No records in the last 30 days.
337
recorded earthquakes
M7.5
largest
1902–2026
record span
4.45
mean magnitude
236
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 | 266 km |
| 7.2 | 24.01.1902 23:27 | 0 km | 223 km |
| 7.1 | 06.05.2019 21:19 | 140.4 km | 295 km |
| 7.1 | 14.12.2011 05:04 | 128.5 km | 224 km |
| 7.1 | 17.07.2020 02:50 | 85.2 km | 126 km |
| 6.6 | 07.02.1975 04:51 | 12.3 km | 243 km |
| 6.6 | 13.05.1907 21:00 | 35 km | 141 km |
| 6.4 | 14.09.1982 18:17 | 49.2 km | 195 km |
| 6.3 | 28.10.1972 02:27 | 10 km | 242 km |
| 6.3 | 09.03.1979 01:26 | 32 km | 75 km |
| 6.2 | 22.01.1939 13:31 | 35 km | 185 km |
| 6.2 | 10.11.1939 20:20 | 35 km | 25 km |
| 6.1 | 22.10.1956 12:35 | 15 km | 205 km |
| 6.1 | 02.04.1920 01:04 | 15 km | 103 km |
| 6.0 | 03.01.1991 13:18 | 26 km | 207 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 25.04.2026 05:06 | 0 km | 147 km |
| 3.7 | 21.01.2026 12:36 | 109.2 km | 38 km |
| 4.6 | 07.01.2026 14:54 | 10 km | 82 km |
| 3.1 | 07.01.2026 14:54 | 0 km | 89 km |
| 4.4 | 06.12.2025 19:51 | 30.4 km | 47 km |
| 3.1 | 06.12.2025 19:51 | 34.1 km | 36 km |
| 5.0 | 06.10.2025 17:11 | 49.3 km | 103 km |
| 4.9 | 05.10.2025 04:25 | 66.6 km | 99 km |
| 4.2 | 14.08.2025 10:21 | 0 km | 89 km |
| 5.0 | 05.07.2025 08:33 | 97.9 km | 145 km |
| 4.0 | 09.03.2025 10:47 | 0 km | 148 km |
| 3.5 | 17.01.2025 18:53 | 9.9 km | 103 km |
| 4.5 | 06.12.2024 10:22 | 10 km | 118 km |
| 4.5 | 06.12.2024 05:32 | 127.5 km | 90 km |
| 4.8 | 17.09.2024 18:31 | 0 km | 121 km |
| 3.6 | 14.09.2024 14:49 | 76.6 km | 125 km |
| 4.1 | 17.05.2024 10:48 | 116.8 km | 64 km |
| 4.1 | 15.05.2024 01:08 | 100 km | 166 km |
| 4.2 | 02.05.2024 03:06 | 22 km | 92 km |
| 3.3 | 01.05.2024 07:39 | 22 km | 86 km |
| 4.9 | 01.05.2024 07:39 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 4.1 | 26.04.2024 23:20 | 35 km | 171 km |
| 4.2 | 10.04.2024 02:12 | 10 km | 53 km |
| 4.8 | 27.02.2024 16:05 | 10.2 km | 77 km |
| 4.1 | 29.12.2023 14:16 | 22 km | 97 km |
| 4.0 | 05.12.2023 08:42 | 0 km | 110 km |
| 5.5 | 21.11.2023 07:10 | 4 km | 91 km |
| 4.0 | 07.10.2023 14:28 | 110.3 km | 42 km |
| 4.0 | 25.09.2023 09:19 | 22 km | 92 km |
| 4.3 | 10.09.2023 16:15 | 0 km | 143 km |
| 5.2 | 06.07.2023 20:04 | 10 km | 86 km |
| 4.2 | 11.06.2023 22:00 | 10 km | 128 km |
| 4.0 | 07.05.2023 23:28 | 35 km | 87 km |
| 4.8 | 01.05.2023 07:54 | 22 km | 70 km |
| 5.1 | 17.01.2023 21:42 | 23.9 km | 21 km |
| 4.2 | 27.12.2022 21:34 | 0 km | 113 km |
| 4.1 | 27.10.2022 01:52 | 35 km | 132 km |
| 4.2 | 11.09.2022 00:30 | 50 km | 154 km |
| 5.4 | 23.06.2022 02:04 | 10 km | 198 km |
| 3.1 | 11.05.2022 11:31 | 22 km | 85 km |
| 4.6 | 11.05.2022 11:31 | 10 km | 85 km |
| 4.5 | 20.03.2022 16:16 | 10 km | 104 km |
| 3.3 | 20.03.2022 16:16 | 10 km | 101 km |
| 4.4 | 22.02.2022 19:40 | 10 km | 123 km |
| 4.6 | 27.01.2022 23:39 | 168 km | 203 km |
| 3.2 | 09.01.2022 06:18 | 22 km | 50 km |
| 4.4 | 29.12.2021 19:51 | 35 km | 99 km |
| 3.7 | 08.12.2021 13:19 | 52 km | 157 km |
| 5.1 | 27.11.2021 20:36 | 15 km | 37 km |
| 5.4 | 18.09.2021 20:47 | 32.4 km | 105 km |
| 4.2 | 18.05.2021 04:10 | 100 km | 175 km |
| 4.8 | 09.03.2021 18:48 | 35 km | 114 km |
| 4.0 | 09.10.2020 21:39 | 109 km | 71 km |
| 3.5 | 09.10.2020 00:25 | 22 km | 76 km |
| 4.1 | 22.08.2020 02:33 | 100 km | 138 km |
| 4.1 | 14.08.2020 18:50 | 52 km | 149 km |
| 4.4 | 22.07.2020 02:02 | 100 km | 113 km |
| 4.7 | 17.07.2020 17:35 | 98.7 km | 109 km |
| 7.1 | 17.07.2020 02:50 | 85.2 km | 126 km |
| 4.1 | 09.06.2020 15:46 | 95.4 km | 74 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.