5.1
376
recorded earthquakes
M8.1
largest
1912–2026
record span
5.06
mean magnitude
4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.1 | 04.03.2021 19:28 | 20.1 km | 81 km |
| 7.9 | 14.01.1976 16:47 | 42.9 km | 55 km |
| 7.8 | 14.09.1959 14:09 | 35 km | 82 km |
| 7.8 | 14.01.1976 15:56 | 22.1 km | 59 km |
| 7.4 | 04.03.2021 17:41 | 40.2 km | 49 km |
| 7.4 | 26.03.1963 09:48 | 10 km | 85 km |
| 7.3 | 16.11.1917 03:19 | 35 km | 48 km |
| 7.3 | 02.08.1941 11:41 | 35 km | 55 km |
| 7.2 | 01.01.1976 01:29 | 47.7 km | 60 km |
| 7.2 | 17.04.1919 11:22 | 35 km | 131 km |
| 7.2 | 24.04.2023 00:41 | 49.6 km | 81 km |
| 7.1 | 03.06.2001 02:41 | 181.5 km | 83 km |
| 7.1 | 03.07.1995 19:50 | 41.3 km | 25 km |
| 7.1 | 26.09.1968 18:02 | 20.1 km | 153 km |
| 7.0 | 26.12.1981 17:05 | 24.8 km | 66 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.1 | 25.07.2026 21:39 | 41.1 km | 55 km |
| 5.0 | 22.07.2026 21:03 | 46.9 km | 40 km |
| 6.1 | 04.02.2026 10:39 | 170 km | 72 km |
| 3.4 | 12.11.2025 23:34 | 0 km | 16 km |
| 4.0 | 06.08.2025 16:57 | 0 km | 10 km |
| 4.2 | 05.07.2025 17:26 | 256.6 km | 28 km |
| 4.2 | 29.05.2025 10:39 | 500 km | 25 km |
| 4.5 | 08.03.2025 05:53 | 343 km | 28 km |
| 6.2 | 31.05.2024 15:54 | 14.1 km | 105 km |
| 5.8 | 17.05.2024 20:58 | 202.1 km | 46 km |
| 4.5 | 13.11.2023 15:27 | 333.1 km | 23 km |
| 6.1 | 23.10.2023 10:10 | 18 km | 105 km |
| 5.1 | 20.09.2023 02:38 | 49.9 km | 61 km |
| 5.1 | 02.07.2023 19:32 | 53.3 km | 45 km |
| 5.4 | 24.04.2023 01:05 | 41.9 km | 62 km |
| 7.2 | 24.04.2023 00:41 | 49.6 km | 81 km |
| 4.0 | 20.04.2023 08:47 | 63 km | 17 km |
| 6.9 | 04.03.2023 06:41 | 212.6 km | 99 km |
| 6.2 | 13.02.2023 09:18 | 354.4 km | 102 km |
| 4.0 | 19.01.2023 08:25 | 150 km | 16 km |
| 4.0 | 19.07.2022 17:50 | 50 km | 24 km |
| 4.2 | 11.05.2022 15:31 | 0 km | 4 km |
| 4.3 | 16.04.2022 01:13 | 0 km | 17 km |
| 6.0 | 20.03.2022 18:10 | 45.9 km | 61 km |
| 4.4 | 02.03.2022 13:05 | 35 km | 16 km |
| 6.6 | 02.03.2022 12:52 | 31.7 km | 104 km |
| 4.0 | 15.12.2021 10:49 | 0 km | 21 km |
| 4.1 | 30.10.2021 19:02 | 0 km | 4 km |
| 4.0 | 13.09.2021 23:24 | 0 km | 5 km |
| 6.4 | 31.08.2021 02:52 | 14.8 km | 101 km |
| 4.3 | 30.08.2021 21:07 | 50 km | 27 km |
| 5.5 | 25.08.2021 05:58 | 35.7 km | 57 km |
| 4.1 | 09.08.2021 04:39 | 63 km | 21 km |
| 4.0 | 08.08.2021 11:45 | 35 km | 14 km |
| 4.5 | 07.08.2021 01:06 | 35 km | 8 km |
| 4.2 | 02.08.2021 01:39 | 63 km | 14 km |
| 4.2 | 01.08.2021 12:14 | 63 km | 16 km |
| 4.1 | 07.07.2021 16:36 | 63 km | 16 km |
| 4.3 | 23.06.2021 01:59 | 63 km | 21 km |
| 4.2 | 22.06.2021 15:03 | 63 km | 13 km |
| 4.2 | 22.06.2021 14:34 | 0 km | 35 km |
| 4.1 | 21.06.2021 02:05 | 63 km | 7 km |
| 4.0 | 21.06.2021 01:31 | 63 km | 13 km |
| 4.2 | 20.06.2021 21:35 | 35 km | 16 km |
| 4.2 | 20.06.2021 18:43 | 63 km | 2 km |
| 4.4 | 14.06.2021 03:31 | 35 km | 19 km |
| 4.1 | 08.06.2021 17:46 | 57 km | 35 km |
| 4.2 | 07.06.2021 20:15 | 63 km | 11 km |
| 4.2 | 13.05.2021 08:51 | 100 km | 34 km |
| 4.0 | 12.05.2021 11:40 | 494.4 km | 18 km |
| 5.3 | 26.04.2021 13:42 | 63.6 km | 42 km |
| 4.0 | 26.04.2021 06:53 | 63 km | 33 km |
| 4.3 | 14.04.2021 19:33 | 63 km | 34 km |
| 6.4 | 01.04.2021 09:56 | 19.6 km | 89 km |
| 5.9 | 13.03.2021 14:05 | 39.2 km | 62 km |
| 4.8 | 08.03.2021 17:04 | 65 km | 13 km |
| 5.0 | 08.03.2021 17:04 | 54.1 km | 41 km |
| 4.1 | 07.03.2021 08:43 | 10 km | 25 km |
| 4.2 | 07.03.2021 03:06 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 6.2 | 06.03.2021 12:05 | 19.4 km | 101 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.