3.2
470
recorded earthquakes
M9.2
largest
1908–2026
record span
3.69
mean magnitude
334
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.2 | 26.08.2024 04:26 | — | 230 km |
| 7.3 | 02.11.1946 18:28 | 25 km | 271 km |
| 7.2 | 19.08.1992 02:04 | 20.6 km | 247 km |
| 6.9 | 20.06.1938 23:50 | 15 km | 329 km |
| 6.6 | 19.08.1992 03:12 | 13.1 km | 243 km |
| 6.5 | 19.08.1992 03:20 | 13.9 km | 246 km |
| 6.4 | 18.12.1937 13:18 | 15 km | 252 km |
| 6.2 | 19.08.1992 02:12 | 10 km | 244 km |
| 5.9 | 07.11.1946 15:54 | 15 km | 239 km |
| 5.9 | 10.09.1948 12:02 | 15 km | 257 km |
| 5.9 | 23.08.1928 03:53 | 15 km | 239 km |
| 5.8 | 25.12.2006 20:00 | 12.3 km | 365 km |
| 5.8 | 18.01.1926 11:20 | 15 km | 265 km |
| 5.8 | 31.01.1908 04:49 | 15 km | 143 km |
| 5.6 | 22.03.1933 02:22 | 35 km | 200 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.2 | 25.07.2026 15:57 | 28 km | 229 km |
| 2.5 | 24.07.2026 19:26 | 33 km | 210 km |
| 3.9 | 09.07.2026 19:59 | 10 km | 236 km |
| 2.8 | 08.07.2026 06:48 | 0 km | 156 km |
| 2.2 | 07.07.2026 02:02 | 0 km | 234 km |
| 3.8 | 05.07.2026 00:50 | 19 km | 296 km |
| 3.8 | 03.07.2026 23:40 | 0 km | 101 km |
| 2.7 | 03.07.2026 22:57 | 1 km | 188 km |
| 2.3 | 03.07.2026 01:50 | 0 km | 228 km |
| 2.0 | 07.06.2026 03:55 | 3 km | 238 km |
| 2.3 | 30.05.2026 10:05 | 4 km | 224 km |
| 2.1 | 30.05.2026 03:33 | 14 km | 198 km |
| 2.4 | 22.05.2026 23:52 | 3 km | 238 km |
| 2.1 | 17.05.2026 16:09 | 16 km | 339 km |
| 2.6 | 14.05.2026 03:47 | 0 km | 250 km |
| 2.4 | 05.05.2026 11:28 | 0 km | 226 km |
| 2.6 | 01.05.2026 15:17 | 6 km | 124 km |
| 2.9 | 26.04.2026 20:18 | 10 km | 179 km |
| 4.0 | 08.04.2026 17:55 | 25 km | 277 km |
| 2.6 | 23.03.2026 10:53 | 19 km | 267 km |
| 2.8 | 18.03.2026 22:17 | 17 km | 216 km |
| 2.3 | 26.02.2026 08:10 | 10 km | 187 km |
| 2.6 | 18.02.2026 18:43 | 2 km | 178 km |
| 2.6 | 18.02.2026 01:04 | 11 km | 213 km |
| 3.0 | 12.02.2026 01:40 | 3 km | 262 km |
| 2.7 | 03.02.2026 19:49 | 4 km | 318 km |
| 1.8 | 01.02.2026 21:10 | 8 km | 241 km |
| 3.8 | 05.01.2026 05:15 | 3.7 km | 222 km |
| 1.8 | 29.12.2025 01:09 | 5 km | 245 km |
| 3.0 | 17.12.2025 21:03 | 8 km | 240 km |
| 2.1 | 15.12.2025 11:12 | 1 km | 239 km |
| 2.4 | 15.12.2025 01:45 | 24 km | 138 km |
| 2.8 | 18.11.2025 19:01 | 0 km | 254 km |
| 2.5 | 11.11.2025 18:39 | 370 km | 280 km |
| 2.1 | 17.10.2025 04:55 | 18 km | 201 km |
| 2.4 | 14.10.2025 07:41 | 0 km | 283 km |
| 3.9 | 14.10.2025 07:17 | 7.2 km | 278 km |
| 5.2 | 05.10.2025 20:28 | 10 km | 241 km |
| 3.1 | 02.10.2025 00:19 | 6 km | 134 km |
| 3.0 | 20.09.2025 01:36 | 383 km | 258 km |
| 2.9 | 19.09.2025 01:40 | 7 km | 212 km |
| 3.1 | 12.09.2025 07:57 | 22 km | 235 km |
| 2.6 | 17.08.2025 18:10 | 0 km | 288 km |
| 2.6 | 02.08.2025 22:00 | 0 km | 274 km |
| 2.7 | 25.07.2025 23:42 | 0 km | 240 km |
| 2.8 | 18.07.2025 23:28 | 0 km | 235 km |
| 4.2 | 16.07.2025 01:27 | 10 km | 188 km |
| 2.8 | 13.07.2025 21:53 | 3 km | 237 km |
| 2.5 | 09.07.2025 12:29 | 0 km | 145 km |
| 2.6 | 09.07.2025 08:41 | 11 km | 158 km |
| 1.8 | 09.07.2025 05:27 | 6 km | 187 km |
| 4.1 | 08.07.2025 09:29 | 10 km | 141 km |
| 2.8 | 04.07.2025 08:51 | 10 km | 245 km |
| 1.9 | 04.07.2025 08:05 | 10 km | 242 km |
| 2.9 | 10.06.2025 10:10 | 2 km | 267 km |
| 3.2 | 25.05.2025 10:08 | 0 km | 142 km |
| 3.0 | 18.05.2025 18:18 | 6 km | 232 km |
| 2.2 | 25.04.2025 12:01 | 10 km | 339 km |
| 4.0 | 25.04.2025 10:37 | 7.2 km | 343 km |
| 3.5 | 31.03.2025 07:25 | 10 km | 262 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.