No records in the last 30 days.
964
recorded earthquakes
M8.3
largest
1905–2026
record span
4.05
mean magnitude
875
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.3 | 23.07.1905 02:46 | 15 km | 335 km |
| 8.0 | 09.07.1905 09:40 | 15 km | 383 km |
| 7.2 | 27.09.2003 11:33 | 10.3 km | 472 km |
| 7.2 | 19.10.1938 04:13 | 10 km | 415 km |
| 7.0 | 11.07.1905 08:38 | 20 km | 337 km |
| 6.9 | 11.07.1905 08:39 | 15 km | 352 km |
| 6.9 | 14.07.1905 22:02 | 15 km | 415 km |
| 6.8 | 11.01.2021 21:32 | 9.8 km | 449 km |
| 6.7 | 25.08.1922 19:29 | 10 km | 287 km |
| 6.7 | 27.12.2011 15:21 | 12.8 km | 136 km |
| 6.7 | 26.02.2012 06:17 | 13 km | 137 km |
| 6.6 | 01.10.2003 01:03 | 14.3 km | 464 km |
| 6.5 | 14.07.1905 22:01 | 20 km | 337 km |
| 6.4 | 27.09.2003 18:52 | 15.6 km | 465 km |
| 6.3 | 27.12.1991 09:09 | 10.4 km | 297 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 31.05.2026 11:03 | 0 km | 201 km |
| 3.7 | 31.05.2026 11:03 | 0 km | 263 km |
| 4.0 | 15.05.2026 08:55 | 10 km | 140 km |
| 4.2 | 01.05.2026 09:30 | 10 km | 141 km |
| 3.7 | 25.04.2026 09:40 | 10 km | 243 km |
| 3.7 | 29.03.2026 17:25 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 3.7 | 14.02.2026 21:12 | 10 km | 331 km |
| 3.3 | 01.02.2026 10:04 | 10 km | 225 km |
| 4.5 | 14.01.2026 03:44 | 10 km | 210 km |
| 3.7 | 11.01.2026 13:32 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 3.7 | 05.01.2026 15:58 | 10 km | 251 km |
| 3.6 | 27.11.2025 00:21 | 0 km | 423 km |
| 4.2 | 16.11.2025 09:59 | 10 km | 290 km |
| 4.5 | 12.11.2025 08:00 | 10 km | 302 km |
| 3.9 | 23.10.2025 07:13 | 5 km | 238 km |
| 4.1 | 20.10.2025 17:13 | 10 km | 237 km |
| 4.2 | 17.10.2025 18:12 | 10 km | 320 km |
| 4.3 | 25.09.2025 01:56 | 10 km | 193 km |
| 3.7 | 23.09.2025 10:59 | 10 km | 292 km |
| 3.6 | 28.08.2025 03:00 | 0 km | 256 km |
| 4.5 | 28.08.2025 02:22 | 10 km | 263 km |
| 3.8 | 19.08.2025 03:48 | 10 km | 351 km |
| 4.0 | 30.06.2025 00:13 | 10 km | 38 km |
| 3.7 | 12.06.2025 11:23 | 0 km | 221 km |
| 4.2 | 11.06.2025 06:22 | 10 km | 358 km |
| 3.6 | 04.06.2025 10:22 | 0 km | 312 km |
| 5.0 | 25.05.2025 02:35 | 10 km | 438 km |
| 3.1 | 24.05.2025 22:41 | 10 km | 351 km |
| 4.0 | 13.04.2025 14:02 | 10 km | 231 km |
| 3.6 | 13.03.2025 11:32 | 10 km | 292 km |
| 5.8 | 15.02.2025 01:48 | 13 km | 442 km |
| 4.2 | 12.02.2025 01:39 | 10 km | 311 km |
| 3.8 | 27.01.2025 21:05 | 10 km | 311 km |
| 4.0 | 27.01.2025 05:42 | 10 km | 109 km |
| 3.8 | 09.01.2025 15:33 | 10 km | 297 km |
| 3.6 | 20.12.2024 19:57 | 10 km | 283 km |
| 4.2 | 08.12.2024 09:50 | 10 km | 259 km |
| 4.5 | 10.11.2024 12:11 | 10 km | 363 km |
| 4.0 | 21.10.2024 02:15 | 10 km | 237 km |
| 4.1 | 05.10.2024 20:26 | 10 km | 283 km |
| 3.6 | 22.09.2024 03:19 | 0 km | 282 km |
| 4.2 | 15.09.2024 04:39 | 18 km | 152 km |
| 3.8 | 17.08.2024 08:01 | 10 km | 126 km |
| 3.7 | 02.08.2024 07:17 | 0 km | 290 km |
| 4.0 | 10.07.2024 18:11 | 0.3 km | 332 km |
| 4.4 | 09.06.2024 08:42 | 10 km | 198 km |
| 4.0 | 09.06.2024 00:45 | 10 km | 203 km |
| 4.1 | 30.05.2024 16:47 | 10 km | 337 km |
| 4.0 | 28.05.2024 00:02 | 4 km | 344 km |
| 3.8 | 15.05.2024 06:34 | 0 km | 315 km |
| 4.0 | 11.05.2024 02:09 | 10 km | 75 km |
| 3.8 | 16.04.2024 10:50 | 10 km | 309 km |
| 3.7 | 04.04.2024 06:03 | 10 km | 378 km |
| 4.0 | 06.03.2024 09:39 | 9 km | 321 km |
| 3.9 | 24.01.2024 04:15 | 10 km | 305 km |
| 4.2 | 08.01.2024 23:48 | 10 km | 301 km |
| 4.2 | 30.12.2023 14:08 | 9 km | 293 km |
| 4.0 | 19.12.2023 01:59 | 10 km | 268 km |
| 4.0 | 17.12.2023 05:48 | 10 km | 332 km |
| 4.2 | 07.11.2023 05:24 | 16.7 km | 254 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.