3.6
590
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1906–2026
record span
4.47
mean magnitude
113
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.2 | 23.07.1978 14:42 | 18.3 km | 183 km |
| 7.2 | 15.08.1959 08:57 | 25 km | 175 km |
| 7.2 | 22.08.1936 06:51 | 15 km | 161 km |
| 7.1 | 01.09.1910 00:45 | 0 km | 35 km |
| 7.1 | 16.04.1925 19:52 | 15 km | 148 km |
| 7.1 | 04.09.1935 01:37 | 15 km | 192 km |
| 7.0 | 19.06.1906 11:22 | 60 km | 78 km |
| 7.0 | 28.08.1916 07:27 | 15 km | 134 km |
| 6.9 | 21.12.1930 14:51 | 170 km | 85 km |
| 6.8 | 17.06.1910 05:28 | 0 km | 101 km |
| 6.7 | 18.05.1993 10:19 | 187.5 km | 100 km |
| 6.6 | 09.01.1913 02:55 | 35 km | 88 km |
| 6.5 | 19.05.1930 15:03 | 50 km | 90 km |
| 6.5 | 03.08.1926 03:41 | 15 km | 95 km |
| 6.4 | 11.04.1947 14:29 | 30 km | 86 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.6 | 21.07.2026 14:15 | 33 km | 47 km |
| 3.3 | 21.07.2026 02:36 | 168 km | 37 km |
| 3.5 | 16.05.2026 05:10 | 148 km | 9 km |
| 3.3 | 15.05.2026 21:39 | 21 km | 27 km |
| 5.7 | 12.02.2026 14:02 | 10 km | 104 km |
| 3.0 | 15.01.2026 21:46 | 28 km | 55 km |
| 3.8 | 30.12.2025 19:04 | 8 km | 58 km |
| 5.6 | 18.12.2025 07:27 | 28.1 km | 103 km |
| 4.3 | 01.11.2025 06:57 | 159.1 km | 64 km |
| 3.2 | 11.10.2025 15:47 | 8 km | 55 km |
| 3.3 | 07.08.2025 17:17 | 6 km | 22 km |
| 3.4 | 31.05.2025 22:48 | 13 km | 34 km |
| 3.0 | 30.05.2025 07:09 | 7 km | 55 km |
| 3.8 | 28.05.2025 14:57 | 10 km | 38 km |
| 4.6 | 28.05.2025 14:48 | 10 km | 38 km |
| 4.4 | 28.05.2025 02:31 | 10 km | 43 km |
| 4.8 | 27.05.2025 13:35 | 10 km | 43 km |
| 3.7 | 27.05.2025 13:27 | 15 km | 26 km |
| 4.7 | 27.05.2025 11:33 | 10 km | 40 km |
| 4.8 | 27.05.2025 11:02 | 10 km | 40 km |
| 3.7 | 27.05.2025 06:45 | 22 km | 41 km |
| 3.0 | 10.05.2025 08:19 | 118 km | 55 km |
| 4.2 | 02.05.2025 05:15 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 4.0 | 04.03.2025 22:21 | 10.2 km | 73 km |
| 3.5 | 12.01.2025 18:00 | 10 km | 19 km |
| 3.1 | 29.11.2024 01:49 | 1 km | 50 km |
| 5.0 | 18.11.2024 03:35 | 10 km | 37 km |
| 3.0 | 02.11.2024 20:51 | 2 km | 8 km |
| 3.2 | 25.10.2024 08:52 | 33 km | 18 km |
| 3.5 | 12.09.2024 11:26 | 176.5 km | 61 km |
| 3.7 | 09.09.2024 21:33 | 18 km | 30 km |
| 4.4 | 05.09.2024 21:28 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 3.6 | 01.09.2024 19:55 | 34 km | 32 km |
| 3.0 | 30.08.2024 12:02 | 28 km | 36 km |
| 3.1 | 29.08.2024 21:19 | 1 km | 44 km |
| 4.0 | 01.08.2024 00:35 | 211 km | 50 km |
| 4.4 | 25.07.2024 21:09 | 47 km | 59 km |
| 4.2 | 14.06.2024 14:22 | 27 km | 68 km |
| 5.3 | 23.04.2024 12:55 | 31.7 km | 83 km |
| 4.1 | 31.03.2024 12:14 | 10 km | 66 km |
| 3.4 | 29.03.2024 22:15 | 33 km | 26 km |
| 3.0 | 28.03.2024 16:32 | 9 km | 63 km |
| 4.1 | 19.03.2024 22:11 | 174.3 km | 52 km |
| 3.4 | 19.03.2024 15:07 | 32 km | 42 km |
| 3.5 | 19.03.2024 14:47 | 35 km | 60 km |
| 4.2 | 19.03.2024 14:42 | 35 km | 51 km |
| 3.2 | 08.03.2024 18:27 | 38 km | 8 km |
| 3.7 | 06.03.2024 13:26 | 2 km | 58 km |
| 3.2 | 03.01.2024 03:42 | 1 km | 50 km |
| 4.0 | 08.12.2023 09:05 | 43 km | 52 km |
| 4.0 | 02.12.2023 18:24 | 57.7 km | 42 km |
| 4.0 | 28.11.2023 21:11 | 10 km | 71 km |
| 4.1 | 04.11.2023 12:26 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 4.0 | 03.11.2023 05:16 | 10 km | 38 km |
| 3.0 | 24.10.2023 03:43 | 32 km | 38 km |
| 4.0 | 17.10.2023 14:41 | 23 km | 42 km |
| 3.5 | 02.10.2023 15:18 | 6 km | 45 km |
| 3.5 | 02.10.2023 15:06 | 18 km | 12 km |
| 3.3 | 15.09.2023 09:10 | 19 km | 52 km |
| 5.5 | 13.08.2023 01:43 | 58.7 km | 34 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.