4.0
201
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1901–2026
record span
3.65
mean magnitude
114
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 | 24.10.1956 14:42 | 35 km | 260 km |
| 7.2 | 30.12.1907 05:26 | 0 km | 206 km |
| 7.2 | 28.03.1921 07:49 | 15 km | 168 km |
| 7.1 | 08.10.1901 02:14 | 0 km | 181 km |
| 7.1 | 15.10.1967 08:00 | 168.8 km | 215 km |
| 7.0 | 05.11.1926 07:55 | 15 km | 196 km |
| 6.6 | 05.10.1925 04:09 | 135 km | 175 km |
| 6.4 | 17.11.1987 03:40 | 90.3 km | 212 km |
| 6.2 | 23.12.1972 06:29 | 10 km | 188 km |
| 6.2 | 04.04.1955 19:24 | 15 km | 186 km |
| 6.1 | 10.04.2014 23:27 | 12.6 km | 174 km |
| 6.1 | 06.05.1938 18:17 | 35 km | 181 km |
| 6.1 | 10.06.2016 03:25 | 17 km | 193 km |
| 6.0 | 24.02.1934 05:33 | 200 km | 175 km |
| 5.8 | 13.01.1954 00:26 | 100 km | 98 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 01.08.2026 03:43 | 200 km | 101 km |
| 2.6 | 26.07.2026 11:51 | 5 km | 122 km |
| 2.6 | 08.06.2026 09:36 | 12 km | 117 km |
| 2.7 | 20.05.2026 05:14 | 143 km | 71 km |
| 2.6 | 28.04.2026 06:05 | 1 km | 58 km |
| 3.4 | 27.04.2026 01:19 | 1 km | 59 km |
| 2.5 | 19.03.2026 07:57 | 9 km | 118 km |
| 2.8 | 07.01.2026 03:34 | 3 km | 54 km |
| 4.0 | 12.12.2025 13:33 | 300 km | 123 km |
| 4.0 | 21.10.2025 12:12 | 1 km | 53 km |
| 3.8 | 20.10.2025 06:27 | 1 km | 59 km |
| 2.6 | 15.10.2025 16:20 | 4 km | 117 km |
| 2.5 | 01.10.2025 04:03 | 1 km | 73 km |
| 3.0 | 14.09.2025 00:02 | 5 km | 111 km |
| 2.6 | 26.08.2025 20:23 | 1 km | 61 km |
| 3.7 | 16.08.2025 08:15 | 200 km | 42 km |
| 4.0 | 31.07.2025 15:52 | 34 km | 85 km |
| 3.5 | 25.07.2025 01:49 | 33 km | 47 km |
| 2.9 | 27.06.2025 21:01 | 3 km | 65 km |
| 2.9 | 19.05.2025 07:37 | 5 km | 120 km |
| 4.4 | 07.04.2025 11:40 | 18.9 km | 35 km |
| 3.1 | 05.03.2025 18:29 | 1 km | 75 km |
| 2.7 | 25.02.2025 13:42 | 2 km | 99 km |
| 3.2 | 09.02.2025 09:15 | 5 km | 9 km |
| 2.8 | 07.02.2025 19:21 | 1 km | 89 km |
| 2.9 | 04.02.2025 22:33 | 6 km | 110 km |
| 3.6 | 08.11.2024 19:24 | 9 km | 128 km |
| 2.5 | 28.10.2024 18:23 | 1 km | 41 km |
| 2.6 | 29.09.2024 21:41 | 4 km | 49 km |
| 2.5 | 17.09.2024 00:54 | 116 km | 50 km |
| 3.5 | 02.09.2024 11:09 | 227 km | 81 km |
| 3.2 | 21.07.2024 21:48 | 5 km | 103 km |
| 3.0 | 01.06.2024 10:19 | 1 km | 34 km |
| 2.9 | 28.05.2024 23:27 | 5 km | 81 km |
| 2.6 | 23.05.2024 08:35 | 1 km | 89 km |
| 3.3 | 20.05.2024 08:50 | 1 km | 27 km |
| 2.5 | 05.05.2024 08:24 | 5 km | 42 km |
| 2.8 | 13.03.2024 22:22 | 1 km | 22 km |
| 2.9 | 13.03.2024 21:42 | 2 km | 21 km |
| 2.5 | 27.02.2024 17:07 | 3 km | 61 km |
| 2.5 | 14.02.2024 03:31 | 5 km | 99 km |
| 3.3 | 08.02.2024 00:15 | 15 km | 89 km |
| 3.2 | 07.02.2024 14:53 | 28 km | 102 km |
| 4.8 | 04.02.2024 06:56 | 95.4 km | 114 km |
| 2.6 | 04.01.2024 12:02 | 2 km | 101 km |
| 2.5 | 30.12.2023 05:33 | 1 km | 18 km |
| 3.6 | 19.12.2023 00:01 | 8 km | 33 km |
| 2.6 | 12.11.2023 12:32 | 7 km | 71 km |
| 2.7 | 10.11.2023 07:25 | 7 km | 71 km |
| 3.7 | 31.10.2023 09:17 | 63 km | 125 km |
| 2.6 | 30.10.2023 15:06 | 1 km | 66 km |
| 2.9 | 07.10.2023 09:22 | 91 km | 95 km |
| 2.7 | 24.09.2023 18:04 | 4 km | 105 km |
| 3.6 | 19.09.2023 00:08 | 86 km | 78 km |
| 3.3 | 14.09.2023 07:40 | 118 km | 60 km |
| 3.8 | 12.09.2023 19:40 | 8 km | 79 km |
| 2.5 | 08.09.2023 05:16 | 4 km | 73 km |
| 2.8 | 29.08.2023 16:35 | 5 km | 85 km |
| 3.2 | 24.08.2023 15:55 | 192 km | 42 km |
| 2.9 | 22.08.2023 03:10 | 1 km | 69 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.