5.0
3,440
recorded earthquakes
M7.7
largest
1902–2026
record span
4.34
mean magnitude
1,820
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.7 | 08.08.1993 08:34 | 51.3 km | 388 km |
| 7.7 | 29.07.2016 21:18 | 213.7 km | 236 km |
| 7.5 | 22.09.1902 01:46 | 0 km | 180 km |
| 7.2 | 31.10.2007 03:30 | 229.9 km | 279 km |
| 7.1 | 24.10.1930 20:15 | 25 km | 252 km |
| 7.0 | 18.05.1913 02:08 | 15 km | 299 km |
| 7.0 | 23.08.1995 07:06 | 604 km | 268 km |
| 7.0 | 26.04.2002 16:06 | 76.5 km | 386 km |
| 7.0 | 26.10.1912 09:00 | 130 km | 279 km |
| 7.0 | 01.02.1956 13:41 | 370.1 km | 266 km |
| 7.0 | 17.10.1979 05:43 | 599 km | 233 km |
| 6.9 | 07.03.1962 11:01 | 635 km | 295 km |
| 6.8 | 05.04.2024 11:03 | 234.4 km | 293 km |
| 6.8 | 14.05.2013 00:32 | 611.7 km | 258 km |
| 6.8 | 17.09.2014 06:14 | 142.2 km | 313 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | 23.07.2026 12:11 | 307.7 km | 171 km |
| 3.6 | 02.07.2026 21:18 | 181.1 km | 234 km |
| 3.9 | 29.06.2026 09:41 | 230.8 km | 125 km |
| 3.7 | 29.06.2026 06:00 | 112.7 km | 192 km |
| 4.1 | 28.06.2026 08:58 | 205.2 km | 152 km |
| 4.3 | 27.06.2026 13:33 | 158.1 km | 183 km |
| 4.1 | 14.06.2026 04:53 | 198.2 km | 239 km |
| 3.8 | 06.06.2026 09:24 | 223.5 km | 275 km |
| 3.6 | 05.06.2026 12:21 | 414.1 km | 213 km |
| 3.5 | 20.05.2026 20:54 | 137 km | 211 km |
| 4.1 | 20.05.2026 19:02 | 0 km | 80 km |
| 3.9 | 10.05.2026 21:08 | 288.7 km | 151 km |
| 3.8 | 05.05.2026 14:45 | 263.8 km | 221 km |
| 4.0 | 22.04.2026 22:04 | 345.7 km | 183 km |
| 4.1 | 19.04.2026 07:45 | 179.7 km | 139 km |
| 4.2 | 17.04.2026 05:20 | 0 km | 172 km |
| 5.4 | 14.04.2026 03:04 | 208.8 km | 287 km |
| 3.9 | 13.04.2026 10:56 | 320.8 km | 143 km |
| 4.0 | 12.04.2026 19:43 | 92 km | 267 km |
| 3.5 | 12.04.2026 17:53 | 204.7 km | 249 km |
| 4.2 | 12.04.2026 01:09 | 219.6 km | 224 km |
| 4.3 | 10.04.2026 02:28 | 125 km | 257 km |
| 4.0 | 25.03.2026 15:12 | 312.1 km | 121 km |
| 4.3 | 18.03.2026 06:04 | 316.5 km | 184 km |
| 3.6 | 18.03.2026 04:54 | 104.6 km | 214 km |
| 4.0 | 04.03.2026 10:17 | 126 km | 159 km |
| 5.1 | 03.03.2026 14:38 | 206 km | 273 km |
| 3.1 | 20.02.2026 14:36 | 381.5 km | 217 km |
| 4.1 | 14.02.2026 20:25 | 215.6 km | 243 km |
| 3.3 | 12.02.2026 19:18 | 320.4 km | 191 km |
| 5.5 | 12.02.2026 10:30 | 139.6 km | 294 km |
| 3.8 | 10.02.2026 16:16 | 119.1 km | 266 km |
| 4.0 | 09.02.2026 01:53 | 210.4 km | 247 km |
| 3.8 | 07.02.2026 14:48 | 488.6 km | 209 km |
| 4.3 | 04.02.2026 13:16 | 179 km | 116 km |
| 3.9 | 03.02.2026 13:47 | 529.2 km | 22 km |
| 4.1 | 01.02.2026 22:22 | 200.6 km | 225 km |
| 3.7 | 01.02.2026 22:21 | 0 km | 131 km |
| 3.4 | 31.01.2026 13:03 | 204.9 km | 198 km |
| 4.0 | 28.01.2026 14:56 | 358.5 km | 267 km |
| 4.9 | 07.01.2026 18:02 | 169.1 km | 278 km |
| 5.4 | 06.01.2026 03:14 | 218.4 km | 135 km |
| 4.4 | 05.01.2026 14:36 | 102 km | 264 km |
| 3.7 | 01.01.2026 22:13 | 127.6 km | 155 km |
| 4.4 | 31.12.2025 13:13 | 107.1 km | 246 km |
| 3.8 | 30.12.2025 03:44 | 210.9 km | 216 km |
| 4.3 | 29.12.2025 05:32 | 188.6 km | 217 km |
| 3.3 | 23.12.2025 23:01 | 296 km | 191 km |
| 4.0 | 21.12.2025 22:26 | 126.2 km | 152 km |
| 4.5 | 17.12.2025 10:30 | 227.3 km | 245 km |
| 3.5 | 17.12.2025 10:30 | 212.5 km | 258 km |
| 3.9 | 16.12.2025 23:03 | 372.7 km | 269 km |
| 5.7 | 15.12.2025 23:06 | 85 km | 234 km |
| 4.2 | 13.12.2025 17:14 | 116.4 km | 272 km |
| 4.2 | 04.12.2025 04:42 | 112.9 km | 216 km |
| 4.0 | 01.12.2025 19:18 | 199.6 km | 265 km |
| 4.9 | 30.11.2025 16:23 | 192.4 km | 262 km |
| 4.0 | 27.11.2025 12:26 | 109.6 km | 204 km |
| 4.0 | 14.11.2025 05:15 | 196.2 km | 213 km |
| 4.3 | 13.11.2025 13:58 | 145.3 km | 290 km |
Regions
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.