2.4
1,233
recorded earthquakes
M5.6
largest
1931–2026
record span
2.29
mean magnitude
1,055
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.6 | 07.06.1931 00:25 | 35 km | 323 km |
| 5.0 | 05.11.2014 16:19 | 2 km | 680 km |
| 4.9 | 01.07.2020 04:21 | 11 km | 200 km |
| 4.9 | 29.07.1982 00:17 | 10 km | 615 km |
| 4.8 | 02.04.1990 13:46 | 18 km | 345 km |
| 4.8 | 30.06.2017 13:33 | 7.6 km | 507 km |
| 4.7 | 26.12.1979 03:57 | 7 km | 58 km |
| 4.7 | 19.07.1984 06:56 | 17.7 km | 293 km |
| 4.6 | 27.02.2008 00:56 | 17.4 km | 297 km |
| 4.6 | 22.07.1967 10:59 | 0 km | 556 km |
| 4.6 | 06.10.1999 16:26 | 1 km | 636 km |
| 4.5 | 25.10.1999 19:15 | 10 km | 400 km |
| 4.4 | 22.09.2002 23:53 | 30.4 km | 342 km |
| 4.4 | 15.02.1994 10:15 | 10 km | 425 km |
| 4.4 | 08.12.2000 05:54 | 17 km | 570 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.4 | 31.07.2026 00:31 | 3.3 km | 365 km |
| 0.8 | 28.07.2026 13:08 | 5 km | 332 km |
| 2.5 | 28.07.2026 03:09 | 5 km | 193 km |
| 0.3 | 06.07.2026 22:52 | 15 km | 199 km |
| 2.7 | 24.05.2026 20:10 | 10 km | 651 km |
| 2.6 | 20.05.2026 12:23 | 8 km | 234 km |
| 0.8 | 17.05.2026 12:08 | 2 km | 433 km |
| 2.3 | 13.05.2026 09:11 | 3 km | 150 km |
| 2.7 | 12.05.2026 07:33 | 5 km | 341 km |
| 0.2 | 02.05.2026 17:20 | 2 km | 191 km |
| 3.5 | 16.04.2026 19:46 | 10 km | 154 km |
| 2.3 | 15.04.2026 15:55 | 7 km | 152 km |
| 0.0 | 12.04.2026 23:11 | 4 km | 240 km |
| 0.7 | 05.04.2026 23:02 | 3 km | 389 km |
| 0.7 | 02.04.2026 04:25 | 1 km | 169 km |
| 1.2 | 21.03.2026 20:39 | 7 km | 247 km |
| 2.8 | 09.03.2026 19:25 | 3 km | 150 km |
| 0.1 | 06.03.2026 10:31 | 1 km | 175 km |
| 0.5 | 17.02.2026 23:49 | 1 km | 267 km |
| 0.8 | 03.02.2026 00:09 | 12 km | 301 km |
| 1.3 | 31.01.2026 19:24 | 2 km | 369 km |
| 1.2 | 30.01.2026 15:38 | 6 km | 301 km |
| 0.7 | 21.01.2026 15:07 | 1 km | 211 km |
| 1.7 | 18.01.2026 12:24 | 26.1 km | 488 km |
| 0.4 | 25.12.2025 06:13 | 6 km | 301 km |
| 2.4 | 05.12.2025 12:13 | 3 km | 166 km |
| 3.4 | 03.12.2025 23:23 | 10 km | 147 km |
| 0.3 | 02.11.2025 07:54 | 18 km | 264 km |
| 0.6 | 01.11.2025 20:00 | 2 km | 220 km |
| 3.9 | 20.10.2025 17:06 | 10 km | 143 km |
| 2.7 | 20.10.2025 16:29 | 2.6 km | 150 km |
| 0.1 | 12.10.2025 22:29 | 12 km | 339 km |
| 0.8 | 02.10.2025 07:46 | 4 km | 255 km |
| 2.6 | 07.09.2025 08:49 | 27 km | 225 km |
| 1.1 | 23.07.2025 00:56 | 1 km | 434 km |
| 0.1 | 16.07.2025 13:04 | 1 km | 216 km |
| 2.5 | 02.07.2025 23:42 | 12 km | 340 km |
| 1.1 | 29.06.2025 20:20 | 8 km | 446 km |
| 0.5 | 07.06.2025 19:51 | 1 km | 333 km |
| 0.8 | 26.05.2025 03:47 | 2 km | 174 km |
| 1.5 | 22.05.2025 02:55 | 1 km | 357 km |
| 2.5 | 16.05.2025 01:36 | 4.6 km | 156 km |
| 2.2 | 14.04.2025 18:59 | 5.2 km | 664 km |
| 0.7 | 26.03.2025 21:37 | 1 km | 140 km |
| 1.5 | 26.03.2025 04:19 | 1 km | 451 km |
| 2.7 | 19.03.2025 14:42 | 0 km | 664 km |
| 2.6 | 18.03.2025 14:30 | 0 km | 666 km |
| 2.7 | 12.03.2025 10:59 | 5 km | 663 km |
| 0.5 | 07.02.2025 00:24 | 29 km | 288 km |
| 2.9 | 03.02.2025 00:05 | 11.8 km | 363 km |
| 2.8 | 27.01.2025 05:22 | 10 km | 361 km |
| 2.6 | 22.01.2025 09:12 | 25 km | 589 km |
| 1.3 | 13.01.2025 20:35 | 8 km | 314 km |
| 1.1 | 08.01.2025 02:48 | 6 km | 190 km |
| 0.9 | 01.01.2025 15:16 | 8.7 km | 312 km |
| 2.2 | 17.12.2024 23:55 | 8 km | 313 km |
| 0.5 | 08.10.2024 17:35 | 3 km | 252 km |
| 2.6 | 10.09.2024 11:12 | 4.9 km | 140 km |
| 2.8 | 29.08.2024 15:23 | 10 km | 661 km |
| 2.8 | 29.08.2024 10:02 | 10 km | 660 km |
Regions
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.