2.6
254
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1901–2026
record span
3.89
mean magnitude
103
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 | 30.12.1907 05:26 | 0 km | 129 km |
| 7.2 | 28.03.1921 07:49 | 15 km | 189 km |
| 7.2 | 24.10.1956 14:42 | 35 km | 182 km |
| 7.1 | 08.10.1901 02:14 | 0 km | 164 km |
| 7.1 | 15.10.1967 08:00 | 168.8 km | 126 km |
| 7.0 | 05.11.1926 07:55 | 15 km | 155 km |
| 6.6 | 11.04.2014 20:29 | 142.3 km | 148 km |
| 6.6 | 05.10.1925 04:09 | 135 km | 82 km |
| 6.5 | 22.07.1919 22:01 | 150 km | 119 km |
| 6.4 | 17.11.1987 03:40 | 90.3 km | 171 km |
| 6.2 | 23.12.1972 06:29 | 10 km | 111 km |
| 6.2 | 25.10.1956 05:21 | 35 km | 171 km |
| 6.2 | 04.04.1955 19:24 | 15 km | 152 km |
| 6.1 | 10.04.2014 23:27 | 12.6 km | 108 km |
| 6.1 | 25.04.1938 17:07 | 15 km | 182 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.6 | 26.07.2026 11:51 | 5 km | 90 km |
| 3.6 | 08.06.2026 18:02 | 68 km | 62 km |
| 2.6 | 08.06.2026 09:36 | 12 km | 86 km |
| 3.0 | 04.06.2026 23:43 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 2.7 | 20.05.2026 05:14 | 143 km | 51 km |
| 2.6 | 28.04.2026 06:05 | 1 km | 51 km |
| 3.4 | 27.04.2026 01:19 | 1 km | 46 km |
| 5.5 | 26.03.2026 17:15 | 163.7 km | 118 km |
| 2.5 | 19.03.2026 07:57 | 9 km | 80 km |
| 3.4 | 17.02.2026 05:19 | 300 km | 19 km |
| 4.0 | 12.12.2025 13:33 | 300 km | 78 km |
| 2.5 | 30.11.2025 10:33 | 2 km | 89 km |
| 4.7 | 22.11.2025 10:28 | 15 km | 46 km |
| 5.2 | 17.11.2025 17:23 | 117.8 km | 114 km |
| 2.6 | 15.10.2025 16:20 | 4 km | 82 km |
| 3.0 | 14.09.2025 00:02 | 5 km | 77 km |
| 3.2 | 07.09.2025 17:58 | 264 km | 88 km |
| 2.5 | 12.07.2025 11:29 | 9 km | 31 km |
| 4.0 | 10.07.2025 11:03 | 8.5 km | 122 km |
| 4.4 | 07.04.2025 11:40 | 18.9 km | 62 km |
| 2.9 | 04.02.2025 22:33 | 6 km | 65 km |
| 2.7 | 07.01.2025 07:48 | 2 km | 101 km |
| 3.6 | 08.11.2024 19:24 | 9 km | 85 km |
| 3.0 | 10.10.2024 06:37 | 38 km | 81 km |
| 2.7 | 14.09.2024 07:37 | 23 km | 107 km |
| 3.0 | 26.08.2024 11:36 | 91 km | 83 km |
| 2.7 | 02.08.2024 14:07 | 15 km | 96 km |
| 2.6 | 23.07.2024 02:08 | 30 km | 101 km |
| 3.3 | 22.07.2024 19:20 | 46 km | 83 km |
| 3.2 | 21.07.2024 21:48 | 5 km | 93 km |
| 2.9 | 28.05.2024 23:27 | 5 km | 51 km |
| 3.6 | 24.05.2024 20:58 | 34 km | 94 km |
| 3.2 | 08.03.2024 00:12 | 5 km | 113 km |
| 2.5 | 09.02.2024 19:12 | 27 km | 82 km |
| 3.3 | 08.02.2024 00:15 | 15 km | 81 km |
| 3.2 | 07.02.2024 14:53 | 28 km | 82 km |
| 3.5 | 24.12.2023 14:31 | 239 km | 93 km |
| 2.6 | 12.11.2023 12:32 | 7 km | 41 km |
| 2.7 | 10.11.2023 07:25 | 7 km | 40 km |
| 3.7 | 31.10.2023 09:17 | 63 km | 74 km |
| 2.9 | 07.10.2023 09:22 | 91 km | 85 km |
| 2.9 | 29.09.2023 07:46 | 5 km | 53 km |
| 4.0 | 25.09.2023 00:56 | 76.6 km | 85 km |
| 2.7 | 24.09.2023 18:04 | 4 km | 96 km |
| 3.0 | 23.09.2023 16:58 | 18 km | 109 km |
| 3.6 | 19.09.2023 00:08 | 86 km | 19 km |
| 3.8 | 12.09.2023 19:40 | 8 km | 85 km |
| 2.8 | 29.08.2023 16:35 | 5 km | 94 km |
| 3.3 | 11.08.2023 06:41 | 95 km | 101 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2023 17:09 | 5 km | 23 km |
| 3.5 | 29.07.2023 20:10 | 169 km | 62 km |
| 3.0 | 28.06.2023 12:47 | 207 km | 99 km |
| 2.8 | 25.06.2023 02:02 | 23 km | 38 km |
| 3.9 | 19.06.2023 06:56 | 158 km | 11 km |
| 2.9 | 25.05.2023 05:05 | 10 km | 71 km |
| 3.2 | 12.05.2023 18:39 | 5 km | 39 km |
| 4.1 | 17.04.2023 00:56 | 35.2 km | 98 km |
| 3.1 | 08.04.2023 00:29 | 217 km | 69 km |
| 2.6 | 05.04.2023 23:00 | 5 km | 90 km |
| 3.3 | 05.04.2023 19:38 | 5 km | 82 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.