4.4
244
recorded earthquakes
M7.4
largest
1935–2026
record span
3.87
mean magnitude
114
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.4 | 10.08.2026 12:34 | 110.3 km | 83 km |
| 7.2 | 23.11.1979 23:40 | 110 km | 64 km |
| 7.0 | 09.02.1967 15:24 | 36.6 km | 192 km |
| 6.7 | 02.09.1997 12:13 | 204.3 km | 57 km |
| 6.5 | 19.08.1995 21:43 | 123.6 km | 75 km |
| 6.5 | 30.07.1962 20:18 | 64 km | 117 km |
| 6.3 | 08.02.1995 18:40 | 76.9 km | 104 km |
| 6.3 | 11.12.1997 07:56 | 188.4 km | 48 km |
| 6.3 | 25.06.1980 12:04 | 164.9 km | 20 km |
| 6.2 | 03.04.1973 13:54 | 150.6 km | 25 km |
| 6.2 | 18.09.1935 04:58 | 80 km | 129 km |
| 6.1 | 25.01.1999 18:19 | 22.9 km | 9 km |
| 6.1 | 23.03.2019 19:21 | 127.7 km | 59 km |
| 6.0 | 23.11.1990 22:35 | 146.3 km | 36 km |
| 5.9 | 22.09.2001 03:23 | 177.7 km | 61 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.4 | 07.10.2026 01:29 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 4.5 | 29.09.2026 21:50 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 4.6 | 26.09.2026 06:38 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 4.2 | 24.09.2026 17:14 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 4.6 | 23.09.2026 20:09 | 74.5 km | 66 km |
| 4.2 | 23.09.2026 09:04 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 4.3 | 23.09.2026 04:46 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 4.2 | 23.09.2026 01:28 | 35 km | 52 km |
| 4.6 | 22.09.2026 22:12 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 4.1 | 22.09.2026 10:38 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 4.4 | 21.09.2026 23:15 | 13.3 km | 65 km |
| 4.2 | 21.09.2026 22:58 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 4.5 | 21.09.2026 18:48 | 10 km | 58 km |
| 4.3 | 21.09.2026 16:23 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 5.0 | 10.08.2026 13:18 | 98.5 km | 100 km |
| 7.4 | 10.08.2026 12:34 | 110.3 km | 83 km |
| 4.6 | 09.03.2026 22:11 | 89.7 km | 66 km |
| 4.7 | 11.08.2025 00:16 | 128.7 km | 42 km |
| 4.3 | 18.05.2025 06:17 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 4.2 | 09.04.2025 12:41 | 164.8 km | 7 km |
| 4.5 | 01.04.2025 02:04 | 99.6 km | 61 km |
| 4.5 | 07.06.2024 07:55 | 11.7 km | 31 km |
| 3.2 | 07.06.2024 07:55 | 1.8 km | 24 km |
| 4.0 | 23.03.2024 07:30 | 4 km | 30 km |
| 4.2 | 10.02.2024 13:57 | 89.3 km | 55 km |
| 4.3 | 19.01.2024 11:47 | 76.3 km | 63 km |
| 5.6 | 19.01.2024 11:26 | 66.6 km | 54 km |
| 4.0 | 26.11.2023 14:30 | 147 km | 54 km |
| 4.3 | 15.03.2023 21:50 | 168.9 km | 67 km |
| 4.3 | 17.08.2022 15:46 | 121.4 km | 71 km |
| 5.0 | 27.01.2021 07:57 | 160.9 km | 20 km |
| 6.1 | 23.03.2019 19:21 | 127.7 km | 59 km |
| 4.1 | 10.02.2019 02:21 | 137.9 km | 51 km |
| 3.8 | 10.02.2019 02:21 | 133 km | 49 km |
| 4.4 | 24.07.2018 01:59 | 125 km | 68 km |
| 5.4 | 23.04.2018 15:42 | 120 km | 82 km |
| 2.9 | 01.03.2018 15:48 | 165 km | 34 km |
| 3.9 | 27.02.2018 12:21 | 3 km | 31 km |
| 2.6 | 17.02.2018 17:19 | 0 km | 30 km |
| 2.0 | 17.02.2018 15:29 | 0 km | 27 km |
| 2.4 | 01.02.2018 15:00 | 155 km | 39 km |
| 2.4 | 25.10.2017 19:18 | 0 km | 36 km |
| 3.6 | 22.10.2017 17:31 | 162 km | 29 km |
| 2.5 | 14.10.2017 03:36 | 9 km | 54 km |
| 2.4 | 20.09.2017 16:40 | 28 km | 42 km |
| 3.4 | 11.09.2017 06:00 | 4 km | 30 km |
| 3.4 | 04.09.2017 10:59 | 14 km | 15 km |
| 3.7 | 30.07.2017 05:57 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 4.1 | 30.07.2017 05:40 | 0.8 km | 69 km |
| 2.1 | 20.07.2017 06:18 | 4 km | 36 km |
| 2.1 | 05.07.2017 10:43 | 1 km | 47 km |
| 2.1 | 13.06.2017 03:31 | 4 km | 41 km |
| 2.4 | 08.06.2017 17:40 | 23 km | 41 km |
| 2.7 | 22.05.2017 08:54 | 3 km | 42 km |
| 4.1 | 17.05.2017 17:23 | 4 km | 52 km |
| 4.3 | 23.04.2017 02:58 | 152 km | 22 km |
| 2.5 | 17.04.2017 17:35 | 4 km | 40 km |
| 3.1 | 15.03.2017 06:48 | 12 km | 50 km |
| 2.2 | 11.02.2017 22:14 | 3 km | 49 km |
| 2.7 | 22.01.2017 09:12 | 152 km | 23 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.