4.0
479
recorded earthquakes
M6.8
largest
1910–2026
record span
3.53
mean magnitude
231
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.8 | 21.05.2003 18:44 | 16.5 km | 128 km |
| 6.4 | 24.06.1910 13:27 | 35 km | 61 km |
| 6.0 | 12.02.1946 02:43 | 35 km | 32 km |
| 6.0 | 18.03.2021 00:04 | 10.6 km | 101 km |
| 5.7 | 21.05.2003 18:56 | 2 km | 110 km |
| 5.7 | 10.11.2000 20:10 | 19.1 km | 43 km |
| 5.6 | 16.04.1943 11:43 | 35 km | 90 km |
| 5.6 | 09.09.1946 17:26 | 35 km | 19 km |
| 5.6 | 05.11.1924 18:54 | 35 km | 61 km |
| 5.5 | 04.09.1963 05:06 | 25 km | 59 km |
| 5.4 | 30.10.1975 21:18 | 15 km | 75 km |
| 5.3 | 14.05.2010 12:29 | 15.4 km | 51 km |
| 5.3 | 21.02.1960 08:13 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 5.3 | 28.05.2016 23:54 | 7.3 km | 107 km |
| 5.3 | 24.11.1973 15:22 | 3.7 km | 22 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 13.07.2026 23:43 | 1.4 km | 76 km |
| 2.8 | 16.06.2026 23:34 | 5.8 km | 56 km |
| 4.4 | 13.06.2026 17:25 | 0 km | 82 km |
| 4.3 | 29.05.2026 14:51 | 0 km | 84 km |
| 4.3 | 10.05.2026 16:21 | 15.8 km | 65 km |
| 4.4 | 05.02.2026 09:01 | 0 km | 43 km |
| 4.4 | 24.10.2025 16:56 | 1 km | 78 km |
| 3.4 | 19.10.2025 00:39 | 0 km | 55 km |
| 4.1 | 08.10.2025 04:55 | 8.9 km | 44 km |
| 3.9 | 20.07.2025 20:11 | 0 km | 55 km |
| 4.0 | 29.05.2025 02:52 | 0 km | 77 km |
| 4.0 | 04.05.2025 18:22 | 10 km | 82 km |
| 3.3 | 16.03.2025 18:31 | 0 km | 75 km |
| 4.3 | 20.02.2025 10:03 | 0 km | 71 km |
| 3.0 | 04.02.2025 12:02 | 13.5 km | 50 km |
| 4.3 | 23.01.2025 16:12 | 8.9 km | 64 km |
| 4.0 | 25.11.2024 19:32 | 0 km | 42 km |
| 4.2 | 25.11.2024 14:28 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 4.5 | 12.09.2024 07:56 | 0 km | 24 km |
| 4.4 | 07.09.2024 00:41 | 0 km | 72 km |
| 3.7 | 25.04.2024 03:46 | 4.4 km | 46 km |
| 4.1 | 01.03.2024 03:40 | 0 km | 57 km |
| 4.2 | 27.01.2024 17:23 | 12.7 km | 5 km |
| 4.1 | 07.01.2024 18:33 | 0 km | 59 km |
| 4.3 | 17.12.2023 11:42 | 25.7 km | 54 km |
| 4.1 | 31.03.2023 00:51 | 0 km | 62 km |
| 4.1 | 04.11.2022 21:01 | 26 km | 47 km |
| 5.3 | 19.03.2022 09:59 | 12.6 km | 98 km |
| 3.3 | 16.12.2021 19:00 | 10 km | 40 km |
| 4.2 | 28.11.2021 08:52 | 10 km | 86 km |
| 4.1 | 03.10.2021 18:42 | 17 km | 55 km |
| 3.4 | 06.08.2021 06:07 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 3.5 | 08.04.2021 19:06 | 4 km | 68 km |
| 4.0 | 18.03.2021 17:22 | 17 km | 84 km |
| 4.0 | 18.03.2021 00:28 | 1 km | 76 km |
| 5.2 | 18.03.2021 00:17 | 14.2 km | 108 km |
| 6.0 | 18.03.2021 00:04 | 10.6 km | 101 km |
| 4.5 | 24.02.2021 01:51 | 11.6 km | 66 km |
| 4.1 | 30.09.2020 02:35 | 0 km | 78 km |
| 5.2 | 26.03.2020 07:09 | 7.7 km | 100 km |
| 5.1 | 24.01.2020 07:24 | 13.2 km | 114 km |
| 3.0 | 17.01.2020 17:53 | 10 km | 68 km |
| 3.0 | 12.11.2019 13:18 | 10 km | 71 km |
| 3.7 | 21.10.2019 16:47 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 3.5 | 04.10.2019 01:16 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 3.2 | 26.07.2019 14:29 | 10 km | 38 km |
| 3.9 | 22.07.2019 14:23 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 4.0 | 17.05.2019 12:20 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 3.6 | 11.05.2019 22:28 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 3.6 | 29.04.2019 22:28 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 3.0 | 13.04.2019 16:56 | 10 km | 4 km |
| 3.3 | 19.03.2019 15:36 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 4.0 | 09.03.2019 03:04 | 2.6 km | 73 km |
| 2.8 | 27.08.2018 19:22 | 10 km | 70 km |
| 4.2 | 19.08.2018 12:20 | 10 km | 81 km |
| 4.0 | 20.07.2018 09:32 | 10 km | 77 km |
| 2.9 | 22.06.2018 18:42 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 3.4 | 21.05.2018 12:11 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 3.4 | 09.03.2018 20:11 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 4.2 | 09.02.2018 15:34 | 13 km | 76 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.