1.5
11,756
recorded earthquakes
M5.1
largest
1902–2026
record span
1.68
mean magnitude
10,428
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.1 | 09.04.1917 20:52 | — | 197 km |
| 5.0 | 25.03.1976 00:41 | 11 km | 346 km |
| 4.8 | 22.03.1922 22:29 | — | 284 km |
| 4.8 | 24.12.1970 10:17 | 12 km | 313 km |
| 4.8 | 07.05.1927 08:28 | — | 331 km |
| 4.8 | 21.10.1965 02:04 | 10 km | 148 km |
| 4.8 | 26.09.1990 13:18 | 10 km | 280 km |
| 4.7 | 04.11.1903 19:14 | — | 315 km |
| 4.7 | 20.08.1934 00:47 | — | 321 km |
| 4.7 | 03.03.1963 17:30 | 9 km | 279 km |
| 4.6 | 22.08.1905 05:08 | — | 260 km |
| 4.6 | 07.12.1915 18:40 | — | 342 km |
| 4.6 | 04.11.1903 18:18 | — | 326 km |
| 4.6 | 11.02.1965 03:40 | 18 km | 320 km |
| 4.6 | 23.03.1922 02:22 | — | 284 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.5 | 31.07.2026 19:00 | 0 km | 334 km |
| 1.3 | 31.07.2026 17:09 | 0 km | 375 km |
| 1.7 | 31.07.2026 08:39 | 8.8 km | 325 km |
| 1.4 | 30.07.2026 21:24 | 0 km | 377 km |
| 1.3 | 30.07.2026 18:43 | 0 km | 361 km |
| 1.3 | 30.07.2026 16:15 | 0 km | 375 km |
| 1.3 | 29.07.2026 20:45 | 9.5 km | 340 km |
| 1.9 | 28.07.2026 15:18 | 4.1 km | 275 km |
| 1.5 | 28.07.2026 14:33 | 0 km | 374 km |
| 1.9 | 28.07.2026 05:12 | 4.5 km | 307 km |
| 1.8 | 27.07.2026 04:11 | 7 km | 349 km |
| 1.7 | 26.07.2026 15:36 | 4.5 km | 265 km |
| 1.2 | 24.07.2026 20:23 | 0 km | 358 km |
| 1.2 | 24.07.2026 16:29 | 0 km | 380 km |
| 2.0 | 24.07.2026 06:18 | 8.5 km | 328 km |
| 1.8 | 23.07.2026 21:02 | 9.2 km | 285 km |
| 1.4 | 23.07.2026 20:04 | 0 km | 332 km |
| 1.3 | 23.07.2026 15:19 | 0 km | 270 km |
| 2.0 | 23.07.2026 02:10 | 5.5 km | 313 km |
| 1.9 | 22.07.2026 17:28 | 9.9 km | 331 km |
| 1.5 | 22.07.2026 11:57 | 8.2 km | 313 km |
| 1.2 | 21.07.2026 17:05 | 0 km | 377 km |
| 1.2 | 21.07.2026 16:26 | 0 km | 372 km |
| 1.4 | 20.07.2026 20:37 | 0 km | 358 km |
| 1.8 | 20.07.2026 08:43 | 1.8 km | 265 km |
| 2.4 | 20.07.2026 08:40 | 1 km | 265 km |
| 2.1 | 20.07.2026 01:28 | 3.8 km | 264 km |
| 1.3 | 16.07.2026 16:04 | 0 km | 372 km |
| 1.4 | 15.07.2026 18:01 | 0 km | 378 km |
| 1.4 | 14.07.2026 15:41 | 0 km | 270 km |
| 2.2 | 14.07.2026 04:18 | 10.8 km | 275 km |
| 1.9 | 13.07.2026 22:22 | 8.8 km | 320 km |
| 1.9 | 13.07.2026 18:53 | 11.1 km | 343 km |
| 1.4 | 13.07.2026 18:35 | 7.1 km | 312 km |
| 1.5 | 13.07.2026 18:33 | 0 km | 358 km |
| 1.9 | 11.07.2026 11:08 | 6 km | 349 km |
| 1.1 | 10.07.2026 20:02 | 9.1 km | 331 km |
| 1.3 | 10.07.2026 18:33 | 0 km | 377 km |
| 1.3 | 10.07.2026 15:16 | 0 km | 376 km |
| 1.9 | 10.07.2026 14:16 | 9.4 km | 330 km |
| 1.8 | 10.07.2026 07:37 | 6.1 km | 349 km |
| 1.2 | 10.07.2026 06:17 | 5.5 km | 349 km |
| 1.5 | 09.07.2026 23:50 | 6.3 km | 349 km |
| 1.3 | 08.07.2026 21:49 | 0 km | 332 km |
| 2.0 | 08.07.2026 08:49 | 10.2 km | 312 km |
| 1.4 | 07.07.2026 18:38 | 0 km | 378 km |
| 1.3 | 07.07.2026 17:54 | 0 km | 357 km |
| 1.8 | 07.07.2026 15:25 | 10.5 km | 310 km |
| 1.3 | 07.07.2026 14:23 | 0 km | 374 km |
| 1.6 | 05.07.2026 07:32 | 4 km | 277 km |
| 1.4 | 04.07.2026 04:10 | 8.6 km | 339 km |
| 1.4 | 02.07.2026 18:38 | 0 km | 334 km |
| 1.3 | 01.07.2026 19:33 | 0 km | 373 km |
| 1.9 | 01.07.2026 18:19 | 17.3 km | 312 km |
| 1.4 | 01.07.2026 11:49 | 8.9 km | 320 km |
| 1.5 | 30.06.2026 18:11 | 0 km | 295 km |
| 2.3 | 30.06.2026 15:28 | 8.8 km | 339 km |
| 2.0 | 30.06.2026 04:25 | 2 km | 209 km |
| 2.9 | 30.06.2026 03:41 | 1.6 km | 227 km |
| 2.0 | 29.06.2026 11:14 | 6.1 km | 316 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.