3.0
597
recorded earthquakes
M7.7
largest
1919–2026
record span
4.40
mean magnitude
99
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.7 | 16.07.1990 07:26 | 23.9 km | 130 km |
| 7.6 | 01.08.1968 20:19 | 25.3 km | 110 km |
| 7.2 | 18.03.1977 21:43 | 27.6 km | 109 km |
| 7.2 | 11.12.1999 18:03 | 52.1 km | 192 km |
| 7.2 | 23.05.1938 08:21 | 15 km | 179 km |
| 7.2 | 07.04.1970 05:34 | 27.9 km | 126 km |
| 7.2 | 29.12.1949 03:03 | 15 km | 71 km |
| 7.1 | 27.07.2022 00:43 | 22.5 km | 91 km |
| 6.9 | 22.05.1972 06:04 | 30.5 km | 113 km |
| 6.8 | 21.07.1977 13:45 | 40.5 km | 134 km |
| 6.5 | 25.10.2022 14:59 | 20.6 km | 109 km |
| 6.5 | 03.01.1950 02:51 | 30 km | 85 km |
| 6.5 | 17.07.1990 21:14 | 26.3 km | 51 km |
| 6.4 | 03.08.1968 06:25 | 19.5 km | 111 km |
| 6.4 | 31.03.1980 12:41 | 31.2 km | 111 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 05.07.2026 12:15 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 3.3 | 19.06.2026 13:43 | 28 km | 44 km |
| 3.0 | 05.06.2026 02:55 | 6 km | 43 km |
| 3.3 | 30.04.2026 23:38 | 8 km | 44 km |
| 3.0 | 25.03.2026 17:52 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 3.0 | 09.01.2026 23:55 | 111 km | 47 km |
| 3.4 | 13.12.2025 16:24 | 6 km | 40 km |
| 3.6 | 21.09.2025 09:46 | 5 km | 40 km |
| 3.2 | 18.09.2025 20:25 | 158 km | 41 km |
| 3.0 | 10.08.2025 20:22 | 12 km | 35 km |
| 3.9 | 22.07.2025 14:35 | 5 km | 28 km |
| 3.2 | 11.07.2025 21:31 | 14 km | 44 km |
| 3.0 | 28.06.2025 20:25 | 25 km | 47 km |
| 3.3 | 05.06.2025 14:44 | 18 km | 45 km |
| 3.0 | 03.06.2025 21:53 | 14 km | 47 km |
| 3.1 | 03.06.2025 21:27 | 10 km | 53 km |
| 3.0 | 03.06.2025 16:52 | 27 km | 42 km |
| 3.0 | 03.06.2025 15:52 | 23 km | 44 km |
| 3.7 | 03.06.2025 15:08 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 3.1 | 03.06.2025 14:26 | 34 km | 39 km |
| 3.0 | 03.06.2025 14:06 | 21 km | 40 km |
| 3.2 | 03.06.2025 08:01 | 14 km | 49 km |
| 3.2 | 03.06.2025 04:36 | 17 km | 48 km |
| 4.1 | 03.06.2025 04:28 | 5 km | 52 km |
| 3.3 | 02.06.2025 12:07 | 6 km | 54 km |
| 5.2 | 24.05.2025 02:36 | 31 km | 83 km |
| 3.0 | 10.04.2025 00:04 | 16 km | 37 km |
| 3.2 | 09.04.2025 23:30 | 10 km | 42 km |
| 3.6 | 09.04.2025 23:21 | 8 km | 45 km |
| 4.0 | 21.03.2025 22:34 | 10 km | 27 km |
| 3.0 | 07.02.2025 20:14 | 5 km | 42 km |
| 3.4 | 20.12.2024 14:37 | 3 km | 48 km |
| 3.7 | 20.12.2024 08:33 | 5 km | 32 km |
| 3.4 | 05.12.2024 17:27 | 13 km | 32 km |
| 3.4 | 28.10.2024 14:29 | 10 km | 42 km |
| 3.0 | 30.09.2024 09:14 | 10 km | 43 km |
| 3.8 | 03.09.2024 02:44 | 5 km | 49 km |
| 3.4 | 18.08.2024 20:51 | 9.4 km | 53 km |
| 3.7 | 19.07.2024 21:20 | 9 km | 49 km |
| 4.0 | 15.07.2024 14:12 | 5 km | 49 km |
| 3.0 | 04.04.2024 02:07 | 6 km | 41 km |
| 3.1 | 27.03.2024 18:08 | 9 km | 48 km |
| 3.6 | 06.02.2024 04:20 | 35 km | 28 km |
| 3.7 | 02.02.2024 17:01 | 13 km | 36 km |
| 3.1 | 09.09.2023 14:26 | 6 km | 27 km |
| 3.2 | 26.07.2023 21:35 | 7 km | 47 km |
| 3.0 | 20.07.2023 17:48 | 5 km | 44 km |
| 3.4 | 18.04.2023 14:59 | 188 km | 20 km |
| 3.1 | 05.04.2023 20:48 | 14 km | 42 km |
| 3.8 | 25.03.2023 21:35 | 11.5 km | 42 km |
| 3.0 | 06.02.2023 19:32 | 24 km | 31 km |
| 3.1 | 06.01.2023 22:16 | 4 km | 47 km |
| 4.1 | 25.12.2022 23:04 | 101.7 km | 60 km |
| 5.0 | 19.12.2022 09:05 | 15.4 km | 69 km |
| 4.7 | 03.12.2022 07:55 | 9.3 km | 53 km |
| 4.2 | 26.11.2022 20:27 | 9 km | 70 km |
| 3.1 | 20.11.2022 14:47 | 8 km | 50 km |
| 3.2 | 09.11.2022 09:34 | 1 km | 55 km |
| 3.5 | 07.11.2022 14:59 | 5 km | 49 km |
| 6.5 | 25.10.2022 14:59 | 20.6 km | 109 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.