4.5
3,315
recorded earthquakes
M7.9
largest
1905–2026
record span
4.56
mean magnitude
1,928
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.9 | 16.06.1910 06:30 | 100 km | 15 km |
| 7.8 | 20.09.1920 14:39 | 25 km | 121 km |
| 7.6 | 14.10.1913 08:08 | 125 km | 68 km |
| 7.5 | 01.06.1910 05:55 | 80 km | 78 km |
| 7.5 | 10.11.1913 21:12 | 80 km | 166 km |
| 7.4 | 11.10.1992 19:24 | 132.8 km | 54 km |
| 7.4 | 01.05.1979 13:03 | 55.8 km | 217 km |
| 7.3 | 17.12.2024 01:47 | 54.4 km | 241 km |
| 7.3 | 02.12.1950 19:51 | 30 km | 222 km |
| 7.3 | 23.07.1961 21:51 | 25 km | 174 km |
| 7.3 | 25.12.2010 13:16 | 14.8 km | 154 km |
| 7.3 | 09.04.2008 12:46 | 32.6 km | 90 km |
| 7.2 | 30.03.1910 16:55 | 80 km | 184 km |
| 7.2 | 24.11.1944 04:49 | 165 km | 44 km |
| 7.2 | 13.11.1943 18:43 | 35 km | 76 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.5 | 23.07.2026 13:21 | 10 km | 108 km |
| 4.4 | 21.07.2026 15:29 | 257 km | 61 km |
| 4.3 | 15.07.2026 15:09 | 0 km | 123 km |
| 4.0 | 08.07.2026 14:36 | 0 km | 93 km |
| 4.7 | 08.07.2026 11:45 | 36.1 km | 123 km |
| 5.4 | 08.07.2026 11:42 | 22 km | 88 km |
| 4.1 | 08.07.2026 10:40 | 0 km | 115 km |
| 4.1 | 08.07.2026 09:58 | 0 km | 99 km |
| 5.9 | 08.07.2026 09:50 | 23.5 km | 95 km |
| 4.0 | 06.07.2026 20:56 | 0 km | 105 km |
| 4.3 | 06.07.2026 20:51 | 0 km | 98 km |
| 3.6 | 06.07.2026 05:21 | 139.6 km | 62 km |
| 3.4 | 29.06.2026 02:23 | 258.1 km | 70 km |
| 5.3 | 23.06.2026 13:58 | 37.9 km | 121 km |
| 3.5 | 20.06.2026 13:22 | 283.3 km | 15 km |
| 3.7 | 18.06.2026 12:48 | 234.7 km | 89 km |
| 3.6 | 12.06.2026 19:24 | 242.9 km | 90 km |
| 4.4 | 11.06.2026 21:32 | 168.6 km | 67 km |
| 4.2 | 01.06.2026 19:29 | 10 km | 53 km |
| 4.3 | 27.05.2026 06:13 | 0 km | 41 km |
| 3.9 | 23.05.2026 15:07 | 123.8 km | 77 km |
| 3.9 | 22.05.2026 17:07 | 101.3 km | 49 km |
| 3.9 | 20.05.2026 16:53 | 260.1 km | 9 km |
| 4.1 | 19.05.2026 09:59 | 0 km | 42 km |
| 3.5 | 14.05.2026 06:36 | 0 km | 47 km |
| 4.2 | 07.05.2026 21:03 | 0 km | 25 km |
| 3.8 | 03.05.2026 10:46 | 108.1 km | 89 km |
| 3.6 | 27.04.2026 10:54 | 273.2 km | 44 km |
| 3.8 | 24.04.2026 00:21 | 178.7 km | 79 km |
| 3.6 | 10.04.2026 13:03 | 54.9 km | 39 km |
| 5.3 | 02.04.2026 23:22 | 269.4 km | 54 km |
| 6.1 | 20.03.2026 02:30 | 10 km | 119 km |
| 4.2 | 19.03.2026 19:42 | 0 km | 103 km |
| 3.6 | 18.03.2026 05:38 | 52.6 km | 45 km |
| 3.8 | 12.03.2026 14:22 | 141 km | 28 km |
| 3.7 | 10.03.2026 14:52 | 123.8 km | 84 km |
| 4.0 | 25.02.2026 17:12 | 256.7 km | 67 km |
| 3.6 | 20.02.2026 09:00 | 129.2 km | 38 km |
| 3.7 | 15.02.2026 21:34 | 238.3 km | 79 km |
| 3.5 | 14.02.2026 15:37 | 204.3 km | 5 km |
| 4.5 | 09.02.2026 07:50 | 10 km | 31 km |
| 3.1 | 09.02.2026 07:50 | 0 km | 35 km |
| 4.0 | 04.02.2026 11:40 | 0 km | 122 km |
| 3.9 | 21.01.2026 21:18 | 118.5 km | 102 km |
| 3.7 | 21.01.2026 03:39 | 140.7 km | 64 km |
| 3.4 | 20.01.2026 19:07 | 238 km | 90 km |
| 3.9 | 20.01.2026 05:03 | 220 km | 49 km |
| 3.7 | 11.01.2026 14:38 | 231.1 km | 29 km |
| 5.0 | 01.01.2026 21:35 | 133.3 km | 114 km |
| 5.2 | 18.12.2025 01:59 | 61.6 km | 89 km |
| 5.1 | 17.12.2025 22:30 | 100 km | 135 km |
| 3.5 | 03.12.2025 11:26 | 264.8 km | 14 km |
| 3.6 | 27.11.2025 16:23 | 233.4 km | 68 km |
| 5.0 | 26.11.2025 09:42 | 36.6 km | 75 km |
| 4.0 | 16.11.2025 07:43 | 0 km | 57 km |
| 3.5 | 09.11.2025 16:31 | 216.4 km | 103 km |
| 4.2 | 02.11.2025 22:10 | 249.9 km | 47 km |
| 3.9 | 31.10.2025 06:20 | 249.1 km | 69 km |
| 4.1 | 27.10.2025 06:39 | 250.6 km | 62 km |
| 4.2 | 26.10.2025 11:48 | 257.3 km | 65 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.