4.1
1,536
recorded earthquakes
M6.3
largest
1927–2026
record span
2.80
mean magnitude
1,421
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.3 | 18.01.1976 04:46 | 13.7 km | 88 km |
| 6.1 | 21.02.2008 02:46 | 11.9 km | 95 km |
| 5.7 | 07.08.2018 13:57 | 4.6 km | 455 km |
| 5.7 | 27.05.1990 21:49 | 15.3 km | 503 km |
| 5.7 | 10.03.2007 17:03 | 11.9 km | 488 km |
| 5.6 | 06.09.1927 07:16 | 35 km | 296 km |
| 5.6 | 25.06.1938 23:45 | 35 km | 319 km |
| 5.5 | 21.10.1970 08:14 | 15.7 km | 451 km |
| 5.4 | 04.07.2003 07:16 | 7.7 km | 141 km |
| 5.4 | 03.02.2000 15:53 | 14.5 km | 390 km |
| 5.4 | 21.04.1937 21:52 | 15 km | 428 km |
| 5.3 | 11.11.1990 07:06 | 5.9 km | 458 km |
| 5.3 | 27.07.1938 19:51 | 15 km | 330 km |
| 5.2 | 14.06.1936 10:04 | 15 km | 467 km |
| 5.2 | 11.11.1990 17:13 | 10 km | 499 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.1 | 27.07.2026 20:12 | 8.8 km | 121 km |
| 3.8 | 22.07.2026 21:53 | 8.2 km | 198 km |
| 3.7 | 17.07.2026 06:25 | 8.4 km | 207 km |
| 2.5 | 08.07.2026 20:30 | 23.1 km | 66 km |
| 3.3 | 09.06.2026 15:20 | 15 km | 63 km |
| 2.2 | 07.06.2026 14:06 | 6.9 km | 204 km |
| 2.2 | 05.05.2026 06:01 | 12.2 km | 199 km |
| 2.0 | 28.04.2026 13:43 | 3 km | 327 km |
| 2.5 | 15.04.2026 05:48 | 0 km | 187 km |
| 2.2 | 11.04.2026 14:48 | 2.1 km | 181 km |
| 2.7 | 06.04.2026 14:40 | 23.1 km | 266 km |
| 2.4 | 05.04.2026 08:32 | 23.1 km | 66 km |
| 2.7 | 04.04.2026 01:21 | 18 km | 276 km |
| 3.6 | 01.04.2026 00:57 | 4.8 km | 435 km |
| 3.9 | 31.03.2026 19:27 | 15 km | 104 km |
| 3.0 | 31.03.2026 00:21 | 23.1 km | 280 km |
| 2.0 | 30.03.2026 15:34 | 1 km | 169 km |
| 3.6 | 15.03.2026 17:02 | 4.6 km | 380 km |
| 3.3 | 12.03.2026 11:04 | 8.2 km | 216 km |
| 4.2 | 12.03.2026 03:26 | 8.2 km | 220 km |
| 3.4 | 10.03.2026 19:19 | 16.2 km | 93 km |
| 2.0 | 25.02.2026 14:36 | 23.1 km | 88 km |
| 2.2 | 22.02.2026 18:55 | 20.7 km | 93 km |
| 2.4 | 22.02.2026 01:05 | 10 km | 374 km |
| 3.0 | 19.02.2026 14:21 | 10 km | 370 km |
| 2.2 | 14.02.2026 23:57 | 8.4 km | 94 km |
| 2.0 | 12.02.2026 16:47 | 19.3 km | 301 km |
| 2.2 | 06.02.2026 07:10 | 15 km | 279 km |
| 2.1 | 28.01.2026 04:43 | 10 km | 437 km |
| 2.0 | 18.01.2026 04:53 | 16.1 km | 109 km |
| 2.1 | 13.01.2026 21:44 | 0 km | 193 km |
| 2.0 | 08.01.2026 22:18 | 14.9 km | 306 km |
| 2.3 | 26.12.2025 22:14 | 0.2 km | 185 km |
| 3.0 | 16.12.2025 01:14 | 6.7 km | 190 km |
| 3.3 | 14.12.2025 06:26 | 0 km | 90 km |
| 2.3 | 26.11.2025 17:23 | 23.1 km | 269 km |
| 2.2 | 24.11.2025 04:36 | 15 km | 76 km |
| 2.8 | 21.11.2025 12:43 | 4.6 km | 359 km |
| 2.9 | 20.11.2025 17:10 | 8.4 km | 76 km |
| 3.5 | 29.10.2025 06:26 | 8.4 km | 96 km |
| 4.1 | 29.10.2025 06:02 | 10.5 km | 459 km |
| 3.3 | 22.09.2025 03:43 | 16.5 km | 289 km |
| 3.4 | 17.09.2025 00:38 | 8.5 km | 85 km |
| 3.4 | 01.09.2025 20:30 | 4.7 km | 406 km |
| 3.7 | 28.08.2025 23:00 | 8.1 km | 144 km |
| 2.3 | 28.08.2025 12:34 | 15.7 km | 214 km |
| 3.4 | 06.08.2025 00:43 | 17.4 km | 104 km |
| 3.1 | 05.08.2025 19:49 | 14.9 km | 88 km |
| 2.5 | 02.08.2025 06:05 | 16 km | 107 km |
| 3.7 | 15.07.2025 04:51 | 4.3 km | 283 km |
| 3.2 | 07.07.2025 03:34 | 8.5 km | 73 km |
| 3.0 | 07.07.2025 00:31 | 13.6 km | 123 km |
| 2.0 | 25.06.2025 19:34 | 13.8 km | 63 km |
| 3.6 | 24.06.2025 23:42 | 0.8 km | 62 km |
| 2.8 | 15.06.2025 20:05 | 4.4 km | 337 km |
| 3.0 | 13.06.2025 02:56 | 8.1 km | 72 km |
| 2.0 | 09.06.2025 22:25 | 0 km | 199 km |
| 2.2 | 25.05.2025 00:59 | 8.4 km | 107 km |
| 3.4 | 22.05.2025 06:40 | 10 km | 215 km |
| 2.9 | 21.05.2025 13:23 | 8.3 km | 176 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.