5.0
616
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1903–2026
record span
4.60
mean magnitude
79
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.8 | 20.09.1920 14:39 | 25 km | 167 km |
| 7.5 | 05.12.2018 04:18 | 11.1 km | 255 km |
| 7.5 | 01.06.1910 05:55 | 80 km | 213 km |
| 7.3 | 09.04.2008 12:46 | 32.6 km | 202 km |
| 7.3 | 25.12.2010 13:16 | 14.8 km | 158 km |
| 7.2 | 01.06.1910 06:48 | 80 km | 213 km |
| 7.2 | 30.05.1938 14:29 | 35 km | 197 km |
| 7.1 | 25.03.2007 00:40 | 40.3 km | 232 km |
| 7.1 | 01.05.1910 18:30 | 80 km | 213 km |
| 7.1 | 05.04.1939 16:42 | 30 km | 218 km |
| 7.0 | 07.12.2023 12:56 | 47.6 km | 218 km |
| 7.0 | 02.11.1972 19:55 | 33.9 km | 205 km |
| 7.0 | 19.11.2017 22:43 | 13.6 km | 158 km |
| 6.9 | 13.01.2011 16:16 | 14.8 km | 145 km |
| 6.9 | 29.10.1903 14:19 | 0 km | 117 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | 30.09.2026 06:50 | 10 km | 120 km |
| 4.8 | 30.09.2026 01:17 | 10 km | 110 km |
| 5.0 | 29.09.2026 10:42 | 10 km | 142 km |
| 5.3 | 29.09.2026 03:23 | 10 km | 119 km |
| 5.2 | 28.09.2026 05:45 | 10 km | 123 km |
| 4.6 | 28.09.2026 05:42 | 10 km | 120 km |
| 5.1 | 28.09.2026 05:28 | 10 km | 134 km |
| 5.3 | 28.09.2026 03:25 | 10 km | 115 km |
| 4.7 | 28.09.2026 03:15 | 10 km | 99 km |
| 5.0 | 27.09.2026 10:06 | 10 km | 136 km |
| 5.1 | 27.09.2026 02:22 | 10 km | 152 km |
| 5.0 | 27.09.2026 01:18 | 10 km | 132 km |
| 5.0 | 26.09.2026 15:01 | 10 km | 138 km |
| 5.2 | 26.09.2026 12:14 | 10 km | 112 km |
| 5.0 | 26.09.2026 12:14 | 10 km | 125 km |
| 5.0 | 26.09.2026 08:24 | 10 km | 135 km |
| 5.0 | 26.09.2026 07:22 | 10 km | 142 km |
| 5.1 | 26.09.2026 07:08 | 10 km | 122 km |
| 5.1 | 26.09.2026 05:50 | 10 km | 120 km |
| 5.3 | 26.09.2026 01:10 | 10 km | 119 km |
| 5.4 | 25.09.2026 23:52 | 10 km | 123 km |
| 5.5 | 25.09.2026 23:39 | 10 km | 128 km |
| 5.1 | 25.09.2026 22:58 | 10 km | 131 km |
| 5.1 | 25.09.2026 22:07 | 10 km | 139 km |
| 6.6 | 25.09.2026 21:23 | 10 km | 143 km |
| 3.8 | 14.03.2026 14:35 | 33 km | 123 km |
| 5.0 | 14.03.2026 14:35 | 10 km | 118 km |
| 3.6 | 06.02.2026 23:36 | 0 km | 69 km |
| 5.1 | 19.12.2024 18:36 | 10 km | 163 km |
| 5.1 | 11.06.2024 02:56 | 10 km | 171 km |
| 4.7 | 18.04.2024 16:11 | 0 km | 59 km |
| 3.2 | 20.03.2024 15:18 | 32 km | 92 km |
| 4.6 | 20.03.2024 15:18 | 10 km | 99 km |
| 4.0 | 26.12.2023 07:01 | 0 km | 105 km |
| 7.0 | 07.12.2023 12:56 | 47.6 km | 218 km |
| 4.0 | 07.12.2023 10:28 | 32 km | 107 km |
| 5.3 | 04.09.2022 20:15 | 7.7 km | 144 km |
| 4.1 | 17.08.2022 15:39 | 0 km | 92 km |
| 5.0 | 11.02.2021 01:24 | 10 km | 34 km |
| 4.3 | 06.01.2020 09:00 | 10 km | 115 km |
| 4.1 | 05.01.2020 23:59 | 0 km | 121 km |
| 4.0 | 13.12.2019 19:03 | 0 km | 107 km |
| 5.7 | 10.12.2019 08:40 | 30.6 km | 147 km |
| 4.1 | 19.11.2019 07:00 | 0 km | 114 km |
| 4.2 | 17.03.2019 17:07 | 10 km | 120 km |
| 4.2 | 09.02.2019 09:52 | 0 km | 95 km |
| 4.2 | 05.12.2018 09:16 | 10 km | 78 km |
| 5.1 | 05.12.2018 08:32 | 20 km | 164 km |
| 4.1 | 05.12.2018 08:15 | 10 km | 139 km |
| 4.0 | 05.12.2018 07:51 | 0 km | 121 km |
| 7.5 | 05.12.2018 04:18 | 11.1 km | 255 km |
| 5.2 | 31.08.2018 04:26 | 8.7 km | 134 km |
| 4.0 | 24.07.2018 22:31 | 10 km | 106 km |
| 5.4 | 08.07.2018 01:08 | 7.7 km | 145 km |
| 4.2 | 23.05.2018 23:40 | 10 km | 114 km |
| 5.0 | 05.05.2018 20:36 | 10 km | 112 km |
| 5.2 | 03.03.2018 00:42 | 17.5 km | 134 km |
| 4.9 | 08.02.2018 16:26 | 15.7 km | 86 km |
| 3.4 | 08.02.2018 16:26 | 10 km | 86 km |
| 5.3 | 10.12.2017 17:30 | 20 km | 146 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.