3.2
683
recorded earthquakes
M9.2
largest
1907–2026
record span
3.62
mean magnitude
517
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 | — | 57 km |
| 7.8 | 03.01.1911 23:25 | 20 km | 282 km |
| 7.3 | 02.11.1946 18:28 | 25 km | 284 km |
| 7.2 | 19.08.1992 02:04 | 20.6 km | 143 km |
| 7.0 | 22.01.2024 18:09 | 8.8 km | 324 km |
| 6.9 | 20.06.1938 23:50 | 15 km | 73 km |
| 6.6 | 19.08.1992 03:12 | 13.1 km | 158 km |
| 6.5 | 19.08.1992 03:20 | 13.9 km | 169 km |
| 6.3 | 12.11.1990 12:28 | 15.8 km | 245 km |
| 6.2 | 19.08.1992 02:12 | 10 km | 143 km |
| 6.0 | 15.09.1907 19:13 | 15 km | 257 km |
| 5.9 | 19.04.1945 17:46 | 15 km | 205 km |
| 5.9 | 23.08.1928 03:53 | 15 km | 157 km |
| 5.8 | 25.12.2006 20:00 | 12.3 km | 91 km |
| 5.8 | 18.01.1926 11:20 | 15 km | 65 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.2 | 25.07.2026 15:57 | 28 km | 50 km |
| 2.5 | 22.07.2026 04:45 | 0 km | 145 km |
| 4.6 | 19.07.2026 20:41 | 10 km | 112 km |
| 2.1 | 15.07.2026 10:42 | 11 km | 126 km |
| 2.1 | 14.07.2026 03:57 | 0 km | 160 km |
| 1.8 | 10.07.2026 18:31 | 0 km | 95 km |
| 3.8 | 05.07.2026 00:50 | 19 km | 27 km |
| 2.1 | 03.07.2026 09:07 | 10 km | 113 km |
| 2.3 | 03.07.2026 01:50 | 0 km | 59 km |
| 2.2 | 25.06.2026 06:09 | 0 km | 158 km |
| 3.8 | 13.06.2026 23:11 | 22 km | 165 km |
| 2.0 | 07.06.2026 03:55 | 3 km | 57 km |
| 2.9 | 06.06.2026 04:21 | 3 km | 156 km |
| 2.3 | 05.06.2026 06:57 | 10 km | 149 km |
| 2.3 | 02.06.2026 18:33 | 0 km | 134 km |
| 2.4 | 01.06.2026 07:14 | 0 km | 128 km |
| 2.2 | 27.05.2026 06:33 | 0 km | 73 km |
| 2.4 | 22.05.2026 23:52 | 3 km | 58 km |
| 1.9 | 21.05.2026 02:35 | 2 km | 131 km |
| 2.1 | 17.05.2026 16:09 | 16 km | 67 km |
| 2.6 | 14.05.2026 03:47 | 0 km | 76 km |
| 2.4 | 05.05.2026 11:28 | 0 km | 61 km |
| 2.9 | 26.04.2026 20:18 | 10 km | 99 km |
| 2.4 | 02.04.2026 00:42 | 0 km | 129 km |
| 4.0 | 31.03.2026 07:20 | 0 km | 89 km |
| 2.6 | 29.03.2026 16:08 | 10 km | 109 km |
| 2.5 | 27.03.2026 08:43 | 10 km | 104 km |
| 2.6 | 23.03.2026 10:53 | 19 km | 58 km |
| 2.6 | 22.03.2026 21:11 | 0 km | 133 km |
| 2.8 | 18.03.2026 22:17 | 17 km | 83 km |
| 4.3 | 07.03.2026 11:50 | 26 km | 58 km |
| 2.3 | 26.02.2026 08:10 | 10 km | 171 km |
| 2.1 | 22.02.2026 12:16 | 0 km | 82 km |
| 2.6 | 18.02.2026 18:43 | 2 km | 147 km |
| 2.6 | 18.02.2026 01:04 | 11 km | 68 km |
| 1.8 | 13.02.2026 02:25 | 0 km | 52 km |
| 2.6 | 05.02.2026 14:30 | 0 km | 166 km |
| 2.2 | 05.02.2026 07:16 | 1 km | 150 km |
| 2.7 | 03.02.2026 19:49 | 4 km | 42 km |
| 1.8 | 01.02.2026 21:10 | 8 km | 44 km |
| 2.6 | 31.01.2026 22:38 | 0 km | 183 km |
| 2.1 | 14.01.2026 14:51 | 16 km | 99 km |
| 2.6 | 14.01.2026 04:25 | 7 km | 98 km |
| 1.8 | 29.12.2025 01:09 | 5 km | 49 km |
| 3.0 | 17.12.2025 21:03 | 8 km | 57 km |
| 2.1 | 15.12.2025 11:12 | 1 km | 58 km |
| 3.9 | 20.11.2025 12:35 | 10 km | 137 km |
| 2.1 | 20.11.2025 05:58 | 0 km | 174 km |
| 2.8 | 18.11.2025 19:01 | 0 km | 26 km |
| 2.7 | 15.11.2025 07:44 | 26 km | 177 km |
| 2.5 | 11.11.2025 18:39 | 370 km | 20 km |
| 2.8 | 23.10.2025 16:44 | 0 km | 93 km |
| 4.2 | 23.10.2025 07:20 | 15 km | 148 km |
| 2.4 | 14.10.2025 07:41 | 0 km | 39 km |
| 3.9 | 14.10.2025 07:17 | 7.2 km | 40 km |
| 2.7 | 13.10.2025 15:54 | 3 km | 164 km |
| 2.6 | 23.09.2025 10:28 | 22 km | 187 km |
| 3.2 | 21.09.2025 11:25 | 5 km | 155 km |
| 3.0 | 20.09.2025 01:36 | 383 km | 21 km |
| 2.5 | 19.09.2025 22:32 | 0 km | 137 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.