No records in the last 30 days.
352
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1901–2026
record span
4.23
mean magnitude
87
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.8 | 14.12.1901 22:57 | 0 km | 76 km |
| 7.4 | 17.03.1973 08:30 | 28.4 km | 74 km |
| 7.4 | 18.04.1907 23:52 | 35 km | 73 km |
| 7.3 | 20.08.1937 11:59 | 15 km | 123 km |
| 7.1 | 18.04.1907 20:59 | 35 km | 34 km |
| 7.1 | 14.11.1994 19:15 | 27.4 km | 194 km |
| 7.1 | 11.01.1982 06:10 | 30.5 km | 182 km |
| 7.0 | 05.11.1941 17:38 | 15 km | 161 km |
| 7.0 | 09.07.1907 18:54 | 60 km | 34 km |
| 7.0 | 12.04.1970 04:01 | 21.1 km | 132 km |
| 6.8 | 09.05.1941 05:32 | 15 km | 44 km |
| 6.6 | 24.11.1907 13:58 | 15 km | 83 km |
| 6.5 | 21.03.1919 01:02 | 50 km | 125 km |
| 6.5 | 05.02.1938 09:55 | 160 km | 141 km |
| 6.4 | 16.11.1907 22:05 | 30 km | 105 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 17.06.2026 10:31 | 68.4 km | 46 km |
| 3.7 | 05.02.2026 03:18 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 3.1 | 02.12.2025 13:43 | 1 km | 36 km |
| 3.1 | 02.09.2025 13:29 | 10 km | 46 km |
| 3.4 | 02.09.2025 12:12 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 3.1 | 31.08.2025 20:58 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 3.3 | 30.08.2025 13:39 | 6 km | 43 km |
| 3.7 | 24.08.2025 19:29 | 0 km | 55 km |
| 3.7 | 23.08.2025 19:51 | 2 km | 46 km |
| 3.5 | 20.08.2025 21:05 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 3.2 | 18.08.2025 18:56 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 3.5 | 14.08.2025 00:13 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 3.8 | 13.08.2025 22:28 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 4.0 | 11.08.2025 04:07 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 3.7 | 31.07.2025 04:12 | 90 km | 50 km |
| 3.3 | 04.05.2025 21:58 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 3.5 | 03.04.2025 01:12 | 1 km | 35 km |
| 4.4 | 03.04.2025 00:28 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 3.0 | 02.02.2025 19:58 | 2 km | 21 km |
| 4.0 | 20.01.2025 15:52 | 5 km | 50 km |
| 3.0 | 10.11.2024 00:20 | 1 km | 44 km |
| 3.1 | 03.11.2024 13:06 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 5.4 | 03.09.2024 23:16 | 24.5 km | 86 km |
| 4.2 | 26.08.2024 05:07 | 0 km | 56 km |
| 3.5 | 10.06.2024 20:13 | 53 km | 38 km |
| 3.1 | 16.05.2024 01:04 | 3 km | 63 km |
| 3.3 | 27.04.2024 04:30 | 7 km | 62 km |
| 3.1 | 26.04.2024 15:22 | 1 km | 6 km |
| 3.8 | 25.04.2024 20:37 | 3 km | 64 km |
| 3.0 | 21.03.2024 20:02 | 5 km | 65 km |
| 3.7 | 16.03.2024 20:29 | 6 km | 64 km |
| 3.6 | 25.02.2024 14:39 | 1 km | 53 km |
| 3.3 | 27.01.2024 11:25 | 1 km | 53 km |
| 3.7 | 26.01.2024 19:51 | 1 km | 59 km |
| 3.8 | 26.01.2024 13:52 | 1 km | 59 km |
| 3.5 | 26.01.2024 11:44 | 1 km | 59 km |
| 3.0 | 23.12.2023 20:24 | 1 km | 58 km |
| 4.5 | 21.12.2023 15:40 | 48.6 km | 64 km |
| 5.2 | 14.12.2023 10:55 | 0 km | 95 km |
| 3.1 | 08.12.2023 20:16 | 1 km | 17 km |
| 3.6 | 06.10.2023 11:35 | 5 km | 30 km |
| 3.1 | 06.09.2023 22:38 | 1 km | 34 km |
| 3.7 | 01.09.2023 09:50 | 1 km | 29 km |
| 3.7 | 31.08.2023 12:41 | 1 km | 31 km |
| 3.1 | 28.08.2023 01:20 | 5 km | 30 km |
| 3.9 | 24.08.2023 09:53 | 1 km | 34 km |
| 3.1 | 22.08.2023 10:08 | 5 km | 34 km |
| 3.0 | 22.08.2023 05:49 | 3 km | 30 km |
| 3.0 | 20.08.2023 20:22 | 7 km | 29 km |
| 3.5 | 20.08.2023 13:28 | 3 km | 33 km |
| 3.0 | 20.08.2023 05:18 | 1 km | 38 km |
| 3.0 | 20.08.2023 02:04 | 1 km | 34 km |
| 3.6 | 19.08.2023 23:29 | 3 km | 32 km |
| 3.4 | 19.08.2023 22:04 | 2 km | 29 km |
| 3.0 | 19.08.2023 19:27 | 1 km | 33 km |
| 3.1 | 19.08.2023 18:08 | 1 km | 31 km |
| 3.0 | 19.08.2023 17:57 | 7 km | 29 km |
| 3.0 | 19.08.2023 17:06 | 4 km | 33 km |
| 3.6 | 19.08.2023 16:34 | 4 km | 31 km |
| 3.4 | 19.08.2023 13:48 | 1 km | 32 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.