3.5
227
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1916–2026
record span
4.27
mean magnitude
104
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.2 | 28.08.1916 06:39 | 20 km | 171 km |
| 6.8 | 27.05.1936 06:19 | 15 km | 150 km |
| 6.5 | 29.07.1980 14:58 | 17.5 km | 141 km |
| 6.5 | 27.06.1966 10:59 | 23.8 km | 160 km |
| 6.2 | 29.11.1918 10:41 | 15 km | 13 km |
| 6.0 | 27.06.1966 10:41 | 27.9 km | 144 km |
| 5.9 | 24.12.1916 07:53 | 15 km | 159 km |
| 5.9 | 03.11.2023 18:02 | 14.5 km | 53 km |
| 5.8 | 14.10.1916 19:47 | 15 km | 156 km |
| 5.8 | 19.09.1945 10:41 | 25 km | 154 km |
| 5.7 | 27.07.1926 07:23 | 15 km | 155 km |
| 5.7 | 03.10.2023 09:21 | 17.2 km | 120 km |
| 5.7 | 16.12.1966 20:52 | 15.8 km | 149 km |
| 5.7 | 30.04.1937 20:03 | 15 km | 140 km |
| 5.7 | 08.11.2022 20:27 | 14.4 km | 111 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.5 | 03.08.2026 15:08 | 25 km | 57 km |
| 4.0 | 02.08.2026 21:22 | 30 km | 65 km |
| 4.0 | 21.07.2026 22:55 | 10 km | 93 km |
| 3.8 | 16.07.2026 18:23 | 258.9 km | 54 km |
| 3.8 | 24.06.2026 23:51 | 25 km | 33 km |
| 4.3 | 26.11.2025 06:23 | 134.6 km | 87 km |
| 3.3 | 22.10.2025 17:02 | 10 km | 71 km |
| 4.0 | 30.06.2025 02:54 | 14 km | 84 km |
| 3.9 | 26.05.2025 08:40 | 10 km | 66 km |
| 4.2 | 14.04.2025 23:08 | 18 km | 60 km |
| 3.6 | 14.04.2025 15:46 | 20 km | 63 km |
| 4.9 | 04.04.2025 14:25 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 4.8 | 04.04.2025 14:22 | 10 km | 61 km |
| 3.9 | 18.03.2025 00:48 | 10 km | 85 km |
| 3.6 | 12.02.2025 09:53 | 0 km | 93 km |
| 4.2 | 04.02.2025 11:35 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 4.1 | 31.12.2024 02:08 | 10 km | 125 km |
| 3.7 | 26.12.2024 00:48 | 120 km | 78 km |
| 5.0 | 20.12.2024 22:29 | 10 km | 113 km |
| 4.0 | 18.12.2024 09:17 | 0 km | 92 km |
| 3.5 | 21.11.2024 04:28 | 0 km | 100 km |
| 3.6 | 07.07.2024 20:18 | 20 km | 46 km |
| 4.1 | 04.06.2024 04:49 | 30 km | 81 km |
| 3.3 | 14.04.2024 22:05 | 10 km | 91 km |
| 3.4 | 12.04.2024 09:30 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 3.4 | 11.04.2024 22:08 | 10 km | 95 km |
| 2.9 | 22.01.2024 10:55 | 10 km | 79 km |
| 2.9 | 10.01.2024 19:24 | 5 km | 15 km |
| 2.7 | 11.12.2023 21:14 | 10 km | 76 km |
| 3.4 | 11.12.2023 16:34 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 2.6 | 06.12.2023 20:29 | 7 km | 78 km |
| 4.2 | 19.11.2023 11:02 | 10 km | 107 km |
| 4.1 | 19.11.2023 09:14 | 25 km | 101 km |
| 3.6 | 14.11.2023 15:30 | 5 km | 15 km |
| 3.9 | 08.11.2023 21:21 | 31 km | 41 km |
| 3.2 | 08.11.2023 20:35 | 5 km | 87 km |
| 4.0 | 06.11.2023 10:56 | 5 km | 31 km |
| 5.1 | 06.11.2023 10:46 | 11 km | 53 km |
| 2.9 | 05.11.2023 15:18 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 3.6 | 05.11.2023 08:39 | 10 km | 56 km |
| 3.8 | 04.11.2023 19:37 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 3.9 | 04.11.2023 09:55 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 3.3 | 04.11.2023 09:46 | 10 km | 12 km |
| 3.0 | 04.11.2023 04:55 | 10 km | 14 km |
| 3.3 | 03.11.2023 22:31 | 7.5 km | 64 km |
| 3.8 | 03.11.2023 18:50 | 6 km | 47 km |
| 4.1 | 03.11.2023 18:44 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 3.7 | 03.11.2023 18:25 | 9 km | 30 km |
| 4.3 | 03.11.2023 18:23 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 4.0 | 03.11.2023 18:13 | 10 km | 71 km |
| 5.9 | 03.11.2023 18:02 | 14.5 km | 53 km |
| 4.1 | 21.10.2023 13:10 | 10 km | 109 km |
| 3.2 | 20.10.2023 23:29 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 4.0 | 05.10.2023 17:06 | 10 km | 114 km |
| 4.1 | 03.10.2023 09:33 | 9.5 km | 117 km |
| 4.7 | 03.10.2023 09:28 | 6.1 km | 104 km |
| 5.7 | 03.10.2023 09:21 | 17.2 km | 120 km |
| 4.2 | 13.07.2023 05:32 | 20 km | 113 km |
| 5.1 | 27.04.2023 19:45 | 10 km | 116 km |
| 2.8 | 10.04.2023 00:51 | 10 km | 94 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.