4.2
922
recorded earthquakes
M7.9
largest
1902–2026
record span
4.64
mean magnitude
154
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.9 | 05.06.1920 04:21 | 20 km | 198 km |
| 7.6 | 20.09.1999 17:47 | 25.4 km | 158 km |
| 7.5 | 21.10.1951 21:34 | 25 km | 143 km |
| 7.4 | 24.11.1951 18:47 | 25 km | 94 km |
| 7.4 | 02.04.2024 23:58 | 30.6 km | 190 km |
| 7.3 | 24.11.1951 18:50 | 30 km | 96 km |
| 7.3 | 11.01.1908 03:35 | 5 km | 81 km |
| 7.3 | 25.01.1972 02:06 | 23 km | 168 km |
| 7.3 | 07.09.1938 04:03 | 15 km | 180 km |
| 7.2 | 23.07.1978 14:42 | 18.3 km | 78 km |
| 7.2 | 28.08.1916 07:27 | 5 km | 168 km |
| 7.2 | 26.02.1968 10:50 | 14.2 km | 92 km |
| 7.2 | 15.08.1959 08:57 | 25 km | 58 km |
| 7.2 | 23.02.1957 20:26 | 55 km | 198 km |
| 7.2 | 22.10.1951 03:29 | 25 km | 183 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.2 | 27.07.2026 02:14 | 10 km | 79 km |
| 4.4 | 29.03.2026 03:12 | 10 km | 12 km |
| 4.3 | 24.02.2026 17:23 | 9.4 km | 79 km |
| 4.4 | 26.01.2026 18:48 | 0 km | 69 km |
| 4.1 | 15.01.2026 23:53 | 51.7 km | 35 km |
| 3.9 | 07.01.2026 02:23 | 7.3 km | 43 km |
| 4.0 | 24.12.2025 20:40 | 8.4 km | 69 km |
| 6.0 | 24.12.2025 09:47 | 10 km | 85 km |
| 4.3 | 11.12.2025 15:19 | 0 km | 75 km |
| 4.4 | 11.12.2025 14:49 | 10 km | 78 km |
| 4.8 | 10.11.2025 05:00 | 10 km | 83 km |
| 4.7 | 22.08.2025 06:06 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 4.8 | 15.07.2025 13:58 | 10 km | 84 km |
| 4.1 | 27.05.2025 14:13 | 0 km | 40 km |
| 3.7 | 08.04.2025 15:24 | 18.2 km | 51 km |
| 4.7 | 03.04.2025 03:47 | 30 km | 84 km |
| 4.0 | 23.03.2025 04:23 | 14 km | 82 km |
| 4.4 | 21.03.2025 08:29 | 10 km | 77 km |
| 4.1 | 19.03.2025 05:30 | 10.3 km | 34 km |
| 4.0 | 14.03.2025 10:50 | 6.6 km | 70 km |
| 4.0 | 13.03.2025 21:44 | 6.4 km | 71 km |
| 4.7 | 05.03.2025 13:27 | 17.7 km | 85 km |
| 4.1 | 27.02.2025 05:01 | 0 km | 82 km |
| 4.8 | 21.02.2025 05:33 | 0 km | 78 km |
| 5.2 | 30.01.2025 02:11 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 4.8 | 27.01.2025 01:48 | 10.5 km | 82 km |
| 5.2 | 27.01.2025 00:18 | 10 km | 81 km |
| 4.1 | 26.01.2025 16:35 | 13.3 km | 86 km |
| 5.3 | 25.01.2025 23:38 | 15.8 km | 78 km |
| 4.7 | 25.01.2025 16:10 | 19.7 km | 32 km |
| 5.2 | 25.01.2025 11:49 | 10 km | 98 km |
| 4.5 | 24.01.2025 22:01 | 11.4 km | 80 km |
| 5.0 | 24.01.2025 11:18 | 11 km | 75 km |
| 4.3 | 22.01.2025 21:31 | 15.8 km | 84 km |
| 5.3 | 21.01.2025 18:48 | 11.3 km | 116 km |
| 4.8 | 20.01.2025 17:42 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 4.6 | 20.01.2025 16:29 | 10 km | 87 km |
| 5.1 | 20.01.2025 16:26 | 10 km | 85 km |
| 6.1 | 20.01.2025 16:17 | 16 km | 88 km |
| 4.4 | 10.01.2025 17:07 | 37.1 km | 74 km |
| 4.9 | 22.11.2024 12:40 | 12 km | 89 km |
| 4.0 | 15.09.2024 00:17 | 14.8 km | 89 km |
| 4.0 | 14.09.2024 07:36 | 15.8 km | 73 km |
| 4.2 | 22.08.2024 11:14 | 25.8 km | 81 km |
| 4.1 | 18.08.2024 05:27 | 16.4 km | 34 km |
| 4.7 | 29.07.2024 14:12 | 26 km | 90 km |
| 5.0 | 27.07.2024 11:21 | 49.3 km | 88 km |
| 4.0 | 26.07.2024 13:49 | 18.6 km | 50 km |
| 4.2 | 09.04.2024 12:01 | 5.5 km | 84 km |
| 7.4 | 02.04.2024 23:58 | 30.6 km | 190 km |
| 4.6 | 12.10.2023 12:16 | 17.4 km | 60 km |
| 4.0 | 13.09.2023 03:58 | 25.4 km | 70 km |
| 4.3 | 06.09.2023 05:21 | 5 km | 56 km |
| 3.9 | 05.09.2023 03:13 | 5.7 km | 31 km |
| 4.1 | 27.08.2023 11:04 | 8.9 km | 70 km |
| 4.5 | 13.08.2023 12:06 | 25.2 km | 84 km |
| 4.7 | 10.06.2023 09:12 | 17.3 km | 54 km |
| 4.0 | 10.06.2023 08:55 | 16.9 km | 53 km |
| 4.9 | 10.06.2023 05:31 | 22.9 km | 50 km |
| 4.2 | 09.06.2023 19:51 | 18 km | 53 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.