3.5
1,220
recorded earthquakes
M8.0
largest
1905–2026
record span
4.40
mean magnitude
657
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.0 | 16.08.1976 16:11 | 12.9 km | 239 km |
| 7.7 | 31.03.1955 18:17 | 35 km | 56 km |
| 7.6 | 23.07.2010 22:51 | 585.1 km | 193 km |
| 7.5 | 05.03.2002 21:16 | 32.4 km | 272 km |
| 7.5 | 23.07.2010 23:15 | 635.5 km | 149 km |
| 7.3 | 23.07.2010 22:08 | 611.6 km | 160 km |
| 7.3 | 19.12.1928 11:37 | 25 km | 207 km |
| 7.2 | 05.03.1984 03:33 | 654.8 km | 120 km |
| 7.2 | 20.10.1942 23:21 | 35 km | 30 km |
| 7.1 | 15.10.2013 00:12 | 23.2 km | 261 km |
| 7.1 | 17.08.1976 04:19 | 14.4 km | 89 km |
| 7.1 | 02.03.1923 16:48 | 15 km | 237 km |
| 7.1 | 11.07.2024 02:13 | 644.1 km | 209 km |
| 7.0 | 14.06.1978 12:32 | 23 km | 51 km |
| 6.8 | 26.05.2003 23:13 | 581.8 km | 173 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.5 | 02.08.2026 05:57 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 3.9 | 14.06.2026 07:25 | 0 km | 21 km |
| 3.9 | 13.06.2026 13:38 | 0 km | 97 km |
| 3.8 | 09.06.2026 07:10 | 0 km | 120 km |
| 4.0 | 01.06.2026 00:06 | 0 km | 123 km |
| 3.8 | 12.05.2026 08:00 | 10 km | 136 km |
| 3.0 | 04.05.2026 12:59 | 13 km | 90 km |
| 3.2 | 17.03.2026 11:38 | 2 km | 74 km |
| 3.1 | 12.03.2026 01:07 | 10 km | 12 km |
| 3.0 | 07.02.2026 13:36 | 17 km | 83 km |
| 4.0 | 02.02.2026 04:39 | 10 km | 102 km |
| 3.4 | 22.01.2026 13:59 | 17 km | 64 km |
| 3.4 | 19.01.2026 17:50 | 3 km | 82 km |
| 3.6 | 19.01.2026 17:36 | 117.9 km | 84 km |
| 3.1 | 16.12.2025 19:18 | 30 km | 107 km |
| 3.2 | 01.12.2025 13:54 | 15 km | 97 km |
| 3.1 | 30.11.2025 15:07 | 15 km | 89 km |
| 4.0 | 31.10.2025 10:14 | 10 km | 155 km |
| 3.2 | 28.10.2025 10:33 | 3 km | 104 km |
| 3.0 | 08.10.2025 08:37 | 5 km | 117 km |
| 3.0 | 29.09.2025 12:11 | 6 km | 71 km |
| 3.6 | 26.09.2025 15:16 | 0 km | 25 km |
| 4.4 | 22.09.2025 03:02 | 10 km | 85 km |
| 3.7 | 22.09.2025 02:11 | 10 km | 80 km |
| 3.1 | 20.09.2025 14:50 | 98 km | 66 km |
| 3.6 | 20.09.2025 14:47 | 10 km | 81 km |
| 3.2 | 06.09.2025 21:05 | 4 km | 84 km |
| 3.5 | 04.09.2025 21:31 | 10 km | 108 km |
| 3.0 | 04.09.2025 18:17 | 20 km | 88 km |
| 4.1 | 04.09.2025 07:39 | 10 km | 73 km |
| 5.0 | 31.08.2025 07:49 | 10 km | 109 km |
| 3.2 | 21.08.2025 16:50 | 16 km | 4 km |
| 3.0 | 16.08.2025 20:07 | 42 km | 90 km |
| 3.0 | 11.08.2025 17:18 | 3 km | 96 km |
| 3.4 | 07.08.2025 19:09 | 129 km | 83 km |
| 3.1 | 02.08.2025 03:48 | 49 km | 69 km |
| 3.0 | 25.06.2025 06:32 | 21 km | 69 km |
| 3.3 | 19.06.2025 21:24 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 3.1 | 13.06.2025 16:04 | 11 km | 72 km |
| 3.0 | 31.05.2025 23:42 | 32 km | 128 km |
| 5.0 | 18.05.2025 03:46 | 0 km | 70 km |
| 3.3 | 01.05.2025 14:27 | 31 km | 102 km |
| 3.1 | 04.04.2025 15:55 | 16 km | 115 km |
| 3.5 | 02.04.2025 20:37 | 10 km | 8 km |
| 3.3 | 03.03.2025 13:43 | 10 km | 93 km |
| 4.6 | 01.03.2025 06:47 | 114.4 km | 106 km |
| 3.7 | 22.02.2025 22:31 | 10 km | 102 km |
| 3.3 | 09.02.2025 20:29 | 27 km | 94 km |
| 4.6 | 29.01.2025 04:37 | 10 km | 93 km |
| 3.5 | 27.01.2025 14:59 | 33 km | 129 km |
| 3.5 | 24.01.2025 21:48 | 39 km | 77 km |
| 5.5 | 23.01.2025 03:41 | 62 km | 63 km |
| 3.6 | 17.01.2025 22:39 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 3.8 | 16.01.2025 09:04 | 22 km | 31 km |
| 3.3 | 12.01.2025 21:43 | 13 km | 76 km |
| 3.9 | 12.01.2025 09:55 | 10 km | 122 km |
| 4.1 | 04.01.2025 05:42 | 10 km | 119 km |
| 3.3 | 27.12.2024 22:53 | 25 km | 83 km |
| 3.6 | 01.12.2024 05:37 | 55 km | 75 km |
| 3.1 | 01.12.2024 02:10 | 25 km | 80 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.