1.7
773
recorded earthquakes
M5.4
largest
1926–2026
record span
1.46
mean magnitude
603
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 | 18.05.1927 01:42 | 35 km | 141 km |
| 5.2 | 28.02.1926 22:12 | 10 km | 145 km |
| 4.5 | 15.05.1985 11:00 | 15 km | 91 km |
| 4.4 | 07.11.2006 12:56 | 0 km | 48 km |
| 4.1 | 27.03.2010 13:37 | 15 km | 146 km |
| 4.1 | 13.12.2025 00:38 | 22 km | 145 km |
| 3.7 | 12.09.1986 00:11 | 10 km | 128 km |
| 3.6 | 19.12.2005 23:00 | 3.6 km | 66 km |
| 3.5 | 20.12.2018 12:42 | 10 km | 134 km |
| 3.1 | 28.04.2008 13:17 | 0 km | 80 km |
| 3.1 | 23.04.2015 04:17 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 3.0 | 18.03.2009 17:55 | 2 km | 93 km |
| 3.0 | 25.01.2007 17:32 | 2 km | 37 km |
| 3.0 | 01.05.2013 11:08 | 10 km | 84 km |
| 3.0 | 23.02.1987 22:22 | 10 km | 115 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.7 | 31.07.2026 21:06 | 0 km | 59 km |
| 1.8 | 09.07.2026 21:22 | 1.2 km | 96 km |
| 1.6 | 26.06.2026 03:49 | 9.2 km | 62 km |
| 2.0 | 01.06.2026 04:49 | 6 km | 47 km |
| 2.0 | 14.05.2026 11:31 | 40 km | 110 km |
| 1.5 | 06.03.2026 12:39 | 0 km | 37 km |
| 2.3 | 09.02.2026 10:10 | 29.4 km | 123 km |
| 1.8 | 14.01.2026 03:06 | 0 km | 86 km |
| 1.8 | 01.01.2026 17:31 | 3 km | 133 km |
| 2.3 | 21.12.2025 13:52 | 0 km | 56 km |
| 4.1 | 13.12.2025 00:38 | 22 km | 145 km |
| 1.9 | 04.10.2024 11:01 | 0 km | 98 km |
| 2.1 | 30.08.2024 11:46 | 6.8 km | 139 km |
| 2.0 | 06.06.2024 15:15 | 24.7 km | 102 km |
| 2.4 | 08.03.2024 21:23 | 8.3 km | 30 km |
| 2.1 | 21.01.2024 19:56 | 1 km | 133 km |
| 1.8 | 15.12.2023 12:31 | 0 km | 94 km |
| 2.2 | 27.10.2023 13:39 | 2.3 km | 135 km |
| 1.7 | 27.07.2023 12:23 | 0 km | 87 km |
| 2.0 | 30.06.2023 10:40 | 20.2 km | 94 km |
| 1.9 | 10.03.2023 20:56 | 18 km | 134 km |
| 2.6 | 01.01.2023 12:13 | 1 km | 116 km |
| 1.6 | 24.10.2022 01:18 | 17 km | 140 km |
| 1.9 | 09.10.2022 05:01 | 10 km | 120 km |
| 1.5 | 26.09.2022 02:52 | 8 km | 141 km |
| 2.4 | 19.04.2022 23:23 | 10 km | 46 km |
| 1.5 | 25.03.2022 14:36 | 16 km | 134 km |
| 1.7 | 16.12.2021 13:47 | 7 km | 84 km |
| 2.6 | 26.11.2021 01:06 | 16 km | 147 km |
| 1.7 | 25.11.2021 16:07 | 15 km | 120 km |
| 2.1 | 14.11.2021 20:20 | 10 km | 96 km |
| 2.1 | 09.08.2021 12:32 | 12 km | 140 km |
| 1.9 | 09.08.2021 12:15 | 6 km | 139 km |
| 1.9 | 28.07.2021 09:49 | 10 km | 131 km |
| 1.7 | 14.07.2021 08:46 | 24 km | 131 km |
| 1.5 | 05.07.2021 01:52 | 10 km | 135 km |
| 1.8 | 12.05.2021 13:11 | 11 km | 84 km |
| 1.6 | 10.05.2021 18:03 | 12 km | 117 km |
| 2.0 | 02.05.2021 15:01 | 3 km | 106 km |
| 2.0 | 11.04.2021 10:25 | 23 km | 150 km |
| 1.7 | 21.01.2021 16:36 | 11 km | 115 km |
| 2.1 | 15.10.2020 07:52 | 10 km | 14 km |
| 2.4 | 11.05.2020 23:47 | 16 km | 114 km |
| 2.8 | 03.08.2019 19:44 | 19 km | 123 km |
| 3.5 | 20.12.2018 12:42 | 10 km | 134 km |
| 2.8 | 10.02.2016 11:02 | 10 km | 99 km |
| 2.6 | 24.10.2015 20:10 | 2 km | 46 km |
| 3.1 | 23.04.2015 04:17 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 2.5 | 19.10.2014 06:57 | 8 km | 49 km |
| 2.0 | 11.12.2013 19:55 | 11 km | 103 km |
| 3.0 | 01.05.2013 11:08 | 10 km | 84 km |
| 2.8 | 14.08.2012 05:48 | 2 km | 40 km |
| 2.2 | 02.08.2012 13:36 | 1 km | 15 km |
| 1.7 | 28.12.2011 13:12 | 0 km | 40 km |
| 1.0 | 28.12.2011 11:55 | 0 km | 92 km |
| 1.2 | 22.12.2011 15:09 | 0 km | 8 km |
| 1.1 | 21.12.2011 13:03 | 0 km | 18 km |
| 1.7 | 20.12.2011 14:12 | 0 km | 18 km |
| 1.4 | 16.12.2011 13:35 | 0 km | 42 km |
| 1.1 | 15.12.2011 15:03 | 0 km | 10 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.