3.8
1,761
recorded earthquakes
M7.0
largest
1906–2026
record span
2.69
mean magnitude
1,465
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | 06.05.1951 16:10 | — | 680 km |
| 6.7 | 30.08.2012 13:43 | 11.1 km | 749 km |
| 6.7 | 10.10.1923 07:11 | 15 km | 695 km |
| 6.5 | 08.04.1922 20:42 | 15 km | 667 km |
| 6.5 | 16.04.1975 01:27 | 12 km | 721 km |
| 6.5 | 10.03.2025 02:33 | 10 km | 632 km |
| 6.4 | 06.06.1951 16:10 | 15 km | 659 km |
| 6.3 | 19.03.1906 07:56 | 15 km | 601 km |
| 6.2 | 10.06.1929 23:03 | 35 km | 398 km |
| 6.2 | 29.01.2011 06:55 | 6.4 km | 569 km |
| 6.1 | 23.03.1971 09:26 | 6.4 km | 578 km |
| 6.1 | 02.02.1919 20:03 | 10 km | 559 km |
| 6.0 | 26.10.1936 23:05 | 15 km | 582 km |
| 6.0 | 13.12.1988 04:01 | 14.1 km | 611 km |
| 5.9 | 21.05.2000 19:58 | 17.1 km | 628 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.8 | 17.07.2026 19:55 | 3.7 km | 565 km |
| 3.7 | 15.07.2026 20:23 | 0 km | 596 km |
| 2.0 | 14.07.2026 17:08 | 23.2 km | 632 km |
| 3.2 | 13.07.2026 17:44 | 0 km | 596 km |
| 3.2 | 12.07.2026 13:22 | 0 km | 614 km |
| 2.8 | 10.07.2026 06:02 | 0 km | 607 km |
| 4.2 | 10.07.2026 02:13 | 10 km | 589 km |
| 3.5 | 09.07.2026 11:46 | 0 km | 610 km |
| 2.8 | 09.07.2026 09:38 | 0 km | 594 km |
| 3.0 | 08.07.2026 10:29 | 21 km | 646 km |
| 2.1 | 08.07.2026 07:32 | 0 km | 616 km |
| 3.3 | 08.07.2026 04:32 | 0 km | 597 km |
| 4.2 | 08.07.2026 04:21 | 10 km | 595 km |
| 3.5 | 08.07.2026 00:22 | 0.1 km | 570 km |
| 2.2 | 05.07.2026 09:19 | 1.6 km | 640 km |
| 2.6 | 02.07.2026 10:30 | 0 km | 603 km |
| 2.6 | 02.07.2026 05:03 | 0 km | 622 km |
| 2.6 | 02.07.2026 01:42 | 0 km | 603 km |
| 3.3 | 01.07.2026 07:43 | 0 km | 604 km |
| 2.5 | 01.07.2026 05:10 | 0 km | 595 km |
| 3.6 | 01.07.2026 04:07 | 0 km | 603 km |
| 2.6 | 01.07.2026 00:04 | 0 km | 596 km |
| 2.9 | 30.06.2026 19:32 | 2.5 km | 590 km |
| 4.1 | 14.06.2026 01:31 | 10 km | 544 km |
| 3.5 | 09.06.2026 08:08 | 24.4 km | 606 km |
| 4.6 | 30.05.2026 19:28 | 10 km | 599 km |
| 2.1 | 28.05.2026 15:55 | 22.8 km | 641 km |
| 3.3 | 18.05.2026 15:26 | 0 km | 601 km |
| 2.5 | 17.05.2026 21:26 | 0 km | 599 km |
| 2.5 | 17.05.2026 04:41 | 0 km | 599 km |
| 3.3 | 17.05.2026 04:35 | 0 km | 594 km |
| 2.9 | 17.05.2026 03:15 | 3.1 km | 584 km |
| 3.0 | 14.05.2026 12:49 | 5.3 km | 580 km |
| 2.2 | 26.04.2026 19:03 | 18.1 km | 642 km |
| 4.0 | 22.04.2026 04:09 | 10 km | 241 km |
| 2.1 | 05.04.2026 12:46 | 17.4 km | 638 km |
| 2.4 | 28.03.2026 00:37 | 3.1 km | 646 km |
| 2.0 | 07.03.2026 14:45 | 5.5 km | 281 km |
| 2.1 | 19.02.2026 16:39 | 10 km | 506 km |
| 3.3 | 19.02.2026 08:12 | 0 km | 569 km |
| 2.9 | 17.02.2026 13:58 | 0 km | 611 km |
| 2.2 | 15.02.2026 03:13 | 23.1 km | 634 km |
| 2.0 | 12.02.2026 18:24 | 20.3 km | 644 km |
| 2.3 | 10.02.2026 02:06 | 10 km | 504 km |
| 3.1 | 08.02.2026 08:07 | 20.7 km | 641 km |
| 3.0 | 08.02.2026 04:47 | 19.8 km | 641 km |
| 2.2 | 07.02.2026 21:11 | 20.4 km | 641 km |
| 3.0 | 07.02.2026 15:45 | 0 km | 617 km |
| 2.1 | 30.01.2026 20:06 | 23.7 km | 637 km |
| 2.0 | 14.01.2026 03:48 | 14.7 km | 642 km |
| 2.3 | 13.01.2026 15:13 | 10 km | 296 km |
| 3.7 | 04.01.2026 16:39 | 10 km | 511 km |
| 2.0 | 09.12.2025 02:45 | 0 km | 593 km |
| 3.0 | 27.11.2025 02:36 | 0 km | 582 km |
| 2.5 | 08.11.2025 02:41 | 0 km | 639 km |
| 2.5 | 29.10.2025 12:25 | 0 km | 609 km |
| 4.2 | 11.10.2025 15:18 | 10 km | 566 km |
| 3.8 | 05.10.2025 14:30 | 0 km | 626 km |
| 5.0 | 05.10.2025 12:01 | 10 km | 622 km |
| 5.1 | 05.10.2025 09:08 | 10 km | 625 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.