No records in the last 30 days.
229
recorded earthquakes
M7.1
largest
1910–2026
record span
3.71
mean magnitude
21
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.1 | 10.10.1980 12:25 | 12.9 km | 162 km |
| 6.8 | 21.05.2003 18:44 | 16.5 km | 54 km |
| 6.4 | 24.06.1910 13:27 | 35 km | 115 km |
| 5.9 | 29.10.1989 19:09 | 10.3 km | 60 km |
| 5.9 | 21.05.2003 18:51 | 24.6 km | 61 km |
| 5.7 | 27.05.2003 17:11 | 10.7 km | 45 km |
| 5.6 | 31.10.1988 10:12 | 10.8 km | 51 km |
| 5.6 | 01.08.2014 04:11 | 15 km | 20 km |
| 5.5 | 29.10.1989 19:21 | 9.7 km | 61 km |
| 5.5 | 04.09.1996 04:14 | 16.5 km | 32 km |
| 5.3 | 28.05.2016 23:54 | 7.3 km | 51 km |
| 5.2 | 09.02.1990 09:31 | 11.2 km | 60 km |
| 5.1 | 29.05.2003 02:15 | 16.4 km | 26 km |
| 5.1 | 21.05.2003 19:02 | 12 km | 63 km |
| 5.1 | 22.05.2003 03:14 | 15.4 km | 61 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.5 | 22.04.2026 16:45 | 62.3 km | 23 km |
| 4.0 | 03.03.2026 17:16 | 4.3 km | 34 km |
| 4.0 | 02.03.2026 20:22 | 10 km | 37 km |
| 4.0 | 15.09.2025 06:56 | 27.5 km | 19 km |
| 4.5 | 14.09.2025 06:11 | 28.9 km | 43 km |
| 3.9 | 23.06.2025 04:13 | 4.4 km | 25 km |
| 3.1 | 27.05.2025 02:49 | 11.8 km | 24 km |
| 3.2 | 18.04.2025 13:45 | 0 km | 5 km |
| 4.0 | 09.04.2025 23:34 | 1 km | 37 km |
| 4.2 | 02.04.2025 05:18 | 0 km | 44 km |
| 4.1 | 23.03.2025 21:51 | 0 km | 30 km |
| 4.0 | 23.03.2025 02:36 | 0 km | 30 km |
| 4.3 | 03.01.2025 12:40 | 30.3 km | 16 km |
| 4.0 | 21.09.2024 22:55 | 19.9 km | 28 km |
| 3.2 | 07.04.2024 19:04 | 0 km | 27 km |
| 3.5 | 06.11.2023 14:00 | 28 km | 24 km |
| 4.1 | 07.12.2022 08:18 | 18 km | 26 km |
| 3.1 | 15.10.2022 08:44 | 10 km | 10 km |
| 2.7 | 17.07.2022 02:35 | 27 km | 22 km |
| 3.2 | 04.05.2022 01:53 | 1 km | 21 km |
| 3.2 | 10.03.2022 01:42 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 3.5 | 13.04.2021 14:35 | 10 km | 13 km |
| 4.3 | 27.11.2020 02:12 | 34 km | 36 km |
| 3.9 | 10.10.2020 15:52 | 14 km | 18 km |
| 3.2 | 14.09.2020 19:51 | 10 km | 21 km |
| 4.2 | 29.08.2020 15:01 | 10 km | 39 km |
| 3.7 | 25.07.2020 20:46 | 21 km | 26 km |
| 3.0 | 01.02.2020 14:31 | 10 km | 27 km |
| 4.3 | 23.08.2019 11:40 | 10 km | 43 km |
| 3.5 | 01.06.2019 22:51 | 10 km | 12 km |
| 3.0 | 29.04.2019 14:10 | 10 km | 12 km |
| 3.2 | 31.10.2018 14:32 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 2.9 | 17.09.2017 16:22 | 10 km | 10 km |
| 3.0 | 26.08.2017 20:31 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 3.7 | 20.02.2017 10:27 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 4.0 | 29.05.2016 00:05 | 10 km | 21 km |
| 5.3 | 28.05.2016 23:54 | 7.3 km | 51 km |
| 4.3 | 24.03.2016 08:06 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 4.7 | 10.02.2016 02:12 | 10 km | 27 km |
| 4.6 | 10.02.2016 01:12 | 18 km | 18 km |
| 4.0 | 21.11.2015 03:19 | 10 km | 26 km |
| 3.9 | 16.11.2015 07:13 | 10 km | 9 km |
| 3.0 | 25.10.2015 01:43 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 3.6 | 21.08.2015 01:10 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 2.9 | 02.08.2015 20:38 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 2.7 | 25.06.2015 16:11 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 2.8 | 22.05.2015 20:53 | 10 km | 24 km |
| 4.1 | 22.05.2015 00:13 | 10 km | 25 km |
| 3.7 | 20.05.2015 08:36 | 10 km | 26 km |
| 4.2 | 23.03.2015 01:58 | 24 km | 27 km |
| 3.9 | 16.03.2015 11:37 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 3.4 | 21.02.2015 12:53 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 4.2 | 01.02.2015 23:38 | 10 km | 23 km |
| 4.4 | 01.02.2015 20:06 | 18 km | 25 km |
| 4.8 | 26.12.2014 17:55 | 18 km | 21 km |
| 4.4 | 23.12.2014 08:59 | 18 km | 20 km |
| 3.9 | 23.12.2014 08:33 | 30 km | 19 km |
| 4.8 | 23.12.2014 08:00 | 18 km | 21 km |
| 3.8 | 23.12.2014 06:33 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 4.4 | 21.12.2014 17:53 | 21.4 km | 21 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.