5.4
675
recorded earthquakes
M6.4
largest
1917–2026
record span
4.64
mean magnitude
463
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.4 | 29.11.1970 06:01 | 17.1 km | 428 km |
| 6.3 | 03.04.1928 16:42 | 10 km | 533 km |
| 6.3 | 24.05.2015 04:53 | 11.7 km | 711 km |
| 6.2 | 25.07.1929 22:57 | 35 km | 465 km |
| 6.2 | 18.06.1998 04:17 | 8.7 km | 425 km |
| 6.2 | 21.08.1917 21:38 | 10 km | 358 km |
| 6.1 | 10.03.1947 01:53 | 15 km | 532 km |
| 6.1 | 11.11.2017 00:36 | 3.9 km | 456 km |
| 6.0 | 19.05.1934 01:15 | 35 km | 447 km |
| 6.0 | 20.06.1943 17:39 | 35 km | 434 km |
| 6.0 | 24.09.1975 11:03 | 23 km | 491 km |
| 6.0 | 02.05.2017 15:10 | 7 km | 432 km |
| 5.9 | 31.01.1953 21:52 | 15 km | 556 km |
| 5.9 | 22.08.1949 20:26 | 15 km | 522 km |
| 5.9 | 23.07.1948 20:58 | 15 km | 539 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.4 | 28.07.2026 01:27 | 10 km | 510 km |
| 5.0 | 27.07.2026 22:32 | 10 km | 639 km |
| 4.8 | 18.07.2026 04:07 | 10 km | 418 km |
| 4.4 | 17.07.2026 08:56 | 10 km | 435 km |
| 4.8 | 16.07.2026 21:50 | 10 km | 405 km |
| 4.1 | 16.07.2026 21:15 | 0 km | 454 km |
| 4.0 | 16.07.2026 21:03 | 0 km | 491 km |
| 4.3 | 16.07.2026 21:00 | 10 km | 482 km |
| 4.3 | 16.07.2026 20:55 | 0 km | 507 km |
| 5.3 | 16.07.2026 20:21 | 10 km | 514 km |
| 5.1 | 16.07.2026 19:55 | 10 km | 471 km |
| 4.2 | 16.07.2026 19:51 | 10 km | 460 km |
| 4.3 | 16.07.2026 19:44 | 10 km | 448 km |
| 4.0 | 16.07.2026 19:40 | 0 km | 514 km |
| 4.0 | 16.07.2026 19:34 | 0 km | 471 km |
| 4.1 | 16.07.2026 19:32 | 0 km | 505 km |
| 4.0 | 16.07.2026 19:22 | 0 km | 471 km |
| 4.0 | 16.07.2026 19:19 | 0 km | 508 km |
| 3.5 | 21.06.2026 07:49 | 0 km | 480 km |
| 4.7 | 19.06.2026 00:00 | 10 km | 538 km |
| 4.4 | 02.06.2026 05:19 | 10 km | 505 km |
| 4.4 | 30.05.2026 02:12 | 10 km | 504 km |
| 4.7 | 12.05.2026 10:16 | 10 km | 606 km |
| 3.5 | 12.05.2026 10:16 | 0 km | 587 km |
| 4.0 | 27.03.2026 16:35 | 0 km | 513 km |
| 4.9 | 17.03.2026 19:53 | 0 km | 359 km |
| 5.0 | 14.03.2026 23:34 | 10 km | 374 km |
| 3.9 | 14.03.2026 21:28 | 0 km | 399 km |
| 5.0 | 03.03.2026 18:01 | 0 km | 675 km |
| 5.1 | 03.03.2026 17:59 | 0 km | 665 km |
| 4.9 | 28.02.2026 17:31 | 10 km | 432 km |
| 3.5 | 31.01.2026 14:56 | 0 km | 505 km |
| 3.8 | 28.01.2026 04:19 | 0 km | 360 km |
| 5.1 | 28.01.2026 02:58 | 10 km | 445 km |
| 4.3 | 28.01.2026 02:04 | 0 km | 449 km |
| 5.3 | 28.01.2026 01:58 | 10 km | 459 km |
| 4.5 | 20.01.2026 06:05 | 0 km | 414 km |
| 5.3 | 20.01.2026 06:04 | 10 km | 392 km |
| 5.1 | 20.01.2026 05:55 | 10 km | 401 km |
| 3.5 | 05.12.2025 16:38 | 0 km | 498 km |
| 5.1 | 29.11.2025 04:20 | 0 km | 574 km |
| 5.0 | 28.11.2025 13:29 | 10 km | 536 km |
| 4.8 | 11.11.2025 15:34 | 10 km | 479 km |
| 4.6 | 19.04.2025 18:46 | 10 km | 410 km |
| 5.0 | 19.04.2025 18:45 | 0 km | 469 km |
| 3.6 | 12.04.2025 18:57 | 10 km | 478 km |
| 3.5 | 10.03.2025 22:56 | 0 km | 350 km |
| 4.8 | 10.03.2025 22:15 | 0 km | 346 km |
| 3.6 | 10.03.2025 20:21 | 0 km | 382 km |
| 4.6 | 10.03.2025 03:04 | 10 km | 341 km |
| 4.8 | 28.12.2024 05:10 | 10 km | 540 km |
| 4.9 | 28.12.2024 05:09 | 10 km | 520 km |
| 4.6 | 28.12.2024 01:54 | 10 km | 535 km |
| 4.7 | 28.12.2024 01:53 | 10 km | 545 km |
| 5.0 | 28.12.2024 01:52 | 10 km | 531 km |
| 5.3 | 18.11.2024 00:00 | 10 km | 504 km |
| 5.1 | 17.11.2024 23:24 | 10 km | 508 km |
| 5.1 | 17.11.2024 23:16 | 10 km | 518 km |
| 3.6 | 16.11.2024 15:32 | 0 km | 492 km |
| 3.8 | 16.11.2024 15:21 | 10 km | 489 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.