2.5
523
recorded earthquakes
M7.6
largest
1900–2026
record span
3.91
mean magnitude
231
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.6 | 05.09.2012 14:42 | 20.7 km | 270 km |
| 7.6 | 22.04.1991 21:56 | 15.7 km | 297 km |
| 7.6 | 21.12.1939 20:54 | 25 km | 238 km |
| 7.5 | 05.10.1950 16:09 | 97.9 km | 207 km |
| 7.3 | 26.04.1916 02:21 | 35 km | 254 km |
| 7.3 | 25.03.1990 13:22 | 21.2 km | 265 km |
| 7.2 | 21.06.1900 20:52 | 0 km | 279 km |
| 7.2 | 24.10.1956 14:42 | 35 km | 269 km |
| 7.2 | 30.12.1907 05:26 | 0 km | 237 km |
| 7.2 | 24.04.1916 08:02 | 35 km | 156 km |
| 7.2 | 04.03.1924 10:07 | 15 km | 259 km |
| 7.1 | 08.10.1901 02:16 | — | 287 km |
| 7.1 | 16.08.1909 06:58 | 0 km | 236 km |
| 7.1 | 15.10.1967 08:00 | 168.8 km | 195 km |
| 7.0 | 19.11.1948 01:04 | 80 km | 245 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 | 26.07.2026 20:19 | 21 km | 166 km |
| 4.2 | 21.07.2026 07:13 | 149 km | 66 km |
| 3.8 | 18.07.2026 16:10 | 104 km | 81 km |
| 2.5 | 17.07.2026 02:58 | 153 km | 177 km |
| 2.8 | 09.07.2026 12:55 | 5 km | 133 km |
| 2.6 | 08.07.2026 09:22 | 202 km | 169 km |
| 2.9 | 04.07.2026 09:13 | 300 km | 17 km |
| 2.8 | 22.06.2026 05:14 | 192 km | 176 km |
| 2.5 | 20.06.2026 23:13 | 147 km | 79 km |
| 3.4 | 15.06.2026 09:37 | 43 km | 34 km |
| 3.3 | 12.06.2026 14:34 | 6 km | 158 km |
| 3.4 | 09.06.2026 12:41 | 10 km | 81 km |
| 3.6 | 08.06.2026 18:02 | 68 km | 115 km |
| 2.6 | 08.06.2026 09:36 | 12 km | 128 km |
| 3.3 | 08.06.2026 01:14 | 300 km | 181 km |
| 2.5 | 05.06.2026 21:40 | 13 km | 111 km |
| 2.6 | 17.05.2026 13:21 | 7 km | 75 km |
| 2.7 | 13.05.2026 14:45 | 157 km | 163 km |
| 3.1 | 28.04.2026 09:51 | 219 km | 177 km |
| 2.6 | 28.04.2026 06:05 | 1 km | 185 km |
| 3.4 | 27.04.2026 01:19 | 1 km | 185 km |
| 2.9 | 24.04.2026 18:37 | 3 km | 59 km |
| 3.2 | 23.04.2026 03:08 | 5 km | 129 km |
| 3.5 | 20.04.2026 23:30 | 100 km | 72 km |
| 3.1 | 05.04.2026 13:35 | 1 km | 91 km |
| 3.1 | 04.04.2026 10:53 | 200 km | 47 km |
| 2.6 | 27.03.2026 03:35 | 28 km | 140 km |
| 2.5 | 20.03.2026 09:59 | 2 km | 107 km |
| 2.8 | 12.03.2026 08:58 | 10 km | 78 km |
| 2.9 | 11.03.2026 05:40 | 10 km | 97 km |
| 2.9 | 22.02.2026 07:17 | 10 km | 148 km |
| 2.5 | 13.02.2026 13:36 | 159 km | 189 km |
| 4.2 | 10.02.2026 08:20 | 35.6 km | 142 km |
| 4.3 | 07.02.2026 15:01 | 16.3 km | 176 km |
| 3.4 | 01.02.2026 06:36 | 14 km | 65 km |
| 3.1 | 10.01.2026 12:15 | 10 km | 81 km |
| 3.0 | 29.12.2025 18:13 | 5 km | 152 km |
| 3.2 | 10.12.2025 00:22 | 3 km | 37 km |
| 3.5 | 02.12.2025 05:23 | 5 km | 131 km |
| 2.5 | 30.11.2025 10:33 | 2 km | 87 km |
| 3.4 | 25.11.2025 11:30 | 208 km | 176 km |
| 4.5 | 22.11.2025 10:29 | 218.7 km | 166 km |
| 3.2 | 19.11.2025 17:52 | 10 km | 103 km |
| 3.4 | 01.11.2025 22:41 | 201 km | 142 km |
| 3.1 | 29.10.2025 06:47 | 139 km | 181 km |
| 3.5 | 24.10.2025 14:56 | 300 km | 79 km |
| 3.0 | 23.10.2025 01:59 | 204 km | 167 km |
| 2.5 | 18.10.2025 05:35 | 6 km | 139 km |
| 2.7 | 07.09.2025 00:55 | 3 km | 137 km |
| 3.0 | 21.08.2025 17:59 | 10 km | 160 km |
| 5.0 | 26.07.2025 17:39 | 1.6 km | 193 km |
| 2.5 | 12.07.2025 11:29 | 9 km | 147 km |
| 4.2 | 17.03.2025 09:01 | 6.1 km | 39 km |
| 4.2 | 12.03.2025 12:40 | 3 km | 197 km |
| 3.0 | 04.03.2025 01:38 | 30 km | 44 km |
| 2.6 | 28.02.2025 00:40 | 160 km | 164 km |
| 4.0 | 26.02.2025 05:44 | 6.1 km | 178 km |
| 3.0 | 21.02.2025 11:15 | 13 km | 72 km |
| 3.4 | 12.02.2025 12:44 | 3 km | 79 km |
| 2.9 | 04.02.2025 22:33 | 6 km | 132 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.