4.9
1,580
recorded earthquakes
M7.5
largest
1910–2026
record span
4.40
mean magnitude
1,096
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 | 25.02.2018 17:44 | 29 km | 78 km |
| 7.3 | 16.07.1980 19:56 | 84.6 km | 160 km |
| 7.2 | 24.06.1986 03:11 | 116.4 km | 176 km |
| 7.1 | 06.11.1952 19:47 | 52.1 km | 227 km |
| 7.0 | 09.06.1925 13:40 | 25 km | 210 km |
| 7.0 | 13.05.1920 01:48 | 25 km | 258 km |
| 7.0 | 03.08.1916 01:30 | 35 km | 178 km |
| 6.9 | 19.01.1922 21:58 | 15 km | 135 km |
| 6.9 | 31.10.1970 17:53 | 42.7 km | 239 km |
| 6.9 | 23.03.2024 20:22 | 46.3 km | 199 km |
| 6.9 | 25.12.1975 23:22 | 107.6 km | 250 km |
| 6.9 | 03.03.1954 06:03 | 15 km | 86 km |
| 6.8 | 24.04.1964 05:56 | 104.7 km | 130 km |
| 6.7 | 29.07.1910 10:26 | 80 km | 112 km |
| 6.7 | 06.03.2018 14:13 | 17.3 km | 94 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.9 | 02.08.2026 05:38 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 4.3 | 18.05.2026 22:52 | 10 km | 132 km |
| 4.0 | 18.05.2026 04:32 | 99 km | 174 km |
| 3.6 | 17.05.2026 05:29 | 0 km | 74 km |
| 4.1 | 24.04.2026 06:06 | 0 km | 46 km |
| 3.9 | 20.04.2026 01:33 | 0 km | 64 km |
| 3.8 | 19.04.2026 18:08 | 0 km | 146 km |
| 3.7 | 13.04.2026 05:58 | 91.8 km | 128 km |
| 4.1 | 09.04.2026 20:20 | 89.1 km | 153 km |
| 3.4 | 27.03.2026 07:46 | 0 km | 68 km |
| 3.5 | 26.01.2026 21:53 | 0 km | 67 km |
| 4.2 | 26.01.2026 17:57 | 10 km | 87 km |
| 4.5 | 26.01.2026 17:20 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 5.6 | 26.01.2026 17:06 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 4.0 | 22.01.2026 09:57 | 10 km | 128 km |
| 3.7 | 19.01.2026 22:28 | 0 km | 78 km |
| 4.0 | 12.01.2026 10:34 | 0 km | 172 km |
| 4.1 | 09.01.2026 02:04 | 0 km | 33 km |
| 4.9 | 03.01.2026 01:26 | 0 km | 64 km |
| 4.4 | 22.12.2025 23:48 | 146 km | 150 km |
| 6.5 | 22.12.2025 10:31 | 101.8 km | 226 km |
| 3.4 | 20.12.2025 21:20 | 0 km | 65 km |
| 3.3 | 14.12.2025 09:32 | 0 km | 82 km |
| 3.8 | 21.11.2025 04:08 | 98.5 km | 100 km |
| 4.4 | 10.11.2025 06:17 | 17 km | 176 km |
| 3.5 | 05.10.2025 09:49 | 138 km | 172 km |
| 4.0 | 02.10.2025 11:41 | 0 km | 25 km |
| 4.7 | 01.10.2025 02:13 | 10 km | 115 km |
| 4.0 | 25.09.2025 07:36 | 0 km | 56 km |
| 4.4 | 26.08.2025 21:24 | 34 km | 139 km |
| 3.5 | 20.08.2025 06:09 | 0 km | 76 km |
| 3.7 | 10.08.2025 08:19 | 10 km | 108 km |
| 3.7 | 25.07.2025 15:46 | 10 km | 116 km |
| 3.5 | 23.07.2025 15:45 | 167 km | 107 km |
| 5.9 | 21.07.2025 16:41 | 33 km | 136 km |
| 5.1 | 17.07.2025 11:25 | 120.3 km | 109 km |
| 5.2 | 15.07.2025 21:16 | 10 km | 127 km |
| 3.6 | 15.07.2025 21:16 | 10 km | 127 km |
| 4.2 | 15.07.2025 18:51 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 3.9 | 02.07.2025 16:09 | 0 km | 27 km |
| 4.3 | 19.06.2025 10:57 | 91.9 km | 137 km |
| 3.5 | 29.05.2025 11:36 | 10 km | 97 km |
| 4.2 | 15.05.2025 20:00 | 10 km | 67 km |
| 4.3 | 01.05.2025 21:41 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 4.4 | 27.02.2025 13:34 | 10 km | 187 km |
| 4.8 | 14.02.2025 08:10 | 266 km | 61 km |
| 3.5 | 26.01.2025 13:52 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 4.8 | 26.01.2025 13:52 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 4.5 | 19.01.2025 09:58 | 113.7 km | 160 km |
| 4.2 | 04.01.2025 09:03 | 116.1 km | 156 km |
| 4.2 | 03.01.2025 07:02 | 104.1 km | 146 km |
| 4.4 | 05.12.2024 00:49 | 90.7 km | 149 km |
| 4.2 | 19.11.2024 06:41 | 92.6 km | 172 km |
| 4.5 | 16.10.2024 01:59 | 102.4 km | 189 km |
| 4.1 | 19.09.2024 22:16 | 81.5 km | 194 km |
| 3.4 | 16.08.2024 04:45 | 262.8 km | 176 km |
| 4.1 | 30.07.2024 11:15 | 0 km | 135 km |
| 3.5 | 05.07.2024 06:34 | 35 km | 105 km |
| 3.3 | 30.06.2024 23:03 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 3.9 | 29.06.2024 05:16 | 35 km | 160 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.