No records in the last 30 days.
620
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1908–2026
record span
4.17
mean magnitude
502
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.8 | 15.11.1921 20:36 | 240 km | 360 km |
| 7.4 | 04.07.1911 13:33 | 100 km | 371 km |
| 7.4 | 29.07.1985 07:54 | 99.8 km | 354 km |
| 7.0 | 24.10.1908 21:16 | 220 km | 320 km |
| 6.5 | 16.09.1956 08:37 | 10 km | 138 km |
| 6.4 | 07.02.1966 23:06 | 12.3 km | 309 km |
| 6.4 | 10.10.1952 18:47 | 35 km | 318 km |
| 6.2 | 21.06.2022 20:54 | 16 km | 94 km |
| 6.0 | 01.02.1984 14:22 | 13.5 km | 174 km |
| 6.0 | 20.05.1992 12:20 | 19.5 km | 83 km |
| 6.0 | 04.11.1914 11:06 | 15 km | 134 km |
| 6.0 | 11.02.1999 14:08 | 28.8 km | 190 km |
| 6.0 | 19.03.1940 04:35 | 50 km | 310 km |
| 6.0 | 31.08.2025 19:17 | 8 km | 192 km |
| 6.0 | 14.11.1928 04:33 | 110 km | 288 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.9 | 22.06.2026 20:14 | 308 km | 128 km |
| 4.1 | 19.06.2026 02:01 | 0 km | 201 km |
| 3.6 | 14.06.2026 15:46 | 0 km | 149 km |
| 4.1 | 03.05.2026 19:38 | 145 km | 191 km |
| 4.1 | 28.03.2026 01:20 | 0 km | 79 km |
| 3.9 | 21.03.2026 02:01 | 64 km | 226 km |
| 3.4 | 01.02.2026 19:36 | 10 km | 155 km |
| 4.0 | 13.01.2026 14:49 | 44.7 km | 267 km |
| 3.8 | 06.01.2026 13:35 | 76.9 km | 206 km |
| 4.0 | 01.01.2026 10:16 | 0 km | 172 km |
| 4.2 | 09.12.2025 07:47 | 0 km | 179 km |
| 3.7 | 08.12.2025 09:41 | 74.9 km | 206 km |
| 3.6 | 05.11.2025 22:10 | 10 km | 155 km |
| 4.0 | 29.10.2025 19:23 | 10 km | 111 km |
| 4.7 | 16.10.2025 23:53 | 10 km | 152 km |
| 4.6 | 11.10.2025 14:53 | 10 km | 209 km |
| 3.2 | 08.10.2025 03:18 | 10 km | 178 km |
| 4.3 | 08.10.2025 03:18 | 10 km | 178 km |
| 3.7 | 27.09.2025 22:46 | 53.3 km | 201 km |
| 4.9 | 23.09.2025 10:50 | 10 km | 181 km |
| 3.7 | 23.09.2025 10:50 | 10 km | 181 km |
| 3.1 | 17.09.2025 02:46 | 10 km | 168 km |
| 4.4 | 17.09.2025 02:46 | 10 km | 168 km |
| 4.0 | 15.09.2025 14:42 | 0 km | 168 km |
| 4.0 | 12.09.2025 01:11 | 0 km | 192 km |
| 4.0 | 08.09.2025 12:46 | 0 km | 214 km |
| 4.1 | 07.09.2025 12:32 | 10 km | 185 km |
| 4.5 | 07.09.2025 00:01 | 10 km | 187 km |
| 3.1 | 07.09.2025 00:01 | 10 km | 187 km |
| 4.7 | 05.09.2025 17:25 | 10 km | 173 km |
| 4.3 | 05.09.2025 07:52 | 10 km | 193 km |
| 3.4 | 05.09.2025 05:37 | 10 km | 184 km |
| 3.7 | 05.09.2025 02:16 | 10 km | 192 km |
| 4.7 | 05.09.2025 01:32 | 10 km | 175 km |
| 4.9 | 05.09.2025 01:30 | 9 km | 204 km |
| 4.1 | 05.09.2025 00:36 | 10 km | 173 km |
| 4.7 | 04.09.2025 21:46 | 10 km | 190 km |
| 4.0 | 04.09.2025 21:46 | 0 km | 180 km |
| 4.4 | 04.09.2025 18:28 | 10 km | 175 km |
| 5.6 | 04.09.2025 16:56 | 16.5 km | 190 km |
| 3.8 | 04.09.2025 10:03 | 0 km | 171 km |
| 3.7 | 04.09.2025 05:10 | 10 km | 182 km |
| 4.1 | 02.09.2025 21:13 | 10 km | 181 km |
| 4.1 | 02.09.2025 15:08 | 10 km | 163 km |
| 4.9 | 02.09.2025 12:29 | 10 km | 200 km |
| 4.3 | 02.09.2025 07:24 | 0 km | 222 km |
| 4.6 | 01.09.2025 05:01 | 10 km | 182 km |
| 3.3 | 01.09.2025 05:01 | 10 km | 182 km |
| 4.3 | 01.09.2025 02:59 | 10 km | 191 km |
| 3.6 | 01.09.2025 02:43 | 10 km | 191 km |
| 4.4 | 31.08.2025 23:55 | 10 km | 180 km |
| 5.3 | 31.08.2025 23:46 | 10 km | 178 km |
| 3.9 | 31.08.2025 23:46 | 8.5 km | 192 km |
| 4.3 | 31.08.2025 21:44 | 73.6 km | 201 km |
| 4.5 | 31.08.2025 21:41 | 10 km | 196 km |
| 4.4 | 31.08.2025 21:40 | 10 km | 185 km |
| 4.1 | 31.08.2025 21:33 | 10 km | 194 km |
| 3.7 | 31.08.2025 20:34 | 0 km | 165 km |
| 4.4 | 31.08.2025 20:29 | 10 km | 177 km |
| 4.5 | 31.08.2025 19:38 | 10 km | 177 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.