2.1
3,516
recorded earthquakes
M5.5
largest
1960–2026
record span
2.01
mean magnitude
2,848
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.5 | 11.10.1960 08:05 | 49 km | 194 km |
| 5.3 | 23.08.2011 05:46 | 10 km | 229 km |
| 5.3 | 09.08.1967 13:25 | 10 km | 135 km |
| 5.3 | 23.01.1966 01:56 | 10 km | 263 km |
| 5.3 | 17.05.1973 16:00 | 0 km | 258 km |
| 5.2 | 27.11.1967 05:09 | 10 km | 116 km |
| 5.2 | 10.12.1967 19:30 | 0 km | 294 km |
| 5.1 | 10.09.1969 21:00 | 0 km | 208 km |
| 5.0 | 05.01.1966 00:37 | 5 km | 115 km |
| 4.9 | 02.06.1966 21:59 | 5 km | 266 km |
| 4.9 | 16.02.1965 22:21 | 5 km | 111 km |
| 4.9 | 22.08.2011 23:30 | 12 km | 232 km |
| 4.8 | 14.09.1965 23:16 | 5 km | 79 km |
| 4.7 | 03.04.1966 16:21 | 0 km | 86 km |
| 4.7 | 21.11.1965 05:00 | 5 km | 105 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1 | 07.07.2026 06:48 | 5 km | 224 km |
| 2.8 | 02.07.2026 06:18 | 5 km | 224 km |
| 2.2 | 28.06.2026 14:46 | 5 km | 227 km |
| 2.4 | 27.06.2026 05:52 | 5 km | 226 km |
| 3.1 | 25.06.2026 18:21 | 6.1 km | 230 km |
| 1.7 | 25.06.2026 17:14 | 5 km | 230 km |
| 1.4 | 25.06.2026 15:13 | 5 km | 230 km |
| 1.5 | 25.06.2026 14:57 | 5 km | 233 km |
| 1.5 | 25.06.2026 13:09 | 5 km | 227 km |
| 1.7 | 25.06.2026 13:07 | 5 km | 230 km |
| 1.5 | 25.06.2026 10:02 | 5 km | 231 km |
| 1.4 | 25.06.2026 02:55 | 5 km | 226 km |
| 1.9 | 23.06.2026 07:21 | 5 km | 226 km |
| 2.9 | 20.06.2026 21:04 | 5 km | 227 km |
| 2.4 | 20.06.2026 18:15 | 9 km | 226 km |
| 3.8 | 20.06.2026 17:32 | 7.5 km | 227 km |
| 1.5 | 20.06.2026 12:51 | 5 km | 225 km |
| 1.7 | 20.06.2026 10:15 | 5 km | 225 km |
| 1.6 | 20.06.2026 10:14 | 5 km | 221 km |
| 1.8 | 08.06.2026 11:51 | 5 km | 227 km |
| 2.8 | 06.06.2026 04:42 | 9.4 km | 144 km |
| 1.8 | 29.05.2026 18:18 | 5 km | 225 km |
| 1.2 | 26.05.2026 12:35 | 5 km | 205 km |
| 2.0 | 25.05.2026 08:17 | 5 km | 243 km |
| 1.8 | 25.05.2026 05:12 | 5 km | 241 km |
| 1.3 | 24.05.2026 15:01 | 5 km | 225 km |
| 1.2 | 24.05.2026 13:11 | 5 km | 227 km |
| 2.0 | 24.05.2026 06:45 | 5 km | 243 km |
| 1.3 | 23.05.2026 05:53 | 5 km | 225 km |
| 1.3 | 22.05.2026 06:24 | 5 km | 242 km |
| 1.6 | 22.05.2026 01:18 | 5 km | 226 km |
| 2.9 | 18.05.2026 12:29 | 5.5 km | 170 km |
| 1.4 | 18.05.2026 11:43 | 5 km | 169 km |
| 2.3 | 18.05.2026 05:46 | 5 km | 170 km |
| 1.3 | 18.05.2026 05:30 | 5 km | 170 km |
| 2.3 | 17.05.2026 21:28 | 5 km | 171 km |
| 1.2 | 17.05.2026 11:32 | 5 km | 169 km |
| 1.1 | 17.05.2026 09:00 | 5 km | 168 km |
| 1.4 | 17.05.2026 08:47 | 5 km | 170 km |
| 1.4 | 17.05.2026 07:41 | 5 km | 226 km |
| 3.0 | 17.05.2026 01:04 | 3.2 km | 224 km |
| 2.6 | 16.05.2026 11:41 | 9 km | 254 km |
| 2.2 | 14.05.2026 04:48 | 5.2 km | 297 km |
| 1.9 | 09.05.2026 10:41 | 5 km | 226 km |
| 3.5 | 07.05.2026 17:44 | 10 km | 222 km |
| 2.4 | 06.05.2026 02:02 | 5 km | 137 km |
| 0.9 | 21.04.2026 06:28 | 5 km | 223 km |
| 2.5 | 20.04.2026 10:17 | 5 km | 223 km |
| 1.3 | 18.04.2026 09:27 | 5 km | 228 km |
| 1.6 | 15.04.2026 13:45 | 5 km | 226 km |
| 0.9 | 14.04.2026 02:51 | 5 km | 226 km |
| 1.5 | 12.04.2026 20:51 | 5 km | 226 km |
| 2.0 | 11.04.2026 01:42 | 5 km | 226 km |
| 3.4 | 10.04.2026 06:59 | 6.8 km | 228 km |
| 1.1 | 09.04.2026 07:08 | 5 km | 241 km |
| 1.3 | 09.04.2026 01:04 | 5 km | 244 km |
| 1.7 | 08.04.2026 04:08 | 5 km | 232 km |
| 3.2 | 05.04.2026 06:54 | 7.8 km | 228 km |
| 1.4 | 05.04.2026 00:05 | 5 km | 233 km |
| 2.5 | 04.04.2026 22:04 | 5 km | 172 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.