5.4
302
recorded earthquakes
M7.4
largest
1907–2026
record span
4.69
mean magnitude
54
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 | 17.03.1973 08:30 | 28.4 km | 148 km |
| 7.4 | 18.04.1907 23:52 | 35 km | 136 km |
| 7.2 | 24.02.1988 03:52 | 29.6 km | 60 km |
| 7.2 | 13.11.1925 12:14 | 20 km | 141 km |
| 7.2 | 03.05.1943 01:59 | 15 km | 90 km |
| 7.1 | 18.04.1907 20:59 | 35 km | 134 km |
| 7.1 | 11.06.1996 18:22 | 28.6 km | 161 km |
| 7.1 | 11.01.1982 06:10 | 30.5 km | 20 km |
| 7.0 | 05.05.1995 03:53 | 23.2 km | 169 km |
| 7.0 | 05.11.1941 17:38 | 15 km | 135 km |
| 7.0 | 09.07.1907 18:54 | 60 km | 134 km |
| 6.7 | 02.07.1954 02:45 | 15 km | 109 km |
| 6.6 | 24.01.1982 06:08 | 22.2 km | 33 km |
| 6.6 | 02.08.1926 05:01 | 15 km | 54 km |
| 6.5 | 07.06.1976 07:36 | 27.2 km | 80 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.4 | 29.07.2026 15:10 | 46.3 km | 86 km |
| 3.4 | 26.07.2026 16:15 | 14 km | 20 km |
| 3.7 | 26.07.2026 14:56 | 7 km | 18 km |
| 3.6 | 17.07.2026 12:33 | 16 km | 33 km |
| 5.4 | 05.06.2026 13:57 | 14 km | 84 km |
| 3.8 | 04.05.2026 22:05 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 4.0 | 23.04.2026 14:16 | 10 km | 58 km |
| 3.3 | 08.02.2026 11:38 | 4 km | 50 km |
| 3.8 | 12.12.2025 00:22 | 0 km | 20 km |
| 3.1 | 28.08.2025 13:22 | 9 km | 29 km |
| 4.5 | 05.06.2025 13:17 | 10 km | 67 km |
| 3.2 | 01.02.2025 19:42 | 1 km | 27 km |
| 4.4 | 29.01.2025 16:50 | 10 km | 23 km |
| 3.1 | 22.12.2024 13:02 | 70 km | 39 km |
| 6.0 | 01.10.2024 21:19 | 10 km | 75 km |
| 4.4 | 27.07.2024 16:56 | 39.6 km | 22 km |
| 3.4 | 18.03.2024 19:24 | 19 km | 16 km |
| 3.7 | 27.02.2024 18:08 | 20 km | 23 km |
| 3.1 | 05.12.2023 20:02 | 12 km | 48 km |
| 3.6 | 29.11.2023 20:41 | 10 km | 15 km |
| 3.0 | 26.08.2023 19:35 | 12 km | 39 km |
| 3.1 | 20.08.2023 14:44 | 3 km | 29 km |
| 3.7 | 01.03.2023 10:58 | 1 km | 51 km |
| 3.2 | 04.11.2022 18:18 | 2 km | 12 km |
| 3.4 | 15.07.2022 09:16 | 1 km | 21 km |
| 3.5 | 02.07.2022 17:07 | 8 km | 29 km |
| 3.7 | 02.03.2022 18:03 | 4 km | 16 km |
| 3.1 | 01.12.2021 02:20 | 34 km | 33 km |
| 3.1 | 30.11.2021 20:58 | 13 km | 26 km |
| 3.1 | 28.10.2021 18:09 | 79 km | 38 km |
| 3.1 | 04.07.2021 14:10 | 20 km | 37 km |
| 4.0 | 02.07.2021 00:23 | 9 km | 58 km |
| 4.4 | 16.12.2020 00:00 | 31 km | 53 km |
| 3.3 | 21.11.2020 21:44 | 58 km | 27 km |
| 3.3 | 19.11.2020 16:40 | 23 km | 41 km |
| 4.3 | 15.11.2020 22:49 | 35 km | 48 km |
| 3.2 | 05.08.2020 22:21 | 13 km | 12 km |
| 5.1 | 19.03.2020 20:08 | 17.4 km | 75 km |
| 4.9 | 20.09.2019 18:04 | 39.1 km | 36 km |
| 4.4 | 28.08.2018 02:57 | 50 km | 62 km |
| 5.6 | 10.05.2018 11:57 | 29.1 km | 81 km |
| 6.2 | 05.05.2018 06:19 | 23.5 km | 78 km |
| 4.2 | 05.05.2018 02:18 | 31 km | 61 km |
| 4.0 | 04.12.2017 10:24 | 15 km | 50 km |
| 4.4 | 10.11.2017 07:42 | 0 km | 61 km |
| 4.1 | 18.10.2017 00:46 | 2 km | 44 km |
| 4.1 | 08.10.2017 04:00 | 71 km | 37 km |
| 4.7 | 28.09.2017 02:21 | 156 km | 30 km |
| 4.1 | 16.09.2017 17:33 | 10 km | 61 km |
| 4.0 | 30.08.2017 15:57 | 4 km | 61 km |
| 4.2 | 23.08.2017 13:57 | 13 km | 20 km |
| 4.3 | 17.08.2017 17:45 | 4 km | 54 km |
| 4.4 | 14.08.2017 04:54 | 1 km | 63 km |
| 4.4 | 30.07.2017 08:25 | 28 km | 54 km |
| 4.2 | 24.07.2017 08:55 | 17 km | 53 km |
| 4.2 | 20.07.2017 17:21 | 13 km | 34 km |
| 4.3 | 16.07.2017 19:30 | 7 km | 52 km |
| 4.1 | 17.06.2017 19:56 | 10 km | 43 km |
| 4.0 | 28.05.2017 18:23 | 7 km | 42 km |
| 4.1 | 15.04.2017 23:34 | 27 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.