4.0
538
recorded earthquakes
M7.9
largest
1913–2026
record span
4.20
mean magnitude
306
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.9 | 25.04.2015 06:11 | 13.4 km | 271 km |
| 7.2 | 28.08.1916 06:39 | 20 km | 167 km |
| 6.8 | 17.10.1944 18:36 | 20 km | 199 km |
| 6.8 | 27.05.1936 06:19 | 15 km | 154 km |
| 6.7 | 25.08.2008 13:22 | 23.9 km | 193 km |
| 6.5 | 29.07.1980 14:58 | 17.5 km | 137 km |
| 6.5 | 29.10.1944 00:11 | 20 km | 174 km |
| 6.5 | 14.04.1957 07:11 | 15 km | 211 km |
| 6.5 | 27.06.1966 10:59 | 23.8 km | 150 km |
| 6.4 | 06.03.1913 11:04 | 35 km | 71 km |
| 6.3 | 07.04.2005 20:04 | 11.9 km | 155 km |
| 6.2 | 28.10.1958 10:46 | 15 km | 226 km |
| 6.2 | 06.03.1913 02:09 | 35 km | 71 km |
| 6.2 | 29.11.1918 10:41 | 15 km | 126 km |
| 6.2 | 11.07.2004 23:08 | 10.7 km | 169 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 02.08.2026 21:22 | 30 km | 119 km |
| 4.0 | 21.07.2026 22:55 | 10 km | 61 km |
| 4.5 | 19.07.2026 10:45 | 10 km | 98 km |
| 3.8 | 24.06.2026 23:51 | 25 km | 104 km |
| 3.9 | 21.06.2026 08:47 | 30 km | 74 km |
| 4.4 | 05.06.2026 18:53 | 138.8 km | 50 km |
| 3.1 | 22.04.2026 15:08 | 10 km | 83 km |
| 3.8 | 31.03.2026 20:37 | 10 km | 80 km |
| 4.1 | 24.03.2026 04:55 | 10 km | 134 km |
| 2.9 | 18.03.2026 02:11 | 10 km | 103 km |
| 3.1 | 22.02.2026 18:28 | 10 km | 82 km |
| 2.5 | 02.02.2026 17:06 | 10 km | 129 km |
| 3.9 | 13.01.2026 18:20 | 10 km | 156 km |
| 4.2 | 09.12.2025 15:39 | 19.2 km | 163 km |
| 4.3 | 26.11.2025 06:23 | 134.6 km | 72 km |
| 3.3 | 22.10.2025 17:02 | 10 km | 148 km |
| 3.2 | 14.10.2025 19:23 | 10 km | 101 km |
| 4.6 | 14.10.2025 19:23 | 10 km | 101 km |
| 4.0 | 20.08.2025 17:52 | 10 km | 168 km |
| 4.2 | 05.08.2025 07:17 | 10 km | 125 km |
| 4.0 | 30.06.2025 02:54 | 14 km | 77 km |
| 4.2 | 29.06.2025 08:49 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 3.9 | 26.05.2025 08:40 | 10 km | 77 km |
| 3.9 | 26.04.2025 21:21 | 2 km | 27 km |
| 4.2 | 14.04.2025 23:08 | 18 km | 78 km |
| 3.6 | 14.04.2025 15:46 | 20 km | 74 km |
| 4.9 | 04.04.2025 14:25 | 10 km | 95 km |
| 4.8 | 04.04.2025 14:22 | 10 km | 77 km |
| 4.3 | 26.03.2025 13:59 | 10 km | 93 km |
| 3.9 | 18.03.2025 00:48 | 10 km | 112 km |
| 4.1 | 06.03.2025 16:41 | 10 km | 119 km |
| 4.0 | 26.02.2025 04:07 | 3 km | 120 km |
| 3.6 | 12.02.2025 09:53 | 0 km | 46 km |
| 4.2 | 04.02.2025 11:35 | 10 km | 119 km |
| 4.1 | 31.12.2024 02:08 | 10 km | 146 km |
| 3.7 | 26.12.2024 00:48 | 120 km | 74 km |
| 3.7 | 20.12.2024 22:29 | 32 km | 73 km |
| 5.0 | 20.12.2024 22:29 | 10 km | 83 km |
| 4.0 | 18.12.2024 09:17 | 0 km | 111 km |
| 4.4 | 17.12.2024 11:23 | 20.1 km | 108 km |
| 3.7 | 29.10.2024 04:25 | 0 km | 102 km |
| 3.0 | 04.10.2024 20:01 | 10 km | 99 km |
| 3.4 | 27.09.2024 17:51 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 4.4 | 14.09.2024 18:21 | 13.5 km | 51 km |
| 3.6 | 10.07.2024 13:38 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 3.8 | 09.07.2024 17:09 | 10 km | 78 km |
| 3.6 | 07.07.2024 20:18 | 20 km | 111 km |
| 4.1 | 04.06.2024 04:49 | 30 km | 136 km |
| 4.3 | 28.05.2024 01:13 | 26.2 km | 142 km |
| 2.8 | 22.04.2024 15:50 | 5 km | 73 km |
| 3.4 | 12.04.2024 09:30 | 10 km | 83 km |
| 3.4 | 11.04.2024 22:08 | 10 km | 138 km |
| 3.4 | 24.03.2024 22:19 | 10 km | 136 km |
| 3.8 | 11.03.2024 11:12 | 44 km | 110 km |
| 2.9 | 22.01.2024 10:55 | 10 km | 93 km |
| 5.0 | 12.01.2024 17:47 | 20.1 km | 133 km |
| 2.9 | 10.01.2024 19:24 | 5 km | 126 km |
| 2.9 | 23.12.2023 20:00 | 5 km | 66 km |
| 3.1 | 18.12.2023 01:07 | 5 km | 132 km |
| 2.7 | 11.12.2023 21:14 | 10 km | 135 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.