3.7
355
recorded earthquakes
M6.5
largest
1931–2026
record span
3.55
mean magnitude
306
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.5 | 16.08.1931 11:40 | 10 km | 455 km |
| 5.7 | 14.04.1995 00:32 | 14.1 km | 367 km |
| 4.8 | 05.06.2025 03:26 | 4 km | 103 km |
| 4.8 | 05.12.1993 00:58 | 10 km | 97 km |
| 4.6 | 01.08.2007 03:11 | 20.8 km | 313 km |
| 4.6 | 15.06.2000 23:17 | 33 km | 217 km |
| 4.5 | 06.04.2004 19:01 | 11.3 km | 322 km |
| 4.4 | 18.07.2010 13:53 | 9 km | 37 km |
| 4.4 | 26.02.1986 22:49 | 33 km | 317 km |
| 4.4 | 03.05.1978 23:35 | 10 km | 149 km |
| 4.4 | 21.03.1982 09:39 | 33 km | 242 km |
| 4.3 | 04.10.2024 20:34 | 5 km | 221 km |
| 4.3 | 05.06.2025 23:58 | 7.1 km | 101 km |
| 4.3 | 30.07.1992 14:40 | 10 km | 350 km |
| 4.3 | 01.01.2025 05:15 | 5 km | 321 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.7 | 10.07.2026 15:32 | 5 km | 294 km |
| 3.4 | 03.07.2026 21:49 | 4.8 km | 237 km |
| 2.4 | 12.06.2026 10:49 | 0 km | 249 km |
| 3.0 | 22.05.2026 15:08 | 10 km | 162 km |
| 3.9 | 08.05.2026 22:06 | 5 km | 254 km |
| 3.7 | 06.05.2026 21:18 | 22.7 km | 247 km |
| 3.6 | 04.04.2026 21:13 | 10 km | 275 km |
| 4.0 | 16.03.2026 08:49 | 10 km | 101 km |
| 3.8 | 28.02.2026 01:18 | 5 km | 224 km |
| 3.9 | 18.02.2026 18:56 | 5.1 km | 80 km |
| 3.8 | 14.02.2026 18:58 | 5 km | 74 km |
| 3.7 | 20.12.2025 01:20 | 5 km | 216 km |
| 3.4 | 05.12.2025 01:51 | 5 km | 312 km |
| 3.8 | 28.11.2025 22:52 | 5 km | 213 km |
| 3.5 | 21.11.2025 20:57 | 5 km | 244 km |
| 2.7 | 14.10.2025 08:18 | 2.1 km | 229 km |
| 2.2 | 11.10.2025 18:12 | 5.3 km | 229 km |
| 3.7 | 25.09.2025 12:04 | 10 km | 332 km |
| 3.9 | 21.09.2025 09:06 | 10 km | 308 km |
| 3.9 | 14.09.2025 20:25 | 10 km | 323 km |
| 2.0 | 09.09.2025 22:20 | 3.1 km | 236 km |
| 1.9 | 09.09.2025 21:03 | 4.4 km | 247 km |
| 3.5 | 04.09.2025 21:05 | 2 km | 309 km |
| 2.4 | 22.08.2025 04:19 | 7.6 km | 237 km |
| 2.3 | 21.08.2025 17:30 | 2.7 km | 239 km |
| 2.1 | 21.08.2025 09:24 | 6 km | 236 km |
| 2.0 | 26.07.2025 19:24 | 2.9 km | 225 km |
| 3.6 | 24.07.2025 08:10 | 1.4 km | 226 km |
| 4.0 | 22.07.2025 08:51 | 3 km | 100 km |
| 3.5 | 12.07.2025 20:07 | 25.3 km | 215 km |
| 3.1 | 01.07.2025 02:06 | 0 km | 348 km |
| 4.1 | 25.06.2025 21:49 | 10 km | 118 km |
| 4.1 | 22.06.2025 06:58 | 2 km | 346 km |
| 4.1 | 20.06.2025 12:19 | 10 km | 105 km |
| 3.6 | 16.06.2025 13:36 | 5 km | 311 km |
| 4.0 | 15.06.2025 07:09 | 10 km | 85 km |
| 4.1 | 15.06.2025 05:02 | 10.2 km | 108 km |
| 4.0 | 14.06.2025 11:20 | 10 km | 106 km |
| 4.2 | 11.06.2025 18:05 | 6.1 km | 98 km |
| 4.1 | 10.06.2025 04:29 | 6.9 km | 105 km |
| 4.1 | 09.06.2025 23:15 | 7.8 km | 104 km |
| 4.0 | 06.06.2025 06:49 | 5 km | 93 km |
| 3.1 | 06.06.2025 06:37 | 10 km | 100 km |
| 4.2 | 06.06.2025 06:15 | 5 km | 104 km |
| 4.0 | 06.06.2025 06:00 | 10 km | 105 km |
| 4.3 | 05.06.2025 23:58 | 7.1 km | 101 km |
| 4.0 | 05.06.2025 14:37 | 10 km | 89 km |
| 4.0 | 05.06.2025 12:15 | 10.7 km | 102 km |
| 4.2 | 05.06.2025 05:06 | 5 km | 101 km |
| 4.2 | 05.06.2025 04:09 | 5 km | 113 km |
| 4.8 | 05.06.2025 03:26 | 4 km | 103 km |
| 2.2 | 02.06.2025 08:46 | 1.5 km | 240 km |
| 2.2 | 30.05.2025 07:10 | 4.3 km | 257 km |
| 2.3 | 27.05.2025 07:13 | 7.1 km | 222 km |
| 3.6 | 19.05.2025 18:00 | 5 km | 307 km |
| 3.7 | 14.05.2025 17:30 | 10 km | 325 km |
| 3.7 | 12.05.2025 10:16 | 10 km | 313 km |
| 3.5 | 12.05.2025 09:21 | 15.3 km | 311 km |
| 3.8 | 12.05.2025 03:33 | 5 km | 308 km |
| 3.6 | 12.05.2025 01:29 | 5 km | 307 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.