4.7
833
recorded earthquakes
M6.1
largest
1930–2026
record span
3.16
mean magnitude
725
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.1 | 05.05.2015 02:03 | 14 km | 129 km |
| 5.6 | 09.08.1930 18:09 | 35 km | 195 km |
| 5.6 | 30.10.1992 10:43 | 14.6 km | 105 km |
| 5.5 | 23.10.1992 09:11 | 24.5 km | 112 km |
| 5.2 | 31.05.1934 13:22 | 15 km | 100 km |
| 5.2 | 28.01.1986 20:01 | 15.7 km | 66 km |
| 5.1 | 17.11.2019 08:39 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 4.8 | 19.01.2026 20:59 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 4.8 | 28.08.1967 21:15 | 15 km | 161 km |
| 4.8 | 19.04.2016 05:38 | 0 km | 173 km |
| 4.7 | 28.06.2001 15:21 | 27 km | 278 km |
| 4.7 | 03.08.2026 20:14 | 10 km | 32 km |
| 4.7 | 05.03.1963 01:58 | — | 257 km |
| 4.6 | 11.08.2007 20:46 | 11.1 km | 111 km |
| 4.6 | 17.01.1979 17:43 | 16.2 km | 135 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.7 | 03.08.2026 20:14 | 10 km | 32 km |
| 2.7 | 07.07.2026 21:28 | 10 km | 174 km |
| 2.8 | 04.06.2026 19:51 | 13.9 km | 247 km |
| 3.3 | 09.05.2026 17:33 | 3.8 km | 221 km |
| 3.7 | 23.04.2026 17:38 | 0.6 km | 195 km |
| 4.0 | 28.03.2026 06:01 | 0 km | 115 km |
| 4.0 | 17.03.2026 22:21 | 0 km | 27 km |
| 3.0 | 25.02.2026 11:10 | 17 km | 137 km |
| 4.1 | 06.02.2026 19:11 | 0 km | 185 km |
| 4.8 | 19.01.2026 20:59 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 3.0 | 28.12.2025 04:26 | 0 km | 138 km |
| 3.9 | 24.12.2025 22:43 | 15.4 km | 213 km |
| 4.2 | 22.12.2025 01:49 | 0.4 km | 117 km |
| 2.5 | 28.10.2025 03:54 | 6.6 km | 222 km |
| 2.5 | 02.08.2025 09:01 | 4 km | 92 km |
| 2.6 | 29.07.2025 19:50 | 26 km | 207 km |
| 3.8 | 23.05.2025 11:16 | 10 km | 193 km |
| 3.4 | 01.05.2025 10:00 | 10 km | 195 km |
| 2.5 | 01.03.2025 14:07 | 15.8 km | 228 km |
| 2.4 | 13.01.2025 08:37 | 26.4 km | 253 km |
| 2.6 | 08.01.2025 12:54 | 27.9 km | 245 km |
| 3.0 | 02.01.2025 11:52 | 10 km | 135 km |
| 2.7 | 02.01.2025 11:26 | 10 km | 135 km |
| 2.8 | 01.01.2025 08:05 | 10 km | 204 km |
| 2.8 | 28.12.2024 18:49 | 5 km | 195 km |
| 3.5 | 15.10.2024 09:01 | 17.3 km | 105 km |
| 3.8 | 12.10.2024 17:36 | 126 km | 153 km |
| 2.7 | 24.06.2024 00:29 | 15 km | 161 km |
| 2.9 | 21.05.2024 15:14 | 12.5 km | 218 km |
| 3.8 | 19.04.2024 06:30 | 18 km | 222 km |
| 2.4 | 16.03.2024 22:33 | 10 km | 73 km |
| 2.8 | 29.02.2024 07:48 | 10.7 km | 254 km |
| 2.8 | 09.02.2024 11:01 | 15 km | 208 km |
| 3.1 | 31.01.2024 01:15 | 10 km | 99 km |
| 2.6 | 28.01.2024 04:48 | 10 km | 243 km |
| 4.3 | 02.01.2024 07:37 | 8.5 km | 172 km |
| 3.3 | 27.12.2023 20:16 | 10 km | 194 km |
| 2.9 | 31.10.2023 21:40 | 10 km | 182 km |
| 2.7 | 10.10.2023 23:10 | 10 km | 94 km |
| 1.9 | 20.09.2023 15:27 | 12 km | 92 km |
| 1.5 | 20.09.2023 12:49 | 10 km | 231 km |
| 1.5 | 20.09.2023 03:53 | 49 km | 225 km |
| 1.8 | 19.09.2023 12:22 | 9 km | 99 km |
| 2.2 | 18.09.2023 23:45 | 11 km | 205 km |
| 1.6 | 14.09.2023 11:39 | 7 km | 154 km |
| 1.5 | 13.09.2023 05:01 | 5 km | 43 km |
| 2.2 | 13.09.2023 04:05 | 2 km | 51 km |
| 1.8 | 13.09.2023 02:48 | 3 km | 44 km |
| 1.5 | 12.09.2023 11:43 | 5 km | 151 km |
| 1.5 | 11.09.2023 08:07 | 32 km | 137 km |
| 1.5 | 11.09.2023 06:18 | 9 km | 157 km |
| 1.7 | 10.09.2023 12:48 | 10 km | 196 km |
| 2.0 | 09.09.2023 22:39 | 4 km | 167 km |
| 3.2 | 07.08.2023 08:43 | 5 km | 112 km |
| 3.0 | 18.06.2023 07:50 | 5 km | 213 km |
| 2.8 | 14.05.2023 01:50 | 10 km | 160 km |
| 3.0 | 14.04.2023 00:23 | 10 km | 157 km |
| 3.7 | 05.03.2023 19:45 | 30 km | 153 km |
| 3.6 | 23.12.2022 08:58 | 36 km | 134 km |
| 3.5 | 15.11.2022 15:15 | 0 km | 213 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.