3.9
1,299
recorded earthquakes
M7.4
largest
1905–2026
record span
4.28
mean magnitude
842
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.4 | 30.09.2025 14:12 | 10 km | 151 km |
| 7.1 | 05.03.1908 02:17 | 15 km | 173 km |
| 7.1 | 15.10.2013 00:12 | 23.2 km | 6 km |
| 7.0 | 07.06.1947 18:47 | 15 km | 157 km |
| 6.8 | 05.05.1925 10:06 | 15 km | 122 km |
| 6.7 | 08.02.1990 07:15 | 27.5 km | 60 km |
| 6.7 | 06.02.2012 03:49 | 17.5 km | 105 km |
| 6.6 | 04.09.1981 11:15 | 643.8 km | 31 km |
| 6.6 | 08.02.1990 07:47 | 27.2 km | 61 km |
| 6.5 | 20.09.1973 20:43 | 545.6 km | 79 km |
| 6.5 | 11.10.1906 05:10 | 15 km | 72 km |
| 6.5 | 10.02.2017 14:03 | 14.9 km | 140 km |
| 6.3 | 28.04.1913 18:39 | 15 km | 138 km |
| 6.3 | 28.09.1996 14:10 | 235.7 km | 139 km |
| 6.2 | 24.05.1931 00:13 | 35 km | 146 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.9 | 30.07.2026 03:21 | 10 km | 11 km |
| 3.1 | 08.06.2026 08:47 | 6 km | 5 km |
| 3.5 | 26.04.2026 15:06 | 21 km | 63 km |
| 3.5 | 12.12.2025 06:46 | 2 km | 10 km |
| 3.2 | 24.10.2025 13:19 | 10 km | 56 km |
| 7.4 | 30.09.2025 14:12 | 10 km | 151 km |
| 3.1 | 04.09.2025 15:09 | 3 km | 54 km |
| 3.3 | 29.04.2025 15:38 | 9 km | 32 km |
| 5.8 | 22.01.2025 23:39 | 9 km | 110 km |
| 3.0 | 30.12.2024 18:40 | 1 km | 16 km |
| 3.1 | 10.12.2024 14:27 | 7 km | 34 km |
| 3.6 | 22.11.2024 09:59 | 22 km | 56 km |
| 3.7 | 30.10.2024 06:33 | 8 km | 66 km |
| 3.7 | 29.10.2024 17:13 | 8 km | 66 km |
| 3.2 | 24.10.2024 21:25 | 20 km | 62 km |
| 3.3 | 24.10.2024 15:47 | 3 km | 42 km |
| 4.1 | 22.10.2024 11:28 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 3.0 | 20.10.2024 19:01 | 5 km | 39 km |
| 3.6 | 19.10.2024 05:59 | 5 km | 41 km |
| 3.9 | 16.10.2024 03:03 | 0 km | 38 km |
| 3.1 | 08.10.2024 17:06 | 4 km | 18 km |
| 5.1 | 29.09.2024 06:53 | 47.3 km | 83 km |
| 3.3 | 20.08.2024 08:31 | 7 km | 28 km |
| 3.0 | 19.08.2024 04:45 | 4 km | 25 km |
| 3.1 | 15.07.2024 11:59 | 8 km | 37 km |
| 4.2 | 29.06.2024 21:22 | 600 km | 1 km |
| 4.1 | 10.05.2024 19:50 | 7 km | 7 km |
| 3.0 | 09.01.2024 00:22 | 22 km | 14 km |
| 3.0 | 21.12.2023 03:21 | 7 km | 53 km |
| 3.2 | 01.08.2023 19:37 | 3 km | 11 km |
| 3.3 | 31.05.2023 13:19 | 10 km | 7 km |
| 4.1 | 23.01.2023 12:18 | 0 km | 72 km |
| 3.0 | 19.10.2022 05:49 | 1 km | 51 km |
| 3.0 | 07.09.2022 23:07 | 12 km | 56 km |
| 5.0 | 06.07.2022 14:43 | 23 km | 84 km |
| 3.0 | 13.06.2022 04:35 | 6 km | 54 km |
| 3.2 | 14.05.2022 00:30 | 5 km | 59 km |
| 3.4 | 21.04.2022 09:41 | 2 km | 63 km |
| 3.4 | 26.03.2022 09:31 | 7 km | 16 km |
| 3.1 | 10.03.2022 04:33 | 5 km | 21 km |
| 3.0 | 08.12.2021 07:15 | 16 km | 39 km |
| 3.2 | 12.10.2021 15:16 | 18.3 km | 8 km |
| 4.7 | 12.10.2021 15:16 | 10 km | 12 km |
| 4.2 | 12.10.2021 03:16 | 10 km | 11 km |
| 3.0 | 10.10.2021 00:04 | 8 km | 31 km |
| 4.3 | 26.09.2021 05:30 | 15.2 km | 26 km |
| 3.4 | 21.09.2021 07:59 | 1 km | 8 km |
| 3.4 | 13.09.2021 11:34 | 15 km | 39 km |
| 3.2 | 02.06.2021 06:22 | 34 km | 22 km |
| 3.5 | 19.05.2021 09:07 | 8 km | 7 km |
| 3.1 | 16.04.2021 20:31 | 4 km | 45 km |
| 3.0 | 22.02.2021 16:11 | 10 km | 58 km |
| 3.0 | 11.02.2021 15:11 | 7 km | 58 km |
| 3.0 | 06.02.2021 19:49 | 1 km | 18 km |
| 3.6 | 31.12.2020 09:20 | 28 km | 45 km |
| 4.3 | 29.12.2020 18:43 | 532.8 km | 51 km |
| 3.1 | 04.12.2020 20:04 | 23 km | 4 km |
| 3.1 | 22.10.2020 09:38 | 7 km | 5 km |
| 3.7 | 20.09.2020 19:18 | 1 km | 12 km |
| 3.2 | 13.09.2020 04:35 | 4 km | 10 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.