3.8
253
recorded earthquakes
M8.3
largest
1905–2026
record span
4.00
mean magnitude
204
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.3 | 23.07.1905 02:46 | 15 km | 291 km |
| 7.2 | 18.08.1931 14:21 | 10 km | 340 km |
| 7.2 | 19.10.1938 04:13 | 10 km | 233 km |
| 7.0 | 11.07.1905 08:38 | 20 km | 322 km |
| 6.7 | 25.08.1922 19:29 | 10 km | 151 km |
| 6.6 | 17.12.1938 16:35 | 10 km | 216 km |
| 6.3 | 15.05.1970 17:13 | 9.1 km | 138 km |
| 6.2 | 14.09.1923 12:57 | 35 km | 291 km |
| 6.2 | 23.07.1905 20:35 | 10 km | 245 km |
| 5.9 | 23.07.1988 07:38 | 15.2 km | 195 km |
| 5.6 | 20.09.1938 22:04 | 15 km | 130 km |
| 5.6 | 30.01.1935 00:35 | 35 km | 156 km |
| 5.6 | 09.07.1932 11:11 | 35 km | 71 km |
| 5.5 | 29.07.2022 13:01 | 12.8 km | 186 km |
| 5.4 | 06.09.1953 01:32 | 15 km | 222 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.8 | 20.07.2026 15:51 | 10 km | 153 km |
| 3.7 | 31.05.2026 11:03 | 0 km | 211 km |
| 4.0 | 15.05.2026 08:55 | 10 km | 114 km |
| 3.5 | 03.05.2026 23:30 | 36.1 km | 69 km |
| 3.5 | 13.03.2026 10:14 | 0 km | 86 km |
| 3.6 | 22.02.2026 01:13 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 3.9 | 28.01.2026 10:05 | 10 km | 186 km |
| 3.7 | 05.01.2026 15:58 | 10 km | 78 km |
| 4.4 | 19.11.2025 08:33 | 10 km | 127 km |
| 4.5 | 12.11.2025 08:00 | 10 km | 158 km |
| 3.9 | 23.10.2025 07:13 | 5 km | 163 km |
| 4.3 | 25.09.2025 01:56 | 10 km | 191 km |
| 3.6 | 28.08.2025 03:00 | 0 km | 21 km |
| 4.5 | 28.08.2025 02:22 | 10 km | 28 km |
| 3.5 | 31.05.2025 14:51 | 10 km | 194 km |
| 3.1 | 24.05.2025 22:41 | 10 km | 220 km |
| 4.0 | 27.01.2025 05:42 | 10 km | 207 km |
| 3.6 | 20.12.2024 19:57 | 10 km | 207 km |
| 3.9 | 29.10.2024 19:21 | 10 km | 152 km |
| 4.0 | 21.10.2024 02:15 | 10 km | 94 km |
| 3.8 | 17.08.2024 08:01 | 10 km | 124 km |
| 3.7 | 02.08.2024 07:17 | 0 km | 193 km |
| 4.2 | 27.12.2023 23:19 | 10 km | 119 km |
| 4.0 | 19.12.2023 01:59 | 10 km | 171 km |
| 4.5 | 05.08.2023 07:22 | 7.2 km | 137 km |
| 3.9 | 01.05.2023 04:46 | 10 km | 177 km |
| 3.3 | 27.12.2022 05:36 | 1.1 km | 170 km |
| 4.1 | 21.12.2022 00:48 | 10 km | 108 km |
| 3.6 | 19.12.2022 22:24 | 6.9 km | 165 km |
| 4.0 | 12.12.2022 11:56 | 2.6 km | 170 km |
| 3.5 | 14.10.2022 19:33 | 7.8 km | 210 km |
| 4.3 | 24.09.2022 02:13 | 2 km | 217 km |
| 4.3 | 29.08.2022 16:23 | 10 km | 182 km |
| 3.8 | 29.08.2022 10:20 | 12.5 km | 179 km |
| 4.1 | 16.08.2022 14:05 | 10 km | 190 km |
| 3.2 | 05.08.2022 07:34 | 3.3 km | 170 km |
| 4.1 | 31.07.2022 09:07 | 10 km | 173 km |
| 4.4 | 29.07.2022 18:02 | 10 km | 193 km |
| 3.9 | 29.07.2022 13:30 | 10 km | 193 km |
| 4.2 | 29.07.2022 13:15 | 10 km | 181 km |
| 5.5 | 29.07.2022 13:01 | 12.8 km | 186 km |
| 3.6 | 08.03.2022 05:44 | 4.5 km | 179 km |
| 3.4 | 08.03.2022 01:48 | 4.7 km | 181 km |
| 4.2 | 02.12.2021 23:30 | 10 km | 220 km |
| 5.0 | 22.10.2021 23:03 | 14.2 km | 217 km |
| 3.0 | 18.10.2021 04:37 | 17.1 km | 159 km |
| 4.4 | 18.10.2021 04:37 | 10 km | 157 km |
| 4.3 | 27.12.2020 21:21 | 10 km | 119 km |
| 4.4 | 27.12.2020 21:21 | 10 km | 15 km |
| 4.1 | 11.05.2020 16:25 | 10 km | 192 km |
| 4.3 | 12.11.2019 14:34 | 10 km | 157 km |
| 4.5 | 25.09.2019 20:41 | 11.5 km | 234 km |
| 4.3 | 30.04.2019 23:57 | 8.6 km | 159 km |
| 3.8 | 30.04.2019 23:46 | 9 km | 164 km |
| 4.1 | 20.02.2018 20:02 | 2 km | 221 km |
| 4.0 | 15.02.2018 11:52 | 10 km | 239 km |
| 3.4 | 08.01.2018 20:11 | 9.1 km | 198 km |
| 4.1 | 06.08.2017 05:27 | 10 km | 160 km |
| 4.2 | 03.06.2017 16:10 | 20 km | 180 km |
| 4.0 | 09.10.2016 10:59 | 10 km | 144 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.