4.2
870
recorded earthquakes
M6.2
largest
1918–2026
record span
3.84
mean magnitude
862
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.2 | 23.08.1918 06:07 | 10 km | 889 km |
| 6.0 | 29.03.1943 05:14 | 35 km | 316 km |
| 5.9 | 15.05.2018 15:48 | 8.7 km | 679 km |
| 5.8 | 29.04.1952 03:07 | 15 km | 535 km |
| 5.6 | 11.01.2017 22:06 | 16.4 km | 147 km |
| 5.6 | 04.04.1975 17:41 | 16.5 km | 323 km |
| 5.5 | 04.10.1985 15:17 | 17.9 km | 180 km |
| 5.5 | 21.04.1991 23:12 | 14.2 km | 54 km |
| 5.5 | 21.05.2018 00:47 | 10 km | 679 km |
| 5.4 | 20.05.2018 08:01 | 10 km | 672 km |
| 5.4 | 18.05.1965 01:04 | 30.7 km | 341 km |
| 5.4 | 12.06.2018 17:17 | 12.6 km | 649 km |
| 5.4 | 18.09.2024 00:25 | 21.9 km | 750 km |
| 5.4 | 30.06.1974 17:10 | 33 km | 621 km |
| 5.3 | 25.06.2018 17:41 | 10 km | 650 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.2 | 03.08.2026 10:40 | 10 km | 680 km |
| 3.1 | 02.08.2026 19:14 | 32.4 km | 677 km |
| 2.4 | 19.07.2026 15:57 | 10 km | 157 km |
| 3.0 | 17.07.2026 12:56 | 45.7 km | 686 km |
| 2.6 | 11.07.2026 09:00 | 63 km | 149 km |
| 4.0 | 06.07.2026 16:53 | 1 km | 605 km |
| 4.1 | 25.06.2026 20:54 | 0 km | 692 km |
| 2.5 | 19.06.2026 09:00 | 89 km | 121 km |
| 1.4 | 16.06.2026 20:06 | 2 km | 17 km |
| 1.7 | 12.06.2026 08:25 | 2 km | 26 km |
| 1.8 | 12.06.2026 07:22 | 2 km | 20 km |
| 2.0 | 05.06.2026 01:57 | 2 km | 108 km |
| 3.3 | 04.06.2026 01:03 | 41.3 km | 686 km |
| 4.2 | 25.05.2026 08:48 | 2 km | 751 km |
| 2.9 | 26.04.2026 21:25 | 10 km | 238 km |
| 2.0 | 22.04.2026 06:40 | 2 km | 85 km |
| 1.9 | 09.04.2026 13:13 | 1 km | 58 km |
| 3.5 | 24.03.2026 22:51 | 41.2 km | 689 km |
| 4.2 | 20.03.2026 03:57 | 10 km | 759 km |
| 3.5 | 14.03.2026 20:54 | 25 km | 668 km |
| 3.9 | 13.03.2026 21:09 | 0 km | 593 km |
| 3.4 | 12.03.2026 18:21 | 36.3 km | 676 km |
| 4.4 | 10.03.2026 16:42 | 10 km | 671 km |
| 3.0 | 11.02.2026 02:53 | 32.2 km | 676 km |
| 3.2 | 02.02.2026 02:07 | 39.9 km | 682 km |
| 3.0 | 01.02.2026 02:27 | 40.7 km | 683 km |
| 4.8 | 24.01.2026 08:32 | 0 km | 53 km |
| 3.5 | 24.01.2026 07:31 | 33.3 km | 679 km |
| 3.3 | 23.01.2026 21:04 | 33.3 km | 679 km |
| 3.1 | 22.01.2026 13:15 | 34.1 km | 679 km |
| 3.0 | 22.01.2026 10:47 | 20.9 km | 679 km |
| 3.3 | 21.01.2026 20:39 | 27 km | 675 km |
| 3.3 | 26.11.2025 02:47 | 6.3 km | 731 km |
| 3.6 | 21.11.2025 11:58 | 35.3 km | 680 km |
| 3.4 | 01.11.2025 01:00 | 24 km | 674 km |
| 3.1 | 06.10.2025 03:00 | 42.8 km | 680 km |
| 3.8 | 23.07.2025 03:59 | 0 km | 338 km |
| 3.5 | 20.06.2025 17:48 | 45.5 km | 691 km |
| 3.1 | 27.04.2025 12:39 | 39 km | 695 km |
| 3.0 | 26.04.2025 04:27 | 43.2 km | 683 km |
| 3.1 | 20.04.2025 02:20 | 43.3 km | 684 km |
| 3.0 | 19.04.2025 06:24 | 43.8 km | 684 km |
| 3.2 | 09.04.2025 00:17 | 38.5 km | 722 km |
| 3.6 | 04.04.2025 15:20 | 43.9 km | 685 km |
| 3.8 | 09.03.2025 19:38 | 10 km | 361 km |
| 3.8 | 20.01.2025 13:51 | 0 km | 731 km |
| 4.5 | 10.12.2024 05:34 | 38.2 km | 250 km |
| 4.1 | 09.12.2024 15:31 | 39 km | 591 km |
| 4.7 | 05.12.2024 11:42 | 160.6 km | 617 km |
| 3.0 | 12.11.2024 21:53 | 40.2 km | 683 km |
| 4.1 | 12.11.2024 13:23 | 204.6 km | 640 km |
| 4.1 | 25.10.2024 08:02 | 209.4 km | 636 km |
| 4.3 | 23.10.2024 20:41 | 46.2 km | 264 km |
| 4.3 | 15.10.2024 16:24 | 10.3 km | 698 km |
| 4.3 | 01.10.2024 23:37 | 39.9 km | 264 km |
| 5.4 | 18.09.2024 00:25 | 21.9 km | 750 km |
| 4.0 | 17.09.2024 02:12 | 20.8 km | 21 km |
| 4.0 | 06.09.2024 04:22 | 35.6 km | 132 km |
| 3.6 | 27.08.2024 15:51 | 12.5 km | 650 km |
| 4.1 | 19.07.2024 04:04 | 38.4 km | 216 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.