4.0
1,515
recorded earthquakes
M7.5
largest
1905–2026
record span
4.29
mean magnitude
632
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 | 05.03.1908 02:16 | 0 km | 176 km |
| 7.4 | 30.09.2025 14:12 | 10 km | 146 km |
| 7.1 | 05.03.1908 02:17 | 15 km | 127 km |
| 7.1 | 15.10.2013 00:12 | 23.2 km | 111 km |
| 7.0 | 07.06.1947 18:47 | 15 km | 110 km |
| 6.9 | 30.09.2025 13:59 | 10 km | 141 km |
| 6.7 | 08.02.1990 07:15 | 27.5 km | 67 km |
| 6.7 | 10.02.1957 22:50 | 20 km | 129 km |
| 6.6 | 24.04.1913 10:15 | 15 km | 95 km |
| 6.6 | 04.09.1981 11:15 | 643.8 km | 127 km |
| 6.6 | 10.02.1957 22:32 | 20 km | 127 km |
| 6.6 | 11.02.1957 01:14 | 20 km | 123 km |
| 6.6 | 08.02.1990 07:47 | 27.2 km | 69 km |
| 6.5 | 06.07.2017 08:03 | 10.7 km | 98 km |
| 6.5 | 10.02.2017 14:03 | 14.9 km | 66 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 02.08.2026 22:22 | 10 km | 12 km |
| 3.0 | 24.07.2026 11:42 | 7 km | 53 km |
| 4.0 | 21.07.2026 03:56 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 3.2 | 14.07.2026 11:16 | 2 km | 20 km |
| 4.5 | 09.07.2026 16:46 | 111.9 km | 72 km |
| 3.4 | 02.05.2026 15:38 | 18 km | 20 km |
| 3.5 | 26.04.2026 15:06 | 21 km | 60 km |
| 3.2 | 23.04.2026 11:52 | 2 km | 25 km |
| 3.3 | 08.04.2026 16:34 | 2 km | 29 km |
| 3.1 | 03.03.2026 11:19 | 2 km | 21 km |
| 3.6 | 26.02.2026 16:24 | 218.3 km | 48 km |
| 3.1 | 23.02.2026 11:32 | 3 km | 13 km |
| 5.4 | 05.02.2026 18:15 | 175 km | 67 km |
| 3.0 | 01.02.2026 23:34 | 2 km | 26 km |
| 3.3 | 01.02.2026 23:21 | 1 km | 13 km |
| 3.0 | 21.01.2026 11:43 | 4 km | 20 km |
| 3.0 | 19.01.2026 18:07 | 3 km | 26 km |
| 3.1 | 24.12.2025 20:50 | 2 km | 27 km |
| 3.6 | 19.12.2025 08:54 | 120.4 km | 50 km |
| 3.0 | 08.11.2025 06:46 | 3 km | 51 km |
| 3.4 | 03.11.2025 11:20 | 3 km | 47 km |
| 3.0 | 26.10.2025 16:17 | 4 km | 25 km |
| 6.1 | 16.10.2025 23:03 | 32 km | 130 km |
| 4.6 | 15.10.2025 06:23 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 4.5 | 11.10.2025 13:54 | 209.1 km | 30 km |
| 7.4 | 30.09.2025 14:12 | 10 km | 146 km |
| 6.9 | 30.09.2025 13:59 | 10 km | 141 km |
| 5.3 | 08.09.2025 18:52 | 134.4 km | 69 km |
| 3.1 | 04.09.2025 01:58 | 22 km | 28 km |
| 3.8 | 04.09.2025 00:43 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 3.1 | 30.08.2025 03:31 | 2 km | 28 km |
| 3.0 | 30.08.2025 01:37 | 2 km | 30 km |
| 3.5 | 28.08.2025 16:00 | 10 km | 31 km |
| 3.1 | 31.07.2025 12:53 | 17 km | 41 km |
| 3.1 | 27.07.2025 10:28 | 1 km | 15 km |
| 3.1 | 13.07.2025 18:50 | 2 km | 14 km |
| 4.0 | 10.07.2025 10:59 | 116 km | 58 km |
| 3.3 | 07.07.2025 10:46 | 1 km | 16 km |
| 3.6 | 07.07.2025 01:13 | 6 km | 7 km |
| 3.1 | 04.07.2025 21:13 | 9 km | 60 km |
| 3.3 | 02.07.2025 20:01 | 1 km | 62 km |
| 3.6 | 27.06.2025 14:26 | 10 km | 14 km |
| 3.4 | 24.06.2025 11:59 | 9 km | 25 km |
| 3.1 | 18.06.2025 12:01 | 2 km | 21 km |
| 3.5 | 04.06.2025 13:07 | 10 km | 13 km |
| 3.0 | 26.05.2025 01:59 | 5 km | 36 km |
| 3.0 | 23.05.2025 16:43 | 197 km | 59 km |
| 3.2 | 23.05.2025 05:36 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 3.2 | 20.05.2025 03:52 | 5 km | 27 km |
| 3.1 | 06.05.2025 17:17 | 182 km | 41 km |
| 4.2 | 29.04.2025 13:26 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 3.2 | 25.04.2025 02:38 | 3 km | 19 km |
| 4.1 | 14.04.2025 16:18 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 3.0 | 05.04.2025 18:53 | 2 km | 36 km |
| 3.2 | 22.03.2025 21:12 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 3.0 | 10.03.2025 16:26 | 10 km | 21 km |
| 4.3 | 25.02.2025 16:29 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 3.1 | 14.02.2025 07:55 | 11 km | 30 km |
| 3.0 | 08.02.2025 01:26 | 5 km | 34 km |
| 5.0 | 02.02.2025 15:43 | 119.5 km | 55 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.