1.6
1,042
recorded earthquakes
M5.6
largest
1925–2026
record span
1.36
mean magnitude
86
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.6 | 01.01.1926 18:04 | 15 km | 57 km |
| 5.5 | 17.02.1960 15:32 | — | 10 km |
| 5.3 | 05.09.1925 07:43 | 15 km | 56 km |
| 5.3 | 19.05.1963 10:00 | 10 km | 6 km |
| 5.0 | 02.05.1959 06:36 | — | 50 km |
| 4.3 | 31.08.1998 02:32 | 8 km | 23 km |
| 4.3 | 03.12.2012 04:36 | 8.5 km | 13 km |
| 4.1 | 22.09.2004 14:55 | 6 km | 11 km |
| 4.1 | 09.12.2024 02:37 | 13.3 km | 35 km |
| 4.1 | 03.10.1996 22:41 | 10 km | 35 km |
| 4.1 | 21.12.1973 08:17 | 11 km | 30 km |
| 4.0 | 28.06.1987 09:17 | 22.9 km | 22 km |
| 3.9 | 24.09.1998 03:59 | 10 km | 11 km |
| 3.9 | 17.09.1998 05:29 | 10 km | 8 km |
| 3.8 | 24.02.2010 05:21 | 12 km | 8 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.6 | 22.07.2026 06:53 | 12.1 km | 15 km |
| 1.3 | 14.07.2026 08:05 | 18 km | 11 km |
| 1.1 | 27.02.2026 21:57 | 7.4 km | 20 km |
| 1.1 | 11.01.2026 14:18 | 9.8 km | 3 km |
| 1.4 | 05.11.2025 05:30 | 12.5 km | 5 km |
| 2.2 | 27.08.2025 08:19 | 5.9 km | 2 km |
| 1.8 | 09.08.2025 02:49 | 2 km | 2 km |
| 1.1 | 05.07.2025 18:47 | 6.5 km | 21 km |
| 1.1 | 17.03.2025 03:36 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 2.2 | 12.01.2025 02:44 | 12 km | 14 km |
| 1.3 | 09.01.2025 00:45 | 10.5 km | 0 km |
| 4.1 | 09.12.2024 02:37 | 13.3 km | 35 km |
| 1.2 | 03.09.2024 13:14 | 11.6 km | 11 km |
| 1.4 | 31.08.2024 16:05 | 17.2 km | 1 km |
| 2.2 | 25.08.2024 13:07 | 15.3 km | 14 km |
| 1.7 | 06.08.2024 20:03 | 10.4 km | 4 km |
| 1.2 | 02.08.2024 03:23 | 11.5 km | 19 km |
| 1.6 | 30.07.2024 23:21 | 11.8 km | 10 km |
| 1.2 | 25.07.2024 17:05 | 11.3 km | 5 km |
| 2.0 | 06.06.2024 11:15 | 16.5 km | 3 km |
| 1.2 | 31.05.2024 18:43 | 4.7 km | 17 km |
| 1.1 | 22.05.2024 23:09 | 6.6 km | 14 km |
| 1.2 | 31.03.2024 11:49 | 11.9 km | 6 km |
| 1.7 | 16.03.2024 02:05 | 13.9 km | 12 km |
| 1.2 | 24.02.2024 13:54 | 5 km | 11 km |
| 1.0 | 26.01.2024 19:02 | 9.6 km | 17 km |
| 1.4 | 25.01.2024 08:53 | 1 km | 20 km |
| 1.2 | 24.11.2023 13:03 | 18.8 km | 17 km |
| 1.1 | 24.11.2023 13:01 | 18.8 km | 18 km |
| 1.5 | 05.11.2023 04:22 | 13.1 km | 14 km |
| 2.2 | 24.10.2023 22:09 | 8.9 km | 3 km |
| 1.3 | 05.10.2023 20:57 | 13.2 km | 12 km |
| 1.2 | 01.07.2023 11:12 | 7.6 km | 12 km |
| 1.3 | 05.06.2023 08:57 | 14 km | 9 km |
| 1.5 | 05.06.2023 03:38 | 15 km | 9 km |
| 1.4 | 02.06.2023 03:08 | 15 km | 15 km |
| 1.2 | 24.05.2023 11:47 | 14 km | 14 km |
| 2.2 | 07.05.2023 01:04 | 16 km | 13 km |
| 2.4 | 06.05.2023 02:03 | 14 km | 21 km |
| 1.2 | 25.03.2023 20:21 | 19 km | 21 km |
| 1.0 | 20.03.2023 13:35 | 10 km | 4 km |
| 1.7 | 20.03.2023 12:07 | 11 km | 6 km |
| 2.3 | 27.02.2023 12:02 | 18 km | 21 km |
| 1.0 | 02.02.2023 10:32 | 16 km | 13 km |
| 1.4 | 30.01.2023 22:45 | 8 km | 2 km |
| 2.9 | 15.12.2022 07:19 | 20 km | 15 km |
| 1.3 | 13.11.2022 13:35 | 13 km | 14 km |
| 1.2 | 28.09.2022 14:10 | 10 km | 8 km |
| 1.3 | 15.09.2022 02:21 | 5 km | 14 km |
| 1.0 | 21.07.2022 11:48 | 6 km | 19 km |
| 2.2 | 09.07.2022 20:24 | 16 km | 13 km |
| 1.7 | 09.07.2022 19:56 | 10 km | 9 km |
| 1.2 | 26.05.2022 21:52 | 10 km | 14 km |
| 2.2 | 26.05.2022 21:14 | 10 km | 14 km |
| 2.2 | 12.02.2022 09:00 | 2 km | 6 km |
| 1.1 | 14.01.2022 18:25 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 1.1 | 01.01.2022 16:03 | 14 km | 16 km |
| 2.1 | 16.12.2021 21:11 | 13 km | 5 km |
| 1.1 | 06.12.2021 06:00 | 6 km | 11 km |
| 1.1 | 04.08.2021 22:58 | 7 km | 4 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.