2.8
1,574
recorded earthquakes
M6.0
largest
1909–2026
record span
1.54
mean magnitude
765
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | 23.04.1909 17:39 | 10 km | 140 km |
| 5.6 | 12.11.1934 08:31 | 35 km | 57 km |
| 5.6 | 02.09.2024 08:24 | 406.5 km | 113 km |
| 5.3 | 26.08.2024 04:11 | 28.3 km | 140 km |
| 5.0 | 20.10.1986 14:48 | 27 km | 133 km |
| 4.8 | 20.12.1989 04:15 | 16.1 km | 79 km |
| 4.7 | 26.08.1966 05:56 | 10 km | 53 km |
| 4.7 | 16.10.1977 07:45 | 33 km | 103 km |
| 4.3 | 04.07.1994 13:38 | 10 km | 95 km |
| 4.2 | 01.08.1963 01:49 | — | 73 km |
| 4.2 | 17.02.2009 16:00 | 12 km | 64 km |
| 4.2 | 12.09.1998 07:03 | 10 km | 89 km |
| 4.1 | 12.10.1986 21:32 | 10 km | 117 km |
| 4.1 | 04.12.1998 18:34 | 0 km | 110 km |
| 3.8 | 03.05.2012 14:16 | 12 km | 67 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.8 | 25.07.2026 06:52 | 14.5 km | 66 km |
| 1.8 | 10.07.2026 05:06 | 4.1 km | 65 km |
| 2.3 | 31.05.2026 18:53 | 2 km | 69 km |
| 2.1 | 30.05.2026 00:42 | 7.1 km | 65 km |
| 1.6 | 26.05.2026 09:54 | 0 km | 64 km |
| 1.9 | 24.05.2026 23:08 | 9.1 km | 46 km |
| 0.5 | 19.05.2026 12:47 | 0.3 km | 75 km |
| 2.1 | 16.05.2026 08:11 | 0 km | 89 km |
| 1.7 | 22.04.2026 00:16 | 5.3 km | 81 km |
| 2.0 | 30.03.2026 16:58 | 2.3 km | 30 km |
| 1.8 | 19.03.2026 01:35 | 1.9 km | 64 km |
| 2.0 | 15.03.2026 13:21 | 0 km | 70 km |
| 2.0 | 24.02.2026 02:38 | 1 km | 24 km |
| 2.1 | 20.02.2026 18:33 | 8.8 km | 105 km |
| 2.1 | 12.02.2026 01:41 | 20.2 km | 68 km |
| 1.6 | 08.02.2026 12:58 | 0 km | 92 km |
| 2.6 | 16.01.2026 04:30 | 19.3 km | 56 km |
| 1.6 | 05.12.2025 03:41 | 15.9 km | 87 km |
| 1.7 | 04.10.2025 03:45 | 10.7 km | 60 km |
| 1.6 | 15.09.2025 05:07 | 6.4 km | 88 km |
| 1.5 | 27.08.2025 20:12 | 0 km | 92 km |
| 2.0 | 21.08.2025 22:58 | 0 km | 26 km |
| 2.3 | 05.08.2025 03:51 | 0 km | 27 km |
| 2.4 | 14.07.2025 23:28 | 1 km | 69 km |
| 2.5 | 13.07.2025 17:28 | 2 km | 26 km |
| 1.8 | 10.07.2025 20:30 | 1.2 km | 73 km |
| 2.3 | 22.06.2025 00:16 | 16.5 km | 80 km |
| 2.0 | 31.05.2025 19:14 | 2 km | 27 km |
| 1.6 | 24.05.2025 06:06 | 14 km | 53 km |
| 2.1 | 10.05.2025 22:44 | 12.9 km | 60 km |
| 2.1 | 05.05.2025 08:50 | 26.4 km | 64 km |
| 2.0 | 24.03.2025 03:08 | 0 km | 28 km |
| 1.8 | 13.03.2025 22:24 | 0 km | 52 km |
| 3.0 | 19.02.2025 03:12 | 15 km | 62 km |
| 1.9 | 11.02.2025 04:59 | 18.1 km | 67 km |
| 1.5 | 31.01.2025 14:52 | 0.9 km | 58 km |
| 1.7 | 12.01.2025 05:52 | 4.4 km | 76 km |
| 2.1 | 11.01.2025 15:20 | 7.8 km | 80 km |
| 2.1 | 14.12.2024 09:04 | 21 km | 81 km |
| 1.7 | 26.11.2024 21:25 | 0 km | 23 km |
| 2.2 | 12.11.2024 20:06 | 6.9 km | 37 km |
| 1.9 | 12.11.2024 00:24 | 9.9 km | 54 km |
| 2.0 | 08.11.2024 11:17 | 13.5 km | 83 km |
| 1.7 | 09.10.2024 17:10 | 1 km | 71 km |
| 3.4 | 20.09.2024 22:33 | 10 km | 89 km |
| 1.7 | 17.09.2024 06:22 | 12 km | 69 km |
| 5.6 | 02.09.2024 08:24 | 406.5 km | 113 km |
| 5.3 | 26.08.2024 04:11 | 28.3 km | 140 km |
| 1.7 | 14.08.2024 21:52 | 23.4 km | 91 km |
| 1.6 | 22.07.2024 21:35 | 0 km | 68 km |
| 2.0 | 29.06.2024 12:06 | 0 km | 38 km |
| 3.5 | 29.06.2024 03:45 | 7 km | 41 km |
| 3.0 | 18.06.2024 16:02 | 16.8 km | 69 km |
| 1.6 | 02.06.2024 19:43 | 22.5 km | 79 km |
| 2.4 | 14.04.2024 18:32 | 0.1 km | 25 km |
| 1.8 | 03.04.2024 14:38 | 7 km | 65 km |
| 2.9 | 27.03.2024 17:57 | 24.3 km | 84 km |
| 2.2 | 17.03.2024 07:57 | 1.1 km | 21 km |
| 2.2 | 15.03.2024 14:52 | 7.8 km | 71 km |
| 2.4 | 09.03.2024 13:35 | 9.5 km | 64 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.