5.3
3,125
recorded earthquakes
M8.0
largest
1913–2026
record span
4.58
mean magnitude
884
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 | 26.06.1917 05:49 | 15 km | 167 km |
| 7.7 | 26.12.1975 15:56 | 31.7 km | 250 km |
| 7.5 | 10.05.2023 16:02 | 210.5 km | 25 km |
| 7.5 | 14.04.1957 19:18 | 20 km | 164 km |
| 7.5 | 01.09.1981 09:29 | 23.2 km | 181 km |
| 7.3 | 07.04.1995 22:06 | 34.8 km | 145 km |
| 7.2 | 08.06.1939 20:46 | 100 km | 81 km |
| 7.2 | 08.01.2000 16:47 | 131.1 km | 131 km |
| 7.1 | 15.10.1984 10:21 | 128.4 km | 111 km |
| 7.0 | 08.05.1913 18:35 | 200 km | 139 km |
| 6.8 | 20.12.1914 14:09 | 35 km | 189 km |
| 6.8 | 04.12.2022 19:24 | 36.5 km | 180 km |
| 6.7 | 04.11.2017 09:00 | 9.9 km | 167 km |
| 6.7 | 04.06.1974 04:14 | 278.5 km | 32 km |
| 6.6 | 25.01.2004 11:43 | 129 km | 117 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.3 | 22.07.2026 21:58 | 75.9 km | 85 km |
| 4.2 | 13.06.2026 00:09 | 174.1 km | 28 km |
| 3.7 | 28.05.2026 01:40 | 187 km | 69 km |
| 3.6 | 27.05.2026 23:29 | 136.5 km | 89 km |
| 4.1 | 23.05.2026 13:08 | 354.3 km | 74 km |
| 3.7 | 21.05.2026 05:26 | 278.3 km | 25 km |
| 4.0 | 20.05.2026 22:59 | 0 km | 28 km |
| 3.8 | 16.05.2026 06:29 | 295 km | 48 km |
| 3.4 | 04.05.2026 22:29 | 307.1 km | 78 km |
| 4.0 | 04.05.2026 20:36 | 0 km | 133 km |
| 3.7 | 02.05.2026 07:09 | 260.6 km | 21 km |
| 6.1 | 19.04.2026 17:34 | 50 km | 122 km |
| 4.1 | 18.04.2026 13:42 | 237.4 km | 70 km |
| 4.1 | 10.04.2026 03:06 | 162.8 km | 102 km |
| 4.0 | 04.04.2026 04:28 | 0 km | 89 km |
| 5.1 | 29.03.2026 23:45 | 39.8 km | 138 km |
| 4.2 | 29.03.2026 20:23 | 296.8 km | 19 km |
| 5.2 | 25.03.2026 10:17 | 196.4 km | 28 km |
| 4.6 | 25.03.2026 10:12 | 161.1 km | 33 km |
| 5.7 | 25.03.2026 10:11 | 200.7 km | 27 km |
| 5.7 | 22.03.2026 16:00 | 10 km | 156 km |
| 6.4 | 22.03.2026 15:30 | 10 km | 178 km |
| 6.2 | 22.03.2026 15:27 | 10 km | 175 km |
| 6.3 | 22.03.2026 06:15 | 0 km | 160 km |
| 3.6 | 20.03.2026 16:17 | 281.9 km | 35 km |
| 5.0 | 11.03.2026 15:10 | 0 km | 161 km |
| 3.5 | 09.03.2026 09:06 | 194.1 km | 75 km |
| 6.0 | 08.03.2026 09:28 | 132.7 km | 97 km |
| 5.0 | 07.03.2026 00:44 | 0 km | 155 km |
| 3.8 | 04.03.2026 09:24 | 119 km | 100 km |
| 4.1 | 24.02.2026 13:59 | 0 km | 59 km |
| 4.0 | 11.02.2026 02:02 | 0 km | 94 km |
| 4.9 | 09.02.2026 18:52 | 0 km | 123 km |
| 3.8 | 27.01.2026 19:22 | 157 km | 67 km |
| 3.6 | 21.01.2026 22:19 | 170.1 km | 102 km |
| 5.2 | 19.01.2026 06:42 | 115 km | 104 km |
| 3.7 | 15.01.2026 03:29 | 204.8 km | 12 km |
| 3.6 | 11.01.2026 15:30 | 315.6 km | 59 km |
| 3.9 | 03.01.2026 06:14 | 277.6 km | 23 km |
| 4.3 | 02.01.2026 20:36 | 0 km | 61 km |
| 4.1 | 31.12.2025 18:44 | 0 km | 55 km |
| 3.6 | 22.12.2025 21:28 | 272.9 km | 34 km |
| 4.0 | 06.12.2025 17:37 | 0 km | 36 km |
| 3.5 | 02.12.2025 08:28 | 166.2 km | 93 km |
| 3.5 | 01.12.2025 16:40 | 282.2 km | 43 km |
| 5.6 | 28.11.2025 03:30 | 247.7 km | 54 km |
| 5.1 | 15.11.2025 07:52 | 0 km | 142 km |
| 5.7 | 14.11.2025 19:09 | 0 km | 132 km |
| 4.3 | 29.10.2025 03:14 | 0 km | 51 km |
| 3.3 | 23.10.2025 15:51 | 271.7 km | 117 km |
| 3.3 | 07.10.2025 13:22 | 296.3 km | 118 km |
| 4.3 | 27.09.2025 03:33 | 187.6 km | 35 km |
| 5.1 | 26.09.2025 06:32 | 10 km | 145 km |
| 4.1 | 25.09.2025 16:39 | 197.9 km | 63 km |
| 4.0 | 25.09.2025 04:25 | 174.6 km | 30 km |
| 4.1 | 13.09.2025 10:42 | 43.3 km | 124 km |
| 4.2 | 12.09.2025 04:30 | 361.6 km | 122 km |
| 4.1 | 08.09.2025 14:09 | 0 km | 4 km |
| 4.4 | 07.09.2025 19:03 | 294.9 km | 45 km |
| 4.0 | 04.09.2025 21:06 | 0 km | 80 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.