1.3
509
recorded earthquakes
M5.8
largest
1918–2026
record span
2.86
mean magnitude
398
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.8 | 25.04.1918 02:22 | 30 km | 163 km |
| 5.5 | 31.08.1919 02:32 | 30 km | 163 km |
| 5.5 | 24.12.1996 22:16 | 29.7 km | 186 km |
| 5.3 | 20.11.1994 14:31 | 17.4 km | 62 km |
| 5.3 | 19.04.1938 23:11 | 30 km | 164 km |
| 5.0 | 26.01.2021 11:17 | 4.4 km | 127 km |
| 4.8 | 05.10.1970 14:53 | 24 km | 122 km |
| 4.8 | 07.01.1983 07:25 | 10 km | 126 km |
| 4.7 | 19.03.1960 14:53 | 10 km | 177 km |
| 4.7 | 23.09.1968 21:27 | 49 km | 141 km |
| 4.7 | 04.09.1969 17:18 | 10 km | 84 km |
| 4.7 | 28.07.2016 16:13 | 11.3 km | 105 km |
| 4.6 | 18.12.1994 16:38 | 8.7 km | 57 km |
| 4.6 | 04.01.1996 15:28 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 4.6 | 24.10.2007 18:25 | 5 km | 145 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.3 | 25.07.2026 19:03 | 6.8 km | 146 km |
| 2.8 | 15.07.2026 05:00 | 19.8 km | 154 km |
| 2.5 | 24.06.2026 16:24 | 7 km | 99 km |
| 3.0 | 08.06.2026 23:23 | 7 km | 92 km |
| 1.7 | 21.05.2026 22:18 | 7 km | 96 km |
| 1.9 | 19.05.2026 01:22 | 7 km | 99 km |
| 2.6 | 17.05.2026 14:10 | 6.2 km | 69 km |
| 3.4 | 11.05.2026 16:42 | 7 km | 59 km |
| 2.7 | 01.05.2026 11:53 | 7 km | 95 km |
| 2.6 | 29.04.2026 15:11 | 14.4 km | 138 km |
| 2.6 | 29.04.2026 02:07 | 7 km | 50 km |
| 3.0 | 27.04.2026 23:59 | 7 km | 84 km |
| 2.8 | 24.04.2026 14:33 | 5 km | 41 km |
| 1.5 | 29.03.2026 00:15 | 7.8 km | 135 km |
| 2.1 | 18.02.2026 23:18 | 10.5 km | 82 km |
| 1.4 | 05.02.2026 19:02 | 6.6 km | 119 km |
| 2.9 | 01.02.2026 06:18 | 8.8 km | 48 km |
| 3.2 | 01.02.2026 06:17 | 7.4 km | 40 km |
| 1.5 | 18.01.2026 14:45 | 7.2 km | 136 km |
| 1.9 | 18.01.2026 13:22 | 19.2 km | 133 km |
| 2.5 | 15.01.2026 12:34 | 15.9 km | 134 km |
| 3.1 | 10.11.2025 17:14 | 3.3 km | 116 km |
| 3.2 | 28.10.2025 16:09 | 6.8 km | 105 km |
| 2.2 | 19.10.2025 09:29 | 7 km | 132 km |
| 1.7 | 18.10.2025 00:00 | 10 km | 94 km |
| 2.7 | 16.10.2025 16:18 | 7 km | 116 km |
| 2.5 | 14.10.2025 20:32 | 7 km | 97 km |
| 3.5 | 12.10.2025 03:59 | 6 km | 83 km |
| 2.7 | 12.10.2025 01:04 | 7 km | 110 km |
| 2.1 | 08.10.2025 14:11 | 7.8 km | 136 km |
| 2.2 | 02.10.2025 20:28 | 7 km | 120 km |
| 2.0 | 26.09.2025 02:52 | 7.1 km | 143 km |
| 2.0 | 09.09.2025 19:40 | 25.3 km | 135 km |
| 4.3 | 04.09.2025 02:30 | 19 km | 131 km |
| 2.2 | 31.08.2025 23:15 | 7 km | 67 km |
| 1.9 | 24.08.2025 00:10 | 23.9 km | 94 km |
| 2.9 | 07.08.2025 07:05 | 8.4 km | 65 km |
| 1.8 | 17.07.2025 13:47 | 7 km | 139 km |
| 1.4 | 11.07.2025 18:20 | 8 km | 154 km |
| 2.7 | 07.07.2025 01:08 | 7.3 km | 136 km |
| 1.7 | 03.05.2025 10:14 | 10.2 km | 129 km |
| 2.9 | 26.03.2025 01:23 | 7 km | 130 km |
| 2.0 | 09.01.2025 00:52 | 7 km | 111 km |
| 1.9 | 09.01.2025 00:18 | 7.6 km | 131 km |
| 2.1 | 27.11.2024 13:05 | 7 km | 122 km |
| 2.0 | 17.11.2024 14:11 | 4.5 km | 124 km |
| 2.2 | 25.09.2024 21:11 | 7 km | 152 km |
| 2.7 | 12.09.2024 11:47 | 7 km | 82 km |
| 2.3 | 03.09.2024 13:39 | 7 km | 131 km |
| 3.3 | 02.09.2024 20:07 | 8.3 km | 64 km |
| 1.7 | 31.08.2024 00:19 | 9.4 km | 112 km |
| 2.1 | 29.07.2024 19:38 | 12.8 km | 134 km |
| 2.2 | 13.06.2024 03:21 | 7 km | 112 km |
| 2.9 | 12.06.2024 21:32 | 11.4 km | 48 km |
| 3.4 | 08.06.2024 03:49 | 15.4 km | 157 km |
| 2.2 | 05.06.2024 23:24 | 7 km | 150 km |
| 2.5 | 09.04.2024 13:35 | 5.4 km | 137 km |
| 2.7 | 28.03.2024 08:37 | 80.8 km | 106 km |
| 2.5 | 28.03.2024 00:06 | 5 km | 154 km |
| 2.3 | 13.03.2024 03:32 | 8.4 km | 74 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.