No records in the last 30 days.
466
recorded earthquakes
M7.4
largest
1914–2026
record span
3.81
mean magnitude
108
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.4 | 03.10.1914 17:22 | 100 km | 173 km |
| 6.9 | 08.10.1974 09:50 | 40.3 km | 24 km |
| 6.5 | 29.09.1925 17:33 | 35 km | 129 km |
| 6.4 | 09.01.1961 11:07 | 42 km | 64 km |
| 6.4 | 24.12.1967 20:03 | 24.8 km | 59 km |
| 6.3 | 16.03.1985 14:54 | 18 km | 81 km |
| 6.2 | 10.11.1935 18:27 | 100 km | 122 km |
| 6.2 | 10.03.1976 09:05 | 49.4 km | 100 km |
| 6.1 | 31.05.1960 11:02 | 30 km | 32 km |
| 6.0 | 19.03.2016 11:26 | 12.3 km | 124 km |
| 6.0 | 30.01.1982 02:35 | 54.8 km | 83 km |
| 6.0 | 24.12.1967 21:32 | 17.1 km | 55 km |
| 6.0 | 15.05.1969 20:43 | 47.3 km | 83 km |
| 5.9 | 16.05.2026 14:50 | 62.2 km | 49 km |
| 5.9 | 10.01.1961 11:09 | — | 63 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.9 | 16.05.2026 14:50 | 62.2 km | 49 km |
| 3.6 | 16.05.2026 01:10 | 14.4 km | 25 km |
| 3.9 | 08.02.2026 18:02 | 0.1 km | 32 km |
| 3.7 | 31.01.2026 08:46 | 12.5 km | 25 km |
| 3.9 | 29.10.2025 02:04 | 22 km | 27 km |
| 5.1 | 15.09.2025 09:16 | 59.3 km | 87 km |
| 4.3 | 25.07.2025 09:51 | 35 km | 49 km |
| 3.0 | 17.06.2025 01:19 | 63.7 km | 40 km |
| 3.2 | 04.06.2025 02:12 | 65 km | 41 km |
| 3.9 | 25.05.2025 13:00 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 3.7 | 16.05.2025 07:56 | 16.6 km | 39 km |
| 4.4 | 18.04.2025 17:31 | 57.8 km | 41 km |
| 3.1 | 25.03.2025 09:44 | 9.3 km | 40 km |
| 3.5 | 10.03.2025 15:36 | 112.3 km | 55 km |
| 3.5 | 14.01.2025 22:42 | 10 km | 26 km |
| 3.7 | 04.01.2025 20:55 | 14.9 km | 32 km |
| 4.9 | 16.11.2024 09:50 | 24.5 km | 55 km |
| 4.0 | 16.11.2024 04:26 | 14 km | 59 km |
| 5.0 | 15.11.2024 21:11 | 28 km | 55 km |
| 4.0 | 13.10.2024 05:36 | 36.2 km | 20 km |
| 3.6 | 04.08.2024 15:52 | 15.3 km | 36 km |
| 3.5 | 02.07.2024 13:49 | 10 km | 15 km |
| 4.1 | 09.06.2024 09:03 | 63.5 km | 13 km |
| 4.8 | 08.05.2024 14:43 | 15.5 km | 62 km |
| 3.5 | 27.03.2024 15:46 | 28.6 km | 17 km |
| 4.0 | 16.04.2023 09:52 | 30 km | 43 km |
| 5.1 | 16.04.2023 09:49 | 23.8 km | 46 km |
| 3.1 | 09.03.2023 07:20 | 32 km | 46 km |
| 4.3 | 01.10.2022 05:38 | 21.2 km | 57 km |
| 4.2 | 01.10.2022 05:27 | 33.2 km | 49 km |
| 3.4 | 29.09.2022 02:45 | 24 km | 47 km |
| 4.4 | 28.09.2022 23:40 | 18.6 km | 42 km |
| 4.3 | 28.09.2022 21:34 | 32.3 km | 54 km |
| 3.5 | 28.09.2022 19:58 | 23 km | 51 km |
| 5.3 | 28.09.2022 19:48 | 31.5 km | 42 km |
| 5.0 | 15.02.2022 08:03 | 50.7 km | 80 km |
| 4.2 | 22.12.2021 23:01 | 65.9 km | 14 km |
| 4.5 | 23.10.2021 22:47 | 95.5 km | 40 km |
| 4.3 | 21.04.2021 19:43 | 18.3 km | 46 km |
| 4.1 | 01.08.2020 02:13 | 26.3 km | 42 km |
| 4.4 | 13.04.2020 14:00 | 26.6 km | 47 km |
| 4.1 | 31.03.2020 06:42 | 109.5 km | 37 km |
| 4.0 | 13.08.2019 20:44 | 8.3 km | 17 km |
| 4.0 | 09.05.2019 08:26 | 103 km | 46 km |
| 4.0 | 11.02.2019 08:15 | 30.3 km | 19 km |
| 4.2 | 26.09.2018 14:18 | 7.6 km | 54 km |
| 4.1 | 02.06.2018 05:07 | 20.7 km | 30 km |
| 3.7 | 17.04.2018 20:26 | 31 km | 33 km |
| 4.0 | 16.04.2018 19:18 | 22.2 km | 32 km |
| 4.0 | 06.03.2018 06:40 | 134.2 km | 49 km |
| 4.0 | 05.03.2018 03:41 | 38.2 km | 8 km |
| 4.0 | 21.01.2018 00:31 | 20.2 km | 31 km |
| 4.1 | 30.12.2017 03:14 | 107 km | 42 km |
| 4.1 | 19.09.2017 11:57 | 50 km | 41 km |
| 4.2 | 12.08.2017 17:42 | 39.4 km | 41 km |
| 3.8 | 06.06.2017 09:30 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 5.7 | 17.04.2017 05:23 | 17.4 km | 69 km |
| 4.0 | 28.02.2017 02:40 | 30 km | 26 km |
| 4.0 | 21.02.2017 20:10 | 30.4 km | 39 km |
| 4.1 | 11.02.2017 03:46 | 25.6 km | 36 km |
Regions
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.