2.0
10,975
recorded earthquakes
M6.4
largest
1923–2026
record span
2.46
mean magnitude
4,458
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.4 | 25.01.2016 04:22 | 11.2 km | 257 km |
| 6.3 | 24.02.2004 02:27 | 13.1 km | 233 km |
| 5.9 | 26.05.1994 08:26 | 15.1 km | 236 km |
| 5.6 | 09.07.1923 15:31 | 35 km | 253 km |
| 5.6 | 22.12.1999 17:36 | 11.2 km | 215 km |
| 5.6 | 30.10.1992 10:43 | 14.6 km | 297 km |
| 5.5 | 23.10.1992 09:11 | 24.5 km | 306 km |
| 5.5 | 24.02.2004 02:31 | 17.4 km | 217 km |
| 5.5 | 20.05.2022 12:35 | 10.4 km | 236 km |
| 5.4 | 24.02.2004 04:40 | 9.1 km | 222 km |
| 5.4 | 25.01.2016 05:54 | 11.5 km | 247 km |
| 5.4 | 25.01.2016 06:10 | 10.3 km | 247 km |
| 5.3 | 15.10.1926 06:47 | 15 km | 225 km |
| 5.3 | 28.08.2021 11:20 | 14 km | 233 km |
| 5.3 | 30.08.1959 03:24 | 15 km | 229 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.0 | 31.07.2026 16:56 | 0 km | 248 km |
| 1.8 | 20.07.2026 23:44 | 20 km | 236 km |
| 2.5 | 14.07.2026 15:19 | 28.4 km | 217 km |
| 1.9 | 14.07.2026 03:24 | 26.9 km | 228 km |
| 1.8 | 13.07.2026 18:41 | 15.9 km | 230 km |
| 2.2 | 12.07.2026 13:14 | 0 km | 245 km |
| 1.8 | 06.07.2026 03:30 | 20 km | 230 km |
| 1.9 | 30.06.2026 01:18 | 35.1 km | 227 km |
| 1.9 | 28.06.2026 02:22 | 2.5 km | 240 km |
| 2.0 | 16.06.2026 07:54 | 16.5 km | 230 km |
| 2.6 | 14.06.2026 19:32 | 26.5 km | 245 km |
| 2.6 | 12.06.2026 17:13 | 15 km | 237 km |
| 2.3 | 11.06.2026 19:54 | 25.4 km | 239 km |
| 2.0 | 07.06.2026 13:49 | 0 km | 241 km |
| 2.8 | 04.06.2026 19:51 | 13.9 km | 119 km |
| 3.0 | 30.05.2026 17:07 | 23 km | 223 km |
| 2.4 | 29.05.2026 05:35 | 3.9 km | 234 km |
| 2.3 | 28.05.2026 00:16 | 25.6 km | 224 km |
| 3.4 | 27.05.2026 22:26 | 10 km | 226 km |
| 2.0 | 27.05.2026 20:43 | 6 km | 172 km |
| 2.0 | 17.05.2026 18:10 | 30 km | 229 km |
| 2.4 | 16.05.2026 05:18 | 1.6 km | 232 km |
| 2.0 | 16.05.2026 04:09 | 8.4 km | 241 km |
| 2.2 | 11.05.2026 21:29 | 17.5 km | 247 km |
| 2.2 | 05.05.2026 13:26 | 25.4 km | 226 km |
| 2.0 | 02.05.2026 20:05 | 0 km | 246 km |
| 2.1 | 01.05.2026 15:35 | 18 km | 227 km |
| 2.1 | 25.04.2026 21:07 | 7.5 km | 240 km |
| 2.2 | 25.04.2026 02:36 | 18.4 km | 238 km |
| 1.9 | 18.04.2026 10:36 | 32.3 km | 227 km |
| 1.9 | 17.04.2026 20:49 | 6.1 km | 241 km |
| 2.3 | 09.04.2026 09:26 | 34.8 km | 220 km |
| 1.9 | 31.03.2026 13:19 | 16.7 km | 245 km |
| 2.1 | 29.03.2026 01:22 | 23.1 km | 236 km |
| 2.2 | 28.03.2026 18:22 | 30 km | 242 km |
| 2.6 | 24.03.2026 22:29 | 14.4 km | 229 km |
| 2.1 | 16.03.2026 16:14 | 8.3 km | 242 km |
| 2.0 | 12.03.2026 02:24 | 39.7 km | 232 km |
| 2.4 | 09.03.2026 15:22 | 3.9 km | 230 km |
| 2.4 | 04.03.2026 07:15 | 10 km | 263 km |
| 2.0 | 01.03.2026 10:53 | 11.3 km | 238 km |
| 2.0 | 28.02.2026 02:09 | 30 km | 237 km |
| 3.0 | 25.02.2026 11:13 | 12 km | 223 km |
| 2.2 | 24.02.2026 17:09 | 27.9 km | 233 km |
| 1.6 | 21.02.2026 02:10 | 14.5 km | 231 km |
| 2.4 | 20.02.2026 03:05 | 0 km | 191 km |
| 2.3 | 15.02.2026 14:16 | 19.7 km | 235 km |
| 2.0 | 11.02.2026 20:32 | 10.5 km | 241 km |
| 2.6 | 11.02.2026 20:08 | 16.5 km | 238 km |
| 2.8 | 11.02.2026 19:32 | 19.6 km | 236 km |
| 3.2 | 07.02.2026 00:16 | 2 km | 196 km |
| 4.1 | 06.02.2026 19:11 | 0 km | 166 km |
| 2.5 | 06.02.2026 13:41 | 14.8 km | 229 km |
| 2.3 | 03.02.2026 04:44 | 0 km | 239 km |
| 2.4 | 27.01.2026 18:32 | 0 km | 243 km |
| 1.9 | 18.01.2026 05:05 | 0 km | 240 km |
| 1.8 | 18.01.2026 03:35 | 16.3 km | 242 km |
| 2.0 | 14.01.2026 21:17 | 20.5 km | 232 km |
| 1.7 | 11.01.2026 21:11 | 5.9 km | 240 km |
| 2.1 | 07.01.2026 15:31 | 17.4 km | 233 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.