4.6
251
recorded earthquakes
M7.5
largest
1901–2026
record span
4.19
mean magnitude
76
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.5 | 05.10.1950 16:09 | 97.9 km | 185 km |
| 7.2 | 30.12.1907 05:26 | 0 km | 129 km |
| 7.2 | 24.04.1916 08:02 | 35 km | 128 km |
| 7.2 | 24.10.1956 14:42 | 35 km | 165 km |
| 7.1 | 08.10.1901 02:16 | — | 197 km |
| 7.1 | 15.10.1967 08:00 | 168.8 km | 90 km |
| 7.0 | 05.11.1926 07:55 | 15 km | 198 km |
| 6.8 | 03.04.1990 22:57 | 46.4 km | 175 km |
| 6.6 | 11.04.2014 20:29 | 142.3 km | 108 km |
| 6.6 | 02.07.2005 02:16 | 49.4 km | 167 km |
| 6.6 | 05.10.1925 04:09 | 135 km | 19 km |
| 6.6 | 06.05.1988 14:46 | 104.9 km | 118 km |
| 6.5 | 22.07.1919 22:01 | 150 km | 20 km |
| 6.3 | 16.02.1922 03:14 | 25 km | 172 km |
| 6.2 | 23.12.1972 06:29 | 10 km | 120 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.6 | 02.08.2026 16:09 | 136.5 km | 106 km |
| 3.8 | 18.07.2026 16:10 | 104 km | 28 km |
| 3.6 | 08.06.2026 18:02 | 68 km | 50 km |
| 2.6 | 17.05.2026 13:21 | 7 km | 36 km |
| 4.9 | 11.03.2026 16:37 | 203 km | 87 km |
| 5.0 | 19.02.2026 03:00 | 83.4 km | 129 km |
| 3.4 | 01.02.2026 06:36 | 14 km | 42 km |
| 4.2 | 21.12.2025 17:42 | 83.7 km | 108 km |
| 2.5 | 30.11.2025 10:33 | 2 km | 49 km |
| 4.7 | 22.11.2025 10:28 | 15 km | 84 km |
| 4.4 | 05.09.2025 21:48 | 195 km | 97 km |
| 3.7 | 17.08.2025 06:01 | 74 km | 75 km |
| 3.5 | 16.07.2025 20:48 | 300 km | 56 km |
| 2.5 | 12.07.2025 11:29 | 9 km | 70 km |
| 3.2 | 01.06.2025 04:06 | 164 km | 89 km |
| 4.0 | 10.04.2025 10:33 | 10 km | 85 km |
| 3.0 | 04.03.2025 01:38 | 30 km | 64 km |
| 4.4 | 10.02.2025 01:12 | 9.9 km | 90 km |
| 4.8 | 09.02.2025 23:56 | 11.5 km | 95 km |
| 2.7 | 07.01.2025 07:48 | 2 km | 59 km |
| 4.3 | 21.12.2024 20:18 | 219.2 km | 46 km |
| 2.9 | 28.10.2024 09:57 | 87 km | 89 km |
| 3.0 | 10.10.2024 06:37 | 38 km | 44 km |
| 4.0 | 15.09.2024 18:43 | 191.6 km | 89 km |
| 4.3 | 12.09.2024 21:07 | 163 km | 104 km |
| 3.1 | 08.06.2024 21:22 | 97 km | 70 km |
| 2.8 | 03.06.2024 10:38 | 5 km | 52 km |
| 5.5 | 17.04.2024 21:21 | 155.7 km | 121 km |
| 3.4 | 13.03.2024 18:40 | 5 km | 20 km |
| 2.6 | 11.03.2024 10:53 | 158 km | 65 km |
| 2.8 | 24.12.2023 03:43 | 10 km | 30 km |
| 2.6 | 07.10.2023 22:29 | 4 km | 26 km |
| 2.9 | 29.09.2023 07:46 | 5 km | 54 km |
| 3.6 | 29.09.2023 00:44 | 339 km | 78 km |
| 2.5 | 26.09.2023 10:21 | 150 km | 39 km |
| 4.0 | 25.09.2023 00:56 | 76.6 km | 79 km |
| 2.8 | 24.09.2023 10:08 | 148 km | 58 km |
| 2.9 | 23.09.2023 08:46 | 2 km | 43 km |
| 3.5 | 23.08.2023 07:30 | 3 km | 45 km |
| 3.3 | 24.06.2023 04:39 | 67 km | 66 km |
| 2.8 | 23.06.2023 03:42 | 5 km | 49 km |
| 2.5 | 22.06.2023 18:08 | 10 km | 82 km |
| 3.3 | 12.06.2023 04:30 | 101 km | 56 km |
| 3.0 | 31.05.2023 08:07 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 2.8 | 19.05.2023 04:03 | 199 km | 50 km |
| 3.1 | 08.04.2023 00:29 | 217 km | 75 km |
| 3.2 | 07.04.2023 11:46 | 5 km | 62 km |
| 4.8 | 06.04.2023 06:39 | 12 km | 94 km |
| 2.8 | 31.03.2023 23:45 | 35 km | 77 km |
| 3.1 | 18.03.2023 04:36 | 8 km | 25 km |
| 3.9 | 11.03.2023 16:29 | 5 km | 47 km |
| 3.1 | 04.02.2023 14:02 | 5 km | 79 km |
| 3.5 | 31.01.2023 16:45 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 2.6 | 15.01.2023 09:01 | 232 km | 60 km |
| 3.0 | 27.12.2022 07:54 | 13 km | 52 km |
| 2.8 | 23.12.2022 03:54 | 10 km | 70 km |
| 3.0 | 11.12.2022 02:51 | 5 km | 79 km |
| 2.8 | 08.11.2022 00:30 | 5 km | 76 km |
| 3.1 | 22.09.2022 18:59 | 5 km | 87 km |
| 3.6 | 20.09.2022 16:41 | 5 km | 43 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.