4.2
877
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1917–2026
record span
3.92
mean magnitude
622
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.2 | 05.10.1948 20:12 | 15 km | 366 km |
| 7.1 | 01.05.1929 15:37 | 10 km | 315 km |
| 7.1 | 02.07.1957 00:42 | 15 km | 432 km |
| 7.1 | 04.11.1946 21:47 | 37.9 km | 13 km |
| 7.0 | 06.12.2000 17:11 | 27.7 km | 41 km |
| 6.7 | 30.07.1970 00:52 | 12.4 km | 248 km |
| 6.5 | 04.02.1997 10:37 | 20.4 km | 319 km |
| 6.5 | 06.03.1986 00:05 | 39.2 km | 279 km |
| 6.4 | 17.09.1923 07:09 | 15 km | 406 km |
| 6.4 | 16.09.1989 02:05 | 41.7 km | 279 km |
| 6.4 | 11.04.1935 23:14 | 15 km | 377 km |
| 6.2 | 17.09.1989 00:53 | 46 km | 263 km |
| 6.1 | 29.10.1985 13:13 | 15.5 km | 349 km |
| 6.0 | 14.02.1938 02:54 | 35 km | 134 km |
| 6.0 | 13.05.1929 13:27 | 15 km | 305 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.2 | 19.07.2026 05:38 | 10 km | 300 km |
| 3.9 | 25.06.2026 06:28 | 0 km | 311 km |
| 3.5 | 26.04.2026 17:09 | 10 km | 213 km |
| 4.3 | 11.03.2026 07:55 | 39.6 km | 54 km |
| 3.3 | 15.02.2026 08:02 | 0 km | 136 km |
| 5.0 | 23.12.2025 04:32 | 49.2 km | 273 km |
| 4.0 | 04.12.2025 07:15 | 0 km | 200 km |
| 4.1 | 03.12.2025 21:51 | 10 km | 301 km |
| 4.1 | 20.11.2025 20:56 | 10 km | 308 km |
| 4.2 | 05.11.2025 07:18 | 0 km | 313 km |
| 4.1 | 10.08.2025 13:16 | 10 km | 190 km |
| 4.0 | 05.08.2025 23:13 | 0 km | 186 km |
| 5.3 | 19.07.2025 21:37 | 10 km | 336 km |
| 3.8 | 09.07.2025 22:23 | 0 km | 216 km |
| 3.4 | 01.07.2025 19:16 | 10 km | 252 km |
| 3.0 | 30.05.2025 02:10 | 10 km | 177 km |
| 3.2 | 18.04.2025 07:20 | 8 km | 236 km |
| 3.1 | 05.03.2025 21:04 | 7 km | 300 km |
| 3.7 | 05.03.2025 19:33 | 8 km | 299 km |
| 3.2 | 17.01.2025 09:33 | 20 km | 290 km |
| 3.0 | 09.11.2024 15:53 | 18 km | 287 km |
| 3.4 | 17.10.2024 22:37 | 0 km | 258 km |
| 3.8 | 28.09.2024 12:14 | 10 km | 136 km |
| 5.0 | 22.09.2024 12:43 | 0 km | 337 km |
| 4.8 | 21.09.2024 23:58 | 0 km | 337 km |
| 4.3 | 21.09.2024 23:51 | 7.3 km | 349 km |
| 3.8 | 10.09.2024 22:16 | 0 km | 343 km |
| 3.4 | 07.09.2024 20:13 | 10 km | 143 km |
| 4.7 | 07.09.2024 20:13 | 10 km | 132 km |
| 3.2 | 20.06.2024 14:11 | 10 km | 165 km |
| 4.2 | 15.03.2024 14:35 | 10 km | 256 km |
| 3.3 | 17.12.2023 19:37 | 35 km | 204 km |
| 4.1 | 11.11.2023 20:16 | 15 km | 305 km |
| 3.4 | 06.11.2023 12:43 | 10 km | 330 km |
| 3.6 | 29.09.2023 12:25 | 10 km | 311 km |
| 4.0 | 25.09.2023 01:43 | 62 km | 228 km |
| 3.1 | 08.09.2023 19:53 | 10 km | 295 km |
| 3.1 | 01.09.2023 01:11 | 10 km | 255 km |
| 5.1 | 16.08.2023 01:37 | 52.9 km | 156 km |
| 4.4 | 15.08.2023 13:05 | 10 km | 368 km |
| 3.4 | 14.08.2023 19:36 | 8 km | 293 km |
| 3.4 | 14.08.2023 19:26 | 8 km | 293 km |
| 4.0 | 20.07.2023 03:05 | 10 km | 310 km |
| 4.1 | 03.06.2023 09:23 | 10 km | 318 km |
| 4.4 | 31.05.2023 04:04 | 40.2 km | 17 km |
| 3.6 | 30.04.2023 01:04 | 29 km | 48 km |
| 4.0 | 22.03.2023 10:38 | 14.3 km | 287 km |
| 4.0 | 01.03.2023 04:47 | 12 km | 349 km |
| 4.2 | 28.12.2022 18:14 | 15 km | 31 km |
| 3.6 | 23.12.2022 09:49 | 10 km | 339 km |
| 3.5 | 22.12.2022 14:12 | 2 km | 163 km |
| 4.1 | 22.12.2022 13:29 | 10 km | 168 km |
| 3.5 | 21.10.2022 05:11 | 2 km | 151 km |
| 4.0 | 27.07.2022 15:02 | 10 km | 295 km |
| 3.7 | 27.07.2022 13:55 | 10 km | 307 km |
| 4.2 | 20.06.2022 03:04 | 10 km | 166 km |
| 4.3 | 24.05.2022 01:39 | 5 km | 177 km |
| 3.6 | 16.05.2022 08:53 | 20 km | 274 km |
| 3.5 | 03.05.2022 02:26 | 10 km | 300 km |
| 4.2 | 20.04.2022 07:13 | 33 km | 180 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.