4.4
1,867
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1902–2026
record span
4.22
mean magnitude
1,068
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.8 | 15.11.1921 20:36 | 240 km | 225 km |
| 7.7 | 07.07.1909 21:37 | 200 km | 201 km |
| 7.6 | 26.10.2015 09:09 | 216.7 km | 216 km |
| 7.6 | 10.07.1949 03:53 | 20 km | 217 km |
| 7.5 | 04.03.1949 10:19 | 228.7 km | 199 km |
| 7.4 | 21.10.1907 04:23 | 20 km | 182 km |
| 7.4 | 14.03.1965 15:53 | 215.3 km | 211 km |
| 7.4 | 04.07.1911 13:33 | 100 km | 256 km |
| 7.4 | 30.12.1983 23:52 | 215.6 km | 212 km |
| 7.4 | 29.07.1985 07:54 | 99.8 km | 245 km |
| 7.3 | 03.03.2002 12:08 | 204.8 km | 208 km |
| 7.2 | 06.10.1902 09:15 | 200 km | 192 km |
| 7.2 | 21.10.1907 04:23 | 20 km | 199 km |
| 7.1 | 21.04.1917 00:49 | 200 km | 202 km |
| 7.1 | 24.10.1906 14:43 | 35 km | 217 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.4 | 31.07.2026 20:26 | 45.8 km | 60 km |
| 3.4 | 02.07.2026 21:28 | 1 km | 115 km |
| 3.3 | 02.07.2026 10:35 | 0 km | 145 km |
| 3.3 | 02.07.2026 09:19 | 0 km | 160 km |
| 4.3 | 02.07.2026 07:50 | 10 km | 141 km |
| 5.5 | 01.07.2026 17:57 | 198.8 km | 192 km |
| 6.2 | 27.06.2026 13:34 | 203 km | 211 km |
| 4.2 | 18.06.2026 06:46 | 0 km | 180 km |
| 3.5 | 31.05.2026 05:03 | 0 km | 136 km |
| 3.4 | 19.05.2026 17:42 | 0 km | 21 km |
| 4.0 | 15.05.2026 10:35 | 0 km | 91 km |
| 2.7 | 06.05.2026 21:35 | 10 km | 109 km |
| 2.9 | 14.04.2026 20:21 | 10 km | 162 km |
| 3.0 | 08.04.2026 07:45 | 190 km | 142 km |
| 5.1 | 03.04.2026 10:26 | 0 km | 203 km |
| 4.5 | 13.03.2026 03:31 | 253 km | 140 km |
| 3.9 | 10.03.2026 02:07 | 34.4 km | 83 km |
| 3.4 | 10.03.2026 02:06 | 20.2 km | 90 km |
| 5.2 | 07.03.2026 18:24 | 212.9 km | 176 km |
| 2.8 | 27.02.2026 06:54 | 10 km | 142 km |
| 3.9 | 11.02.2026 20:11 | 68.8 km | 112 km |
| 4.0 | 01.02.2026 02:24 | 0 km | 137 km |
| 3.3 | 31.01.2026 22:16 | 0 km | 167 km |
| 3.0 | 26.01.2026 23:15 | 55 km | 130 km |
| 4.0 | 24.01.2026 21:12 | 0 km | 175 km |
| 4.4 | 21.01.2026 12:34 | 10 km | 76 km |
| 4.4 | 20.01.2026 09:54 | 10 km | 76 km |
| 3.0 | 06.01.2026 03:53 | 10 km | 142 km |
| 4.3 | 02.01.2026 23:02 | 0 km | 64 km |
| 4.4 | 29.12.2025 08:59 | 204.9 km | 161 km |
| 3.9 | 21.12.2025 05:15 | 10 km | 164 km |
| 4.0 | 13.12.2025 11:27 | 135.9 km | 139 km |
| 3.7 | 06.12.2025 13:07 | 10 km | 101 km |
| 4.0 | 21.11.2025 03:08 | 161.8 km | 120 km |
| 4.5 | 15.11.2025 12:29 | 0 km | 143 km |
| 4.0 | 09.11.2025 03:43 | 0 km | 138 km |
| 4.1 | 08.11.2025 11:02 | 0 km | 124 km |
| 6.3 | 02.11.2025 20:29 | 28.2 km | 203 km |
| 4.8 | 01.11.2025 19:04 | 48.3 km | 110 km |
| 3.9 | 29.10.2025 14:04 | 37.3 km | 98 km |
| 3.4 | 29.10.2025 09:13 | 50.5 km | 92 km |
| 2.9 | 23.10.2025 16:51 | 10 km | 123 km |
| 3.9 | 07.10.2025 12:57 | 0 km | 107 km |
| 5.0 | 07.10.2025 11:35 | 10 km | 79 km |
| 3.7 | 03.10.2025 22:45 | 10 km | 127 km |
| 3.3 | 29.09.2025 07:43 | 9 km | 128 km |
| 4.3 | 24.09.2025 09:55 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 3.7 | 24.09.2025 09:32 | 37.4 km | 100 km |
| 4.3 | 21.09.2025 07:45 | 0 km | 152 km |
| 4.2 | 16.09.2025 23:27 | 0 km | 145 km |
| 4.2 | 12.09.2025 01:11 | 0 km | 155 km |
| 4.0 | 27.08.2025 06:35 | 0 km | 143 km |
| 4.1 | 26.08.2025 22:20 | 77.5 km | 176 km |
| 4.5 | 19.08.2025 01:01 | 0 km | 92 km |
| 4.6 | 18.08.2025 18:41 | 0 km | 98 km |
| 4.2 | 02.08.2025 22:16 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 4.0 | 30.07.2025 03:53 | 0 km | 36 km |
| 3.1 | 15.07.2025 15:58 | 10 km | 159 km |
| 4.1 | 24.06.2025 12:37 | 0 km | 87 km |
| 4.3 | 18.06.2025 23:34 | 0 km | 103 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.