3.5
409
recorded earthquakes
M8.1
largest
1909–2026
record span
4.38
mean magnitude
211
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.1 | 30.05.1935 21:32 | 25 km | 395 km |
| 7.8 | 24.09.2013 11:29 | 15.5 km | 345 km |
| 7.6 | 26.01.2001 03:16 | 16 km | 338 km |
| 7.1 | 27.08.1931 15:27 | 10 km | 436 km |
| 7.1 | 27.02.1997 21:08 | 27 km | 422 km |
| 7.0 | 20.10.1909 23:41 | 35 km | 223 km |
| 6.9 | 15.10.1928 14:19 | 35 km | 315 km |
| 6.4 | 01.09.1928 06:09 | 35 km | 366 km |
| 6.3 | 01.10.1923 08:16 | 15 km | 343 km |
| 6.3 | 21.07.1956 15:32 | 15 km | 339 km |
| 6.3 | 03.07.1942 02:50 | 15 km | 211 km |
| 6.1 | 17.06.1990 04:51 | 15.8 km | 338 km |
| 6.1 | 25.12.1952 22:22 | 10 km | 365 km |
| 6.0 | 04.03.1990 19:46 | 18.1 km | 389 km |
| 6.0 | 01.10.1945 05:16 | 15 km | 352 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.5 | 29.07.2026 13:56 | 174.7 km | 196 km |
| 3.4 | 16.07.2026 08:53 | 25 km | 249 km |
| 3.9 | 16.07.2026 08:51 | 28 km | 287 km |
| 3.3 | 23.06.2026 16:57 | 10 km | 274 km |
| 3.3 | 03.05.2026 21:30 | 11 km | 317 km |
| 3.0 | 28.04.2026 05:29 | 10 km | 304 km |
| 4.4 | 09.04.2026 13:35 | 105.1 km | 244 km |
| 4.2 | 09.04.2026 13:34 | 10 km | 367 km |
| 3.5 | 27.03.2026 07:35 | 10 km | 305 km |
| 5.3 | 13.02.2026 06:30 | 0 km | 287 km |
| 4.1 | 16.01.2026 19:52 | 12 km | 249 km |
| 3.7 | 25.12.2025 23:00 | 10 km | 302 km |
| 4.4 | 15.12.2025 19:51 | 10 km | 226 km |
| 2.9 | 07.12.2025 19:49 | 20 km | 332 km |
| 3.1 | 11.11.2025 00:29 | 10 km | 309 km |
| 3.6 | 26.10.2025 00:22 | 10 km | 236 km |
| 4.2 | 01.10.2025 04:33 | 10 km | 291 km |
| 3.8 | 05.08.2025 01:50 | 35 km | 310 km |
| 4.1 | 23.07.2025 02:14 | 10 km | 230 km |
| 4.1 | 20.07.2025 16:18 | 10 km | 280 km |
| 4.3 | 14.07.2025 17:30 | 0 km | 330 km |
| 3.9 | 22.04.2025 17:56 | 10 km | 267 km |
| 4.0 | 16.04.2025 01:13 | 43.1 km | 340 km |
| 3.8 | 31.03.2025 11:10 | 10 km | 180 km |
| 4.6 | 22.03.2025 05:24 | 10 km | 83 km |
| 3.6 | 04.01.2025 11:07 | 5 km | 302 km |
| 3.7 | 23.12.2024 05:14 | 10 km | 223 km |
| 3.7 | 01.12.2024 17:16 | 0 km | 286 km |
| 4.0 | 18.11.2024 14:48 | 10 km | 281 km |
| 3.6 | 02.11.2024 22:28 | 5 km | 230 km |
| 3.5 | 30.10.2024 23:51 | 10 km | 304 km |
| 3.2 | 20.10.2024 12:15 | 10 km | 306 km |
| 3.8 | 16.10.2024 22:24 | 10 km | 196 km |
| 4.0 | 25.07.2024 22:55 | 35 km | 158 km |
| 4.1 | 25.07.2024 21:47 | 10 km | 159 km |
| 4.0 | 21.04.2024 19:30 | 10 km | 273 km |
| 3.8 | 18.04.2024 08:06 | 7 km | 239 km |
| 4.3 | 01.02.2024 02:36 | 10 km | 243 km |
| 3.9 | 05.01.2024 04:08 | 10 km | 228 km |
| 5.2 | 04.12.2023 12:19 | 5.9 km | 284 km |
| 2.8 | 24.11.2023 20:08 | 5 km | 249 km |
| 4.1 | 11.11.2023 05:27 | 10 km | 337 km |
| 3.8 | 02.11.2023 14:22 | 10 km | 253 km |
| 4.0 | 14.10.2023 22:37 | 10 km | 261 km |
| 2.5 | 30.08.2023 02:44 | 5 km | 271 km |
| 2.8 | 17.07.2023 02:06 | 5 km | 252 km |
| 3.4 | 16.05.2023 19:39 | 1 km | 227 km |
| 3.9 | 25.03.2023 20:49 | 10 km | 293 km |
| 3.3 | 06.03.2023 01:01 | 10 km | 128 km |
| 4.3 | 26.02.2023 09:51 | 10 km | 200 km |
| 3.6 | 30.10.2022 18:31 | 10 km | 358 km |
| 4.3 | 25.10.2022 16:54 | 23 km | 167 km |
| 4.0 | 14.08.2022 09:53 | 35 km | 183 km |
| 2.9 | 07.06.2022 13:25 | 5 km | 300 km |
| 3.8 | 25.05.2022 16:36 | 8 km | 314 km |
| 5.1 | 06.05.2022 06:21 | 7.8 km | 262 km |
| 3.4 | 12.12.2021 00:27 | 10 km | 122 km |
| 3.9 | 08.12.2021 17:16 | 10 km | 180 km |
| 5.1 | 04.11.2021 09:45 | 10 km | 222 km |
| 4.0 | 24.09.2021 00:00 | 35 km | 279 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.