2.2
11,744
recorded earthquakes
M7.0
largest
1904–2026
record span
2.13
mean magnitude
9,414
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | 04.04.1904 10:26 | 15 km | 330 km |
| 6.9 | 15.04.1979 06:19 | 9 km | 276 km |
| 6.8 | 04.04.1904 10:02 | 15 km | 320 km |
| 6.7 | 30.11.1967 07:23 | 16.9 km | 313 km |
| 6.6 | 26.11.2019 02:54 | 18 km | 323 km |
| 6.5 | 01.06.1905 04:42 | 15 km | 270 km |
| 6.5 | 26.01.1916 07:38 | 35 km | 317 km |
| 6.4 | 26.07.1963 04:17 | 15 km | 248 km |
| 6.2 | 14.02.1927 03:43 | 50 km | 268 km |
| 6.2 | 04.08.1905 05:08 | 15 km | 285 km |
| 6.2 | 24.05.1979 17:23 | 6 km | 276 km |
| 6.1 | 08.10.1905 07:27 | 15 km | 264 km |
| 6.0 | 13.04.1964 08:30 | 15 km | 256 km |
| 6.0 | 30.03.1921 15:06 | 15 km | 269 km |
| 6.0 | 15.05.1927 02:47 | 15 km | 19 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.2 | 20.07.2026 13:09 | 12 km | 227 km |
| 2.6 | 20.07.2026 11:25 | 9.3 km | 225 km |
| 2.5 | 15.07.2026 11:23 | 5.1 km | 165 km |
| 2.3 | 14.07.2026 08:48 | 5 km | 124 km |
| 2.9 | 13.07.2026 13:02 | 1 km | 123 km |
| 2.1 | 12.07.2026 01:27 | 15 km | 251 km |
| 2.2 | 11.07.2026 18:22 | 15 km | 234 km |
| 3.1 | 01.07.2026 19:50 | 7.8 km | 146 km |
| 3.7 | 01.07.2026 07:46 | 10 km | 158 km |
| 2.3 | 29.06.2026 18:27 | 15 km | 250 km |
| 3.0 | 12.06.2026 16:23 | 10 km | 28 km |
| 2.9 | 11.06.2026 07:21 | 2 km | 90 km |
| 2.2 | 30.05.2026 17:19 | 10 km | 202 km |
| 2.6 | 09.05.2026 03:53 | 11.8 km | 144 km |
| 2.5 | 05.05.2026 00:44 | 10 km | 241 km |
| 4.0 | 05.05.2026 00:35 | 10 km | 236 km |
| 2.3 | 01.05.2026 07:07 | 6 km | 66 km |
| 2.7 | 17.04.2026 10:37 | 13 km | 126 km |
| 3.5 | 07.04.2026 11:13 | 7 km | 249 km |
| 2.6 | 31.03.2026 03:16 | 7.9 km | 121 km |
| 2.7 | 28.03.2026 07:21 | 10.4 km | 198 km |
| 2.6 | 27.03.2026 09:11 | 18.6 km | 221 km |
| 2.6 | 12.03.2026 19:57 | 15 km | 233 km |
| 3.3 | 08.03.2026 20:08 | 19.8 km | 238 km |
| 3.2 | 08.03.2026 19:53 | 5.6 km | 203 km |
| 2.5 | 22.02.2026 13:17 | 8.5 km | 119 km |
| 1.5 | 22.02.2026 03:56 | 10.3 km | 205 km |
| 1.6 | 22.02.2026 03:49 | 7.1 km | 204 km |
| 4.3 | 10.02.2026 21:05 | 10 km | 225 km |
| 2.9 | 10.02.2026 18:00 | 14.5 km | 275 km |
| 2.8 | 08.02.2026 22:09 | 2 km | 229 km |
| 2.5 | 05.02.2026 02:30 | 5 km | 167 km |
| 2.4 | 22.01.2026 02:53 | 9 km | 171 km |
| 2.5 | 08.01.2026 21:32 | 12 km | 55 km |
| 2.6 | 08.01.2026 11:20 | 0 km | 145 km |
| 2.4 | 08.01.2026 03:45 | 1.1 km | 229 km |
| 2.6 | 04.01.2026 19:35 | 1 km | 110 km |
| 2.8 | 31.12.2025 23:24 | 12.4 km | 186 km |
| 2.7 | 29.12.2025 22:25 | 5 km | 56 km |
| 2.2 | 21.12.2025 16:12 | 15 km | 236 km |
| 3.2 | 15.12.2025 06:20 | 3.9 km | 207 km |
| 2.4 | 09.12.2025 20:02 | 15 km | 212 km |
| 2.5 | 05.12.2025 21:16 | 6.7 km | 210 km |
| 2.4 | 05.12.2025 07:51 | 10.5 km | 224 km |
| 2.0 | 24.11.2025 09:17 | 9 km | 233 km |
| 2.3 | 22.11.2025 08:30 | 15 km | 216 km |
| 2.8 | 11.11.2025 00:02 | 9.2 km | 175 km |
| 3.7 | 07.11.2025 07:59 | 10 km | 171 km |
| 4.1 | 29.10.2025 13:19 | 10 km | 223 km |
| 3.3 | 11.10.2025 06:19 | 15 km | 246 km |
| 2.1 | 07.10.2025 06:04 | 15 km | 249 km |
| 2.7 | 07.10.2025 02:33 | 1 km | 100 km |
| 2.4 | 04.10.2025 10:13 | 13.5 km | 277 km |
| 2.7 | 03.10.2025 23:34 | 15 km | 224 km |
| 2.8 | 25.09.2025 01:15 | 15 km | 217 km |
| 2.2 | 22.09.2025 14:06 | 22 km | 157 km |
| 2.1 | 17.09.2025 20:02 | 18.6 km | 256 km |
| 2.2 | 16.09.2025 00:34 | 5 km | 263 km |
| 2.8 | 14.09.2025 01:34 | 15 km | 226 km |
| 3.2 | 07.09.2025 11:39 | 4 km | 114 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.