2.0
548
recorded earthquakes
M6.0
largest
1909–2026
record span
2.16
mean magnitude
332
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 | 78 km |
| 5.4 | 18.05.1927 01:42 | 35 km | 75 km |
| 5.2 | 28.02.1926 22:12 | 10 km | 66 km |
| 4.8 | 08.04.1989 03:36 | 4.1 km | 44 km |
| 4.7 | 21.10.1969 23:10 | 13 km | 69 km |
| 4.7 | 20.09.1973 19:19 | 33 km | 70 km |
| 4.4 | 29.12.2005 04:25 | 4 km | 57 km |
| 4.4 | 19.02.2026 12:13 | 1 km | 69 km |
| 4.3 | 04.06.1987 03:28 | 10 km | 77 km |
| 4.2 | 17.08.2017 06:44 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 4.1 | 15.04.1976 06:01 | 12 km | 58 km |
| 4.1 | 27.03.2010 13:37 | 15 km | 77 km |
| 4.1 | 15.01.2018 11:51 | 10.9 km | 67 km |
| 4.0 | 10.04.2001 14:48 | 10.8 km | 66 km |
| 4.0 | 05.08.1987 17:26 | 10 km | 82 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.0 | 08.07.2026 01:49 | 10 km | 70 km |
| 2.2 | 26.06.2026 20:49 | 0 km | 92 km |
| 2.2 | 16.06.2026 09:01 | 15.7 km | 61 km |
| 2.0 | 22.03.2026 14:54 | 7.6 km | 59 km |
| 2.0 | 21.03.2026 17:03 | 15.5 km | 70 km |
| 2.1 | 22.02.2026 21:32 | 0.7 km | 66 km |
| 2.4 | 19.02.2026 15:16 | 6 km | 62 km |
| 2.2 | 19.02.2026 15:15 | 0.4 km | 56 km |
| 4.0 | 19.02.2026 12:16 | 1.1 km | 60 km |
| 4.4 | 19.02.2026 12:13 | 1 km | 69 km |
| 2.3 | 13.01.2026 07:01 | 10 km | 75 km |
| 2.0 | 27.10.2025 02:07 | 0.8 km | 47 km |
| 2.1 | 15.10.2025 06:09 | 1.5 km | 58 km |
| 2.6 | 01.10.2025 20:18 | 10 km | 67 km |
| 1.7 | 04.09.2025 09:44 | 11.5 km | 78 km |
| 2.5 | 31.07.2025 22:55 | 13.2 km | 22 km |
| 2.3 | 14.06.2025 13:04 | 1 km | 17 km |
| 2.1 | 03.06.2025 00:17 | 0 km | 90 km |
| 2.3 | 31.05.2025 00:56 | 11.1 km | 40 km |
| 2.4 | 21.05.2025 02:11 | 0.4 km | 68 km |
| 2.6 | 12.04.2025 17:36 | 5 km | 60 km |
| 2.3 | 22.03.2025 20:47 | 13.4 km | 44 km |
| 2.0 | 02.03.2025 21:42 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 2.0 | 29.01.2025 10:55 | 10.7 km | 74 km |
| 3.8 | 27.12.2024 13:29 | 29.4 km | 55 km |
| 2.4 | 18.12.2024 08:19 | 0 km | 72 km |
| 2.0 | 27.10.2024 05:22 | 11.9 km | 71 km |
| 3.2 | 18.10.2024 00:55 | 11.1 km | 45 km |
| 2.8 | 02.10.2024 14:26 | 15.7 km | 56 km |
| 2.2 | 11.09.2024 16:02 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 2.0 | 22.08.2024 03:45 | 16 km | 41 km |
| 2.8 | 11.08.2024 06:18 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 2.2 | 13.04.2024 08:12 | 13.4 km | 57 km |
| 2.4 | 09.01.2024 10:18 | 16.3 km | 74 km |
| 2.7 | 30.12.2023 07:04 | 7.2 km | 78 km |
| 3.4 | 29.12.2023 12:08 | 12.5 km | 55 km |
| 4.0 | 25.12.2023 21:02 | 3.1 km | 51 km |
| 2.2 | 03.11.2023 10:37 | 10 km | 24 km |
| 2.4 | 22.08.2023 07:10 | 17.2 km | 59 km |
| 3.0 | 13.08.2023 21:24 | 0.1 km | 72 km |
| 2.8 | 13.08.2023 21:16 | 0 km | 72 km |
| 2.4 | 06.08.2023 11:30 | 2.1 km | 49 km |
| 2.8 | 05.08.2023 01:37 | 12.9 km | 60 km |
| 2.2 | 04.08.2023 01:15 | 11 km | 68 km |
| 3.2 | 27.07.2023 11:18 | 15 km | 41 km |
| 1.6 | 11.04.2023 00:47 | 12 km | 67 km |
| 2.8 | 04.04.2023 23:19 | 27 km | 68 km |
| 2.7 | 23.03.2023 15:00 | 5 km | 61 km |
| 2.2 | 20.03.2023 19:31 | 8 km | 31 km |
| 1.8 | 10.03.2023 17:48 | 7 km | 69 km |
| 2.3 | 09.03.2023 23:54 | 9 km | 63 km |
| 1.9 | 28.02.2023 23:56 | 18 km | 66 km |
| 2.5 | 23.02.2023 10:29 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 2.3 | 11.02.2023 13:07 | 2 km | 45 km |
| 1.7 | 29.01.2023 20:24 | 5 km | 85 km |
| 3.4 | 03.01.2023 01:26 | 19 km | 65 km |
| 2.2 | 21.12.2022 14:50 | 2 km | 62 km |
| 3.1 | 14.12.2022 07:26 | 6 km | 55 km |
| 2.2 | 05.10.2022 17:14 | 2 km | 69 km |
| 2.4 | 18.09.2022 06:30 | 15 km | 74 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.