4.6
422
recorded earthquakes
M8.1
largest
1901–2026
record span
4.53
mean magnitude
141
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.1 | 24.01.1948 17:46 | 15 km | 193 km |
| 7.8 | 14.12.1901 22:57 | 0 km | 165 km |
| 7.4 | 17.03.1973 08:30 | 28.4 km | 129 km |
| 7.4 | 18.04.1907 23:52 | 35 km | 140 km |
| 7.3 | 08.04.1942 15:40 | 15 km | 194 km |
| 7.1 | 18.04.1907 20:59 | 35 km | 186 km |
| 7.1 | 14.11.1994 19:15 | 27.4 km | 169 km |
| 7.0 | 14.06.1990 07:40 | 25.2 km | 105 km |
| 7.0 | 05.11.1941 17:38 | 15 km | 144 km |
| 7.0 | 12.03.1915 14:48 | 40 km | 206 km |
| 7.0 | 09.07.1907 18:54 | 60 km | 186 km |
| 7.0 | 15.06.1928 06:12 | 25 km | 116 km |
| 6.8 | 09.05.1941 05:32 | 15 km | 139 km |
| 6.8 | 15.06.1928 17:16 | 15 km | 134 km |
| 6.8 | 05.02.1970 22:06 | 8.5 km | 27 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.6 | 21.07.2026 13:48 | 10 km | 76 km |
| 3.5 | 14.07.2026 07:35 | 66.8 km | 49 km |
| 5.3 | 14.07.2026 07:04 | 10 km | 97 km |
| 5.4 | 13.07.2026 00:54 | 10 km | 99 km |
| 5.3 | 08.06.2026 04:53 | 0 km | 72 km |
| 3.3 | 28.04.2026 21:29 | 9 km | 78 km |
| 3.8 | 26.03.2026 08:42 | 10 km | 10 km |
| 3.0 | 21.03.2026 20:52 | 12 km | 38 km |
| 3.7 | 07.03.2026 14:33 | 10 km | 25 km |
| 3.0 | 21.02.2026 16:43 | 7 km | 31 km |
| 3.8 | 18.02.2026 16:22 | 4 km | 16 km |
| 3.7 | 20.01.2026 15:05 | 10 km | 7 km |
| 3.0 | 30.12.2025 13:01 | 2 km | 61 km |
| 4.5 | 06.12.2025 15:40 | 0 km | 82 km |
| 4.8 | 25.10.2025 06:34 | 10 km | 86 km |
| 3.1 | 18.10.2025 16:19 | 6 km | 76 km |
| 3.9 | 17.08.2025 01:27 | 10 km | 76 km |
| 3.3 | 18.06.2025 21:15 | 10 km | 26 km |
| 3.9 | 18.06.2025 08:03 | 10 km | 74 km |
| 4.4 | 25.04.2025 03:47 | 10 km | 90 km |
| 3.9 | 04.03.2025 21:32 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 5.0 | 15.02.2025 00:28 | 10 km | 92 km |
| 3.1 | 24.01.2025 01:20 | 12 km | 81 km |
| 4.2 | 06.01.2025 02:01 | 10 km | 76 km |
| 3.2 | 02.01.2025 18:23 | 10 km | 72 km |
| 3.9 | 23.08.2024 07:54 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 3.8 | 10.08.2024 22:28 | 13 km | 86 km |
| 3.5 | 14.05.2024 11:19 | 2 km | 69 km |
| 3.3 | 21.12.2023 16:11 | 17 km | 40 km |
| 5.2 | 14.12.2023 10:55 | 0 km | 125 km |
| 4.4 | 04.11.2023 03:45 | 0 km | 75 km |
| 3.3 | 03.11.2023 12:33 | 23 km | 5 km |
| 4.2 | 23.08.2023 17:42 | 17 km | 88 km |
| 5.2 | 23.08.2023 17:38 | 15.4 km | 91 km |
| 3.0 | 03.07.2023 13:27 | 1 km | 38 km |
| 3.4 | 15.06.2023 14:32 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 3.5 | 11.06.2023 20:16 | 1 km | 38 km |
| 3.0 | 11.06.2023 14:52 | 1 km | 36 km |
| 3.0 | 11.06.2023 12:52 | 30 km | 18 km |
| 3.7 | 11.06.2023 11:37 | 6 km | 38 km |
| 3.7 | 11.06.2023 11:27 | 9 km | 39 km |
| 3.1 | 11.06.2023 10:49 | 8 km | 38 km |
| 3.0 | 11.06.2023 10:31 | 5 km | 31 km |
| 4.2 | 03.06.2023 14:29 | 19 km | 40 km |
| 4.0 | 20.05.2023 22:27 | 3 km | 75 km |
| 3.0 | 20.05.2023 02:32 | 2 km | 41 km |
| 4.3 | 20.05.2023 02:18 | 0 km | 52 km |
| 3.1 | 20.05.2023 02:17 | 1 km | 44 km |
| 3.0 | 20.05.2023 01:57 | 29 km | 27 km |
| 3.0 | 20.05.2023 00:49 | 1 km | 29 km |
| 4.9 | 20.05.2023 00:40 | 18.6 km | 42 km |
| 3.5 | 17.05.2023 09:30 | 4 km | 13 km |
| 4.4 | 24.04.2023 05:50 | 16 km | 87 km |
| 3.2 | 11.01.2023 12:06 | 14 km | 80 km |
| 3.2 | 13.06.2022 18:46 | 15 km | 33 km |
| 3.4 | 22.11.2021 06:25 | 10 km | 35 km |
| 3.1 | 07.11.2021 16:15 | 12 km | 78 km |
| 4.2 | 23.07.2021 22:20 | 10 km | 75 km |
| 3.0 | 25.06.2021 20:41 | 1 km | 22 km |
| 4.0 | 03.04.2021 17:01 | 18 km | 91 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.