4.9
440
recorded earthquakes
M7.5
largest
1910–2026
record span
4.68
mean magnitude
81
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 | 183 km |
| 7.3 | 16.07.1980 19:56 | 84.6 km | 182 km |
| 7.2 | 24.06.1986 03:11 | 116.4 km | 164 km |
| 7.1 | 06.11.1952 19:47 | 52.1 km | 153 km |
| 7.0 | 09.06.1925 13:40 | 25 km | 226 km |
| 7.0 | 03.08.1916 01:30 | 35 km | 152 km |
| 6.9 | 19.01.1922 21:58 | 15 km | 173 km |
| 6.9 | 31.10.1970 17:53 | 42.7 km | 145 km |
| 6.8 | 24.04.1964 05:56 | 104.7 km | 83 km |
| 6.7 | 29.07.1910 10:26 | 80 km | 180 km |
| 6.6 | 18.01.1972 21:55 | 28 km | 123 km |
| 6.6 | 25.06.1979 05:29 | 186.1 km | 160 km |
| 6.6 | 07.09.1926 12:23 | 35 km | 128 km |
| 6.6 | 02.03.1947 19:09 | 35 km | 113 km |
| 6.6 | 19.01.1972 15:00 | 15.1 km | 135 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.9 | 02.08.2026 05:38 | 10 km | 116 km |
| 4.0 | 18.05.2026 04:32 | 99 km | 75 km |
| 3.6 | 17.05.2026 05:29 | 0 km | 93 km |
| 4.1 | 24.04.2026 06:06 | 0 km | 109 km |
| 3.9 | 20.04.2026 01:33 | 0 km | 93 km |
| 3.7 | 13.04.2026 05:58 | 91.8 km | 63 km |
| 3.4 | 27.03.2026 07:46 | 0 km | 101 km |
| 3.5 | 26.01.2026 21:53 | 0 km | 96 km |
| 4.2 | 26.01.2026 17:57 | 10 km | 117 km |
| 4.5 | 26.01.2026 17:20 | 10 km | 92 km |
| 5.6 | 26.01.2026 17:06 | 10 km | 123 km |
| 3.7 | 19.01.2026 22:28 | 0 km | 90 km |
| 4.0 | 12.01.2026 10:34 | 0 km | 95 km |
| 4.9 | 03.01.2026 01:26 | 0 km | 100 km |
| 6.5 | 22.12.2025 10:31 | 101.8 km | 120 km |
| 3.4 | 20.12.2025 21:20 | 0 km | 96 km |
| 3.8 | 21.11.2025 04:08 | 98.5 km | 88 km |
| 4.1 | 12.07.2025 11:47 | 0 km | 97 km |
| 4.3 | 19.06.2025 10:57 | 91.9 km | 92 km |
| 4.3 | 26.02.2025 02:26 | 99.2 km | 84 km |
| 4.0 | 12.02.2025 10:41 | 0 km | 117 km |
| 4.8 | 26.01.2025 13:52 | 10 km | 113 km |
| 4.4 | 05.12.2024 00:49 | 90.7 km | 77 km |
| 4.2 | 19.11.2024 06:41 | 92.6 km | 94 km |
| 4.1 | 19.09.2024 22:16 | 81.5 km | 108 km |
| 4.0 | 29.07.2024 03:48 | 74.4 km | 121 km |
| 4.9 | 07.04.2024 20:31 | 91.6 km | 92 km |
| 4.9 | 26.12.2023 13:11 | 88.8 km | 119 km |
| 3.6 | 15.12.2023 04:39 | 35 km | 76 km |
| 4.4 | 12.12.2023 00:12 | 35 km | 68 km |
| 4.4 | 11.09.2023 08:23 | 100 km | 98 km |
| 6.2 | 19.06.2023 11:18 | 29.1 km | 164 km |
| 4.8 | 01.04.2023 04:51 | 173 km | 79 km |
| 5.0 | 10.03.2023 00:58 | 10 km | 125 km |
| 4.1 | 25.02.2023 15:06 | 54 km | 106 km |
| 5.1 | 29.08.2022 04:53 | 100 km | 105 km |
| 4.1 | 24.07.2022 15:17 | 82 km | 94 km |
| 4.6 | 02.05.2022 23:25 | 83.8 km | 102 km |
| 4.1 | 12.12.2021 10:55 | 0 km | 113 km |
| 4.1 | 06.06.2021 09:45 | 100 km | 92 km |
| 5.2 | 13.05.2021 11:32 | 116.9 km | 112 km |
| 4.8 | 08.03.2021 12:48 | 244 km | 100 km |
| 4.4 | 31.12.2020 16:45 | 100 km | 85 km |
| 4.2 | 22.12.2020 11:54 | 60.9 km | 123 km |
| 5.3 | 16.12.2020 16:08 | 13.4 km | 140 km |
| 4.2 | 10.08.2020 12:13 | 150 km | 110 km |
| 5.5 | 02.08.2020 14:15 | 130.1 km | 138 km |
| 4.9 | 29.03.2020 02:46 | 96 km | 76 km |
| 4.2 | 22.02.2020 00:31 | 98 km | 89 km |
| 3.1 | 19.02.2020 13:54 | 50 km | 35 km |
| 5.1 | 09.01.2020 18:52 | 95.7 km | 142 km |
| 4.1 | 04.11.2019 14:40 | 107.8 km | 118 km |
| 4.1 | 04.05.2019 22:16 | 82 km | 96 km |
| 4.1 | 20.04.2019 12:45 | 82 km | 94 km |
| 5.1 | 08.04.2019 17:53 | 44.9 km | 149 km |
| 4.3 | 11.03.2019 13:10 | 98 km | 100 km |
| 4.7 | 13.02.2019 08:59 | 35 km | 124 km |
| 5.0 | 12.02.2019 10:32 | 10 km | 86 km |
| 4.5 | 12.02.2019 10:32 | 100 km | 74 km |
| 4.2 | 09.01.2019 08:24 | 82 km | 89 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.