2.3
302
recorded earthquakes
M6.5
largest
1919–2026
record span
3.29
mean magnitude
221
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.5 | 31.10.1919 15:36 | 35 km | 83 km |
| 6.3 | 31.10.1919 15:36 | 15 km | 185 km |
| 5.4 | 12.12.2024 13:14 | 10 km | 248 km |
| 5.1 | 25.08.1973 07:48 | 14 km | 247 km |
| 5.0 | 25.03.1973 20:02 | 30 km | 222 km |
| 5.0 | 21.01.1974 15:15 | 25 km | 203 km |
| 4.9 | 24.01.1973 11:19 | 33 km | 203 km |
| 4.9 | 27.03.1973 00:48 | 33 km | 203 km |
| 4.9 | 15.02.1975 22:03 | 33 km | 179 km |
| 4.9 | 19.05.1984 13:03 | 4 km | 196 km |
| 4.8 | 17.01.1973 11:39 | 30 km | 209 km |
| 4.8 | 06.02.1973 09:50 | 33 km | 189 km |
| 4.8 | 26.04.1973 03:46 | 33 km | 198 km |
| 4.7 | 11.06.1984 11:46 | 8.7 km | 188 km |
| 4.7 | 05.01.2016 11:14 | 5.1 km | 159 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.3 | 03.08.2026 11:52 | 10 km | 35 km |
| 2.0 | 02.08.2026 12:06 | 10 km | 9 km |
| 2.2 | 02.08.2026 11:47 | 10 km | 95 km |
| 2.9 | 01.08.2026 12:07 | 10 km | 107 km |
| 2.1 | 31.07.2026 14:58 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 2.0 | 30.07.2026 14:50 | 10 km | 100 km |
| 2.3 | 30.07.2026 10:35 | 10 km | 167 km |
| 2.2 | 27.07.2026 07:15 | 10 km | 210 km |
| 3.0 | 26.07.2026 14:55 | 10 km | 111 km |
| 2.1 | 24.07.2026 14:49 | 10 km | 61 km |
| 2.2 | 23.07.2026 13:39 | 10 km | 74 km |
| 2.3 | 22.07.2026 12:55 | 10 km | 216 km |
| 2.0 | 21.07.2026 13:45 | 10 km | 171 km |
| 2.2 | 20.07.2026 17:18 | 10 km | 100 km |
| 2.8 | 18.07.2026 13:55 | 10 km | 106 km |
| 2.0 | 29.05.2026 11:53 | 10 km | 95 km |
| 2.0 | 27.05.2026 14:20 | 10 km | 99 km |
| 3.2 | 24.05.2026 14:51 | 10 km | 131 km |
| 2.4 | 23.05.2026 14:52 | 10 km | 89 km |
| 2.4 | 23.05.2026 11:00 | 10 km | 101 km |
| 2.1 | 22.05.2026 11:58 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 2.2 | 20.05.2026 02:34 | 10 km | 197 km |
| 2.1 | 18.05.2026 14:53 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 2.4 | 15.05.2026 04:40 | 10 km | 104 km |
| 2.4 | 15.05.2026 02:07 | 10 km | 100 km |
| 2.0 | 14.05.2026 02:35 | 10 km | 161 km |
| 2.0 | 12.05.2026 14:54 | 10 km | 90 km |
| 2.4 | 09.05.2026 05:01 | 10 km | 210 km |
| 2.1 | 08.05.2026 09:12 | 10 km | 169 km |
| 2.1 | 06.05.2026 13:29 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 3.6 | 01.04.2026 22:59 | 10 km | 145 km |
| 3.0 | 02.03.2026 20:39 | 10 km | 177 km |
| 3.0 | 23.01.2026 12:47 | 10 km | 31 km |
| 3.3 | 23.11.2025 09:48 | 10 km | 185 km |
| 3.0 | 02.10.2025 13:50 | 10 km | 68 km |
| 3.0 | 02.09.2025 17:46 | 10 km | 139 km |
| 3.2 | 17.08.2025 10:15 | 10 km | 226 km |
| 3.0 | 19.07.2025 14:06 | 10 km | 121 km |
| 3.1 | 21.05.2025 15:38 | 10 km | 149 km |
| 3.0 | 02.05.2025 12:55 | 10 km | 102 km |
| 3.0 | 30.03.2025 05:22 | 10 km | 196 km |
| 3.8 | 20.03.2025 16:15 | 10 km | 200 km |
| 3.6 | 15.03.2025 14:41 | 10 km | 129 km |
| 3.4 | 15.03.2025 11:27 | 10 km | 61 km |
| 3.2 | 27.02.2025 16:56 | 10 km | 256 km |
| 3.1 | 26.02.2025 13:00 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 3.0 | 22.02.2025 11:28 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 3.1 | 14.02.2025 11:17 | 10 km | 140 km |
| 3.1 | 10.02.2025 07:06 | 10 km | 194 km |
| 3.0 | 10.01.2025 19:56 | 10 km | 132 km |
| 3.4 | 31.12.2024 18:57 | 10 km | 171 km |
| 5.4 | 12.12.2024 13:14 | 10 km | 248 km |
| 3.0 | 10.12.2024 15:09 | 10 km | 125 km |
| 3.1 | 27.11.2024 16:49 | 10 km | 97 km |
| 3.1 | 22.11.2024 06:56 | 10 km | 190 km |
| 3.0 | 17.10.2024 20:23 | 10 km | 142 km |
| 3.1 | 11.10.2024 15:51 | 10 km | 56 km |
| 3.0 | 11.10.2024 13:01 | 10 km | 158 km |
| 3.0 | 26.09.2024 10:40 | 10 km | 116 km |
| 3.0 | 13.09.2024 15:26 | 10 km | 76 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.