3.1
267
recorded earthquakes
M8.0
largest
1934–2026
record span
4.03
mean magnitude
85
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.0 | 15.01.1934 08:43 | 15 km | 78 km |
| 7.2 | 12.05.2015 07:05 | 12.3 km | 139 km |
| 7.1 | 07.01.2025 01:05 | 10 km | 162 km |
| 6.9 | 18.09.2011 12:40 | 29.6 km | 110 km |
| 6.8 | 20.08.1988 23:09 | 58.1 km | 84 km |
| 6.7 | 26.04.2015 07:09 | 13.4 km | 148 km |
| 6.1 | 12.05.2015 07:36 | 13.8 km | 124 km |
| 6.0 | 03.09.1998 18:15 | 8.6 km | 83 km |
| 6.0 | 13.01.2025 12:58 | 0 km | 151 km |
| 5.9 | 12.01.1965 13:32 | 22.8 km | 56 km |
| 5.8 | 25.04.2015 09:17 | 9.3 km | 134 km |
| 5.6 | 09.01.1990 02:29 | 61.8 km | 137 km |
| 5.6 | 11.02.1936 04:48 | 50 km | 51 km |
| 5.5 | 29.01.1938 04:13 | 35 km | 51 km |
| 5.3 | 22.05.2016 01:48 | 16 km | 138 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 04.08.2026 03:10 | 5 km | 85 km |
| 3.4 | 30.07.2026 19:48 | 15 km | 20 km |
| 3.1 | 28.07.2026 23:19 | 15 km | 89 km |
| 3.0 | 11.07.2026 20:12 | 10 km | 104 km |
| 3.4 | 10.07.2026 01:41 | 30 km | 82 km |
| 3.3 | 06.07.2026 13:41 | 21 km | 98 km |
| 3.5 | 29.06.2026 17:47 | 10 km | 95 km |
| 3.3 | 11.06.2026 19:46 | 10 km | 70 km |
| 2.7 | 30.05.2026 16:29 | 10 km | 108 km |
| 3.2 | 20.05.2026 07:33 | 10 km | 34 km |
| 2.8 | 18.05.2026 19:25 | 15 km | 46 km |
| 3.0 | 11.05.2026 20:29 | 5 km | 50 km |
| 2.7 | 03.05.2026 06:27 | 10 km | 105 km |
| 2.8 | 18.04.2026 17:10 | 60 km | 113 km |
| 2.6 | 09.04.2026 22:23 | 10 km | 35 km |
| 2.8 | 09.04.2026 16:51 | 10 km | 37 km |
| 2.8 | 16.03.2026 03:10 | 10 km | 98 km |
| 3.4 | 09.03.2026 04:46 | 10 km | 84 km |
| 2.9 | 07.03.2026 09:58 | 10 km | 102 km |
| 2.7 | 02.03.2026 13:05 | 10 km | 98 km |
| 2.5 | 28.02.2026 17:01 | 10 km | 108 km |
| 3.1 | 28.02.2026 08:37 | 5 km | 87 km |
| 2.8 | 26.02.2026 04:09 | 60 km | 76 km |
| 3.8 | 22.02.2026 01:46 | 5 km | 82 km |
| 2.7 | 10.02.2026 16:05 | 28 km | 108 km |
| 4.2 | 09.02.2026 12:00 | 15 km | 67 km |
| 4.1 | 14.01.2026 06:57 | 0 km | 100 km |
| 3.7 | 25.12.2025 06:34 | 10 km | 86 km |
| 2.9 | 20.12.2025 08:40 | 5 km | 71 km |
| 3.0 | 13.12.2025 04:01 | 10 km | 100 km |
| 3.4 | 09.12.2025 01:11 | 110 km | 112 km |
| 3.0 | 29.11.2025 21:43 | 10 km | 109 km |
| 4.4 | 30.10.2025 23:46 | 10 km | 118 km |
| 3.9 | 28.10.2025 01:47 | 10 km | 73 km |
| 4.0 | 17.09.2025 04:19 | 117.7 km | 96 km |
| 3.1 | 12.09.2025 23:27 | 10 km | 87 km |
| 3.0 | 10.09.2025 10:12 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 3.0 | 27.08.2025 07:31 | 10 km | 23 km |
| 4.1 | 22.08.2025 17:30 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 3.7 | 19.08.2025 07:32 | 10 km | 107 km |
| 3.0 | 29.07.2025 04:37 | 10 km | 83 km |
| 3.8 | 06.07.2025 02:51 | 10 km | 75 km |
| 3.8 | 14.05.2025 12:26 | 10 km | 81 km |
| 4.2 | 15.04.2025 22:20 | 68.9 km | 105 km |
| 3.2 | 06.04.2025 16:12 | 10 km | 101 km |
| 3.1 | 31.03.2025 11:54 | 5 km | 85 km |
| 3.9 | 31.03.2025 08:57 | 10 km | 111 km |
| 3.0 | 13.03.2025 22:38 | 10 km | 76 km |
| 4.3 | 12.03.2025 20:12 | 10 km | 110 km |
| 4.0 | 03.03.2025 09:54 | 10 km | 110 km |
| 4.1 | 25.02.2025 13:55 | 10 km | 118 km |
| 3.1 | 18.02.2025 06:13 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 3.1 | 15.02.2025 05:55 | 10 km | 90 km |
| 4.0 | 09.02.2025 19:31 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 3.6 | 09.02.2025 15:23 | 10 km | 101 km |
| 4.0 | 09.02.2025 11:26 | 10 km | 104 km |
| 3.3 | 01.02.2025 09:11 | 10 km | 83 km |
| 4.2 | 29.01.2025 18:17 | 2 km | 116 km |
| 3.2 | 29.01.2025 05:44 | 5 km | 86 km |
| 3.7 | 25.01.2025 03:52 | 10 km | 92 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.