4.3
365
recorded earthquakes
M7.5
largest
1906–2026
record span
4.46
mean magnitude
215
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 | 250 km |
| 7.5 | 28.11.2021 10:52 | 118.5 km | 272 km |
| 7.3 | 14.05.1928 22:14 | 10 km | 81 km |
| 7.2 | 10.12.1970 04:34 | 17.4 km | 327 km |
| 7.2 | 28.10.1997 06:15 | 121.6 km | 305 km |
| 7.1 | 21.06.1937 15:13 | 30 km | 271 km |
| 7.1 | 18.07.1928 19:05 | 35 km | 64 km |
| 7.0 | 24.07.1912 11:59 | 0 km | 202 km |
| 7.0 | 12.04.1983 12:07 | 119.3 km | 164 km |
| 6.9 | 05.04.1991 04:19 | 26.9 km | 169 km |
| 6.8 | 19.06.1968 08:13 | 22.5 km | 174 km |
| 6.8 | 10.11.1946 17:42 | 15 km | 276 km |
| 6.5 | 30.05.1990 02:34 | 18.6 km | 156 km |
| 6.4 | 03.02.2022 15:58 | 107 km | 265 km |
| 6.4 | 17.04.1953 00:02 | 15 km | 210 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.3 | 30.07.2026 16:15 | 15 km | 175 km |
| 3.4 | 16.05.2026 07:03 | 14 km | 177 km |
| 4.4 | 08.05.2026 17:50 | 10 km | 192 km |
| 3.5 | 30.04.2026 13:28 | 17 km | 81 km |
| 4.0 | 29.04.2026 06:12 | 18 km | 92 km |
| 3.7 | 24.04.2026 07:04 | 17 km | 99 km |
| 4.2 | 28.03.2026 07:30 | 22 km | 77 km |
| 3.5 | 16.03.2026 23:43 | 23 km | 77 km |
| 3.5 | 10.03.2026 20:50 | 24 km | 79 km |
| 4.1 | 07.03.2026 20:31 | 15 km | 76 km |
| 3.9 | 07.03.2026 18:15 | 10 km | 83 km |
| 3.8 | 07.03.2026 16:36 | 23 km | 84 km |
| 3.5 | 19.01.2026 20:46 | 15 km | 176 km |
| 4.2 | 16.01.2026 21:15 | 12.2 km | 196 km |
| 3.8 | 02.12.2025 01:46 | 71 km | 100 km |
| 4.2 | 26.11.2025 04:29 | 26 km | 149 km |
| 3.7 | 19.11.2025 07:22 | 24 km | 73 km |
| 3.7 | 03.11.2025 15:38 | 36 km | 197 km |
| 3.7 | 02.10.2025 13:33 | 9 km | 70 km |
| 3.9 | 26.09.2025 01:05 | 14 km | 181 km |
| 3.6 | 04.06.2025 00:19 | 14 km | 40 km |
| 3.6 | 02.05.2025 19:37 | 18 km | 36 km |
| 4.2 | 26.04.2025 02:40 | 112.2 km | 112 km |
| 3.5 | 28.03.2025 01:13 | 11 km | 45 km |
| 4.0 | 25.03.2025 10:18 | 29 km | 182 km |
| 3.8 | 21.03.2025 23:45 | 20 km | 93 km |
| 3.5 | 05.03.2025 14:31 | 13 km | 126 km |
| 4.5 | 29.01.2025 20:34 | 5 km | 164 km |
| 4.0 | 18.12.2024 13:33 | 148 km | 223 km |
| 3.5 | 11.12.2024 07:35 | 17 km | 48 km |
| 4.0 | 09.12.2024 12:51 | 98 km | 112 km |
| 4.1 | 06.12.2024 09:02 | 57 km | 171 km |
| 3.6 | 03.11.2024 06:07 | 13 km | 44 km |
| 4.2 | 28.08.2024 16:05 | 40.1 km | 141 km |
| 4.0 | 04.08.2024 12:45 | 296.7 km | 206 km |
| 4.4 | 21.07.2024 23:56 | 35 km | 147 km |
| 4.0 | 10.07.2024 18:46 | 18 km | 130 km |
| 4.2 | 28.06.2024 12:09 | 10 km | 206 km |
| 4.4 | 14.05.2024 03:00 | 35 km | 216 km |
| 4.0 | 30.03.2024 00:39 | 18 km | 49 km |
| 3.5 | 29.03.2024 22:25 | 21 km | 41 km |
| 3.9 | 26.03.2024 07:15 | 27 km | 51 km |
| 3.6 | 26.03.2024 04:07 | 18 km | 46 km |
| 4.0 | 25.03.2024 18:47 | 35 km | 48 km |
| 4.3 | 23.03.2024 22:35 | 35 km | 115 km |
| 4.3 | 17.02.2024 03:45 | 4.1 km | 151 km |
| 4.2 | 01.02.2024 00:07 | 128 km | 141 km |
| 4.2 | 22.01.2024 17:21 | 131 km | 131 km |
| 4.8 | 09.01.2024 01:05 | 53.8 km | 228 km |
| 4.0 | 13.12.2023 22:32 | 68 km | 134 km |
| 4.6 | 28.11.2023 08:07 | 116.2 km | 177 km |
| 3.6 | 16.11.2023 00:49 | 12 km | 49 km |
| 3.6 | 07.11.2023 21:51 | 8 km | 39 km |
| 4.0 | 25.10.2023 13:03 | 115 km | 209 km |
| 4.3 | 14.10.2023 01:46 | 0 km | 85 km |
| 4.1 | 03.10.2023 03:59 | 17 km | 36 km |
| 4.2 | 30.08.2023 10:14 | 43 km | 211 km |
| 3.6 | 26.08.2023 03:21 | 18 km | 49 km |
| 3.7 | 11.08.2023 22:32 | 14 km | 46 km |
| 3.9 | 26.07.2023 12:09 | 19 km | 60 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.