2.3
9,978
recorded earthquakes
M5.6
largest
1919–2026
record span
1.32
mean magnitude
4,520
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 | 10.07.1923 05:31 | 35 km | 74 km |
| 5.6 | 13.08.1967 22:07 | 8.7 km | 138 km |
| 5.5 | 22.02.1924 15:32 | 10 km | 142 km |
| 5.4 | 18.02.1929 18:59 | 15 km | 115 km |
| 5.3 | 29.11.1919 00:25 | 15 km | 126 km |
| 5.3 | 17.02.1978 02:34 | 33 km | 159 km |
| 5.3 | 19.11.1923 03:53 | 10 km | 155 km |
| 5.1 | 29.02.1980 20:40 | 10 km | 154 km |
| 4.9 | 04.10.1999 18:14 | 15.7 km | 172 km |
| 4.8 | 16.07.2007 07:47 | 0 km | 39 km |
| 4.8 | 16.05.2002 14:56 | 3 km | 135 km |
| 4.7 | 09.06.1962 05:59 | — | 108 km |
| 4.7 | 18.09.2004 12:52 | 19.5 km | 129 km |
| 4.6 | 13.08.1974 12:52 | 33 km | 139 km |
| 4.6 | 22.05.1982 04:03 | 12 km | 139 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.3 | 02.08.2026 13:05 | 6.1 km | 72 km |
| 2.1 | 02.07.2026 11:11 | 0 km | 106 km |
| 1.6 | 30.06.2026 03:09 | 1.2 km | 103 km |
| 1.5 | 02.06.2026 21:02 | 9.2 km | 139 km |
| 1.6 | 30.05.2026 12:38 | 2.9 km | 120 km |
| 2.0 | 19.04.2026 06:57 | 0 km | 115 km |
| 2.2 | 16.04.2026 23:10 | 0 km | 126 km |
| 1.6 | 15.04.2026 09:58 | 21.3 km | 130 km |
| 2.2 | 14.04.2026 11:06 | 46.2 km | 67 km |
| 2.1 | 10.04.2026 22:39 | 2.3 km | 117 km |
| 1.9 | 01.04.2026 10:24 | 0.5 km | 111 km |
| 2.0 | 31.03.2026 17:03 | 0 km | 121 km |
| 2.1 | 31.03.2026 16:58 | 0 km | 120 km |
| 1.9 | 31.03.2026 13:42 | 0 km | 119 km |
| 2.7 | 31.03.2026 08:02 | 0 km | 122 km |
| 2.4 | 30.03.2026 09:35 | 0 km | 119 km |
| 2.1 | 23.03.2026 11:10 | 3 km | 83 km |
| 1.9 | 11.03.2026 16:20 | 0.7 km | 126 km |
| 1.7 | 05.03.2026 01:39 | 0 km | 113 km |
| 2.2 | 02.03.2026 20:21 | 0 km | 122 km |
| 1.7 | 02.03.2026 17:46 | 0 km | 118 km |
| 2.1 | 28.02.2026 06:58 | 0 km | 124 km |
| 2.0 | 26.02.2026 21:44 | 1.6 km | 121 km |
| 1.6 | 22.02.2026 04:42 | 0.7 km | 137 km |
| 1.6 | 21.02.2026 23:27 | 0 km | 116 km |
| 1.7 | 21.02.2026 18:24 | 5.4 km | 119 km |
| 1.6 | 21.02.2026 12:01 | 1.4 km | 119 km |
| 1.5 | 21.02.2026 06:37 | 2.3 km | 124 km |
| 2.2 | 21.02.2026 03:20 | 0 km | 123 km |
| 1.6 | 20.02.2026 17:10 | 0 km | 119 km |
| 1.5 | 20.02.2026 16:47 | 5 km | 121 km |
| 1.6 | 20.02.2026 16:27 | 0 km | 120 km |
| 2.1 | 18.02.2026 08:57 | 0 km | 120 km |
| 2.0 | 18.02.2026 08:36 | 0 km | 120 km |
| 2.0 | 14.02.2026 23:15 | 0 km | 96 km |
| 1.7 | 26.01.2026 22:05 | 2.7 km | 134 km |
| 2.0 | 19.01.2026 01:54 | 0 km | 116 km |
| 2.1 | 16.01.2026 12:11 | 0 km | 118 km |
| 2.2 | 03.01.2026 22:44 | 11.3 km | 157 km |
| 1.6 | 30.12.2025 03:19 | 0 km | 125 km |
| 1.7 | 12.12.2025 14:11 | 2.4 km | 104 km |
| 2.1 | 12.12.2025 11:25 | 0 km | 47 km |
| 1.8 | 07.12.2025 03:54 | 0 km | 76 km |
| 1.6 | 01.12.2025 12:56 | 10.6 km | 116 km |
| 1.6 | 28.11.2025 21:39 | 0 km | 125 km |
| 2.0 | 27.11.2025 08:41 | 1.7 km | 67 km |
| 3.1 | 27.11.2025 06:27 | 0 km | 69 km |
| 2.1 | 25.11.2025 03:13 | 1.6 km | 65 km |
| 1.8 | 21.11.2025 20:04 | 0 km | 121 km |
| 1.6 | 16.11.2025 21:53 | 5.2 km | 119 km |
| 2.0 | 10.11.2025 03:44 | 0 km | 122 km |
| 1.7 | 10.11.2025 03:27 | 0 km | 120 km |
| 1.6 | 09.11.2025 05:55 | 0 km | 118 km |
| 1.6 | 08.11.2025 20:32 | 0 km | 113 km |
| 1.7 | 08.11.2025 19:52 | 0 km | 116 km |
| 1.7 | 08.11.2025 16:49 | 6.2 km | 120 km |
| 1.7 | 08.11.2025 14:53 | 3.5 km | 121 km |
| 1.8 | 08.11.2025 13:04 | 0 km | 115 km |
| 1.9 | 08.11.2025 11:49 | 0 km | 118 km |
| 1.6 | 08.11.2025 05:07 | 0 km | 117 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.