5.3
1,213
recorded earthquakes
M6.6
largest
1923–2026
record span
4.20
mean magnitude
1,095
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.6 | 30.12.2006 08:30 | 10.1 km | 277 km |
| 6.6 | 21.12.1959 11:19 | 15 km | 240 km |
| 6.6 | 30.07.1970 04:58 | 27.2 km | 227 km |
| 6.4 | 23.11.1967 08:35 | 17.9 km | 207 km |
| 6.4 | 31.08.2001 16:05 | 15 km | 585 km |
| 6.2 | 20.04.1924 14:27 | 35 km | 178 km |
| 6.2 | 20.12.1949 00:34 | 15 km | 376 km |
| 6.1 | 26.08.2005 18:16 | 12.4 km | 241 km |
| 6.0 | 15.07.2018 01:57 | 7.2 km | 217 km |
| 6.0 | 18.09.1928 19:52 | 35 km | 241 km |
| 6.0 | 15.07.2018 13:09 | 10.2 km | 222 km |
| 6.0 | 01.09.2002 17:15 | 15.3 km | 214 km |
| 5.9 | 15.06.2001 16:19 | 14 km | 234 km |
| 5.9 | 27.05.2013 03:36 | 3.1 km | 376 km |
| 5.9 | 08.07.1979 04:09 | 30.9 km | 384 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.3 | 17.07.2026 12:01 | 10 km | 415 km |
| 4.8 | 17.07.2026 11:48 | 10 km | 404 km |
| 4.4 | 28.06.2026 23:40 | 10 km | 370 km |
| 3.8 | 25.06.2026 05:37 | 0 km | 272 km |
| 5.3 | 25.06.2026 03:53 | 10 km | 259 km |
| 4.4 | 19.06.2026 02:30 | 10 km | 472 km |
| 5.3 | 31.05.2026 21:40 | 0 km | 475 km |
| 4.2 | 31.05.2026 08:31 | 10 km | 463 km |
| 4.4 | 30.05.2026 12:22 | 10 km | 218 km |
| 5.1 | 30.05.2026 11:06 | 0 km | 222 km |
| 4.4 | 29.05.2026 13:07 | 10 km | 452 km |
| 3.1 | 21.05.2026 18:07 | 0 km | 439 km |
| 4.0 | 11.05.2026 21:17 | 10 km | 173 km |
| 3.8 | 11.05.2026 10:23 | 0 km | 481 km |
| 3.7 | 24.04.2026 21:47 | 0 km | 239 km |
| 4.8 | 21.03.2026 00:31 | 0 km | 236 km |
| 5.4 | 21.01.2026 01:05 | 10 km | 373 km |
| 5.0 | 21.01.2026 00:58 | 10 km | 408 km |
| 5.2 | 21.01.2026 00:27 | 10 km | 386 km |
| 4.6 | 21.01.2026 00:22 | 10 km | 385 km |
| 3.8 | 20.01.2026 22:19 | 0 km | 380 km |
| 4.9 | 03.01.2026 19:10 | 0 km | 266 km |
| 4.8 | 01.01.2026 14:16 | 10 km | 265 km |
| 4.8 | 01.01.2026 14:16 | 0 km | 231 km |
| 4.0 | 01.01.2026 14:02 | 10 km | 253 km |
| 5.0 | 01.01.2026 07:29 | 0 km | 234 km |
| 3.2 | 24.11.2025 15:06 | 0 km | 311 km |
| 4.0 | 12.11.2025 22:27 | 0 km | 260 km |
| 3.9 | 12.11.2025 22:26 | 0 km | 260 km |
| 3.4 | 12.11.2025 22:25 | 10 km | 265 km |
| 3.6 | 12.11.2025 17:43 | 0 km | 255 km |
| 3.6 | 12.11.2025 16:50 | 0 km | 275 km |
| 3.9 | 12.11.2025 16:46 | 0 km | 260 km |
| 3.5 | 12.11.2025 16:09 | 0 km | 262 km |
| 3.7 | 12.11.2025 15:25 | 0 km | 266 km |
| 3.6 | 29.10.2025 20:37 | 0 km | 258 km |
| 4.0 | 16.09.2025 03:35 | 0 km | 267 km |
| 4.0 | 05.08.2025 10:02 | 10 km | 197 km |
| 4.4 | 27.07.2025 12:17 | 10 km | 366 km |
| 5.4 | 23.07.2025 10:02 | 0 km | 394 km |
| 4.4 | 16.07.2025 12:05 | 10 km | 351 km |
| 3.1 | 16.07.2025 12:05 | 0 km | 354 km |
| 3.2 | 29.06.2025 20:56 | 10 km | 332 km |
| 4.3 | 13.06.2025 20:08 | 10 km | 443 km |
| 3.4 | 13.06.2025 13:28 | 12 km | 431 km |
| 4.4 | 06.06.2025 07:37 | 10 km | 265 km |
| 3.2 | 06.06.2025 07:37 | 0 km | 255 km |
| 3.7 | 15.05.2025 01:40 | 10 km | 255 km |
| 3.5 | 12.05.2025 17:13 | 0 km | 261 km |
| 3.6 | 10.04.2025 16:01 | 0 km | 252 km |
| 5.2 | 20.03.2025 03:56 | 10 km | 364 km |
| 3.5 | 09.03.2025 14:39 | 0 km | 250 km |
| 4.4 | 03.03.2025 17:04 | 10 km | 378 km |
| 4.4 | 27.01.2025 00:30 | 0 km | 219 km |
| 4.4 | 23.01.2025 22:59 | 10 km | 465 km |
| 3.7 | 13.01.2025 03:41 | 0 km | 463 km |
| 3.6 | 11.01.2025 20:08 | 0 km | 274 km |
| 3.8 | 15.12.2024 16:38 | 0 km | 374 km |
| 4.4 | 15.12.2024 07:46 | 10 km | 317 km |
| 3.2 | 15.12.2024 07:46 | 0 km | 336 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.