3.0
600
recorded earthquakes
M7.7
largest
1927–2026
record span
4.55
mean magnitude
125
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 | 84 km |
| 7.6 | 01.08.1968 20:19 | 25.3 km | 50 km |
| 7.2 | 18.03.1977 21:43 | 27.6 km | 76 km |
| 7.2 | 29.12.1949 03:03 | 15 km | 128 km |
| 7.2 | 07.04.1970 05:34 | 27.9 km | 53 km |
| 7.1 | 27.07.2022 00:43 | 22.5 km | 169 km |
| 7.0 | 12.04.1970 04:01 | 21.1 km | 140 km |
| 6.9 | 22.05.1972 06:04 | 30.5 km | 66 km |
| 6.8 | 21.07.1977 13:45 | 40.5 km | 104 km |
| 6.8 | 23.04.1985 16:15 | 185.3 km | 146 km |
| 6.5 | 08.04.1970 21:23 | 26.2 km | 92 km |
| 6.5 | 17.07.1990 21:14 | 26.3 km | 68 km |
| 6.4 | 03.08.1968 06:25 | 19.5 km | 63 km |
| 6.4 | 28.08.1968 20:42 | 26 km | 95 km |
| 6.4 | 31.03.1980 12:41 | 31.2 km | 35 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 18.07.2026 11:03 | 7 km | 64 km |
| 3.6 | 30.04.2026 22:06 | 0 km | 42 km |
| 3.5 | 20.04.2026 21:07 | 0 km | 48 km |
| 3.2 | 18.04.2026 22:56 | 19 km | 22 km |
| 3.4 | 27.03.2026 21:48 | 33 km | 46 km |
| 3.1 | 09.02.2026 16:47 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 3.1 | 09.01.2026 17:12 | 10 km | 53 km |
| 4.1 | 28.11.2025 10:16 | 67.8 km | 55 km |
| 4.0 | 28.10.2025 16:54 | 6 km | 60 km |
| 4.0 | 11.09.2025 07:14 | 10 km | 71 km |
| 3.6 | 08.09.2025 08:55 | 15 km | 51 km |
| 4.0 | 17.08.2025 17:20 | 15 km | 47 km |
| 3.1 | 16.08.2025 16:44 | 14 km | 52 km |
| 3.6 | 11.08.2025 22:53 | 13 km | 20 km |
| 4.4 | 30.07.2025 02:41 | 10 km | 67 km |
| 3.5 | 27.07.2025 18:53 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 4.4 | 24.05.2025 11:07 | 64 km | 63 km |
| 3.6 | 14.05.2025 20:25 | 17 km | 46 km |
| 3.2 | 12.05.2025 13:43 | 10 km | 21 km |
| 3.7 | 02.04.2025 13:08 | 40 km | 34 km |
| 3.1 | 11.03.2025 12:19 | 28 km | 52 km |
| 3.1 | 09.12.2024 12:47 | 17 km | 46 km |
| 4.7 | 05.11.2024 01:48 | 79.8 km | 61 km |
| 3.4 | 18.09.2024 03:20 | 10 km | 46 km |
| 3.5 | 03.08.2024 21:10 | 11 km | 20 km |
| 3.1 | 31.05.2024 14:26 | 15 km | 45 km |
| 3.3 | 15.05.2024 19:19 | 42 km | 44 km |
| 3.9 | 28.04.2024 22:08 | 17 km | 42 km |
| 3.0 | 10.03.2024 15:21 | 9 km | 58 km |
| 3.7 | 02.02.2024 17:01 | 13 km | 47 km |
| 3.3 | 28.11.2023 09:27 | 37 km | 49 km |
| 3.0 | 13.10.2023 07:32 | 6 km | 45 km |
| 3.0 | 13.09.2023 17:43 | 17 km | 58 km |
| 3.2 | 19.07.2023 17:53 | 16 km | 38 km |
| 3.3 | 12.05.2023 22:11 | 12 km | 43 km |
| 3.0 | 04.03.2023 17:22 | 11 km | 47 km |
| 4.2 | 20.11.2022 01:55 | 39 km | 65 km |
| 4.5 | 13.09.2022 15:56 | 10 km | 34 km |
| 3.0 | 10.09.2022 10:51 | 4 km | 24 km |
| 4.2 | 28.08.2022 04:06 | 32 km | 57 km |
| 3.7 | 27.07.2022 13:35 | 14 km | 18 km |
| 7.1 | 27.07.2022 00:43 | 22.5 km | 169 km |
| 3.0 | 08.06.2022 16:12 | 14 km | 17 km |
| 3.6 | 25.05.2022 12:16 | 7 km | 57 km |
| 3.2 | 22.04.2022 18:04 | 19 km | 54 km |
| 3.4 | 17.02.2022 23:29 | 6 km | 51 km |
| 3.4 | 05.02.2022 11:16 | 50.6 km | 55 km |
| 4.1 | 16.01.2022 13:57 | 35 km | 72 km |
| 5.0 | 12.01.2022 20:20 | 1 km | 79 km |
| 3.1 | 11.11.2021 05:46 | 14 km | 41 km |
| 3.2 | 14.10.2021 16:42 | 1 km | 50 km |
| 4.2 | 04.10.2021 21:31 | 12.9 km | 52 km |
| 4.3 | 22.08.2021 15:55 | 23.6 km | 66 km |
| 3.0 | 04.07.2021 17:02 | 31 km | 55 km |
| 3.1 | 13.05.2021 14:08 | 38 km | 53 km |
| 3.1 | 28.04.2021 00:06 | 24 km | 67 km |
| 3.4 | 16.04.2021 06:07 | 40 km | 48 km |
| 2.6 | 19.10.2020 14:44 | 25 km | 35 km |
| 3.0 | 18.08.2020 19:12 | 18 km | 54 km |
| 3.9 | 09.06.2020 14:57 | 10 km | 51 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.