4.6
1,384
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1922–2026
record span
3.88
mean magnitude
1,292
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.2 | 27.09.2003 11:33 | 10.3 km | 337 km |
| 7.2 | 19.10.1938 04:13 | 10 km | 502 km |
| 6.7 | 25.08.1922 19:29 | 10 km | 521 km |
| 6.6 | 01.10.2003 01:03 | 14.3 km | 321 km |
| 6.4 | 27.09.2003 18:52 | 15.6 km | 331 km |
| 6.3 | 15.05.1970 17:13 | 9.1 km | 534 km |
| 6.3 | 14.09.1980 02:42 | 0 km | 400 km |
| 6.2 | 23.06.1979 02:56 | 0 km | 403 km |
| 6.2 | 27.10.1984 01:50 | 0 km | 400 km |
| 6.2 | 14.07.1984 01:09 | 0 km | 396 km |
| 6.2 | 03.04.1987 01:17 | 0 km | 401 km |
| 6.2 | 02.11.1972 01:26 | 0 km | 401 km |
| 6.2 | 27.12.1981 03:43 | 0 km | 400 km |
| 6.2 | 23.07.1973 01:22 | 0 km | 395 km |
| 6.2 | 23.12.1979 04:56 | 0 km | 409 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.6 | 17.07.2026 21:09 | 10 km | 433 km |
| 4.2 | 16.07.2026 00:34 | 10 km | 331 km |
| 4.1 | 19.06.2026 12:07 | 10 km | 329 km |
| 4.2 | 13.05.2026 16:09 | 10 km | 330 km |
| 4.1 | 01.05.2026 19:45 | 0 km | 323 km |
| 3.9 | 16.03.2026 03:19 | 10 km | 422 km |
| 4.2 | 24.01.2026 08:09 | 0 km | 403 km |
| 4.5 | 10.12.2025 12:41 | 10 km | 300 km |
| 3.6 | 09.12.2025 10:36 | 0 km | 288 km |
| 3.6 | 27.11.2025 00:21 | 0 km | 409 km |
| 3.4 | 08.10.2025 11:20 | 0 km | 369 km |
| 4.0 | 24.08.2025 08:17 | 0 km | 400 km |
| 4.1 | 29.07.2025 20:31 | 0 km | 333 km |
| 4.9 | 23.07.2025 10:37 | 13.2 km | 296 km |
| 4.0 | 19.07.2025 04:19 | 10 km | 331 km |
| 3.8 | 04.06.2025 02:13 | 0 km | 260 km |
| 3.8 | 25.05.2025 02:35 | 10 km | 342 km |
| 5.0 | 25.05.2025 02:35 | 10 km | 342 km |
| 3.1 | 24.05.2025 22:41 | 10 km | 462 km |
| 4.1 | 06.05.2025 11:19 | 0 km | 317 km |
| 4.2 | 23.04.2025 00:56 | 10 km | 343 km |
| 4.2 | 10.04.2025 08:50 | 16.9 km | 269 km |
| 4.0 | 03.03.2025 14:46 | 10 km | 320 km |
| 5.8 | 15.02.2025 01:48 | 13 km | 362 km |
| 4.3 | 26.09.2024 15:55 | 10 km | 316 km |
| 4.4 | 19.09.2024 17:01 | 10.4 km | 327 km |
| 3.4 | 12.09.2024 14:51 | 10 km | 323 km |
| 3.3 | 31.08.2024 16:43 | 16.7 km | 276 km |
| 3.3 | 24.07.2024 13:47 | 2.7 km | 306 km |
| 4.1 | 14.07.2024 22:41 | 13.5 km | 331 km |
| 4.0 | 10.07.2024 18:11 | 0.3 km | 387 km |
| 4.0 | 27.05.2024 06:12 | 10 km | 102 km |
| 4.7 | 17.03.2024 12:31 | 35 km | 314 km |
| 4.8 | 10.02.2024 08:25 | 45 km | 104 km |
| 3.5 | 10.02.2024 08:24 | 21.7 km | 118 km |
| 4.2 | 18.12.2023 01:02 | 0.3 km | 312 km |
| 4.2 | 10.12.2023 05:15 | 10 km | 123 km |
| 3.4 | 08.10.2023 22:42 | 6.3 km | 426 km |
| 4.3 | 05.10.2023 08:55 | 1.3 km | 372 km |
| 3.4 | 02.09.2023 23:56 | 0 km | 323 km |
| 4.0 | 28.06.2023 08:06 | 4.2 km | 266 km |
| 4.1 | 13.06.2023 01:22 | 10 km | 357 km |
| 3.8 | 03.06.2023 23:15 | 1 km | 347 km |
| 4.1 | 29.04.2023 00:08 | 33 km | 407 km |
| 3.3 | 29.03.2023 22:57 | 11.7 km | 462 km |
| 4.1 | 28.03.2023 09:11 | 11.3 km | 316 km |
| 4.0 | 24.03.2023 07:24 | 0 km | 410 km |
| 4.0 | 13.02.2023 14:22 | 12 km | 309 km |
| 4.2 | 10.02.2023 12:35 | 21 km | 310 km |
| 3.7 | 01.02.2023 20:28 | 25 km | 415 km |
| 4.2 | 19.11.2022 12:35 | 1 km | 322 km |
| 3.6 | 17.11.2022 02:47 | 11 km | 419 km |
| 4.2 | 01.11.2022 23:29 | 0.6 km | 351 km |
| 3.5 | 14.10.2022 19:33 | 7.8 km | 476 km |
| 4.0 | 24.09.2022 10:58 | 0 km | 369 km |
| 4.3 | 24.09.2022 02:13 | 2 km | 459 km |
| 3.8 | 10.09.2022 07:49 | 10 km | 372 km |
| 5.5 | 29.07.2022 13:01 | 12.8 km | 488 km |
| 4.0 | 10.07.2022 18:01 | 10 km | 395 km |
| 4.3 | 05.07.2022 08:47 | 5.6 km | 367 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.