4.9
1,462
recorded earthquakes
M8.1
largest
1900–2026
record span
4.36
mean magnitude
1,188
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 | 20.09.1935 01:46 | 30 km | 387 km |
| 7.8 | 07.10.1900 21:04 | 0 km | 440 km |
| 7.6 | 29.07.1917 21:52 | 35 km | 397 km |
| 7.5 | 25.02.2018 17:44 | 29 km | 122 km |
| 7.3 | 16.07.1980 19:56 | 84.6 km | 324 km |
| 7.2 | 24.06.1986 03:11 | 116.4 km | 353 km |
| 7.1 | 25.06.1976 19:18 | 17.5 km | 382 km |
| 7.1 | 06.11.1952 19:47 | 52.1 km | 407 km |
| 7.0 | 09.06.1925 13:40 | 25 km | 370 km |
| 7.0 | 13.05.1920 01:48 | 25 km | 429 km |
| 7.0 | 03.08.1916 01:30 | 35 km | 222 km |
| 6.9 | 19.01.1922 21:58 | 15 km | 125 km |
| 6.9 | 23.03.2024 20:22 | 46.3 km | 346 km |
| 6.9 | 25.12.1975 23:22 | 107.6 km | 339 km |
| 6.9 | 03.03.1954 06:03 | 15 km | 166 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.9 | 02.08.2026 05:38 | 10 km | 152 km |
| 3.4 | 29.07.2026 18:32 | 10 km | 189 km |
| 4.3 | 18.05.2026 22:52 | 10 km | 186 km |
| 3.6 | 17.05.2026 05:29 | 0 km | 178 km |
| 3.3 | 04.05.2026 16:52 | 10 km | 224 km |
| 4.1 | 24.04.2026 06:06 | 0 km | 160 km |
| 3.9 | 20.04.2026 01:33 | 0 km | 175 km |
| 3.8 | 19.04.2026 18:08 | 0 km | 177 km |
| 3.8 | 11.04.2026 19:54 | 10 km | 243 km |
| 3.4 | 27.03.2026 07:46 | 0 km | 169 km |
| 3.8 | 27.02.2026 14:52 | 74 km | 232 km |
| 2.9 | 21.02.2026 17:23 | 10 km | 270 km |
| 3.0 | 15.02.2026 18:36 | 9 km | 252 km |
| 3.2 | 12.02.2026 19:19 | 10 km | 274 km |
| 3.8 | 12.02.2026 13:10 | 10 km | 206 km |
| 3.4 | 08.02.2026 14:41 | 10 km | 214 km |
| 3.5 | 26.01.2026 21:53 | 0 km | 173 km |
| 4.2 | 26.01.2026 17:57 | 10 km | 159 km |
| 4.5 | 26.01.2026 17:20 | 10 km | 176 km |
| 5.6 | 26.01.2026 17:06 | 10 km | 145 km |
| 4.0 | 22.01.2026 09:57 | 10 km | 205 km |
| 3.7 | 19.01.2026 22:28 | 0 km | 183 km |
| 2.8 | 11.01.2026 18:36 | 100 km | 187 km |
| 4.1 | 09.01.2026 02:04 | 0 km | 149 km |
| 4.9 | 03.01.2026 01:26 | 0 km | 169 km |
| 4.4 | 22.12.2025 23:48 | 146 km | 206 km |
| 3.4 | 20.12.2025 21:20 | 0 km | 172 km |
| 3.3 | 14.12.2025 09:32 | 0 km | 132 km |
| 3.8 | 21.11.2025 04:08 | 98.5 km | 282 km |
| 4.4 | 10.11.2025 06:17 | 17 km | 217 km |
| 4.0 | 08.11.2025 20:23 | 10 km | 215 km |
| 4.2 | 27.10.2025 03:30 | 10 km | 294 km |
| 3.5 | 05.10.2025 09:49 | 138 km | 250 km |
| 4.0 | 02.10.2025 11:41 | 0 km | 192 km |
| 4.7 | 01.10.2025 02:13 | 10 km | 192 km |
| 4.0 | 25.09.2025 07:36 | 0 km | 137 km |
| 4.4 | 26.08.2025 21:24 | 34 km | 200 km |
| 3.5 | 20.08.2025 06:09 | 0 km | 108 km |
| 3.7 | 10.08.2025 08:19 | 10 km | 111 km |
| 3.7 | 25.07.2025 15:46 | 10 km | 108 km |
| 3.5 | 23.07.2025 15:45 | 167 km | 144 km |
| 5.9 | 21.07.2025 16:41 | 33 km | 224 km |
| 5.1 | 17.07.2025 11:25 | 120.3 km | 119 km |
| 5.2 | 15.07.2025 21:16 | 10 km | 109 km |
| 3.6 | 15.07.2025 21:16 | 10 km | 109 km |
| 4.2 | 15.07.2025 18:51 | 10 km | 125 km |
| 3.9 | 02.07.2025 16:09 | 0 km | 171 km |
| 3.6 | 14.06.2025 13:38 | 10 km | 259 km |
| 3.9 | 13.06.2025 14:21 | 27 km | 168 km |
| 4.6 | 13.06.2025 14:20 | 10 km | 72 km |
| 3.5 | 29.05.2025 11:36 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 4.2 | 15.05.2025 20:00 | 10 km | 136 km |
| 4.3 | 01.05.2025 21:41 | 10 km | 132 km |
| 4.2 | 27.03.2025 23:37 | 10 km | 211 km |
| 4.4 | 27.02.2025 13:34 | 10 km | 254 km |
| 4.8 | 14.02.2025 08:10 | 266 km | 181 km |
| 3.5 | 26.01.2025 13:52 | 10 km | 154 km |
| 4.8 | 26.01.2025 13:52 | 10 km | 154 km |
| 3.8 | 27.10.2024 18:20 | 10 km | 206 km |
| 4.5 | 16.10.2024 01:59 | 102.4 km | 238 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.