No records in the last 30 days.
226
recorded earthquakes
M7.6
largest
1907–2026
record span
4.64
mean magnitude
65
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.6 | 23.05.1956 20:48 | 419.1 km | 256 km |
| 6.6 | 24.07.2025 23:37 | 314.2 km | 202 km |
| 6.6 | 06.04.1991 14:34 | 23 km | 218 km |
| 6.5 | 31.05.1907 12:42 | 15 km | 186 km |
| 6.5 | 19.01.1967 12:40 | 15.3 km | 214 km |
| 6.5 | 17.07.1978 13:26 | 300.5 km | 196 km |
| 6.4 | 08.06.1928 14:39 | 15 km | 209 km |
| 6.4 | 11.07.1917 22:41 | 15 km | 170 km |
| 6.3 | 12.03.1993 14:01 | 8.4 km | 137 km |
| 6.3 | 21.10.1943 23:08 | 15 km | 130 km |
| 6.2 | 25.03.1938 15:49 | 15 km | 149 km |
| 6.2 | 23.03.1977 07:19 | 24.3 km | 142 km |
| 6.2 | 16.12.1926 00:23 | 15 km | 148 km |
| 6.2 | 18.02.2021 15:30 | 19 km | 141 km |
| 6.1 | 23.02.2004 16:04 | 14.5 km | 194 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 25.06.2026 07:48 | 0 km | 122 km |
| 4.0 | 03.05.2026 17:43 | 0 km | 117 km |
| 5.6 | 26.12.2025 08:36 | 0 km | 126 km |
| 6.6 | 24.07.2025 23:37 | 314.2 km | 202 km |
| 4.9 | 18.07.2025 04:59 | 0 km | 114 km |
| 4.9 | 03.03.2024 03:18 | 0 km | 91 km |
| 4.2 | 07.12.2023 21:08 | 0 km | 133 km |
| 4.8 | 03.10.2023 22:23 | 10 km | 67 km |
| 4.6 | 23.02.2022 04:42 | 10 km | 129 km |
| 5.2 | 13.02.2022 18:18 | 13 km | 119 km |
| 4.4 | 04.03.2021 04:41 | 300 km | 140 km |
| 4.8 | 23.02.2021 20:44 | 12 km | 92 km |
| 5.3 | 19.02.2021 03:10 | 35 km | 115 km |
| 6.2 | 18.02.2021 15:30 | 19 km | 141 km |
| 5.3 | 09.09.2020 22:55 | 317.5 km | 176 km |
| 3.9 | 02.09.2020 02:09 | 35 km | 56 km |
| 5.2 | 29.08.2020 07:46 | 10 km | 107 km |
| 3.5 | 01.10.2019 10:27 | 10 km | 121 km |
| 3.8 | 25.09.2019 06:05 | 35 km | 92 km |
| 5.0 | 25.08.2019 06:31 | 28.2 km | 106 km |
| 3.8 | 22.08.2019 21:57 | 35 km | 86 km |
| 5.9 | 22.08.2019 19:27 | 12.1 km | 117 km |
| 5.1 | 28.01.2019 08:13 | 35 km | 142 km |
| 5.3 | 28.01.2019 01:13 | 0 km | 127 km |
| 4.0 | 12.01.2019 09:13 | 386.8 km | 144 km |
| 4.1 | 19.03.2018 20:04 | 321 km | 148 km |
| 4.2 | 21.05.2017 22:25 | 0 km | 125 km |
| 4.0 | 21.05.2017 21:37 | 0 km | 154 km |
| 4.0 | 19.05.2017 16:53 | 0 km | 117 km |
| 5.1 | 18.05.2017 08:04 | 35 km | 154 km |
| 4.0 | 17.05.2017 16:42 | 0 km | 140 km |
| 4.0 | 30.05.2016 15:17 | 350 km | 79 km |
| 4.3 | 25.01.2016 16:09 | 0 km | 144 km |
| 4.5 | 05.01.2016 06:51 | 0 km | 127 km |
| 4.2 | 06.12.2015 23:59 | 406.9 km | 141 km |
| 5.2 | 01.12.2015 11:46 | 17 km | 124 km |
| 4.2 | 08.06.2015 16:40 | 350 km | 99 km |
| 4.2 | 26.01.2015 05:48 | 0 km | 77 km |
| 4.0 | 18.12.2014 04:56 | 394.4 km | 89 km |
| 4.1 | 17.11.2014 22:23 | 0 km | 22 km |
| 4.2 | 14.08.2014 18:47 | 0 km | 28 km |
| 4.9 | 14.08.2014 18:46 | 0 km | 97 km |
| 4.2 | 25.07.2014 11:24 | 35 km | 120 km |
| 4.7 | 18.05.2014 06:36 | 35 km | 133 km |
| 5.5 | 09.04.2014 20:29 | 326.8 km | 158 km |
| 4.2 | 21.03.2014 20:50 | 0 km | 122 km |
| 4.1 | 15.12.2013 21:55 | 0 km | 67 km |
| 4.0 | 15.12.2013 18:27 | 0 km | 58 km |
| 4.0 | 12.09.2013 14:15 | 399.1 km | 134 km |
| 4.1 | 17.07.2013 14:44 | 0 km | 120 km |
| 4.9 | 31.05.2013 03:34 | 35 km | 88 km |
| 4.1 | 20.03.2013 12:19 | 0 km | 141 km |
| 4.0 | 01.03.2013 10:26 | 0 km | 81 km |
| 4.1 | 23.10.2012 02:23 | 0 km | 19 km |
| 5.2 | 06.07.2012 00:40 | 10 km | 112 km |
| 4.2 | 09.03.2012 10:27 | 0 km | 133 km |
| 4.3 | 02.02.2012 13:35 | 337.7 km | 121 km |
| 4.3 | 10.01.2012 01:09 | 0 km | 42 km |
| 5.2 | 19.11.2011 05:42 | 35 km | 111 km |
| 5.7 | 05.07.2011 19:02 | 19.2 km | 178 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.