4.4
385
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1913–2026
record span
4.22
mean magnitude
326
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 | 21.12.1913 15:37 | 15 km | 997 km |
| 7.2 | 04.01.1970 17:00 | 11.1 km | 971 km |
| 6.9 | 24.06.1983 09:07 | 33 km | 694 km |
| 6.7 | 01.11.1935 16:22 | 15 km | 647 km |
| 6.6 | 22.12.1925 05:05 | 15 km | 696 km |
| 6.3 | 19.09.2016 16:33 | 10 km | 963 km |
| 6.3 | 31.01.1942 17:30 | 35 km | 858 km |
| 6.2 | 24.06.1983 07:18 | 15 km | 696 km |
| 6.2 | 12.02.1934 11:30 | 35 km | 634 km |
| 6.1 | 20.11.2019 23:50 | 10.2 km | 609 km |
| 6.0 | 12.01.1934 13:31 | 35 km | 935 km |
| 6.0 | 21.09.1937 07:46 | 35 km | 665 km |
| 5.8 | 13.09.1950 00:03 | 15 km | 868 km |
| 5.7 | 24.12.2021 13:43 | 7.4 km | 835 km |
| 5.6 | 23.12.1925 23:04 | 15 km | 326 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.4 | 02.08.2026 17:06 | 10 km | 220 km |
| 3.3 | 30.07.2026 12:44 | 10 km | 776 km |
| 4.5 | 20.07.2026 14:40 | 10 km | 750 km |
| 3.8 | 14.07.2026 06:48 | 0 km | 301 km |
| 3.3 | 14.07.2026 00:17 | 0 km | 292 km |
| 3.6 | 29.06.2026 06:34 | 10 km | 219 km |
| 3.4 | 18.06.2026 03:44 | 10 km | 213 km |
| 3.1 | 16.06.2026 23:37 | 10 km | 225 km |
| 4.2 | 03.06.2026 05:41 | 10 km | 659 km |
| 3.1 | 31.05.2026 23:54 | 9 km | 206 km |
| 3.6 | 30.05.2026 23:56 | 0 km | 664 km |
| 3.7 | 28.05.2026 06:45 | 0 km | 303 km |
| 3.8 | 16.05.2026 01:04 | 10 km | 441 km |
| 3.0 | 15.05.2026 03:18 | 10 km | 689 km |
| 3.3 | 12.05.2026 06:57 | 10 km | 576 km |
| 3.7 | 10.05.2026 12:52 | 0 km | 557 km |
| 3.1 | 22.04.2026 08:36 | 10 km | 216 km |
| 3.2 | 24.03.2026 19:58 | 10 km | 760 km |
| 4.1 | 21.03.2026 11:21 | 0 km | 291 km |
| 3.6 | 24.02.2026 21:17 | 0 km | 295 km |
| 3.6 | 20.02.2026 17:52 | 0 km | 291 km |
| 3.8 | 14.02.2026 23:29 | 0 km | 296 km |
| 3.8 | 11.02.2026 12:26 | 10 km | 297 km |
| 3.7 | 23.01.2026 22:40 | 0 km | 301 km |
| 3.5 | 22.01.2026 03:36 | 0 km | 319 km |
| 3.5 | 09.12.2025 13:02 | 10 km | 575 km |
| 3.9 | 16.11.2025 17:02 | 10 km | 493 km |
| 3.4 | 12.11.2025 16:26 | 0 km | 493 km |
| 3.9 | 08.11.2025 02:47 | 0 km | 277 km |
| 3.7 | 07.11.2025 14:25 | 0 km | 151 km |
| 4.0 | 07.11.2025 07:52 | 5 km | 625 km |
| 3.6 | 16.10.2025 09:22 | 0 km | 282 km |
| 3.5 | 15.10.2025 21:40 | 0 km | 280 km |
| 3.5 | 14.10.2025 19:07 | 0 km | 298 km |
| 3.6 | 14.10.2025 18:02 | 0 km | 299 km |
| 3.7 | 12.10.2025 22:07 | 10 km | 560 km |
| 3.8 | 12.10.2025 18:57 | 0 km | 282 km |
| 4.1 | 12.10.2025 18:13 | 0 km | 283 km |
| 3.9 | 08.10.2025 07:41 | 10 km | 223 km |
| 3.9 | 06.10.2025 04:49 | 0 km | 289 km |
| 3.8 | 06.10.2025 02:58 | 0 km | 277 km |
| 4.8 | 05.10.2025 18:28 | 10 km | 279 km |
| 4.2 | 05.10.2025 12:00 | 0 km | 292 km |
| 3.7 | 05.10.2025 11:55 | 0 km | 286 km |
| 3.5 | 03.10.2025 10:00 | 0 km | 104 km |
| 3.6 | 10.09.2025 18:36 | 10 km | 273 km |
| 4.2 | 07.08.2025 18:31 | 2 km | 830 km |
| 3.5 | 07.08.2025 18:31 | 0 km | 839 km |
| 3.4 | 01.07.2025 18:41 | 0 km | 306 km |
| 3.5 | 28.05.2025 04:43 | 0 km | 278 km |
| 3.7 | 27.05.2025 03:44 | 0 km | 279 km |
| 3.9 | 25.05.2025 04:57 | 0 km | 279 km |
| 3.6 | 16.05.2025 04:17 | 0 km | 712 km |
| 4.3 | 25.03.2025 05:49 | 10 km | 889 km |
| 4.0 | 06.03.2025 05:50 | 10 km | 219 km |
| 3.6 | 01.03.2025 19:02 | 0 km | 300 km |
| 3.6 | 01.03.2025 18:04 | 10 km | 276 km |
| 4.0 | 28.02.2025 09:30 | 0 km | 846 km |
| 3.4 | 19.02.2025 06:13 | 0 km | 305 km |
| 4.1 | 02.02.2025 14:53 | 10 km | 302 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.