1.5
442
recorded earthquakes
M5.8
largest
1906–2026
record span
2.40
mean magnitude
308
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.8 | 12.01.1956 05:46 | 15 km | 141 km |
| 5.6 | 09.01.1906 23:04 | 15 km | 163 km |
| 5.5 | 08.10.1927 19:49 | 15 km | 254 km |
| 5.2 | 08.11.1938 03:11 | 35 km | 247 km |
| 5.2 | 05.03.1930 23:55 | 15 km | 170 km |
| 5.2 | 04.05.1921 17:35 | 15 km | 152 km |
| 5.1 | 27.04.1983 11:24 | 10 km | 175 km |
| 5.0 | 09.10.2023 18:23 | 9.2 km | 160 km |
| 5.0 | 16.07.2026 21:26 | 10 km | 207 km |
| 5.0 | 11.07.2000 10:56 | 10 km | 258 km |
| 4.7 | 02.10.2012 11:37 | 0 km | 180 km |
| 4.6 | 01.07.1982 05:49 | 14.1 km | 192 km |
| 4.4 | 30.11.2004 17:18 | 10.9 km | 84 km |
| 4.4 | 22.04.2013 22:28 | 22 km | 119 km |
| 4.3 | 23.11.2006 07:15 | 12.9 km | 215 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.5 | 23.07.2026 10:17 | 5.8 km | 56 km |
| 1.3 | 20.07.2026 11:16 | 4.8 km | 92 km |
| 5.0 | 16.07.2026 21:26 | 10 km | 207 km |
| 1.6 | 28.06.2026 15:39 | 3.4 km | 78 km |
| 1.8 | 15.06.2026 07:07 | 10 km | 224 km |
| 1.4 | 29.05.2026 12:43 | 5.4 km | 55 km |
| 2.7 | 24.04.2026 02:11 | 10 km | 231 km |
| 1.7 | 14.04.2026 10:19 | 0 km | 206 km |
| 2.7 | 10.03.2026 20:39 | 10 km | 189 km |
| 2.9 | 10.03.2026 08:02 | 11 km | 189 km |
| 2.6 | 21.02.2026 20:17 | 7 km | 189 km |
| 2.5 | 21.02.2026 17:44 | 10 km | 189 km |
| 3.4 | 21.02.2026 12:44 | 3.6 km | 183 km |
| 2.0 | 13.02.2026 09:39 | 35 km | 223 km |
| 2.7 | 20.01.2026 16:52 | 9 km | 221 km |
| 1.6 | 19.12.2025 02:38 | 10 km | 181 km |
| 2.3 | 13.08.2025 09:22 | 10 km | 28 km |
| 1.9 | 10.08.2025 04:12 | 1 km | 169 km |
| 2.5 | 24.06.2025 18:56 | 6 km | 188 km |
| 2.1 | 23.03.2025 19:10 | 4 km | 69 km |
| 1.4 | 18.02.2025 19:20 | 0 km | 182 km |
| 2.3 | 18.02.2025 11:53 | 2 km | 172 km |
| 3.0 | 22.02.2024 12:54 | 9 km | 156 km |
| 2.2 | 03.02.2024 05:00 | 2 km | 214 km |
| 1.4 | 28.12.2023 22:39 | 4 km | 225 km |
| 2.8 | 14.11.2023 18:54 | 10 km | 90 km |
| 5.0 | 09.10.2023 18:23 | 9.2 km | 160 km |
| 1.9 | 23.09.2023 09:53 | 14 km | 203 km |
| 3.1 | 30.08.2023 07:36 | 1 km | 160 km |
| 2.2 | 15.08.2023 13:43 | 9.9 km | 217 km |
| 2.5 | 26.04.2023 17:47 | 8 km | 169 km |
| 2.2 | 05.04.2023 08:41 | 3 km | 224 km |
| 3.2 | 27.02.2023 01:15 | 2 km | 202 km |
| 2.8 | 17.12.2022 11:39 | 4 km | 123 km |
| 2.1 | 25.10.2022 11:09 | 15 km | 149 km |
| 3.1 | 02.10.2022 05:52 | 10 km | 212 km |
| 2.5 | 28.07.2022 15:22 | 2 km | 100 km |
| 2.5 | 17.10.2021 23:20 | 5 km | 221 km |
| 2.4 | 21.05.2021 15:11 | 4 km | 233 km |
| 3.4 | 28.01.2021 08:16 | 10 km | 77 km |
| 2.7 | 09.06.2020 10:03 | 28 km | 210 km |
| 2.3 | 01.06.2020 17:24 | 7 km | 207 km |
| 2.4 | 30.04.2020 03:59 | 2 km | 160 km |
| 2.7 | 27.04.2020 22:07 | 3 km | 198 km |
| 3.3 | 23.04.2020 23:18 | 10 km | 156 km |
| 3.1 | 19.04.2020 05:45 | 5 km | 197 km |
| 2.6 | 24.02.2020 10:43 | 6 km | 123 km |
| 2.3 | 19.07.2019 08:31 | 1 km | 122 km |
| 3.4 | 13.07.2019 12:07 | 10 km | 99 km |
| 2.3 | 23.06.2019 14:09 | 7 km | 123 km |
| 2.2 | 22.02.2019 18:57 | 13 km | 126 km |
| 2.4 | 14.11.2018 23:16 | 10 km | 73 km |
| 2.8 | 17.08.2018 01:25 | 6.9 km | 114 km |
| 2.2 | 23.05.2018 08:50 | 10 km | 70 km |
| 2.3 | 12.05.2018 23:50 | 8 km | 108 km |
| 2.2 | 27.04.2018 16:29 | 5 km | 93 km |
| 2.0 | 22.01.2018 11:53 | 1 km | 29 km |
| 4.3 | 21.07.2017 05:15 | 10 km | 193 km |
| 2.4 | 17.02.2017 20:39 | 8 km | 169 km |
| 2.2 | 24.01.2016 22:18 | 5 km | 34 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.