1.7
26,292
recorded earthquakes
M6.5
largest
1906–2026
record span
1.90
mean magnitude
25,127
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.5 | 16.08.1931 11:40 | 10 km | 418 km |
| 5.8 | 15.11.1906 12:15 | — | 81 km |
| 5.8 | 16.07.1906 19:00 | — | 81 km |
| 5.5 | 12.07.1906 12:15 | — | 81 km |
| 5.5 | 17.09.1938 17:20 | 35 km | 271 km |
| 5.4 | 08.11.2023 10:27 | 8.8 km | 341 km |
| 5.3 | 23.08.2011 05:46 | 10 km | 347 km |
| 5.3 | 16.11.2022 21:32 | 8.3 km | 339 km |
| 5.3 | 23.01.1966 01:56 | 10 km | 321 km |
| 5.3 | 29.06.2014 04:59 | 11.5 km | 332 km |
| 5.2 | 04.05.2025 01:47 | 8.6 km | 317 km |
| 5.2 | 10.12.1967 19:30 | 0 km | 294 km |
| 5.1 | 05.01.1976 06:23 | 10 km | 275 km |
| 5.0 | 26.03.2020 15:16 | 9.6 km | 330 km |
| 5.0 | 15.02.2025 05:23 | 8.7 km | 328 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.7 | 12.10.2026 15:39 | 5.3 km | 315 km |
| 1.5 | 12.10.2026 10:52 | 7.3 km | 314 km |
| 2.8 | 12.10.2026 08:24 | 6.3 km | 316 km |
| 1.8 | 12.10.2026 07:33 | 6.1 km | 314 km |
| 1.7 | 12.10.2026 07:30 | 6.1 km | 312 km |
| 1.5 | 12.10.2026 06:58 | 6.8 km | 313 km |
| 1.6 | 12.10.2026 04:54 | 6.1 km | 330 km |
| 1.8 | 12.10.2026 04:44 | 6.4 km | 321 km |
| 1.6 | 11.10.2026 20:25 | 6.1 km | 330 km |
| 1.4 | 11.10.2026 18:37 | 5.5 km | 348 km |
| 1.5 | 11.10.2026 18:21 | 4 km | 330 km |
| 1.6 | 11.10.2026 16:08 | 5.7 km | 348 km |
| 1.8 | 11.10.2026 13:27 | 6.2 km | 315 km |
| 1.6 | 11.10.2026 11:22 | 5.9 km | 315 km |
| 1.7 | 11.10.2026 09:09 | 6.8 km | 315 km |
| 2.0 | 11.10.2026 09:03 | 6.4 km | 315 km |
| 1.8 | 11.10.2026 09:02 | 6.4 km | 315 km |
| 1.6 | 11.10.2026 08:49 | 6.1 km | 314 km |
| 1.8 | 11.10.2026 08:46 | 6.1 km | 314 km |
| 1.5 | 11.10.2026 08:44 | 7.4 km | 315 km |
| 2.2 | 11.10.2026 08:41 | 6.3 km | 315 km |
| 1.5 | 11.10.2026 08:38 | 6.5 km | 314 km |
| 2.4 | 11.10.2026 08:27 | 6.1 km | 314 km |
| 2.5 | 11.10.2026 08:12 | 6.4 km | 313 km |
| 1.7 | 11.10.2026 08:09 | 7.4 km | 316 km |
| 2.9 | 11.10.2026 08:06 | 8.7 km | 317 km |
| 3.8 | 11.10.2026 08:04 | 7.7 km | 317 km |
| 2.6 | 11.10.2026 08:02 | 9.3 km | 315 km |
| 2.0 | 11.10.2026 06:00 | 7.5 km | 320 km |
| 1.5 | 11.10.2026 03:05 | 6.1 km | 330 km |
| 1.8 | 10.10.2026 16:31 | 8.6 km | 410 km |
| 2.0 | 10.10.2026 10:36 | 7.6 km | 316 km |
| 1.1 | 10.10.2026 06:43 | 9.8 km | 318 km |
| 2.1 | 10.10.2026 04:24 | 5.2 km | 313 km |
| 1.9 | 10.10.2026 04:18 | 6.1 km | 316 km |
| 1.8 | 09.10.2026 23:14 | 5.3 km | 351 km |
| 1.7 | 09.10.2026 15:17 | 6.1 km | 329 km |
| 1.8 | 09.10.2026 13:31 | 4.8 km | 324 km |
| 2.0 | 09.10.2026 10:59 | 6.2 km | 329 km |
| 1.5 | 09.10.2026 02:04 | 6.3 km | 314 km |
| 1.8 | 08.10.2026 22:36 | 3.5 km | 301 km |
| 1.6 | 08.10.2026 18:51 | 7.4 km | 319 km |
| 0.9 | 08.10.2026 16:54 | 7.8 km | 319 km |
| 0.8 | 08.10.2026 15:43 | 8.3 km | 376 km |
| 0.9 | 08.10.2026 15:28 | 7.1 km | 314 km |
| 1.4 | 08.10.2026 11:14 | 7.6 km | 322 km |
| 1.1 | 08.10.2026 10:34 | 4.7 km | 347 km |
| 1.1 | 08.10.2026 10:07 | 9 km | 348 km |
| 1.8 | 08.10.2026 07:12 | 7.1 km | 316 km |
| 1.8 | 08.10.2026 07:11 | 6.2 km | 316 km |
| 2.0 | 08.10.2026 07:06 | 7.9 km | 346 km |
| 2.7 | 08.10.2026 06:24 | 7.8 km | 314 km |
| 1.2 | 08.10.2026 05:49 | 7.9 km | 318 km |
| 2.4 | 08.10.2026 03:23 | 5.5 km | 331 km |
| 1.6 | 08.10.2026 03:07 | 5.2 km | 313 km |
| 1.7 | 08.10.2026 02:34 | 6.7 km | 313 km |
| 3.0 | 08.10.2026 02:24 | 6.2 km | 315 km |
| 3.6 | 08.10.2026 02:21 | 8.3 km | 316 km |
| 1.2 | 07.10.2026 20:28 | 1.5 km | 405 km |
| 2.0 | 07.10.2026 14:51 | 6.6 km | 303 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.