5.0
1,658
recorded earthquakes
M7.9
largest
1903–2026
record span
4.50
mean magnitude
695
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.9 | 16.06.1910 06:30 | 100 km | 581 km |
| 7.8 | 20.09.1920 14:39 | 25 km | 475 km |
| 7.6 | 14.10.1913 08:08 | 125 km | 546 km |
| 7.5 | 05.12.2018 04:18 | 11.1 km | 580 km |
| 7.5 | 01.06.1910 05:55 | 80 km | 526 km |
| 7.4 | 11.10.1992 19:24 | 132.8 km | 547 km |
| 7.3 | 02.12.1950 19:51 | 30 km | 469 km |
| 7.3 | 25.12.2010 13:16 | 14.8 km | 433 km |
| 7.3 | 23.07.1961 21:51 | 25 km | 528 km |
| 7.3 | 09.04.2008 12:46 | 32.6 km | 518 km |
| 7.2 | 24.11.1944 04:49 | 165 km | 570 km |
| 7.2 | 01.06.1910 06:48 | 80 km | 526 km |
| 7.2 | 30.05.1938 14:29 | 35 km | 508 km |
| 7.1 | 20.08.2011 16:55 | 34.6 km | 510 km |
| 7.1 | 25.03.2007 00:40 | 40.3 km | 565 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | 30.09.2026 06:50 | 10 km | 457 km |
| 4.8 | 30.09.2026 01:17 | 10 km | 447 km |
| 5.0 | 29.09.2026 10:42 | 10 km | 477 km |
| 5.3 | 29.09.2026 03:23 | 10 km | 455 km |
| 5.2 | 28.09.2026 05:45 | 10 km | 458 km |
| 4.6 | 28.09.2026 05:42 | 10 km | 455 km |
| 5.1 | 28.09.2026 05:28 | 10 km | 471 km |
| 5.3 | 28.09.2026 03:25 | 10 km | 451 km |
| 4.7 | 28.09.2026 03:15 | 10 km | 436 km |
| 5.0 | 27.09.2026 10:06 | 10 km | 473 km |
| 5.1 | 27.09.2026 02:22 | 10 km | 488 km |
| 5.0 | 27.09.2026 01:18 | 10 km | 464 km |
| 5.0 | 26.09.2026 15:01 | 10 km | 474 km |
| 5.2 | 26.09.2026 12:14 | 10 km | 448 km |
| 5.0 | 26.09.2026 12:14 | 10 km | 462 km |
| 5.0 | 26.09.2026 08:24 | 10 km | 471 km |
| 5.0 | 26.09.2026 07:22 | 10 km | 478 km |
| 5.1 | 26.09.2026 07:08 | 10 km | 458 km |
| 5.1 | 26.09.2026 05:50 | 10 km | 456 km |
| 5.3 | 26.09.2026 01:10 | 10 km | 453 km |
| 5.4 | 25.09.2026 23:52 | 10 km | 459 km |
| 5.5 | 25.09.2026 23:39 | 10 km | 462 km |
| 5.1 | 25.09.2026 22:58 | 10 km | 466 km |
| 5.1 | 25.09.2026 22:07 | 10 km | 474 km |
| 6.6 | 25.09.2026 21:23 | 10 km | 478 km |
| 5.0 | 28.08.2026 08:32 | 10 km | 477 km |
| 3.6 | 08.07.2026 15:49 | 0 km | 464 km |
| 4.0 | 06.07.2026 20:52 | 0 km | 452 km |
| 4.1 | 13.05.2026 12:50 | 0 km | 449 km |
| 4.3 | 12.05.2026 21:46 | 10 km | 454 km |
| 4.6 | 13.04.2026 00:34 | 10 km | 474 km |
| 3.3 | 13.04.2026 00:34 | 0 km | 480 km |
| 4.0 | 20.03.2026 21:39 | 0 km | 480 km |
| 4.3 | 20.03.2026 14:12 | 10 km | 469 km |
| 3.8 | 20.03.2026 10:12 | 0 km | 477 km |
| 4.1 | 20.03.2026 06:01 | 0 km | 448 km |
| 6.1 | 20.03.2026 02:30 | 10 km | 485 km |
| 4.2 | 17.03.2026 13:19 | 0 km | 415 km |
| 5.0 | 14.03.2026 14:35 | 10 km | 443 km |
| 3.6 | 06.02.2026 23:36 | 0 km | 405 km |
| 4.5 | 06.02.2026 23:36 | 10 km | 468 km |
| 3.2 | 22.11.2025 02:15 | 0 km | 441 km |
| 5.2 | 17.09.2025 12:02 | 35 km | 507 km |
| 4.0 | 05.08.2025 15:30 | 0 km | 394 km |
| 4.9 | 17.07.2025 00:36 | 10 km | 423 km |
| 5.1 | 19.12.2024 18:36 | 10 km | 474 km |
| 5.0 | 29.07.2024 17:25 | 26.9 km | 422 km |
| 5.1 | 11.06.2024 02:56 | 10 km | 483 km |
| 4.1 | 27.05.2024 16:35 | 10 km | 405 km |
| 4.7 | 18.04.2024 16:11 | 0 km | 300 km |
| 3.2 | 20.03.2024 15:18 | 32 km | 420 km |
| 4.6 | 20.03.2024 15:18 | 10 km | 428 km |
| 3.3 | 25.01.2024 07:11 | 26 km | 389 km |
| 4.0 | 26.12.2023 07:01 | 0 km | 388 km |
| 4.1 | 24.12.2023 10:37 | 0 km | 397 km |
| 7.0 | 07.12.2023 12:56 | 47.6 km | 552 km |
| 4.0 | 07.12.2023 10:28 | 32 km | 425 km |
| 4.4 | 06.11.2023 13:14 | 200 km | 357 km |
| 6.0 | 29.10.2023 04:32 | 73.7 km | 528 km |
| 4.3 | 31.05.2023 07:12 | 0 km | 451 km |
Regions
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.