2.1
1,200
recorded earthquakes
M5.4
largest
1929–2026
record span
1.73
mean magnitude
877
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.4 | 18.02.1929 18:59 | 15 km | 104 km |
| 5.2 | 16.10.1938 02:19 | 35 km | 131 km |
| 4.4 | 13.04.1994 03:33 | 10 km | 79 km |
| 4.2 | 30.08.1997 04:01 | 10 km | 136 km |
| 4.0 | 05.08.2015 16:26 | 10 km | 128 km |
| 4.0 | 07.12.2025 23:10 | 10 km | 70 km |
| 4.0 | 23.11.2007 13:26 | 0 km | 81 km |
| 4.0 | 20.04.2018 08:34 | 10 km | 115 km |
| 3.7 | 17.08.2011 18:21 | 5 km | 72 km |
| 3.7 | 11.07.2006 14:28 | 0 km | 124 km |
| 3.7 | 24.08.2007 09:30 | 0 km | 17 km |
| 3.7 | 14.11.1990 20:30 | 10 km | 73 km |
| 3.7 | 15.08.2007 22:47 | 3 km | 80 km |
| 3.6 | 19.06.1994 19:37 | 10 km | 112 km |
| 3.5 | 31.05.2002 23:45 | 3.3 km | 91 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1 | 01.08.2026 03:55 | 8.3 km | 93 km |
| 1.5 | 09.07.2026 11:33 | 0 km | 115 km |
| 2.1 | 24.06.2026 08:34 | 7.4 km | 13 km |
| 1.6 | 15.06.2026 02:53 | 1.4 km | 85 km |
| 1.7 | 31.05.2026 21:58 | 0 km | 78 km |
| 1.6 | 03.05.2026 15:58 | 12.2 km | 98 km |
| 1.5 | 01.05.2026 18:16 | 12.7 km | 97 km |
| 1.7 | 16.04.2026 15:45 | 11.9 km | 99 km |
| 1.6 | 15.04.2026 09:58 | 21.3 km | 88 km |
| 1.5 | 04.04.2026 11:02 | 0 km | 78 km |
| 1.5 | 03.04.2026 01:22 | 0 km | 78 km |
| 1.7 | 03.04.2026 01:20 | 0 km | 78 km |
| 2.3 | 05.03.2026 12:46 | 4 km | 26 km |
| 2.4 | 03.03.2026 12:54 | 0 km | 13 km |
| 1.6 | 03.02.2026 10:16 | 10.1 km | 88 km |
| 2.0 | 30.01.2026 08:00 | 23.3 km | 105 km |
| 1.8 | 20.01.2026 13:07 | 0 km | 52 km |
| 4.0 | 07.12.2025 23:10 | 10 km | 70 km |
| 1.5 | 03.12.2025 10:18 | 4.9 km | 62 km |
| 1.8 | 28.11.2025 07:41 | 0.6 km | 109 km |
| 1.5 | 01.11.2025 01:14 | 10.2 km | 106 km |
| 1.8 | 24.08.2025 14:06 | 3.5 km | 69 km |
| 1.7 | 14.07.2025 02:53 | 11.8 km | 96 km |
| 1.6 | 11.07.2025 20:53 | 40.9 km | 77 km |
| 1.9 | 07.07.2025 05:49 | 0 km | 78 km |
| 1.6 | 07.07.2025 01:38 | 0 km | 79 km |
| 1.5 | 09.06.2025 10:42 | 21.1 km | 111 km |
| 1.7 | 04.06.2025 00:25 | 12.4 km | 100 km |
| 1.9 | 29.05.2025 12:06 | 0 km | 30 km |
| 2.0 | 11.04.2025 21:28 | 1.4 km | 65 km |
| 1.6 | 28.02.2025 21:34 | 2.4 km | 112 km |
| 2.3 | 02.02.2025 11:15 | 0 km | 58 km |
| 1.8 | 13.01.2025 23:18 | 8.5 km | 108 km |
| 2.7 | 12.01.2025 21:42 | 0.2 km | 78 km |
| 2.3 | 06.01.2025 05:13 | 0 km | 88 km |
| 2.4 | 04.01.2025 19:15 | 4 km | 77 km |
| 1.5 | 30.11.2024 21:23 | 0 km | 80 km |
| 1.8 | 17.11.2024 10:33 | 7.7 km | 94 km |
| 2.3 | 26.10.2024 00:13 | 10 km | 87 km |
| 1.7 | 22.09.2024 21:56 | 5.8 km | 107 km |
| 1.8 | 13.09.2024 11:43 | 0 km | 105 km |
| 1.6 | 27.08.2024 22:32 | 11 km | 91 km |
| 1.7 | 26.08.2024 23:37 | 5.5 km | 101 km |
| 1.8 | 23.08.2024 08:29 | 54.6 km | 37 km |
| 1.8 | 22.08.2024 21:16 | 0 km | 74 km |
| 2.0 | 22.08.2024 04:37 | 4.8 km | 97 km |
| 1.6 | 17.08.2024 03:27 | 13.8 km | 103 km |
| 1.9 | 03.08.2024 04:08 | 20 km | 101 km |
| 1.5 | 26.07.2024 23:50 | 9.3 km | 92 km |
| 1.6 | 13.07.2024 19:07 | 5.8 km | 113 km |
| 1.5 | 14.06.2024 20:49 | 5.1 km | 46 km |
| 1.6 | 15.04.2024 21:27 | 5.1 km | 67 km |
| 1.8 | 14.04.2024 14:11 | 0.7 km | 57 km |
| 1.9 | 11.04.2024 01:20 | 2.3 km | 111 km |
| 1.8 | 30.03.2024 01:44 | 11.8 km | 88 km |
| 1.6 | 19.03.2024 03:36 | 0 km | 94 km |
| 2.0 | 15.03.2024 15:44 | 1.5 km | 97 km |
| 1.7 | 29.12.2023 22:53 | 10.4 km | 113 km |
| 1.5 | 29.09.2023 17:56 | 3.9 km | 94 km |
| 2.0 | 29.09.2023 01:44 | 1 km | 109 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.