No records in the last 30 days.
517
recorded earthquakes
M6.0
largest
1946–2026
record span
3.00
mean magnitude
275
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | 12.02.1946 02:43 | 35 km | 106 km |
| 6.0 | 18.03.2021 00:04 | 10.6 km | 107 km |
| 5.8 | 27.10.1985 19:35 | 24.6 km | 61 km |
| 5.6 | 06.08.1947 09:46 | 15 km | 69 km |
| 5.5 | 04.09.1963 05:06 | 25 km | 83 km |
| 5.5 | 07.08.1947 12:29 | 15 km | 60 km |
| 5.3 | 19.03.2022 09:59 | 12.6 km | 110 km |
| 5.2 | 22.11.2020 03:53 | 9.9 km | 65 km |
| 5.2 | 01.04.1952 04:21 | 15 km | 68 km |
| 5.2 | 18.03.2021 00:17 | 14.2 km | 105 km |
| 5.2 | 19.05.2013 09:07 | 13 km | 100 km |
| 5.2 | 20.03.2006 19:44 | 13.6 km | 86 km |
| 5.2 | 26.03.2020 07:09 | 7.7 km | 59 km |
| 5.1 | 28.06.1974 11:09 | 24.2 km | 75 km |
| 5.1 | 24.01.2020 07:24 | 13.2 km | 70 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.4 | 13.06.2026 17:25 | 0 km | 54 km |
| 4.7 | 03.06.2026 23:16 | 0 km | 52 km |
| 3.8 | 03.06.2026 09:44 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 4.3 | 29.05.2026 14:51 | 0 km | 58 km |
| 3.1 | 20.11.2025 06:56 | 10 km | 53 km |
| 3.0 | 19.11.2025 08:26 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 4.4 | 24.10.2025 16:56 | 1 km | 55 km |
| 4.2 | 27.09.2025 01:59 | 1 km | 39 km |
| 4.0 | 04.05.2025 18:22 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 3.6 | 18.01.2025 15:13 | 15.5 km | 33 km |
| 3.8 | 13.08.2024 02:38 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 3.9 | 25.06.2024 03:53 | 1 km | 50 km |
| 3.0 | 02.12.2022 20:03 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 4.0 | 03.10.2022 00:51 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 3.7 | 21.07.2022 11:43 | 10 km | 40 km |
| 3.9 | 20.07.2022 15:44 | 1 km | 47 km |
| 5.3 | 19.03.2022 09:59 | 12.6 km | 110 km |
| 4.3 | 18.02.2022 23:50 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 4.2 | 06.12.2021 02:19 | 10 km | 40 km |
| 4.2 | 28.11.2021 08:52 | 10 km | 53 km |
| 3.9 | 30.07.2021 16:31 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 4.3 | 19.07.2021 19:21 | 10 km | 73 km |
| 3.9 | 09.04.2021 05:33 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 4.1 | 18.03.2021 19:16 | 1 km | 83 km |
| 4.1 | 18.03.2021 19:05 | 9 km | 82 km |
| 5.2 | 18.03.2021 00:17 | 14.2 km | 105 km |
| 6.0 | 18.03.2021 00:04 | 10.6 km | 107 km |
| 4.4 | 17.03.2021 21:49 | 13.3 km | 63 km |
| 4.2 | 22.11.2020 11:10 | 19.4 km | 69 km |
| 5.2 | 22.11.2020 03:53 | 9.9 km | 65 km |
| 3.3 | 05.11.2020 06:04 | 10 km | 34 km |
| 4.1 | 27.10.2020 00:25 | 10 km | 71 km |
| 3.0 | 01.09.2020 20:57 | 10 km | 29 km |
| 3.3 | 23.08.2020 17:14 | 10 km | 37 km |
| 3.5 | 10.08.2020 13:50 | 10 km | 35 km |
| 3.5 | 07.08.2020 11:13 | 9 km | 39 km |
| 5.0 | 07.08.2020 06:15 | 9 km | 36 km |
| 4.1 | 06.08.2020 15:09 | 10 km | 74 km |
| 3.3 | 01.08.2020 12:38 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 4.1 | 17.07.2020 12:47 | 10 km | 43 km |
| 4.1 | 17.07.2020 08:12 | 11.8 km | 36 km |
| 4.5 | 15.07.2020 12:45 | 12 km | 30 km |
| 3.1 | 05.05.2020 13:33 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 3.0 | 01.05.2020 09:21 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 3.9 | 27.03.2020 16:04 | 5 km | 51 km |
| 5.2 | 26.03.2020 07:09 | 7.7 km | 59 km |
| 3.1 | 06.03.2020 06:51 | 10 km | 67 km |
| 4.3 | 21.02.2020 02:55 | 18 km | 72 km |
| 4.3 | 21.02.2020 01:55 | 10 km | 75 km |
| 3.8 | 19.02.2020 07:32 | 25 km | 65 km |
| 3.9 | 30.01.2020 13:52 | 29 km | 66 km |
| 3.3 | 24.01.2020 21:02 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 3.8 | 24.01.2020 11:25 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 5.1 | 24.01.2020 07:24 | 13.2 km | 70 km |
| 3.5 | 07.01.2020 08:31 | 12 km | 46 km |
| 3.2 | 11.12.2019 18:26 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 3.3 | 05.08.2018 21:17 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 3.1 | 14.09.2017 09:35 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 4.9 | 15.08.2017 14:50 | 12 km | 67 km |
| 3.0 | 13.08.2017 08:48 | 10 km | 51 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.