5.3
8,923
recorded earthquakes
M8.1
largest
1905–2026
record span
4.46
mean magnitude
5,833
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 | 26.07.1971 01:23 | 43 km | 178 km |
| 8.0 | 16.11.2000 04:54 | 32 km | 144 km |
| 7.9 | 17.12.2016 10:51 | 105.2 km | 219 km |
| 7.8 | 16.11.2000 07:42 | 27.5 km | 181 km |
| 7.8 | 06.05.1919 19:41 | 35 km | 242 km |
| 7.8 | 17.11.2000 21:01 | 30.6 km | 59 km |
| 7.7 | 18.03.1983 09:05 | 84.4 km | 231 km |
| 7.7 | 01.01.1916 13:20 | 35 km | 119 km |
| 7.7 | 30.05.1913 11:47 | 15 km | 55 km |
| 7.6 | 09.09.2005 07:26 | 94.5 km | 226 km |
| 7.6 | 23.04.1953 16:24 | 35 km | 164 km |
| 7.6 | 29.09.1946 03:02 | 50 km | 203 km |
| 7.6 | 02.02.1920 11:22 | 35 km | 55 km |
| 7.6 | 14.05.2019 12:58 | 15.7 km | 157 km |
| 7.5 | 17.08.1972 23:44 | 13.8 km | 180 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.3 | 27.07.2026 14:33 | 105.9 km | 31 km |
| 4.0 | 16.07.2026 16:13 | 125.2 km | 107 km |
| 3.7 | 09.07.2026 22:53 | 197.6 km | 158 km |
| 4.3 | 08.07.2026 11:23 | 0 km | 115 km |
| 5.3 | 30.06.2026 14:41 | 56.1 km | 92 km |
| 3.9 | 30.06.2026 00:32 | 74.7 km | 71 km |
| 4.0 | 29.06.2026 17:37 | 0 km | 154 km |
| 4.2 | 22.06.2026 10:58 | 107.5 km | 100 km |
| 4.0 | 16.06.2026 13:03 | 87.2 km | 81 km |
| 3.6 | 31.05.2026 05:02 | 249 km | 78 km |
| 3.5 | 29.05.2026 22:26 | 300.4 km | 94 km |
| 4.7 | 27.05.2026 12:38 | 10 km | 110 km |
| 3.4 | 27.05.2026 12:38 | 0 km | 108 km |
| 3.7 | 24.05.2026 08:13 | 139.4 km | 20 km |
| 4.1 | 24.05.2026 05:10 | 42.5 km | 42 km |
| 4.3 | 23.05.2026 23:37 | 62.3 km | 62 km |
| 4.0 | 23.05.2026 17:03 | 0 km | 157 km |
| 3.1 | 23.05.2026 13:40 | 43.7 km | 124 km |
| 4.6 | 23.05.2026 13:40 | 10 km | 113 km |
| 3.7 | 23.05.2026 02:13 | 43.6 km | 62 km |
| 3.7 | 22.05.2026 09:03 | 98.3 km | 11 km |
| 4.3 | 21.05.2026 07:56 | 10 km | 134 km |
| 4.1 | 20.05.2026 10:16 | 0 km | 97 km |
| 4.3 | 20.05.2026 10:14 | 0 km | 114 km |
| 4.0 | 20.05.2026 02:09 | 86.5 km | 41 km |
| 3.4 | 19.05.2026 13:20 | 0 km | 147 km |
| 4.8 | 17.05.2026 20:52 | 10 km | 132 km |
| 3.3 | 17.05.2026 20:51 | 0 km | 124 km |
| 3.9 | 14.05.2026 23:51 | 161.6 km | 160 km |
| 3.8 | 13.05.2026 11:25 | 53.2 km | 106 km |
| 3.8 | 12.05.2026 05:20 | 44.7 km | 45 km |
| 3.5 | 09.05.2026 07:56 | 175.9 km | 70 km |
| 3.9 | 08.05.2026 02:36 | 0 km | 92 km |
| 3.3 | 03.05.2026 21:31 | 175.1 km | 63 km |
| 3.1 | 03.05.2026 05:49 | 0 km | 148 km |
| 4.6 | 03.05.2026 04:40 | 65.1 km | 153 km |
| 4.5 | 03.05.2026 00:58 | 10 km | 121 km |
| 3.2 | 03.05.2026 00:58 | 0 km | 163 km |
| 3.8 | 30.04.2026 13:04 | 75 km | 111 km |
| 3.7 | 21.04.2026 23:31 | 60.3 km | 39 km |
| 3.9 | 19.04.2026 12:03 | 156 km | 28 km |
| 3.7 | 04.04.2026 17:28 | 63.4 km | 95 km |
| 4.0 | 31.03.2026 08:43 | 0 km | 86 km |
| 3.7 | 27.03.2026 07:42 | 83 km | 71 km |
| 4.0 | 25.03.2026 23:58 | 0 km | 96 km |
| 3.6 | 25.03.2026 20:14 | 110.8 km | 96 km |
| 4.9 | 25.03.2026 10:59 | 10 km | 91 km |
| 3.7 | 25.03.2026 10:59 | 0 km | 80 km |
| 4.1 | 24.03.2026 23:51 | 0 km | 49 km |
| 3.7 | 24.03.2026 13:20 | 106.8 km | 120 km |
| 3.7 | 22.03.2026 18:04 | 117.3 km | 128 km |
| 4.0 | 14.03.2026 05:31 | 0 km | 50 km |
| 3.9 | 12.03.2026 02:12 | 121.7 km | 88 km |
| 3.6 | 08.03.2026 14:56 | 114.6 km | 62 km |
| 5.0 | 05.03.2026 16:26 | 0 km | 127 km |
| 4.1 | 05.03.2026 15:53 | 0 km | 127 km |
| 3.2 | 05.03.2026 15:13 | 0 km | 114 km |
| 3.4 | 28.02.2026 23:48 | 42.3 km | 25 km |
| 3.4 | 28.02.2026 15:56 | 212.7 km | 83 km |
| 5.5 | 28.02.2026 06:23 | 33 km | 45 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.