1.5
1,335
recorded earthquakes
M4.3
largest
1973–2026
record span
1.69
mean magnitude
977
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.3 | 25.07.1998 00:11 | 10 km | 75 km |
| 4.3 | 10.03.2006 19:33 | 5.4 km | 127 km |
| 4.2 | 07.06.2007 01:42 | 9.8 km | 52 km |
| 4.2 | 23.01.1973 03:17 | 33 km | 128 km |
| 4.0 | 03.08.1996 10:06 | 10 km | 95 km |
| 4.0 | 23.06.2022 12:56 | 5 km | 60 km |
| 4.0 | 14.10.2009 16:16 | 5 km | 60 km |
| 3.7 | 09.08.2001 12:25 | 10.8 km | 59 km |
| 3.7 | 03.08.1996 02:53 | 10 km | 102 km |
| 3.7 | 10.08.2001 01:40 | 21.5 km | 59 km |
| 3.5 | 26.04.2006 11:04 | 0 km | 87 km |
| 3.5 | 23.08.2006 11:02 | 0 km | 88 km |
| 3.5 | 25.07.1998 00:15 | 7 km | 78 km |
| 3.5 | 14.08.2001 08:39 | 10.5 km | 59 km |
| 3.5 | 05.10.2002 17:57 | 4.5 km | 90 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.5 | 17.07.2026 03:39 | 2.5 km | 111 km |
| 1.6 | 30.06.2026 03:09 | 1.2 km | 96 km |
| 1.5 | 25.03.2026 04:54 | 0 km | 52 km |
| 1.6 | 11.03.2026 20:29 | 0 km | 97 km |
| 1.7 | 29.01.2026 22:04 | 24.8 km | 73 km |
| 2.3 | 29.12.2025 01:45 | 1 km | 33 km |
| 1.6 | 27.12.2025 08:59 | 11.9 km | 56 km |
| 3.1 | 27.12.2025 08:24 | 0.6 km | 57 km |
| 1.5 | 20.12.2025 14:53 | 0 km | 96 km |
| 1.8 | 13.12.2025 19:13 | 0 km | 51 km |
| 2.0 | 12.12.2025 03:39 | 0 km | 26 km |
| 1.9 | 23.11.2025 15:18 | 7.6 km | 73 km |
| 2.0 | 23.11.2025 15:15 | 1 km | 73 km |
| 1.5 | 23.11.2025 08:05 | 0 km | 48 km |
| 1.7 | 11.11.2025 05:04 | 0.1 km | 104 km |
| 1.7 | 06.10.2025 01:34 | 0 km | 38 km |
| 1.7 | 29.09.2025 21:31 | 0 km | 40 km |
| 1.5 | 30.08.2025 19:38 | 20.4 km | 87 km |
| 2.9 | 18.08.2025 00:05 | 2.1 km | 61 km |
| 1.5 | 14.08.2025 02:04 | 0.1 km | 54 km |
| 1.6 | 24.07.2025 19:54 | 0 km | 80 km |
| 1.5 | 19.07.2025 18:48 | 5.4 km | 54 km |
| 2.2 | 17.07.2025 10:34 | 0 km | 41 km |
| 1.5 | 14.07.2025 10:55 | 1.7 km | 25 km |
| 1.7 | 07.06.2025 12:47 | 4.7 km | 41 km |
| 1.9 | 25.04.2025 05:46 | 5.3 km | 48 km |
| 1.8 | 12.04.2025 08:21 | 15.4 km | 35 km |
| 1.5 | 09.04.2025 22:03 | 1 km | 46 km |
| 1.6 | 05.04.2025 14:47 | 11.2 km | 37 km |
| 1.9 | 01.04.2025 12:00 | 1 km | 30 km |
| 1.7 | 10.02.2025 05:13 | 0 km | 50 km |
| 1.6 | 07.02.2025 02:54 | 9.8 km | 28 km |
| 2.3 | 29.01.2025 01:51 | 0 km | 45 km |
| 2.8 | 25.01.2025 04:25 | 0 km | 64 km |
| 1.5 | 15.12.2024 23:37 | 0 km | 78 km |
| 1.8 | 14.12.2024 20:49 | 0 km | 49 km |
| 2.1 | 13.12.2024 23:23 | 0 km | 48 km |
| 1.9 | 10.12.2024 19:54 | 0 km | 52 km |
| 2.5 | 09.12.2024 04:37 | 4 km | 49 km |
| 2.1 | 01.12.2024 23:02 | 0 km | 65 km |
| 1.8 | 01.12.2024 21:21 | 0 km | 63 km |
| 1.8 | 08.11.2024 03:40 | 1.9 km | 80 km |
| 2.2 | 07.11.2024 04:06 | 0 km | 74 km |
| 1.8 | 05.10.2024 03:24 | 2.2 km | 100 km |
| 1.6 | 15.09.2024 11:21 | 1.4 km | 32 km |
| 2.1 | 07.09.2024 23:37 | 0 km | 88 km |
| 1.6 | 06.09.2024 11:33 | 11 km | 22 km |
| 1.5 | 29.08.2024 02:55 | 2.6 km | 59 km |
| 1.7 | 28.08.2024 00:23 | 2.1 km | 61 km |
| 1.9 | 27.08.2024 19:25 | 2.9 km | 58 km |
| 1.7 | 30.07.2024 02:04 | 0 km | 63 km |
| 1.8 | 29.07.2024 19:37 | 0 km | 57 km |
| 2.4 | 28.07.2024 12:42 | 3.5 km | 105 km |
| 1.9 | 13.07.2024 22:39 | 1 km | 89 km |
| 1.9 | 09.06.2024 03:00 | 9.4 km | 47 km |
| 2.1 | 08.06.2024 21:36 | 0 km | 91 km |
| 2.0 | 17.05.2024 22:24 | 1.7 km | 88 km |
| 2.5 | 01.05.2024 23:32 | 0 km | 45 km |
| 3.2 | 19.04.2024 13:31 | 0.2 km | 63 km |
| 1.9 | 08.03.2024 22:37 | 4 km | 88 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.