4.4
496
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1923–2026
record span
4.23
mean magnitude
358
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.2 | 26.12.1941 14:48 | 10 km | 635 km |
| 7.1 | 02.02.1950 23:33 | 35 km | 587 km |
| 7.0 | 06.11.1988 13:03 | 12.6 km | 680 km |
| 6.9 | 24.06.1983 09:07 | 33 km | 380 km |
| 6.8 | 24.03.2011 13:55 | 12.8 km | 499 km |
| 6.8 | 11.07.1995 21:46 | 13.7 km | 645 km |
| 6.7 | 03.02.1950 02:51 | 35 km | 576 km |
| 6.7 | 01.11.1935 16:22 | 15 km | 340 km |
| 6.7 | 19.06.1952 12:12 | 10 km | 650 km |
| 6.6 | 22.12.1925 05:05 | 15 km | 372 km |
| 6.3 | 28.04.1971 15:32 | 10 km | 601 km |
| 6.3 | 16.05.2007 08:56 | 9.6 km | 418 km |
| 6.3 | 31.01.1942 17:30 | 35 km | 536 km |
| 6.3 | 13.05.1935 19:53 | 35 km | 330 km |
| 6.2 | 24.06.1983 07:18 | 15 km | 401 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.4 | 02.08.2026 17:06 | 10 km | 523 km |
| 3.6 | 28.07.2026 02:57 | 10 km | 285 km |
| 4.5 | 20.07.2026 14:40 | 10 km | 624 km |
| 3.6 | 03.07.2026 09:09 | 10 km | 550 km |
| 3.6 | 29.06.2026 06:34 | 10 km | 528 km |
| 3.4 | 18.06.2026 03:44 | 10 km | 524 km |
| 3.1 | 16.06.2026 23:37 | 10 km | 536 km |
| 4.2 | 03.06.2026 05:41 | 10 km | 341 km |
| 3.1 | 31.05.2026 23:54 | 9 km | 500 km |
| 3.6 | 30.05.2026 23:56 | 0 km | 345 km |
| 4.0 | 28.05.2026 17:08 | 9 km | 469 km |
| 3.8 | 16.05.2026 01:04 | 10 km | 157 km |
| 3.0 | 15.05.2026 03:18 | 10 km | 369 km |
| 3.3 | 12.05.2026 06:57 | 10 km | 253 km |
| 3.7 | 10.05.2026 12:52 | 0 km | 271 km |
| 3.1 | 22.04.2026 08:36 | 10 km | 526 km |
| 3.5 | 20.04.2026 10:08 | 6 km | 402 km |
| 3.0 | 14.04.2026 21:14 | 9 km | 491 km |
| 3.1 | 10.04.2026 11:16 | 10 km | 513 km |
| 3.1 | 29.03.2026 08:46 | 10 km | 485 km |
| 3.2 | 24.03.2026 19:58 | 10 km | 441 km |
| 3.2 | 19.02.2026 09:32 | 10 km | 540 km |
| 3.7 | 19.02.2026 05:37 | 10 km | 535 km |
| 3.4 | 18.02.2026 22:40 | 10 km | 538 km |
| 3.8 | 17.02.2026 15:05 | 0 km | 535 km |
| 3.1 | 13.02.2026 15:27 | 1 km | 526 km |
| 3.0 | 23.01.2026 16:57 | 10 km | 559 km |
| 3.0 | 08.01.2026 06:00 | 10 km | 563 km |
| 3.1 | 29.12.2025 13:10 | 10 km | 533 km |
| 3.5 | 22.12.2025 15:45 | 10 km | 417 km |
| 3.5 | 09.12.2025 13:02 | 10 km | 254 km |
| 3.1 | 17.11.2025 10:43 | 10 km | 525 km |
| 3.9 | 16.11.2025 17:02 | 10 km | 216 km |
| 3.4 | 12.11.2025 16:26 | 0 km | 233 km |
| 3.7 | 07.11.2025 14:25 | 0 km | 415 km |
| 4.0 | 07.11.2025 07:52 | 5 km | 327 km |
| 3.7 | 12.10.2025 22:07 | 10 km | 239 km |
| 4.1 | 12.10.2025 18:13 | 0 km | 600 km |
| 3.9 | 08.10.2025 07:41 | 10 km | 533 km |
| 3.2 | 07.10.2025 13:09 | 4 km | 349 km |
| 3.5 | 03.10.2025 10:00 | 0 km | 235 km |
| 3.0 | 20.09.2025 17:38 | 10 km | 523 km |
| 3.2 | 19.09.2025 16:24 | 10 km | 284 km |
| 4.2 | 07.08.2025 18:31 | 2 km | 513 km |
| 3.6 | 24.07.2025 14:39 | 4 km | 241 km |
| 3.5 | 14.07.2025 13:49 | 10 km | 484 km |
| 4.1 | 01.06.2025 07:48 | 10 km | 537 km |
| 3.6 | 16.05.2025 04:17 | 0 km | 410 km |
| 3.6 | 13.05.2025 05:36 | 10 km | 483 km |
| 3.6 | 18.04.2025 02:40 | 10 km | 483 km |
| 3.8 | 16.03.2025 06:33 | 5 km | 470 km |
| 4.0 | 06.03.2025 05:50 | 10 km | 523 km |
| 3.9 | 24.02.2025 11:38 | 10 km | 487 km |
| 3.8 | 11.01.2025 12:56 | 10 km | 487 km |
| 4.2 | 04.12.2024 18:27 | 10 km | 541 km |
| 3.2 | 03.12.2024 17:33 | 10 km | 520 km |
| 4.3 | 03.12.2024 17:33 | 10 km | 520 km |
| 3.5 | 20.11.2024 23:25 | 10 km | 294 km |
| 4.1 | 15.11.2024 15:03 | 10 km | 386 km |
| 3.6 | 07.11.2024 16:30 | 0 km | 493 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.