5.0
306
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1905–2026
record span
4.49
mean magnitude
111
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.8 | 02.06.1905 05:39 | 100 km | 141 km |
| 7.7 | 26.02.1961 18:10 | 35 km | 209 km |
| 7.7 | 18.11.1941 16:46 | 35 km | 197 km |
| 7.5 | 02.11.1931 10:03 | 35 km | 218 km |
| 7.5 | 10.11.1909 06:13 | 140 km | 120 km |
| 7.5 | 01.04.1968 00:42 | 26.2 km | 190 km |
| 7.1 | 21.04.1969 07:19 | 26 km | 195 km |
| 7.0 | 15.04.2016 16:25 | 7 km | 85 km |
| 7.0 | 25.07.1970 22:41 | 34.6 km | 184 km |
| 6.9 | 06.08.1984 19:06 | 40.5 km | 169 km |
| 6.8 | 07.12.1922 16:50 | 15 km | 128 km |
| 6.8 | 28.07.2026 07:27 | 10 km | 91 km |
| 6.8 | 05.08.1968 16:17 | 48.4 km | 151 km |
| 6.7 | 20.03.1939 03:22 | 25 km | 146 km |
| 6.6 | 13.03.1906 13:26 | 30 km | 167 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | 30.07.2026 13:47 | 10 km | 87 km |
| 4.6 | 29.07.2026 11:47 | 10 km | 78 km |
| 3.9 | 29.07.2026 06:59 | 10 km | 73 km |
| 3.0 | 28.07.2026 23:35 | 10 km | 66 km |
| 6.8 | 28.07.2026 07:27 | 10 km | 91 km |
| 4.0 | 25.03.2026 11:33 | 10 km | 43 km |
| 3.0 | 19.03.2026 12:59 | 20 km | 51 km |
| 3.4 | 08.03.2026 06:06 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 3.2 | 01.03.2026 03:41 | 10 km | 68 km |
| 3.3 | 21.01.2026 15:08 | 10 km | 39 km |
| 3.3 | 31.12.2025 21:29 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 3.1 | 31.12.2025 11:26 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 4.0 | 28.12.2025 22:35 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 3.0 | 18.12.2025 02:18 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 3.3 | 16.12.2025 14:13 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 3.2 | 05.12.2025 03:11 | 0 km | 69 km |
| 3.0 | 27.11.2025 13:01 | 0 km | 69 km |
| 3.4 | 25.11.2025 14:48 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 3.0 | 25.11.2025 14:23 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 3.4 | 25.11.2025 13:31 | 0 km | 69 km |
| 3.1 | 25.11.2025 13:17 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 4.3 | 25.11.2025 12:59 | 10 km | 68 km |
| 3.5 | 25.11.2025 11:44 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 3.0 | 25.11.2025 09:50 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 3.1 | 25.11.2025 09:31 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 3.1 | 25.11.2025 09:15 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 3.3 | 25.11.2025 09:10 | 0 km | 69 km |
| 3.0 | 25.11.2025 09:07 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 3.1 | 25.11.2025 09:04 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 5.4 | 25.11.2025 09:01 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 3.2 | 17.08.2025 05:33 | 10 km | 68 km |
| 3.2 | 07.08.2025 04:39 | 0 km | 68 km |
| 4.6 | 06.08.2025 23:47 | 9.8 km | 60 km |
| 4.6 | 25.07.2025 02:17 | 10 km | 99 km |
| 4.2 | 18.07.2025 09:58 | 102.7 km | 88 km |
| 4.2 | 08.05.2024 19:34 | 101.7 km | 92 km |
| 3.7 | 26.04.2024 01:29 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 4.2 | 17.02.2023 10:38 | 11.4 km | 67 km |
| 6.4 | 21.01.2022 16:08 | 44.3 km | 154 km |
| 3.5 | 10.12.2021 23:42 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 5.3 | 17.07.2021 11:50 | 81.5 km | 114 km |
| 4.0 | 06.05.2021 00:16 | 11 km | 84 km |
| 3.7 | 29.04.2020 04:44 | 12.6 km | 84 km |
| 3.8 | 16.03.2020 11:42 | 10 km | 24 km |
| 4.2 | 26.01.2019 05:16 | 11.9 km | 52 km |
| 4.9 | 03.01.2019 09:10 | 13.7 km | 66 km |
| 4.1 | 24.07.2018 22:31 | 4.8 km | 87 km |
| 4.4 | 08.07.2018 18:53 | 10 km | 53 km |
| 4.1 | 07.06.2018 20:25 | 123 km | 89 km |
| 3.7 | 23.05.2018 16:25 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 4.3 | 08.09.2017 05:20 | 12 km | 79 km |
| 4.4 | 01.07.2017 15:58 | 7.1 km | 76 km |
| 4.4 | 11.05.2017 11:21 | 11 km | 84 km |
| 4.1 | 18.11.2016 01:19 | 9.4 km | 48 km |
| 4.2 | 11.11.2016 01:12 | 10 km | 84 km |
| 4.8 | 31.08.2016 21:33 | 15.9 km | 83 km |
| 5.1 | 31.08.2016 10:46 | 14.5 km | 86 km |
| 4.4 | 19.08.2016 02:05 | 9.7 km | 62 km |
| 4.4 | 09.07.2016 09:05 | 12.3 km | 82 km |
| 4.3 | 14.05.2016 09:45 | 10 km | 80 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.