4.1
1,761
recorded earthquakes
M8.0
largest
1903–2026
record span
4.65
mean magnitude
659
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 | 22.06.1977 12:08 | 58.2 km | 135 km |
| 8.0 | 03.05.2006 15:26 | 40.9 km | 233 km |
| 7.8 | 08.09.1948 15:09 | 15 km | 189 km |
| 7.8 | 04.01.1903 05:07 | 400 km | 200 km |
| 7.7 | 14.10.1997 09:53 | 127.4 km | 106 km |
| 7.7 | 26.06.1913 04:57 | 25 km | 226 km |
| 7.6 | 19.03.2009 18:17 | 29.2 km | 193 km |
| 7.4 | 23.05.2013 17:19 | 177.7 km | 224 km |
| 7.3 | 21.08.1911 16:28 | 300 km | 87 km |
| 7.3 | 02.01.1907 11:57 | 0 km | 87 km |
| 7.3 | 16.04.1937 03:01 | 330 km | 213 km |
| 7.2 | 15.06.2023 18:06 | 186.3 km | 210 km |
| 7.2 | 24.06.1917 19:48 | 60 km | 186 km |
| 7.1 | 30.10.1986 01:28 | 191.7 km | 99 km |
| 7.1 | 30.06.1905 17:07 | 0 km | 200 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.1 | 12.07.2026 11:09 | 10 km | 108 km |
| 3.8 | 08.07.2026 23:33 | 147.7 km | 5 km |
| 3.7 | 29.06.2026 03:23 | 166.4 km | 49 km |
| 4.1 | 14.06.2026 02:29 | 0 km | 34 km |
| 4.0 | 10.06.2026 23:50 | 0 km | 105 km |
| 3.8 | 06.06.2026 17:44 | 118 km | 55 km |
| 3.9 | 02.06.2026 09:28 | 177.5 km | 30 km |
| 3.8 | 21.03.2026 22:32 | 213.3 km | 100 km |
| 4.0 | 19.03.2026 03:10 | 0 km | 8 km |
| 5.2 | 08.03.2026 07:18 | 185 km | 100 km |
| 5.3 | 26.02.2026 02:49 | 236.2 km | 144 km |
| 5.4 | 22.02.2026 08:45 | 176.2 km | 123 km |
| 3.6 | 08.02.2026 05:26 | 179.7 km | 73 km |
| 4.1 | 05.02.2026 00:25 | 153.5 km | 93 km |
| 5.8 | 31.01.2026 20:59 | 10 km | 142 km |
| 4.9 | 28.01.2026 12:07 | 0 km | 63 km |
| 5.2 | 26.01.2026 13:02 | 71.3 km | 89 km |
| 5.3 | 26.01.2026 10:53 | 0 km | 59 km |
| 5.4 | 26.01.2026 03:31 | 22.6 km | 61 km |
| 4.9 | 18.01.2026 12:31 | 10 km | 116 km |
| 3.9 | 17.01.2026 18:49 | 184.7 km | 60 km |
| 4.9 | 20.12.2025 19:08 | 73.3 km | 34 km |
| 3.6 | 20.12.2025 19:08 | 0 km | 24 km |
| 3.9 | 16.12.2025 13:22 | 143.6 km | 83 km |
| 5.4 | 10.12.2025 05:12 | 100 km | 124 km |
| 3.8 | 15.11.2025 15:46 | 227.3 km | 88 km |
| 4.0 | 15.11.2025 08:30 | 0 km | 48 km |
| 4.2 | 09.11.2025 13:43 | 443.4 km | 92 km |
| 3.7 | 06.11.2025 15:52 | 218.7 km | 82 km |
| 4.6 | 05.10.2025 22:18 | 136.2 km | 91 km |
| 4.1 | 02.10.2025 07:56 | 0 km | 115 km |
| 3.2 | 16.08.2025 09:41 | 10 km | 56 km |
| 4.5 | 16.08.2025 09:41 | 10 km | 56 km |
| 5.0 | 10.08.2025 16:36 | 10 km | 111 km |
| 4.1 | 31.07.2025 19:23 | 0 km | 81 km |
| 3.8 | 31.07.2025 01:33 | 10 km | 38 km |
| 3.5 | 22.07.2025 17:19 | 107.2 km | 47 km |
| 3.8 | 19.07.2025 06:20 | 0 km | 63 km |
| 4.2 | 15.07.2025 20:11 | 0 km | 78 km |
| 4.6 | 19.06.2025 02:28 | 41.9 km | 106 km |
| 4.2 | 17.06.2025 10:45 | 0 km | 94 km |
| 4.7 | 13.06.2025 13:56 | 110 km | 73 km |
| 4.1 | 08.06.2025 23:24 | 0 km | 22 km |
| 4.5 | 30.05.2025 21:30 | 75.6 km | 83 km |
| 4.8 | 30.05.2025 16:45 | 78.8 km | 64 km |
| 4.0 | 12.05.2025 19:10 | 0 km | 43 km |
| 3.4 | 28.04.2025 00:42 | 0 km | 90 km |
| 4.4 | 24.04.2025 23:02 | 186.2 km | 86 km |
| 4.4 | 17.04.2025 01:43 | 0 km | 42 km |
| 5.0 | 05.04.2025 21:23 | 100 km | 106 km |
| 3.5 | 31.03.2025 06:15 | 0 km | 59 km |
| 7.0 | 30.03.2025 12:18 | 0 km | 206 km |
| 4.6 | 30.03.2025 04:36 | 60.5 km | 74 km |
| 4.4 | 29.03.2025 06:28 | 138.9 km | 104 km |
| 4.1 | 25.03.2025 18:52 | 0 km | 114 km |
| 4.4 | 13.03.2025 21:49 | 206.4 km | 89 km |
| 4.6 | 16.02.2025 09:57 | 85.5 km | 86 km |
| 3.4 | 13.02.2025 02:30 | 0 km | 39 km |
| 5.1 | 11.02.2025 05:47 | 10 km | 110 km |
| 4.0 | 04.02.2025 11:02 | 0 km | 13 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.