No records in the last 30 days.
401
recorded earthquakes
M6.8
largest
1910–2026
record span
3.60
mean magnitude
261
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 | 209 km |
| 6.4 | 24.06.1910 13:27 | 35 km | 103 km |
| 6.0 | 12.02.1946 02:43 | 35 km | 112 km |
| 6.0 | 18.03.2021 00:04 | 10.6 km | 210 km |
| 5.7 | 10.11.2000 20:10 | 19.1 km | 154 km |
| 5.6 | 05.11.1924 18:54 | 35 km | 103 km |
| 5.6 | 16.03.1924 10:17 | 35 km | 148 km |
| 5.6 | 16.04.1943 11:43 | 35 km | 54 km |
| 5.6 | 09.09.1946 17:26 | 35 km | 97 km |
| 5.5 | 04.09.1963 05:06 | 25 km | 122 km |
| 5.4 | 30.10.1975 21:18 | 15 km | 115 km |
| 5.3 | 14.05.2010 12:29 | 15.4 km | 96 km |
| 5.3 | 21.02.1960 08:13 | 10 km | 90 km |
| 5.3 | 28.05.2016 23:54 | 7.3 km | 166 km |
| 5.3 | 24.11.1973 15:22 | 3.7 km | 107 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.4 | 13.06.2026 17:25 | 0 km | 151 km |
| 4.0 | 12.03.2026 17:49 | 0 km | 137 km |
| 4.2 | 08.03.2026 11:43 | 4.3 km | 147 km |
| 4.4 | 24.10.2025 16:56 | 1 km | 155 km |
| 3.4 | 19.10.2025 00:39 | 0 km | 102 km |
| 4.0 | 18.10.2025 04:25 | 1 km | 144 km |
| 3.9 | 20.07.2025 20:11 | 0 km | 68 km |
| 4.2 | 26.05.2025 23:01 | 1.3 km | 81 km |
| 4.2 | 26.03.2025 10:35 | 1 km | 146 km |
| 4.4 | 19.03.2025 14:23 | 3.1 km | 148 km |
| 4.3 | 20.02.2025 10:03 | 0 km | 108 km |
| 4.3 | 25.01.2025 11:13 | 0 km | 145 km |
| 3.9 | 16.01.2025 15:46 | 5.9 km | 123 km |
| 4.0 | 25.11.2024 19:32 | 0 km | 115 km |
| 4.5 | 12.09.2024 07:56 | 0 km | 115 km |
| 4.0 | 20.04.2024 12:44 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 4.3 | 09.03.2024 13:54 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 4.2 | 27.01.2024 17:23 | 12.7 km | 114 km |
| 4.3 | 17.12.2023 11:42 | 25.7 km | 116 km |
| 3.9 | 08.02.2023 19:42 | 2 km | 108 km |
| 3.5 | 15.04.2022 22:43 | 0 km | 124 km |
| 3.6 | 22.01.2022 03:43 | 18 km | 131 km |
| 3.3 | 16.12.2021 19:00 | 10 km | 94 km |
| 4.1 | 03.10.2021 18:42 | 17 km | 92 km |
| 3.4 | 06.08.2021 06:07 | 10 km | 108 km |
| 3.4 | 07.06.2021 19:34 | 26 km | 113 km |
| 3.5 | 08.04.2021 19:06 | 4 km | 89 km |
| 3.8 | 07.04.2021 18:36 | 10 km | 23 km |
| 6.0 | 18.03.2021 00:04 | 10.6 km | 210 km |
| 4.5 | 24.02.2021 01:51 | 11.6 km | 96 km |
| 4.3 | 07.09.2020 02:40 | 7 km | 61 km |
| 3.4 | 07.09.2020 02:03 | 10 km | 13 km |
| 4.4 | 07.09.2020 01:31 | 19 km | 55 km |
| 3.1 | 07.04.2020 09:02 | 10 km | 103 km |
| 5.2 | 26.03.2020 07:09 | 7.7 km | 146 km |
| 3.3 | 09.03.2020 23:33 | 10 km | 79 km |
| 3.0 | 19.10.2019 19:45 | 10 km | 136 km |
| 3.9 | 07.10.2019 07:36 | 10 km | 113 km |
| 3.5 | 04.10.2019 01:16 | 10 km | 75 km |
| 3.5 | 10.06.2019 13:26 | 10 km | 67 km |
| 4.1 | 23.05.2019 13:07 | 10 km | 135 km |
| 4.0 | 17.05.2019 12:20 | 10 km | 106 km |
| 3.0 | 13.04.2019 16:56 | 10 km | 114 km |
| 3.3 | 19.03.2019 15:36 | 10 km | 78 km |
| 3.4 | 21.05.2018 12:11 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 3.4 | 17.01.2018 10:05 | 10 km | 101 km |
| 3.9 | 15.08.2017 06:41 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 3.2 | 17.04.2017 18:54 | 10 km | 115 km |
| 4.4 | 29.01.2017 08:55 | 10 km | 116 km |
| 3.2 | 27.01.2017 17:03 | 10 km | 117 km |
| 3.9 | 23.11.2016 09:30 | 10 km | 77 km |
| 3.7 | 12.11.2016 21:06 | 10 km | 104 km |
| 4.3 | 05.11.2016 20:43 | 12.5 km | 111 km |
| 3.0 | 14.10.2016 12:30 | 10 km | 91 km |
| 3.5 | 20.06.2016 10:19 | 10 km | 117 km |
| 3.1 | 05.06.2016 14:28 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 3.5 | 01.06.2016 09:12 | 0 km | 109 km |
| 5.3 | 28.05.2016 23:54 | 7.3 km | 166 km |
| 3.2 | 24.04.2016 20:50 | 10 km | 104 km |
| 3.8 | 15.07.2015 07:38 | 10 km | 62 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.