4.3
1,718
recorded earthquakes
M7.5
largest
1906–2026
record span
4.35
mean magnitude
722
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 | 28.09.1906 15:24 | 100 km | 129 km |
| 7.5 | 26.09.2005 01:55 | 127.7 km | 198 km |
| 7.5 | 22.02.2019 10:17 | 149.9 km | 320 km |
| 7.5 | 28.11.2021 10:52 | 118.5 km | 139 km |
| 7.4 | 27.07.1971 02:02 | 105.6 km | 249 km |
| 7.3 | 14.05.1928 22:14 | 10 km | 92 km |
| 7.2 | 28.10.1997 06:15 | 121.6 km | 172 km |
| 7.1 | 18.07.1928 19:05 | 35 km | 139 km |
| 7.0 | 24.07.1912 11:59 | 0 km | 225 km |
| 7.0 | 03.10.1995 01:51 | 26.3 km | 254 km |
| 7.0 | 12.04.1983 12:07 | 119.3 km | 14 km |
| 6.9 | 05.04.1991 04:19 | 26.9 km | 152 km |
| 6.8 | 19.06.1968 08:13 | 22.5 km | 111 km |
| 6.8 | 23.11.1986 01:39 | 94.2 km | 181 km |
| 6.8 | 16.11.2007 03:12 | 123.1 km | 289 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.3 | 30.07.2026 16:15 | 15 km | 89 km |
| 4.4 | 26.07.2026 15:49 | 5 km | 122 km |
| 4.3 | 19.06.2026 04:50 | 146 km | 163 km |
| 3.9 | 03.06.2026 21:12 | 17 km | 45 km |
| 3.6 | 02.06.2026 04:05 | 15 km | 75 km |
| 3.7 | 28.05.2026 11:58 | 130 km | 123 km |
| 3.8 | 19.05.2026 01:57 | 93 km | 229 km |
| 4.4 | 08.05.2026 17:50 | 10 km | 43 km |
| 4.3 | 05.05.2026 16:31 | 152 km | 103 km |
| 3.7 | 24.04.2026 07:04 | 17 km | 243 km |
| 4.2 | 28.03.2026 07:30 | 22 km | 124 km |
| 3.5 | 16.03.2026 23:43 | 23 km | 121 km |
| 4.0 | 16.03.2026 19:25 | 118 km | 130 km |
| 3.5 | 10.03.2026 20:50 | 24 km | 120 km |
| 4.3 | 09.03.2026 11:11 | 30 km | 176 km |
| 3.5 | 08.03.2026 22:04 | 0 km | 161 km |
| 4.1 | 07.03.2026 20:31 | 15 km | 122 km |
| 3.9 | 07.03.2026 18:15 | 10 km | 104 km |
| 3.8 | 07.03.2026 16:36 | 23 km | 98 km |
| 4.2 | 28.02.2026 04:28 | 59 km | 180 km |
| 3.2 | 17.02.2026 17:30 | 74 km | 213 km |
| 3.7 | 28.01.2026 19:58 | 102 km | 107 km |
| 4.2 | 16.01.2026 21:15 | 12.2 km | 47 km |
| 5.5 | 08.01.2026 05:17 | 10 km | 116 km |
| 3.2 | 06.01.2026 04:51 | 94 km | 109 km |
| 4.2 | 26.11.2025 04:29 | 26 km | 6 km |
| 3.7 | 19.11.2025 07:22 | 24 km | 85 km |
| 3.6 | 09.11.2025 17:31 | 19 km | 115 km |
| 3.7 | 03.11.2025 15:38 | 36 km | 48 km |
| 4.1 | 09.10.2025 01:43 | 114 km | 236 km |
| 3.7 | 02.10.2025 13:33 | 9 km | 114 km |
| 4.0 | 01.10.2025 12:37 | 132 km | 108 km |
| 3.9 | 26.09.2025 01:05 | 14 km | 31 km |
| 4.0 | 20.09.2025 12:46 | 99.6 km | 190 km |
| 4.1 | 14.09.2025 16:06 | 27 km | 114 km |
| 3.5 | 14.09.2025 13:31 | 5 km | 218 km |
| 3.8 | 13.09.2025 03:43 | 10 km | 220 km |
| 4.0 | 05.09.2025 04:34 | 112 km | 137 km |
| 3.7 | 23.08.2025 08:24 | 16 km | 75 km |
| 3.6 | 12.08.2025 17:40 | 21 km | 123 km |
| 3.6 | 14.07.2025 23:24 | 5 km | 207 km |
| 3.5 | 14.07.2025 08:31 | 20 km | 113 km |
| 5.2 | 06.07.2025 11:27 | 10 km | 123 km |
| 4.4 | 09.06.2025 01:47 | 108 km | 165 km |
| 4.3 | 04.06.2025 16:44 | 10 km | 247 km |
| 3.6 | 04.06.2025 00:19 | 14 km | 112 km |
| 4.2 | 11.05.2025 18:14 | 12 km | 248 km |
| 3.6 | 02.05.2025 19:37 | 18 km | 185 km |
| 4.4 | 02.05.2025 15:06 | 104.7 km | 168 km |
| 3.2 | 30.04.2025 06:46 | 86.2 km | 178 km |
| 3.5 | 19.04.2025 02:20 | 10 km | 171 km |
| 3.6 | 10.04.2025 03:12 | 0 km | 98 km |
| 3.5 | 28.03.2025 01:13 | 11 km | 119 km |
| 4.0 | 25.03.2025 10:18 | 29 km | 33 km |
| 3.8 | 21.03.2025 23:45 | 20 km | 85 km |
| 4.1 | 09.03.2025 11:06 | 10 km | 86 km |
| 4.2 | 21.02.2025 22:52 | 30 km | 180 km |
| 4.5 | 29.01.2025 20:34 | 5 km | 119 km |
| 4.0 | 28.01.2025 11:00 | 5 km | 134 km |
| 4.0 | 24.12.2024 15:12 | 42 km | 123 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.