Earthquakes in Türkiye, 2017–2026
From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 532 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in or off Türkiye. 3 of them reached magnitude 7 or more; the strongest was a magnitude 7.8 on February 6, 2023 (Pazarcik earthquake, Kahramanmaras earthquake sequence).
The last 30 days · as of
USGS recorded 4 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more in the area the map frames in the last 30 days.
The latest: magnitude 5 on October 4 (21 km ESE of Feke, Turkey). The strongest: magnitude 5.1 on September 24 (20 km SW of Hilvan, Turkey).
What the record holds
It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 56,697 deaths for it. 23 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 14 of the events here, 56,876 in all. 2023 had the most magnitude 4.5+ earthquakes: 216 of the 532. 132 came in the 30 days after the strongest, within 150 km of it. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 6.1 on August 10, 2025 (10 km WSW of Bigadiç, Turkey). NOAA lists 5 tsunamis that began in or off Türkiye. The highest water NOAA records here was 5.3 m, on October 30, 2020.
The events
- August 10, 2025Earthquake · M 6.110 km WSW of Bigadiç, Turkey · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- February 6, 2023Earthquake · M 7.8Pazarcik earthquake, Kahramanmaras earthquake sequence · 56,697 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- February 6, 2023Earthquake · M 7.5Elbistan earthquake, Kahramanmaras earthquake sequenceUSGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- February 6, 2023Earthquake · M 6.7USGS
- October 30, 2020Earthquake · M 7.013 km NNE of Néon Karlovásion, Greece · 118 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- October 30, 2020Tsunami · 5.3 m hereAegean SeaNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
- January 24, 2020Earthquake · M 6.7Elazig And Malatya Provinces · 41 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
Good to know
- An event counts for Türkiye when it began inside its borders, or at sea within 100 km of its coast (so one can count for two neighbours), or further out, up to 300 km, where Türkiye is the nearest country.
- USGS counts are its ComCat catalogue’s earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more, aftershocks included.
- NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
- Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
- A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
- The map frames the box around Türkiye, its neighbours’ quakes included, so its count runs higher than this page’s.
- Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.
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