 | 20.04.2026 07:52 | 29.2 km | 219 km |
| 7.4 | 01.11.1989 18:25 | 31.8 km | 216 km |
| 7.3 | 27.05.1928 09:50 | 35 km | 203 km |
| 7.2 | 10.02.1945 04:57 | 58.7 km | 110 km |
| 7.2 | 02.08.1971 07:24 | 50.3 km | 234 km |
| 7.2 | 08.12.2025 22:07 | 45.9 km | 190 km |
| 7.2 | 17.03.1915 18:45 | 100 km | 162 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.5 | 01.08.2026 02:48 | 82.3 km | 108 km |
| 3.7 | 26.07.2026 04:59 | 120 km | 101 km |
| 4.6 | 08.07.2026 07:35 | 73.6 km | 116 km |
| 4.0 | 04.07.2026 11:27 | 162.2 km | 90 km |
| 6.0 | 01.07.2026 12:08 | 40 km | 160 km |
| 3.6 | 30.06.2026 03:24 | 0 km | 52 km |
| 4.0 | 28.06.2026 23:11 | 58.6 km | 86 km |
| 5.8 | 27.06.2026 20:21 | 56.7 km | 148 km |
| 6.9 | 24.06.2026 22:30 | 50.5 km | 139 km |
| 4.8 | 04.06.2026 17:45 | 10 km | 81 km |
| 4.2 | 26.05.2026 05:08 | 58.7 km | 102 km |
| 4.2 | 26.05.2026 04:56 | 94.5 km | 49 km |
| 3.4 | 15.05.2026 03:09 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 4.2 | 13.05.2026 17:32 | 6.8 km | 51 km |
| 3.1 | 09.05.2026 12:06 | 70 km | 117 km |
| 3.2 | 03.05.2026 20:14 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 7.4 | 20.04.2026 07:52 | 29.2 km | 219 km |
| 4.5 | 18.03.2026 21:23 | 44.6 km | 88 km |
| 3.9 | 11.03.2026 09:48 | 120 km | 104 km |
| 5.9 | 09.03.2026 15:45 | 140.4 km | 137 km |
| 3.1 | 28.02.2026 22:29 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 4.3 | 25.02.2026 09:41 | 54.7 km | 128 km |
| 3.2 | 24.02.2026 10:45 | 90 km | 98 km |
| 5.3 | 20.02.2026 14:16 | 72.2 km | 130 km |
| 4.3 | 17.02.2026 02:30 | 158.7 km | 56 km |
| 4.4 | 15.02.2026 07:19 | 62 km | 119 km |
| 3.0 | 14.02.2026 17:59 | 10 km | 31 km |
| 5.4 | 20.01.2026 17:51 | 70 km | 125 km |
| 4.5 | 09.01.2026 11:35 | 10 km | 61 km |
| 4.1 | 09.01.2026 11:24 | 44 km | 71 km |
| 3.0 | 09.01.2026 10:35 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 4.3 | 09.01.2026 09:56 | 0 km | 75 km |
| 3.2 | 09.01.2026 09:51 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 3.7 | 09.01.2026 05:59 | 0 km | 91 km |
| 6.0 | 31.12.2025 14:26 | 21 km | 193 km |
| 5.4 | 21.12.2025 01:29 | 51 km | 118 km |
| 4.3 | 14.12.2025 14:53 | 61.1 km | 98 km |
| 4.2 | 14.12.2025 10:28 | 0 km | 105 km |
| 4.1 | 14.12.2025 08:51 | 57.7 km | 104 km |
| 6.6 | 12.12.2025 02:44 | 24.4 km | 173 km |
| 5.2 | 09.12.2025 09:09 | 53.2 km | 142 km |
| 7.2 | 08.12.2025 22:07 | 45.9 km | 190 km |
| 4.1 | 08.12.2025 18:53 | 0 km | 56 km |
| 7.6 | 08.12.2025 14:15 | 44.2 km | 119 km |
| 4.1 | 29.11.2025 23:03 | 56.2 km | 107 km |
| 4.3 | 28.10.2025 10:05 | 67.2 km | 123 km |
| 4.2 | 04.10.2025 04:47 | 122 km | 109 km |
| 4.4 | 20.09.2025 21:47 | 35 km | 113 km |
| 3.3 | 05.09.2025 17:51 | 20 km | 63 km |
| 5.1 | 18.08.2025 22:19 | 128.4 km | 130 km |
| 4.1 | 14.08.2025 03:48 | 84.2 km | 20 km |
| 4.4 | 08.08.2025 17:36 | 66.9 km | 111 km |
| 4.1 | 05.08.2025 06:17 | 138.1 km | 47 km |
| 4.3 | 11.07.2025 21:11 | 59.1 km | 89 km |
| 4.2 | 22.06.2025 21:33 | 155.5 km | 65 km |
| 5.4 | 12.05.2025 14:54 | 57.4 km | 139 km |
| 3.8 | 10.05.2025 12:43 | 110 km | 70 km |
| 4.1 | 24.04.2025 00:07 | 66 km | 100 km |
| 3.9 | 14.04.2025 00:54 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 4.6 | 04.04.2025 21:12 | 59.8 km | 97 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.