5.6
1,443
recorded earthquakes
M8.4
largest
1913–2026
record span
4.47
mean magnitude
783
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.4 | 23.06.2001 20:33 | 15.6 km | 278 km |
| 7.8 | 06.08.1913 22:14 | 25 km | 289 km |
| 7.7 | 12.11.1996 16:59 | 30.9 km | 213 km |
| 7.7 | 24.08.1942 22:50 | 30 km | 131 km |
| 7.7 | 01.11.1947 14:58 | 20 km | 333 km |
| 7.2 | 11.10.1922 14:49 | 75 km | 302 km |
| 7.1 | 28.06.2024 05:36 | 19.6 km | 225 km |
| 7.1 | 16.02.1979 10:08 | 47.1 km | 336 km |
| 7.1 | 14.01.2018 09:18 | 35.5 km | 224 km |
| 7.0 | 15.01.1958 19:14 | 64 km | 359 km |
| 7.0 | 25.09.2013 16:42 | 38.2 km | 235 km |
| 6.9 | 03.10.1916 01:26 | 70 km | 104 km |
| 6.8 | 24.08.2014 23:21 | 89.3 km | 94 km |
| 6.8 | 06.07.1991 12:19 | 102.6 km | 204 km |
| 6.7 | 15.05.1976 21:55 | 22.6 km | 249 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.6 | 19.07.2026 02:24 | 10 km | 247 km |
| 4.2 | 02.07.2026 01:39 | 90.7 km | 129 km |
| 4.0 | 26.06.2026 09:31 | 86.7 km | 53 km |
| 5.8 | 19.05.2026 17:57 | 60 km | 171 km |
| 3.4 | 12.05.2026 17:23 | 15 km | 215 km |
| 4.1 | 11.05.2026 19:09 | 29 km | 257 km |
| 3.5 | 10.05.2026 13:15 | 22 km | 204 km |
| 4.0 | 07.05.2026 12:11 | 37 km | 184 km |
| 4.1 | 04.05.2026 05:08 | 62 km | 218 km |
| 4.1 | 28.04.2026 07:54 | 103.4 km | 88 km |
| 4.0 | 14.04.2026 04:46 | 40 km | 197 km |
| 3.8 | 08.04.2026 08:29 | 24 km | 74 km |
| 4.0 | 23.03.2026 07:33 | 115 km | 102 km |
| 4.0 | 16.03.2026 11:36 | 78 km | 220 km |
| 3.5 | 08.03.2026 18:15 | 26 km | 59 km |
| 3.6 | 07.03.2026 15:05 | 18 km | 45 km |
| 3.5 | 04.03.2026 22:45 | 11 km | 33 km |
| 3.5 | 27.02.2026 13:01 | 20 km | 35 km |
| 4.2 | 17.02.2026 14:16 | 90.4 km | 164 km |
| 3.4 | 15.02.2026 11:32 | 20 km | 138 km |
| 3.6 | 11.02.2026 05:03 | 91.2 km | 92 km |
| 3.6 | 09.02.2026 04:02 | 10 km | 179 km |
| 4.0 | 08.02.2026 13:10 | 92 km | 124 km |
| 4.0 | 05.02.2026 20:56 | 106 km | 147 km |
| 3.9 | 31.01.2026 01:09 | 64.8 km | 214 km |
| 4.1 | 31.01.2026 00:34 | 18 km | 254 km |
| 4.4 | 21.01.2026 19:17 | 71.6 km | 44 km |
| 4.0 | 20.01.2026 07:37 | 56 km | 192 km |
| 4.0 | 19.01.2026 01:43 | 57 km | 208 km |
| 3.7 | 15.01.2026 18:30 | 98.3 km | 175 km |
| 4.9 | 09.01.2026 21:36 | 110.9 km | 133 km |
| 4.6 | 09.01.2026 17:08 | 107.1 km | 98 km |
| 4.0 | 09.01.2026 00:20 | 104 km | 71 km |
| 3.3 | 25.12.2025 06:46 | 37.7 km | 213 km |
| 4.1 | 19.12.2025 14:30 | 83.8 km | 92 km |
| 3.7 | 14.12.2025 18:20 | 68 km | 190 km |
| 3.9 | 12.12.2025 07:17 | 107 km | 179 km |
| 4.0 | 16.11.2025 00:30 | 0 km | 111 km |
| 3.9 | 10.11.2025 19:38 | 87.9 km | 167 km |
| 4.4 | 10.11.2025 13:23 | 34 km | 212 km |
| 3.7 | 08.11.2025 01:25 | 60 km | 195 km |
| 4.0 | 04.11.2025 08:44 | 89 km | 174 km |
| 4.1 | 27.10.2025 04:52 | 34 km | 228 km |
| 4.2 | 23.10.2025 04:54 | 100.4 km | 42 km |
| 4.4 | 21.10.2025 22:57 | 10 km | 253 km |
| 3.4 | 15.10.2025 11:44 | 9 km | 129 km |
| 4.2 | 12.10.2025 10:44 | 102 km | 155 km |
| 4.6 | 10.10.2025 20:11 | 0 km | 154 km |
| 4.2 | 07.10.2025 20:52 | 87.6 km | 109 km |
| 4.1 | 04.10.2025 04:26 | 96 km | 109 km |
| 4.5 | 26.09.2025 13:44 | 88.5 km | 81 km |
| 4.8 | 26.09.2025 02:39 | 87.2 km | 169 km |
| 4.0 | 25.09.2025 18:49 | 52 km | 192 km |
| 4.2 | 24.09.2025 11:01 | 10 km | 252 km |
| 4.0 | 24.09.2025 07:17 | 112 km | 97 km |
| 3.6 | 23.09.2025 21:05 | 54.1 km | 240 km |
| 5.6 | 23.09.2025 17:39 | 12 km | 254 km |
| 5.0 | 22.09.2025 18:46 | 19.4 km | 244 km |
| 4.0 | 22.09.2025 16:24 | 22 km | 257 km |
| 4.0 | 20.09.2025 07:29 | 103 km | 175 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.