3.0
2,957
recorded earthquakes
M7.5
largest
1908–2026
record span
4.25
mean magnitude
1,205
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.5 | 31.10.1975 08:28 | 26 km | 172 km |
| 7.4 | 30.09.2025 14:12 | 10 km | 89 km |
| 7.2 | 24.02.1988 03:52 | 29.6 km | 195 km |
| 7.2 | 13.11.1925 12:14 | 20 km | 105 km |
| 7.2 | 03.05.1943 01:59 | 15 km | 151 km |
| 7.2 | 21.04.1995 00:34 | 22.4 km | 93 km |
| 7.1 | 05.03.1908 02:17 | 15 km | 43 km |
| 7.1 | 15.10.2013 00:12 | 23.2 km | 220 km |
| 7.1 | 29.08.1938 15:22 | 15 km | 81 km |
| 7.1 | 11.06.1996 18:22 | 28.6 km | 128 km |
| 7.0 | 05.05.1995 03:53 | 23.2 km | 103 km |
| 7.0 | 07.06.1947 18:47 | 15 km | 60 km |
| 7.0 | 05.11.1941 17:38 | 15 km | 188 km |
| 7.0 | 12.03.1915 14:48 | 40 km | 88 km |
| 6.9 | 30.09.2025 13:59 | 10 km | 93 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 21.07.2026 15:12 | 5 km | 56 km |
| 3.1 | 19.07.2026 19:43 | 5 km | 94 km |
| 4.5 | 09.07.2026 16:46 | 111.9 km | 115 km |
| 3.4 | 15.06.2026 14:15 | 10 km | 92 km |
| 3.8 | 15.06.2026 02:29 | 9 km | 49 km |
| 4.1 | 01.06.2026 13:27 | 10 km | 105 km |
| 3.1 | 25.05.2026 06:55 | 33 km | 58 km |
| 3.5 | 14.05.2026 21:33 | 170 km | 77 km |
| 3.7 | 13.05.2026 16:35 | 29 km | 70 km |
| 3.0 | 07.05.2026 19:37 | 26 km | 69 km |
| 3.2 | 04.05.2026 06:13 | 27 km | 65 km |
| 5.9 | 04.05.2026 06:09 | 49 km | 62 km |
| 4.2 | 20.04.2026 15:28 | 10 km | 100 km |
| 3.0 | 20.04.2026 00:37 | 8 km | 53 km |
| 4.3 | 17.04.2026 11:16 | 52.4 km | 68 km |
| 4.2 | 06.04.2026 07:22 | 10 km | 108 km |
| 4.2 | 01.04.2026 22:37 | 10 km | 110 km |
| 3.4 | 28.03.2026 15:24 | 10 km | 99 km |
| 3.7 | 28.03.2026 15:21 | 7 km | 99 km |
| 3.1 | 21.03.2026 20:10 | 191 km | 72 km |
| 3.7 | 20.03.2026 16:17 | 10 km | 78 km |
| 3.1 | 20.03.2026 14:24 | 21 km | 84 km |
| 4.3 | 17.03.2026 22:32 | 9.9 km | 123 km |
| 3.4 | 14.03.2026 23:19 | 8 km | 89 km |
| 3.0 | 13.03.2026 18:12 | 7 km | 52 km |
| 3.2 | 11.03.2026 18:19 | 8 km | 45 km |
| 4.6 | 10.03.2026 17:06 | 40.2 km | 94 km |
| 4.0 | 27.02.2026 02:08 | 0 km | 83 km |
| 3.0 | 10.02.2026 16:26 | 7 km | 98 km |
| 3.7 | 04.02.2026 13:14 | 0 km | 87 km |
| 3.2 | 20.01.2026 14:48 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 3.6 | 20.01.2026 03:27 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 3.1 | 17.01.2026 19:10 | 1 km | 104 km |
| 3.0 | 11.01.2026 20:10 | 12 km | 76 km |
| 3.0 | 03.01.2026 20:11 | 84 km | 65 km |
| 3.4 | 01.01.2026 19:57 | 7 km | 66 km |
| 3.0 | 27.12.2025 01:45 | 27 km | 81 km |
| 3.4 | 25.12.2025 12:29 | 8 km | 50 km |
| 3.3 | 22.12.2025 04:08 | 6 km | 99 km |
| 3.1 | 11.12.2025 16:45 | 10 km | 91 km |
| 3.0 | 11.12.2025 16:18 | 3 km | 69 km |
| 3.0 | 10.12.2025 15:20 | 5 km | 97 km |
| 3.0 | 07.12.2025 18:00 | 7 km | 55 km |
| 3.0 | 06.12.2025 05:55 | 4 km | 93 km |
| 3.2 | 28.11.2025 18:15 | 6 km | 97 km |
| 3.4 | 27.11.2025 23:07 | 6 km | 73 km |
| 3.2 | 24.11.2025 03:18 | 3 km | 105 km |
| 3.1 | 24.11.2025 01:07 | 5 km | 60 km |
| 3.2 | 24.11.2025 01:04 | 2 km | 58 km |
| 3.2 | 23.11.2025 18:12 | 1 km | 98 km |
| 3.9 | 23.11.2025 09:44 | 85.2 km | 85 km |
| 3.1 | 19.11.2025 20:28 | 4 km | 99 km |
| 3.5 | 19.11.2025 09:04 | 14 km | 103 km |
| 4.2 | 18.11.2025 11:36 | 5 km | 111 km |
| 4.0 | 16.11.2025 19:27 | 7 km | 93 km |
| 3.3 | 15.11.2025 20:34 | 6 km | 107 km |
| 5.0 | 15.11.2025 07:38 | 0 km | 103 km |
| 3.4 | 14.11.2025 10:48 | 4 km | 106 km |
| 3.1 | 14.11.2025 09:52 | 7 km | 108 km |
| 4.0 | 14.11.2025 09:00 | 10 km | 110 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.