No records in the last 30 days.
467
recorded earthquakes
M7.5
largest
1902–2026
record span
4.42
mean magnitude
327
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.5 | 26.02.1963 20:14 | 186.6 km | 256 km |
| 7.3 | 06.05.1947 20:30 | 35 km | 295 km |
| 7.2 | 24.01.1902 23:27 | 0 km | 247 km |
| 7.1 | 06.05.2019 21:19 | 140.4 km | 289 km |
| 7.1 | 14.12.2011 05:04 | 128.5 km | 218 km |
| 7.1 | 17.07.2020 02:50 | 85.2 km | 128 km |
| 7.0 | 11.10.1913 04:06 | 15 km | 311 km |
| 6.6 | 07.02.1975 04:51 | 12.3 km | 263 km |
| 6.6 | 13.05.1907 21:00 | 35 km | 153 km |
| 6.6 | 23.12.1966 15:50 | 55.2 km | 223 km |
| 6.4 | 02.11.1931 17:03 | 15 km | 307 km |
| 6.4 | 24.12.1941 14:46 | 15 km | 237 km |
| 6.4 | 14.09.1982 18:17 | 49.2 km | 201 km |
| 6.3 | 28.10.1972 02:27 | 10 km | 237 km |
| 6.3 | 09.03.1979 01:26 | 32 km | 59 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 25.04.2026 05:06 | 0 km | 170 km |
| 3.7 | 21.01.2026 12:36 | 109.2 km | 50 km |
| 4.6 | 07.01.2026 14:54 | 10 km | 105 km |
| 3.1 | 07.01.2026 14:54 | 0 km | 111 km |
| 4.4 | 06.12.2025 19:51 | 30.4 km | 41 km |
| 3.1 | 06.12.2025 19:51 | 34.1 km | 25 km |
| 5.0 | 06.10.2025 17:11 | 49.3 km | 118 km |
| 4.9 | 05.10.2025 04:25 | 66.6 km | 121 km |
| 4.1 | 22.08.2025 18:13 | 105.6 km | 173 km |
| 4.2 | 14.08.2025 10:21 | 0 km | 101 km |
| 5.0 | 05.07.2025 08:33 | 97.9 km | 142 km |
| 4.0 | 09.03.2025 10:47 | 0 km | 134 km |
| 3.5 | 17.01.2025 18:53 | 9.9 km | 126 km |
| 4.3 | 28.12.2024 18:28 | 10 km | 201 km |
| 4.5 | 06.12.2024 10:22 | 10 km | 132 km |
| 4.5 | 06.12.2024 05:32 | 127.5 km | 83 km |
| 4.1 | 25.09.2024 23:03 | 145.1 km | 186 km |
| 3.9 | 23.09.2024 02:47 | 35 km | 181 km |
| 4.8 | 17.09.2024 18:31 | 0 km | 117 km |
| 3.6 | 14.09.2024 14:49 | 76.6 km | 123 km |
| 4.2 | 05.06.2024 02:24 | 35 km | 158 km |
| 4.1 | 17.05.2024 10:48 | 116.8 km | 70 km |
| 4.1 | 15.05.2024 01:08 | 100 km | 164 km |
| 4.2 | 02.05.2024 03:06 | 22 km | 102 km |
| 3.3 | 01.05.2024 07:39 | 22 km | 95 km |
| 4.9 | 01.05.2024 07:39 | 10 km | 100 km |
| 4.1 | 26.04.2024 23:20 | 35 km | 167 km |
| 4.2 | 10.04.2024 02:12 | 10 km | 31 km |
| 4.6 | 19.03.2024 14:15 | 10 km | 211 km |
| 4.8 | 27.02.2024 16:05 | 10.2 km | 84 km |
| 4.1 | 29.12.2023 14:16 | 22 km | 110 km |
| 4.0 | 05.12.2023 08:42 | 0 km | 132 km |
| 5.5 | 21.11.2023 07:10 | 4 km | 101 km |
| 4.0 | 07.10.2023 14:28 | 110.3 km | 50 km |
| 4.0 | 25.09.2023 09:19 | 22 km | 98 km |
| 4.3 | 10.09.2023 16:15 | 0 km | 159 km |
| 4.0 | 01.08.2023 23:15 | 50 km | 148 km |
| 5.2 | 06.07.2023 20:04 | 10 km | 98 km |
| 4.2 | 11.06.2023 22:00 | 10 km | 123 km |
| 4.0 | 07.05.2023 23:28 | 35 km | 102 km |
| 3.2 | 07.05.2023 02:37 | 35 km | 155 km |
| 4.8 | 01.05.2023 07:54 | 22 km | 73 km |
| 5.1 | 17.01.2023 21:42 | 23.9 km | 5 km |
| 4.2 | 27.12.2022 21:34 | 0 km | 128 km |
| 4.1 | 27.10.2022 01:52 | 35 km | 142 km |
| 4.2 | 11.09.2022 00:30 | 50 km | 146 km |
| 4.3 | 12.08.2022 11:42 | 10 km | 211 km |
| 5.4 | 23.06.2022 02:04 | 10 km | 215 km |
| 3.1 | 11.05.2022 11:31 | 22 km | 91 km |
| 4.6 | 11.05.2022 11:31 | 10 km | 93 km |
| 4.5 | 20.03.2022 16:16 | 10 km | 118 km |
| 3.3 | 20.03.2022 16:16 | 10 km | 112 km |
| 4.4 | 22.02.2022 19:40 | 10 km | 146 km |
| 4.6 | 27.01.2022 23:39 | 168 km | 193 km |
| 3.2 | 09.01.2022 06:18 | 22 km | 59 km |
| 4.4 | 29.12.2021 19:51 | 35 km | 118 km |
| 3.7 | 08.12.2021 13:19 | 52 km | 153 km |
| 5.1 | 27.11.2021 20:36 | 15 km | 28 km |
| 5.4 | 18.09.2021 20:47 | 32.4 km | 107 km |
| 4.0 | 02.08.2021 08:15 | 176 km | 194 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.