1.5
366
recorded earthquakes
M4.0
largest
1985–2026
record span
1.97
mean magnitude
3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 01.02.2022 02:02 | 5.8 km | 15 km |
| 3.8 | 11.10.2021 08:23 | 5 km | 7 km |
| 3.6 | 20.02.1988 20:40 | 8.9 km | 17 km |
| 3.4 | 06.04.2014 18:11 | 8 km | 9 km |
| 3.4 | 14.12.1998 09:25 | 10 km | 12 km |
| 3.3 | 18.10.1990 01:19 | 10 km | 14 km |
| 3.3 | 24.05.2001 01:36 | 2.5 km | 15 km |
| 3.3 | 03.08.2006 15:48 | 5 km | 8 km |
| 3.3 | 12.06.2006 16:04 | 0 km | 13 km |
| 3.2 | 23.11.1985 13:21 | 10 km | 19 km |
| 3.1 | 07.08.2022 18:32 | 2 km | 7 km |
| 3.1 | 04.01.2009 07:38 | 8 km | 16 km |
| 3.1 | 06.11.1999 04:31 | 2 km | 17 km |
| 3.0 | 28.02.2009 08:02 | 5 km | 16 km |
| 3.0 | 08.07.2007 08:11 | 3 km | 18 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.5 | 18.07.2026 10:35 | 11.4 km | 19 km |
| 1.7 | 13.04.2026 07:08 | 11.7 km | 14 km |
| 1.5 | 31.07.2025 14:22 | 5.4 km | 10 km |
| 1.7 | 08.07.2025 10:01 | 8 km | 14 km |
| 1.7 | 07.07.2025 17:56 | 7.6 km | 14 km |
| 1.5 | 28.06.2025 20:51 | 11.2 km | 8 km |
| 2.5 | 19.04.2025 03:35 | 0 km | 13 km |
| 1.6 | 19.11.2024 03:39 | 3.5 km | 10 km |
| 1.6 | 30.07.2024 22:47 | 0 km | 7 km |
| 1.7 | 08.07.2024 00:57 | 0 km | 8 km |
| 1.9 | 29.05.2024 20:53 | 0 km | 16 km |
| 2.6 | 26.03.2024 15:49 | 7.7 km | 10 km |
| 1.9 | 20.03.2024 02:25 | 0 km | 11 km |
| 1.9 | 10.03.2024 01:47 | 3.6 km | 7 km |
| 1.5 | 12.02.2024 16:19 | 5.3 km | 7 km |
| 1.7 | 15.12.2023 13:56 | 3.1 km | 8 km |
| 2.5 | 15.11.2023 18:22 | 3.3 km | 9 km |
| 1.7 | 09.11.2023 02:30 | 1.1 km | 11 km |
| 1.7 | 25.07.2023 22:39 | 1.7 km | 7 km |
| 2.6 | 25.07.2023 22:13 | 7.7 km | 3 km |
| 1.9 | 26.06.2023 03:41 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 2.3 | 28.03.2023 10:07 | 1 km | 7 km |
| 2.8 | 22.02.2023 06:02 | 10 km | 5 km |
| 1.5 | 10.01.2023 20:19 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 2.2 | 29.12.2022 01:03 | 2 km | 8 km |
| 1.6 | 19.11.2022 07:21 | 2 km | 7 km |
| 1.8 | 10.11.2022 13:15 | 10 km | 8 km |
| 1.8 | 29.10.2022 07:17 | 10 km | 8 km |
| 2.3 | 13.10.2022 13:53 | 6 km | 17 km |
| 1.9 | 03.10.2022 12:21 | 10 km | 8 km |
| 1.8 | 23.08.2022 21:20 | 10 km | 7 km |
| 3.1 | 07.08.2022 18:32 | 2 km | 7 km |
| 1.9 | 02.06.2022 04:21 | 10 km | 8 km |
| 1.5 | 20.05.2022 18:31 | 10 km | 6 km |
| 1.5 | 11.05.2022 23:37 | 0 km | 5 km |
| 1.8 | 23.04.2022 19:50 | 10 km | 6 km |
| 2.6 | 14.04.2022 04:23 | 5 km | 8 km |
| 1.6 | 13.04.2022 22:08 | 4 km | 8 km |
| 1.7 | 13.04.2022 12:22 | 10 km | 7 km |
| 1.5 | 06.04.2022 05:02 | 6 km | 8 km |
| 1.5 | 27.03.2022 07:29 | 10 km | 7 km |
| 2.5 | 19.03.2022 02:27 | 8 km | 7 km |
| 1.7 | 18.03.2022 08:25 | 10 km | 6 km |
| 1.9 | 18.03.2022 08:03 | 10 km | 8 km |
| 1.7 | 16.03.2022 18:26 | 2 km | 9 km |
| 1.7 | 21.02.2022 04:50 | 2 km | 8 km |
| 1.8 | 16.02.2022 06:43 | 10 km | 8 km |
| 1.6 | 07.02.2022 11:04 | 10 km | 7 km |
| 1.8 | 07.02.2022 09:23 | 1 km | 8 km |
| 1.6 | 02.02.2022 23:35 | 10 km | 6 km |
| 1.9 | 01.02.2022 13:26 | 2 km | 5 km |
| 1.5 | 01.02.2022 06:19 | 10 km | 7 km |
| 1.5 | 01.02.2022 05:58 | 10 km | 6 km |
| 1.6 | 01.02.2022 03:20 | 10 km | 7 km |
| 1.7 | 01.02.2022 03:15 | 10 km | 5 km |
| 1.7 | 01.02.2022 02:30 | 10 km | 8 km |
| 2.2 | 01.02.2022 02:10 | 2 km | 8 km |
| 4.0 | 01.02.2022 02:02 | 5.8 km | 15 km |
| 1.6 | 26.01.2022 02:00 | 10 km | 6 km |
| 1.7 | 20.01.2022 12:23 | 1 km | 6 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.