No records in the last 30 days.
254
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1934–2025
record span
4.13
mean magnitude
146
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.2 | 10.05.1997 07:57 | 15 km | 253 km |
| 7.1 | 31.08.1968 10:47 | 14.1 km | 323 km |
| 7.0 | 27.11.1979 17:10 | 7.9 km | 249 km |
| 6.5 | 14.11.1979 02:21 | 9.2 km | 246 km |
| 6.5 | 16.01.1979 09:50 | 9.2 km | 273 km |
| 6.3 | 15.10.2023 03:36 | 8.6 km | 56 km |
| 6.3 | 07.10.2023 07:12 | 11.9 km | 76 km |
| 6.2 | 30.06.1936 19:26 | 35 km | 265 km |
| 6.2 | 11.10.2023 00:41 | 7.5 km | 61 km |
| 6.2 | 07.10.2023 06:41 | 12.3 km | 68 km |
| 6.1 | 07.12.1979 09:24 | 18.6 km | 240 km |
| 6.0 | 05.04.2017 06:09 | 12.2 km | 260 km |
| 5.8 | 07.10.2023 07:40 | 12.9 km | 68 km |
| 5.7 | 10.04.1998 15:00 | 27.4 km | 290 km |
| 5.6 | 03.04.1934 11:26 | 35 km | 273 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.4 | 07.12.2025 11:02 | 10 km | 262 km |
| 4.2 | 07.08.2025 17:15 | 12 km | 203 km |
| 4.1 | 29.07.2025 02:16 | 9.4 km | 44 km |
| 4.1 | 25.07.2025 08:52 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 5.4 | 19.07.2025 21:36 | 0 km | 148 km |
| 3.6 | 23.06.2025 06:30 | 8 km | 84 km |
| 3.5 | 20.06.2025 00:41 | 10 km | 56 km |
| 4.2 | 16.06.2025 09:20 | 12 km | 70 km |
| 3.8 | 05.06.2025 23:24 | 11 km | 72 km |
| 3.3 | 12.05.2025 06:18 | 10 km | 80 km |
| 3.2 | 15.03.2025 23:07 | 12 km | 75 km |
| 3.4 | 16.02.2025 17:23 | 10 km | 86 km |
| 3.0 | 07.02.2025 21:11 | 15 km | 73 km |
| 3.1 | 03.02.2025 18:45 | 10 km | 178 km |
| 3.6 | 01.02.2025 08:20 | 16 km | 80 km |
| 3.8 | 01.02.2025 08:10 | 18 km | 72 km |
| 4.3 | 20.12.2024 23:31 | 10 km | 195 km |
| 4.3 | 20.12.2024 23:31 | 12 km | 253 km |
| 4.2 | 24.08.2024 07:42 | 10 km | 101 km |
| 3.6 | 21.07.2024 01:12 | 13 km | 228 km |
| 3.2 | 13.02.2024 18:47 | 16 km | 93 km |
| 3.1 | 30.01.2024 20:00 | 10 km | 83 km |
| 3.6 | 27.01.2024 10:15 | 7 km | 65 km |
| 4.2 | 21.01.2024 18:13 | 10 km | 75 km |
| 3.3 | 27.12.2023 19:56 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 3.4 | 23.12.2023 08:11 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 3.6 | 18.12.2023 16:32 | 12 km | 67 km |
| 3.4 | 18.12.2023 04:18 | 10 km | 66 km |
| 4.3 | 12.12.2023 08:16 | 10 km | 74 km |
| 3.4 | 28.11.2023 15:29 | 9 km | 85 km |
| 3.2 | 22.11.2023 09:20 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 3.3 | 22.11.2023 08:17 | 10 km | 61 km |
| 3.7 | 20.11.2023 18:42 | 5 km | 66 km |
| 3.2 | 20.11.2023 18:32 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 4.1 | 12.11.2023 01:49 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 3.4 | 05.11.2023 15:34 | 8 km | 82 km |
| 4.0 | 05.11.2023 07:48 | 8 km | 82 km |
| 3.2 | 31.10.2023 22:26 | 10 km | 68 km |
| 4.3 | 29.10.2023 04:50 | 10 km | 76 km |
| 5.0 | 28.10.2023 19:27 | 8.6 km | 62 km |
| 4.5 | 28.10.2023 05:45 | 35 km | 68 km |
| 4.0 | 28.10.2023 00:27 | 19 km | 60 km |
| 4.0 | 22.10.2023 14:53 | 12 km | 64 km |
| 4.0 | 22.10.2023 03:11 | 10 km | 75 km |
| 4.0 | 19.10.2023 20:17 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 3.2 | 19.10.2023 02:49 | 10 km | 67 km |
| 4.3 | 17.10.2023 21:34 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 4.1 | 17.10.2023 04:09 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 4.1 | 15.10.2023 21:39 | 10 km | 42 km |
| 4.1 | 15.10.2023 09:01 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 3.7 | 15.10.2023 08:04 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 4.1 | 15.10.2023 07:10 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 4.2 | 15.10.2023 06:14 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 4.3 | 15.10.2023 06:09 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 4.0 | 15.10.2023 05:41 | 10 km | 66 km |
| 4.1 | 15.10.2023 05:20 | 10 km | 35 km |
| 5.4 | 15.10.2023 03:56 | 9.4 km | 56 km |
| 4.1 | 15.10.2023 03:50 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 4.0 | 15.10.2023 03:48 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 6.3 | 15.10.2023 03:36 | 8.6 km | 56 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.