2.8
407
recorded earthquakes
M7.7
largest
1908–2026
record span
3.18
mean magnitude
115
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.7 | 10.11.1940 01:39 | 150 km | 115 km |
| 7.5 | 04.03.1977 19:21 | 85.3 km | 113 km |
| 7.2 | 30.08.1986 21:28 | 137.4 km | 108 km |
| 6.9 | 30.05.1990 10:40 | 92.5 km | 110 km |
| 6.6 | 06.10.1908 21:39 | 150 km | 97 km |
| 6.5 | 22.10.1940 06:37 | 150 km | 112 km |
| 6.5 | 07.09.1945 15:48 | 100 km | 119 km |
| 6.3 | 31.05.1990 00:17 | 91.1 km | 103 km |
| 6.2 | 29.03.1934 20:06 | 150 km | 112 km |
| 6.0 | 25.05.1912 18:01 | 100 km | 75 km |
| 6.0 | 09.12.1945 06:08 | 100 km | 89 km |
| 5.8 | 27.10.2004 20:34 | 96.7 km | 108 km |
| 5.7 | 23.09.2016 23:11 | 95 km | 109 km |
| 5.7 | 22.11.2014 19:14 | 35 km | 89 km |
| 5.6 | 27.12.2016 23:20 | 100.4 km | 112 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.8 | 03.08.2026 15:46 | 17.7 km | 60 km |
| 2.4 | 26.07.2026 01:52 | 18.8 km | 72 km |
| 2.5 | 18.06.2026 18:21 | 8.2 km | 49 km |
| 2.5 | 27.04.2026 18:15 | 22.9 km | 47 km |
| 2.7 | 30.12.2025 11:50 | 16.1 km | 52 km |
| 3.2 | 20.10.2025 00:35 | 7.9 km | 41 km |
| 3.1 | 10.09.2025 13:00 | 18.9 km | 36 km |
| 2.5 | 27.08.2025 12:25 | 18.4 km | 68 km |
| 2.6 | 17.06.2025 03:27 | 12.9 km | 40 km |
| 2.2 | 01.06.2025 20:14 | 27.8 km | 53 km |
| 2.9 | 21.04.2025 21:24 | 22.4 km | 70 km |
| 3.2 | 21.04.2025 21:13 | 18.8 km | 70 km |
| 3.3 | 21.04.2025 20:18 | 18.8 km | 68 km |
| 3.9 | 21.04.2025 20:16 | 24.4 km | 70 km |
| 4.2 | 04.02.2025 16:06 | 7 km | 80 km |
| 2.1 | 23.01.2025 04:42 | 6 km | 52 km |
| 2.6 | 22.01.2025 16:57 | 6 km | 50 km |
| 3.5 | 22.01.2025 13:37 | 31.6 km | 36 km |
| 1.4 | 20.01.2025 23:47 | 5 km | 46 km |
| 3.3 | 15.12.2024 12:35 | 19.7 km | 69 km |
| 2.7 | 29.11.2024 19:57 | 15 km | 45 km |
| 2.5 | 16.11.2024 17:59 | 18.9 km | 36 km |
| 2.5 | 16.11.2024 17:42 | 14.5 km | 36 km |
| 4.4 | 08.10.2024 22:48 | 10 km | 53 km |
| 3.0 | 29.09.2024 15:35 | 8.4 km | 40 km |
| 2.7 | 20.09.2024 16:55 | 7.8 km | 53 km |
| 1.8 | 26.08.2024 22:43 | 22.3 km | 63 km |
| 2.4 | 15.08.2024 11:21 | 5 km | 47 km |
| 1.3 | 20.07.2024 20:42 | 5 km | 46 km |
| 2.6 | 27.06.2024 05:14 | 12.9 km | 54 km |
| 2.1 | 05.05.2024 16:07 | 10.1 km | 40 km |
| 2.4 | 12.04.2024 17:20 | 7.9 km | 38 km |
| 2.3 | 10.04.2024 17:42 | 7.3 km | 40 km |
| 3.1 | 09.04.2024 08:28 | 12.9 km | 46 km |
| 2.9 | 07.04.2024 14:47 | 10.2 km | 40 km |
| 3.3 | 06.04.2024 16:51 | 9.3 km | 38 km |
| 2.6 | 02.04.2024 22:41 | 14.9 km | 63 km |
| 2.7 | 01.04.2024 20:51 | 13.4 km | 46 km |
| 1.6 | 30.03.2024 22:11 | 5 km | 48 km |
| 2.7 | 25.02.2024 19:11 | 12.8 km | 43 km |
| 4.0 | 05.02.2024 21:50 | 10 km | 78 km |
| 3.3 | 24.12.2023 06:06 | 15 km | 57 km |
| 2.8 | 23.09.2023 18:51 | 6.3 km | 58 km |
| 2.7 | 30.07.2023 04:20 | 6.4 km | 44 km |
| 2.6 | 27.07.2023 21:44 | 19.1 km | 35 km |
| 2.9 | 24.06.2023 16:55 | 23 km | 56 km |
| 2.7 | 20.06.2023 02:34 | 2 km | 52 km |
| 3.1 | 26.02.2023 13:11 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 2.7 | 06.02.2023 03:01 | 17 km | 59 km |
| 2.9 | 06.02.2023 02:13 | 17 km | 62 km |
| 2.6 | 06.02.2023 02:09 | 17 km | 61 km |
| 4.6 | 06.02.2023 01:26 | 22 km | 69 km |
| 2.6 | 02.12.2022 16:23 | 8 km | 61 km |
| 5.2 | 03.11.2022 04:50 | 152.7 km | 100 km |
| 2.0 | 02.08.2022 00:44 | 12 km | 48 km |
| 3.8 | 17.07.2022 23:04 | 114.3 km | 47 km |
| 3.9 | 13.07.2022 09:04 | 20 km | 63 km |
| 2.7 | 01.07.2022 17:16 | 18 km | 71 km |
| 2.9 | 01.07.2022 17:11 | 22 km | 71 km |
| 3.0 | 25.04.2022 01:21 | 20 km | 61 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.