No records in the last 30 days.
237
recorded earthquakes
M7.1
largest
1922–2025
record span
3.42
mean magnitude
109
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 | 156 km |
| 6.7 | 09.09.1954 01:04 | 15 km | 155 km |
| 6.2 | 10.10.1980 15:39 | 10.3 km | 160 km |
| 6.1 | 10.09.1954 05:44 | 15 km | 179 km |
| 6.0 | 25.08.1922 11:47 | 10 km | 163 km |
| 5.8 | 18.08.1994 01:13 | 10.7 km | 167 km |
| 5.8 | 24.08.1928 09:44 | 15 km | 133 km |
| 5.6 | 24.08.1928 09:44 | 35 km | 189 km |
| 5.6 | 07.09.1934 03:39 | 35 km | 131 km |
| 5.6 | 07.12.1980 17:37 | 23.9 km | 135 km |
| 5.5 | 10.10.1980 17:33 | 13.3 km | 145 km |
| 5.4 | 20.04.1950 17:19 | 15 km | 129 km |
| 5.3 | 28.06.1957 21:23 | 25 km | 120 km |
| 5.3 | 05.12.1980 13:32 | 15 km | 128 km |
| 5.2 | 15.11.1982 20:07 | 6.4 km | 93 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.2 | 16.08.2025 21:09 | 0 km | 88 km |
| 4.1 | 22.07.2025 02:12 | 30.1 km | 152 km |
| 3.1 | 26.05.2025 06:07 | 19.1 km | 108 km |
| 4.0 | 24.03.2025 20:57 | 7.8 km | 115 km |
| 4.0 | 18.03.2025 01:34 | 26.6 km | 100 km |
| 2.6 | 30.11.2024 15:32 | 0 km | 140 km |
| 3.0 | 29.11.2024 13:53 | 20.7 km | 137 km |
| 4.0 | 15.09.2024 17:38 | 0 km | 161 km |
| 3.0 | 14.08.2024 01:11 | 21.8 km | 143 km |
| 3.5 | 03.08.2024 08:51 | 10 km | 132 km |
| 3.0 | 19.01.2024 09:03 | 27 km | 119 km |
| 3.8 | 13.01.2024 17:28 | 6.7 km | 137 km |
| 2.4 | 01.01.2024 19:10 | 26.9 km | 123 km |
| 3.0 | 01.11.2023 07:10 | 0 km | 84 km |
| 3.2 | 13.05.2023 10:56 | 13 km | 97 km |
| 2.6 | 08.10.2021 01:53 | 10 km | 117 km |
| 3.0 | 16.07.2021 21:38 | 10 km | 138 km |
| 3.1 | 12.07.2021 12:40 | 11 km | 132 km |
| 3.3 | 26.06.2021 10:23 | 3 km | 116 km |
| 3.2 | 24.05.2021 18:54 | 21 km | 121 km |
| 3.2 | 10.04.2020 10:24 | 10 km | 84 km |
| 4.0 | 08.08.2018 20:39 | 10 km | 81 km |
| 3.9 | 03.08.2018 07:17 | 10 km | 79 km |
| 3.2 | 23.04.2017 01:08 | 20 km | 111 km |
| 3.4 | 04.07.2016 13:25 | 10 km | 116 km |
| 3.5 | 10.03.2016 07:36 | 10 km | 100 km |
| 4.1 | 22.02.2016 23:58 | 10 km | 143 km |
| 4.2 | 15.03.2015 11:22 | 16.6 km | 144 km |
| 4.2 | 01.02.2015 01:28 | 10 km | 150 km |
| 3.7 | 03.01.2015 21:19 | 16 km | 119 km |
| 4.1 | 22.08.2014 00:22 | 20.5 km | 151 km |
| 4.9 | 22.05.2014 05:22 | 12.5 km | 158 km |
| 4.0 | 22.05.2014 02:57 | 11.3 km | 155 km |
| 4.0 | 17.12.2013 16:46 | 0 km | 61 km |
| 4.2 | 18.05.2012 13:12 | 10 km | 81 km |
| 3.4 | 01.02.2012 05:36 | 21 km | 138 km |
| 3.8 | 10.01.2012 16:53 | 10 km | 142 km |
| 4.0 | 12.10.2011 21:43 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 3.1 | 12.10.2011 18:26 | 0 km | 60 km |
| 2.8 | 09.10.2011 14:59 | 0 km | 126 km |
| 3.4 | 04.10.2011 06:34 | 0 km | 138 km |
| 3.9 | 22.09.2011 20:39 | 5 km | 58 km |
| 3.0 | 27.08.2011 01:07 | 0 km | 123 km |
| 2.7 | 21.07.2011 15:35 | 2 km | 84 km |
| 3.0 | 09.06.2011 17:05 | 0 km | 65 km |
| 2.6 | 30.05.2011 13:26 | 0 km | 130 km |
| 2.9 | 17.05.2011 15:08 | 0 km | 124 km |
| 2.3 | 04.05.2011 14:17 | 0 km | 122 km |
| 2.8 | 27.04.2011 16:19 | 0 km | 68 km |
| 2.8 | 27.04.2011 15:07 | 0 km | 121 km |
| 3.3 | 14.04.2011 18:41 | 0 km | 69 km |
| 3.3 | 07.04.2011 16:23 | 0 km | 65 km |
| 3.2 | 17.03.2011 18:48 | 2 km | 64 km |
| 2.6 | 02.03.2011 15:36 | 0 km | 63 km |
| 2.5 | 23.02.2011 14:26 | 0 km | 123 km |
| 3.0 | 15.02.2011 15:14 | 0 km | 134 km |
| 3.1 | 02.02.2011 18:44 | 5 km | 144 km |
| 2.6 | 16.01.2011 15:51 | 0 km | 108 km |
| 3.3 | 15.01.2011 02:13 | 5 km | 136 km |
| 4.0 | 14.11.2010 19:03 | 2 km | 66 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.