2.5
157
recorded earthquakes
M7.0
largest
1904–2026
record span
2.75
mean magnitude
10
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | 04.04.1904 10:26 | 15 km | 141 km |
| 6.4 | 26.07.1963 04:17 | 15 km | 20 km |
| 6.0 | 30.03.1921 15:06 | 15 km | 45 km |
| 5.8 | 30.04.1905 16:10 | 15 km | 61 km |
| 5.8 | 12.03.1960 11:54 | 10 km | 56 km |
| 5.7 | 24.04.2002 10:51 | 7.2 km | 45 km |
| 5.6 | 27.08.1942 06:14 | 35 km | 49 km |
| 5.5 | 20.12.1929 20:19 | 15 km | 24 km |
| 5.4 | 03.04.1905 16:01 | 15 km | 40 km |
| 5.2 | 13.08.1907 02:20 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 5.1 | 11.09.2016 13:10 | 11.3 km | 10 km |
| 4.7 | 25.02.1983 18:22 | 24.4 km | 9 km |
| 4.5 | 14.07.1982 16:14 | 9.5 km | 29 km |
| 4.4 | 29.07.2016 22:13 | 359 km | 11 km |
| 4.3 | 24.06.1992 16:12 | 13.7 km | 27 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 | 02.08.2026 19:53 | 15 km | 2 km |
| 3.4 | 23.05.2026 15:41 | 10 km | 12 km |
| 2.7 | 25.03.2026 11:05 | 6 km | 8 km |
| 4.1 | 09.04.2025 01:13 | 11.9 km | 28 km |
| 2.4 | 01.02.2025 00:10 | 3.7 km | 6 km |
| 2.4 | 16.12.2024 00:22 | 6.6 km | 15 km |
| 2.3 | 07.11.2024 04:49 | 2.9 km | 19 km |
| 2.0 | 04.11.2024 19:35 | 4.1 km | 11 km |
| 2.7 | 24.09.2024 19:46 | 5 km | 13 km |
| 3.4 | 23.09.2024 00:02 | 10 km | 13 km |
| 2.0 | 03.05.2024 23:39 | 10 km | 9 km |
| 2.2 | 19.12.2023 08:54 | 5 km | 10 km |
| 2.7 | 06.01.2023 15:51 | 2 km | 4 km |
| 2.6 | 19.10.2022 21:06 | 1 km | 15 km |
| 2.0 | 09.03.2022 08:48 | 1 km | 17 km |
| 2.5 | 12.01.2022 08:09 | 10 km | 10 km |
| 2.0 | 04.12.2020 23:04 | 7 km | 15 km |
| 4.2 | 02.12.2020 13:09 | 10 km | 10 km |
| 2.5 | 04.05.2019 03:58 | 4 km | 5 km |
| 2.8 | 22.11.2018 16:48 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 2.8 | 03.06.2018 19:29 | 1 km | 11 km |
| 2.0 | 16.02.2018 14:43 | 1 km | 14 km |
| 2.4 | 02.02.2018 14:23 | 3 km | 7 km |
| 2.3 | 02.02.2018 07:03 | 4 km | 9 km |
| 2.0 | 16.05.2017 12:13 | 1 km | 6 km |
| 4.0 | 14.05.2017 02:08 | 14.1 km | 11 km |
| 2.7 | 09.04.2017 19:11 | 1 km | 7 km |
| 2.1 | 26.01.2017 17:04 | 1 km | 9 km |
| 1.9 | 26.01.2017 15:28 | 1 km | 8 km |
| 2.0 | 07.11.2016 02:11 | 2 km | 10 km |
| 1.8 | 18.10.2016 20:13 | 1 km | 15 km |
| 2.5 | 12.10.2016 09:39 | 6 km | 9 km |
| 1.6 | 06.10.2016 23:06 | 1 km | 9 km |
| 3.1 | 04.10.2016 10:52 | 9.2 km | 4 km |
| 2.4 | 20.09.2016 13:56 | 1 km | 7 km |
| 2.1 | 15.09.2016 21:40 | 1 km | 9 km |
| 3.1 | 13.09.2016 23:32 | 3.2 km | 10 km |
| 3.8 | 12.09.2016 17:53 | 16.2 km | 12 km |
| 3.7 | 12.09.2016 12:19 | 1.6 km | 8 km |
| 2.3 | 12.09.2016 09:50 | 1 km | 7 km |
| 2.1 | 11.09.2016 18:57 | 9 km | 11 km |
| 2.5 | 11.09.2016 14:45 | 3 km | 10 km |
| 2.4 | 11.09.2016 14:07 | 1 km | 7 km |
| 2.1 | 11.09.2016 13:30 | 1 km | 9 km |
| 2.8 | 11.09.2016 13:19 | 2 km | 8 km |
| 2.9 | 11.09.2016 13:14 | 2 km | 11 km |
| 5.1 | 11.09.2016 13:10 | 11.3 km | 10 km |
| 2.8 | 11.09.2016 05:00 | 3 km | 9 km |
| 4.0 | 11.09.2016 04:58 | 11.1 km | 8 km |
| 2.4 | 27.08.2016 16:26 | 7 km | 9 km |
| 2.1 | 26.08.2016 22:42 | 5 km | 8 km |
| 4.4 | 29.07.2016 22:13 | 359 km | 11 km |
| 2.0 | 13.07.2016 17:12 | 3 km | 11 km |
| 2.7 | 03.06.2015 14:20 | 5 km | 19 km |
| 2.5 | 05.05.2015 20:18 | 10 km | 12 km |
| 2.0 | 27.09.2014 02:25 | 2 km | 18 km |
| 2.2 | 06.07.2014 05:58 | 1 km | 13 km |
| 4.0 | 25.05.2014 21:05 | 6.9 km | 29 km |
| 2.4 | 25.01.2014 19:19 | 1 km | 10 km |
| 3.1 | 07.11.2013 17:01 | 1 km | 0 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.