5.3
597
recorded earthquakes
M8.0
largest
1902–2026
record span
4.80
mean magnitude
101
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.0 | 03.05.2006 15:26 | 40.9 km | 58 km |
| 7.8 | 09.02.1902 07:35 | 0 km | 78 km |
| 7.8 | 04.01.1903 05:07 | 400 km | 47 km |
| 7.8 | 14.12.1950 01:52 | 215.9 km | 126 km |
| 7.7 | 26.06.1913 04:57 | 25 km | 125 km |
| 7.5 | 24.03.2026 04:37 | 235 km | 153 km |
| 7.3 | 02.01.1907 11:56 | 30 km | 160 km |
| 7.3 | 02.01.1907 11:57 | 0 km | 161 km |
| 7.2 | 24.06.1917 19:48 | 60 km | 160 km |
| 7.1 | 29.04.1903 03:59 | 0 km | 47 km |
| 7.1 | 27.02.1921 18:23 | 15 km | 194 km |
| 7.1 | 30.06.1905 17:07 | 0 km | 47 km |
| 7.1 | 12.11.1946 17:28 | 15 km | 154 km |
| 7.0 | 30.03.2025 12:18 | 0 km | 99 km |
| 7.0 | 14.06.1905 11:30 | 0 km | 47 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.3 | 24.07.2026 17:14 | 50.6 km | 75 km |
| 5.1 | 20.07.2026 21:11 | 43.5 km | 43 km |
| 7.5 | 24.03.2026 04:37 | 235 km | 153 km |
| 4.0 | 14.02.2026 06:44 | 82.3 km | 55 km |
| 4.0 | 24.10.2025 22:48 | 0 km | 71 km |
| 3.5 | 28.05.2025 17:11 | 124.5 km | 50 km |
| 4.2 | 04.05.2025 16:17 | 0 km | 59 km |
| 5.0 | 23.04.2025 21:57 | 147.8 km | 33 km |
| 4.5 | 22.04.2025 07:37 | 91.6 km | 43 km |
| 5.2 | 30.03.2025 21:51 | 0 km | 91 km |
| 5.9 | 30.03.2025 15:33 | 0 km | 80 km |
| 6.1 | 30.03.2025 15:04 | 20.2 km | 93 km |
| 7.0 | 30.03.2025 12:18 | 0 km | 99 km |
| 4.7 | 19.03.2025 23:38 | 137.1 km | 58 km |
| 4.0 | 04.03.2025 10:00 | 0 km | 14 km |
| 5.2 | 03.02.2025 10:31 | 10 km | 72 km |
| 4.6 | 18.01.2025 20:32 | 99.5 km | 57 km |
| 4.6 | 16.01.2025 02:17 | 105 km | 18 km |
| 5.0 | 10.01.2025 01:34 | 11.9 km | 46 km |
| 4.8 | 06.12.2024 10:28 | 62.3 km | 26 km |
| 4.0 | 04.12.2024 09:35 | 0 km | 55 km |
| 4.8 | 15.11.2024 23:05 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 3.5 | 15.11.2024 23:05 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 4.6 | 04.10.2024 21:15 | 110.3 km | 56 km |
| 4.7 | 01.10.2024 08:23 | 61.1 km | 42 km |
| 3.4 | 28.08.2024 08:25 | 57.9 km | 56 km |
| 4.5 | 25.08.2024 23:50 | 100.5 km | 64 km |
| 5.3 | 25.08.2024 23:37 | 100.5 km | 62 km |
| 6.0 | 25.08.2024 23:30 | 97.4 km | 45 km |
| 6.8 | 25.08.2024 23:29 | 131.1 km | 51 km |
| 4.2 | 11.08.2024 17:47 | 0 km | 36 km |
| 6.0 | 29.07.2024 13:07 | 10 km | 110 km |
| 4.6 | 30.06.2024 09:03 | 13.1 km | 47 km |
| 6.6 | 26.05.2024 20:47 | 145.8 km | 32 km |
| 5.3 | 23.02.2024 07:32 | 113.8 km | 39 km |
| 5.0 | 21.02.2024 11:58 | 0 km | 58 km |
| 4.4 | 20.02.2024 10:52 | 0 km | 35 km |
| 6.4 | 18.01.2024 22:12 | 217.3 km | 102 km |
| 6.2 | 11.12.2023 06:33 | 250.9 km | 123 km |
| 4.0 | 08.12.2023 03:36 | 35 km | 66 km |
| 4.6 | 23.11.2023 01:39 | 137 km | 20 km |
| 4.3 | 06.07.2023 22:16 | 137.5 km | 57 km |
| 5.3 | 28.06.2023 10:54 | 120.4 km | 44 km |
| 5.3 | 14.02.2023 22:22 | 166.5 km | 57 km |
| 4.8 | 02.01.2023 14:46 | 63.2 km | 40 km |
| 3.5 | 02.01.2023 14:46 | 50 km | 45 km |
| 5.0 | 21.10.2022 09:18 | 124.8 km | 67 km |
| 5.4 | 19.06.2022 11:49 | 50.7 km | 66 km |
| 5.0 | 19.06.2022 04:28 | 72.6 km | 27 km |
| 5.1 | 06.06.2022 14:55 | 100 km | 71 km |
| 4.2 | 26.03.2022 07:15 | 150 km | 51 km |
| 4.4 | 26.12.2021 16:14 | 31 km | 69 km |
| 5.4 | 18.07.2021 00:36 | 210.8 km | 76 km |
| 4.6 | 23.03.2021 01:47 | 200 km | 43 km |
| 4.0 | 16.12.2020 18:47 | 0 km | 43 km |
| 4.4 | 05.12.2020 22:57 | 32 km | 67 km |
| 5.0 | 20.10.2020 18:57 | 29 km | 76 km |
| 4.9 | 05.10.2020 01:10 | 35 km | 67 km |
| 4.1 | 01.10.2020 08:21 | 0 km | 42 km |
| 4.4 | 01.10.2020 08:17 | 35 km | 65 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.