3.3
269
recorded earthquakes
M6.2
largest
1941–2026
record span
3.36
mean magnitude
175
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.2 | 13.12.1982 09:12 | 10.1 km | 121 km |
| 5.9 | 31.10.2001 23:00 | 15 km | 109 km |
| 5.7 | 24.02.2001 16:26 | 36 km | 176 km |
| 5.6 | 04.02.1941 09:17 | 35 km | 136 km |
| 5.6 | 05.08.2001 19:35 | 17 km | 114 km |
| 5.4 | 14.12.1975 23:16 | 15.6 km | 96 km |
| 5.3 | 14.12.1975 23:27 | 10 km | 89 km |
| 5.3 | 12.10.2001 15:41 | 15.9 km | 146 km |
| 5.2 | 11.03.2004 21:31 | 31 km | 128 km |
| 5.2 | 11.11.2001 14:18 | 16 km | 81 km |
| 5.1 | 29.01.2001 23:21 | 15 km | 110 km |
| 5.0 | 26.02.2001 04:52 | 17.9 km | 59 km |
| 4.9 | 13.07.2000 11:21 | 11.6 km | 69 km |
| 4.9 | 17.05.2001 06:57 | 0.9 km | 111 km |
| 4.8 | 07.03.2003 18:29 | 42 km | 97 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.3 | 03.08.2026 12:17 | 4.9 km | 106 km |
| 2.3 | 03.08.2026 02:57 | 4.7 km | 100 km |
| 2.4 | 02.08.2026 23:39 | 14.6 km | 146 km |
| 2.6 | 03.07.2026 19:17 | 3 km | 73 km |
| 2.7 | 17.04.2026 00:36 | 4.1 km | 129 km |
| 2.4 | 11.04.2026 21:07 | 14.9 km | 42 km |
| 2.7 | 18.02.2026 03:28 | 10 km | 141 km |
| 2.9 | 11.02.2026 04:08 | 6.7 km | 134 km |
| 3.4 | 08.01.2026 16:50 | 10 km | 97 km |
| 2.8 | 25.12.2025 21:00 | 0 km | 81 km |
| 3.1 | 30.11.2025 22:07 | 7 km | 83 km |
| 2.5 | 17.11.2025 16:19 | 10 km | 106 km |
| 3.5 | 16.11.2025 09:41 | 9.3 km | 61 km |
| 2.8 | 15.10.2025 19:57 | 10 km | 76 km |
| 2.3 | 24.09.2025 04:16 | 4 km | 79 km |
| 2.2 | 24.09.2025 01:09 | 2 km | 82 km |
| 2.5 | 24.09.2025 00:35 | 5.7 km | 84 km |
| 3.0 | 23.09.2025 20:15 | 4 km | 89 km |
| 2.5 | 23.09.2025 18:08 | 0.8 km | 88 km |
| 2.6 | 05.09.2025 14:51 | 4 km | 25 km |
| 2.7 | 02.09.2025 07:43 | 10 km | 107 km |
| 2.9 | 29.08.2025 14:24 | 8 km | 84 km |
| 2.3 | 24.08.2025 14:52 | 10.7 km | 99 km |
| 3.0 | 24.07.2025 02:26 | 10 km | 110 km |
| 3.0 | 21.07.2025 02:28 | 8.5 km | 82 km |
| 3.2 | 13.09.2016 17:08 | 10 km | 81 km |
| 4.2 | 20.08.2016 11:05 | 0 km | 90 km |
| 4.1 | 09.08.2016 02:06 | 15.2 km | 105 km |
| 4.3 | 04.12.2012 20:53 | 10 km | 99 km |
| 3.9 | 26.11.2012 07:46 | 18 km | 82 km |
| 4.3 | 29.10.2012 09:38 | 2.1 km | 7 km |
| 3.4 | 15.07.2012 11:51 | 30 km | 89 km |
| 4.4 | 23.01.2012 05:57 | 2 km | 60 km |
| 4.0 | 21.08.2011 21:50 | 2 km | 105 km |
| 3.8 | 20.08.2011 17:00 | 0 km | 86 km |
| 4.3 | 12.06.2011 16:52 | 0 km | 68 km |
| 4.5 | 03.05.2011 15:12 | 10 km | 99 km |
| 3.9 | 30.04.2011 03:32 | 2 km | 74 km |
| 4.3 | 30.04.2011 02:21 | 4 km | 100 km |
| 3.8 | 29.04.2011 15:38 | 2 km | 85 km |
| 3.8 | 17.02.2011 01:53 | 13 km | 82 km |
| 4.0 | 30.01.2011 05:26 | 16.7 km | 86 km |
| 2.8 | 23.08.2010 01:39 | 11 km | 133 km |
| 3.5 | 10.07.2010 20:03 | 19 km | 73 km |
| 2.8 | 04.06.2010 05:51 | 15 km | 79 km |
| 3.5 | 21.04.2010 19:57 | 10 km | 119 km |
| 2.9 | 18.02.2010 10:50 | 4 km | 113 km |
| 3.1 | 13.02.2010 14:51 | 14 km | 114 km |
| 3.1 | 28.01.2010 11:31 | 13 km | 89 km |
| 3.0 | 21.01.2010 13:43 | 9 km | 138 km |
| 3.3 | 24.11.2009 00:49 | 3 km | 114 km |
| 3.4 | 04.10.2009 19:49 | 12 km | 27 km |
| 4.0 | 22.08.2009 22:39 | 8.2 km | 127 km |
| 3.0 | 30.07.2009 20:11 | 4 km | 97 km |
| 2.8 | 20.07.2009 10:19 | 13 km | 28 km |
| 3.0 | 18.06.2009 02:49 | 11 km | 82 km |
| 2.9 | 14.06.2009 08:36 | 15 km | 127 km |
| 3.0 | 03.04.2009 09:18 | 10 km | 94 km |
| 2.5 | 12.02.2009 20:46 | 11 km | 94 km |
| 3.6 | 15.01.2009 16:58 | 54 km | 80 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.