4.0
1,070
recorded earthquakes
M7.3
largest
1901–2026
record span
4.33
mean magnitude
815
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.3 | 10.04.1906 21:22 | 15 km | 306 km |
| 7.1 | 09.12.1901 02:17 | 0 km | 295 km |
| 6.9 | 05.03.1901 10:45 | 0 km | 263 km |
| 6.9 | 12.06.1922 04:47 | 10 km | 150 km |
| 6.8 | 23.05.1918 11:57 | 10 km | 378 km |
| 6.8 | 30.09.1953 23:04 | 10 km | 254 km |
| 6.7 | 17.01.1931 02:50 | 10 km | 369 km |
| 6.7 | 17.08.1969 20:15 | 26.4 km | 219 km |
| 6.7 | 12.07.1932 19:24 | 10 km | 317 km |
| 6.7 | 21.10.2010 17:53 | 15 km | 176 km |
| 6.6 | 13.09.2015 08:14 | 2.6 km | 202 km |
| 6.6 | 01.11.1969 11:08 | 13.8 km | 190 km |
| 6.6 | 19.10.2013 17:54 | 15 km | 327 km |
| 6.5 | 05.04.1955 15:09 | 15 km | 240 km |
| 6.5 | 06.07.1964 02:14 | 22.6 km | 332 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 16.07.2026 09:41 | 16.1 km | 180 km |
| 4.8 | 16.07.2026 07:28 | 10 km | 134 km |
| 4.2 | 15.07.2026 15:55 | 14.9 km | 181 km |
| 4.0 | 14.07.2026 10:11 | 16 km | 179 km |
| 4.2 | 01.07.2026 11:32 | 6.7 km | 178 km |
| 3.9 | 01.07.2026 10:56 | 18.7 km | 185 km |
| 4.1 | 01.07.2026 10:14 | 6.9 km | 173 km |
| 4.1 | 30.06.2026 22:36 | 10 km | 172 km |
| 3.9 | 30.06.2026 22:09 | 10 km | 178 km |
| 4.1 | 30.06.2026 21:42 | 9.4 km | 178 km |
| 4.8 | 30.06.2026 21:01 | 0 km | 167 km |
| 4.3 | 30.06.2026 20:51 | 0 km | 165 km |
| 3.9 | 30.06.2026 20:35 | 6.1 km | 173 km |
| 4.6 | 30.06.2026 20:29 | 0 km | 166 km |
| 4.3 | 30.06.2026 20:21 | 0 km | 163 km |
| 4.4 | 30.06.2026 20:07 | 10 km | 184 km |
| 4.4 | 30.06.2026 19:54 | 0 km | 190 km |
| 6.1 | 30.06.2026 19:45 | 10 km | 140 km |
| 3.5 | 06.06.2026 19:25 | 16 km | 272 km |
| 4.0 | 02.06.2026 22:36 | 0 km | 262 km |
| 4.1 | 02.06.2026 13:12 | 10 km | 176 km |
| 4.1 | 27.05.2026 09:34 | 16.1 km | 184 km |
| 3.7 | 21.05.2026 10:57 | 10 km | 183 km |
| 3.9 | 16.05.2026 08:07 | 13.4 km | 277 km |
| 4.1 | 16.05.2026 05:50 | 18 km | 162 km |
| 4.0 | 27.03.2026 19:02 | 2.7 km | 183 km |
| 4.0 | 25.03.2026 10:06 | 16.2 km | 232 km |
| 4.0 | 23.03.2026 16:59 | 0 km | 252 km |
| 4.1 | 13.03.2026 22:39 | 5 km | 244 km |
| 3.6 | 11.03.2026 03:28 | 10 km | 211 km |
| 4.1 | 11.02.2026 10:41 | 10 km | 181 km |
| 4.0 | 11.02.2026 10:36 | 10 km | 185 km |
| 4.1 | 11.02.2026 10:30 | 6.4 km | 179 km |
| 4.1 | 11.02.2026 04:44 | 3.9 km | 181 km |
| 3.6 | 04.02.2026 10:51 | 10 km | 176 km |
| 4.4 | 14.01.2026 07:40 | 2 km | 175 km |
| 4.4 | 14.01.2026 06:50 | 10.8 km | 167 km |
| 3.9 | 01.01.2026 08:54 | 10 km | 207 km |
| 3.7 | 01.01.2026 08:52 | 10 km | 181 km |
| 3.4 | 01.01.2026 08:51 | 10 km | 190 km |
| 4.0 | 01.01.2026 08:05 | 15.8 km | 172 km |
| 4.2 | 01.01.2026 07:13 | 0 km | 222 km |
| 3.9 | 31.12.2025 21:20 | 15.3 km | 200 km |
| 3.8 | 25.12.2025 22:08 | 3 km | 213 km |
| 4.1 | 15.12.2025 16:16 | 10 km | 225 km |
| 4.3 | 12.11.2025 20:05 | 10 km | 270 km |
| 3.9 | 08.11.2025 20:13 | 16.1 km | 220 km |
| 4.1 | 08.11.2025 18:34 | 10 km | 189 km |
| 4.1 | 02.11.2025 00:41 | 10 km | 217 km |
| 3.8 | 29.10.2025 09:04 | 10 km | 259 km |
| 3.5 | 05.10.2025 17:49 | 0 km | 212 km |
| 4.2 | 27.09.2025 16:30 | 0 km | 243 km |
| 4.1 | 15.09.2025 20:29 | 10 km | 265 km |
| 4.4 | 14.09.2025 11:44 | 10 km | 207 km |
| 4.7 | 01.09.2025 21:38 | 10 km | 305 km |
| 3.9 | 10.08.2025 09:05 | 10 km | 261 km |
| 3.8 | 31.07.2025 09:22 | 5 km | 253 km |
| 3.9 | 27.07.2025 09:44 | 5 km | 245 km |
| 4.1 | 26.07.2025 00:29 | 5 km | 253 km |
| 3.5 | 24.07.2025 03:12 | 10 km | 13 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.