2.2
252
recorded earthquakes
M7.0
largest
1910–2026
record span
3.04
mean magnitude
89
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | 24.11.1976 12:22 | 11.9 km | 159 km |
| 6.7 | 07.12.1988 07:41 | 4.6 km | 69 km |
| 6.3 | 20.02.1920 11:44 | 15 km | 126 km |
| 5.9 | 07.12.1988 07:45 | 10.5 km | 75 km |
| 5.8 | 12.10.1912 19:48 | 15 km | 76 km |
| 5.6 | 22.10.1926 19:59 | 35 km | 62 km |
| 5.6 | 15.03.1932 07:44 | 35 km | 72 km |
| 5.5 | 14.11.1916 13:54 | 26 km | 53 km |
| 5.5 | 04.09.1962 22:59 | 40 km | 69 km |
| 5.3 | 08.05.1930 15:05 | 15 km | 37 km |
| 5.3 | 08.05.1930 14:23 | 15 km | 90 km |
| 5.3 | 03.12.1961 18:31 | 20 km | 92 km |
| 5.2 | 28.10.1916 20:48 | 20 km | 62 km |
| 5.2 | 14.11.1938 12:06 | 15 km | 83 km |
| 5.2 | 05.02.2021 15:36 | 10.4 km | 51 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.2 | 09.07.2026 07:42 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 2.1 | 06.06.2026 17:10 | 7 km | 52 km |
| 2.1 | 24.02.2026 01:33 | 10 km | 46 km |
| 1.9 | 23.02.2026 15:52 | 14.4 km | 50 km |
| 1.8 | 30.01.2026 05:53 | 7.1 km | 36 km |
| 1.9 | 07.01.2026 23:08 | 9.5 km | 34 km |
| 1.6 | 14.09.2025 01:33 | 7 km | 32 km |
| 1.7 | 31.08.2025 22:32 | 7 km | 29 km |
| 2.4 | 31.07.2025 18:26 | 7 km | 38 km |
| 2.0 | 20.07.2025 19:27 | 22.5 km | 20 km |
| 2.2 | 29.06.2025 21:51 | 7 km | 31 km |
| 2.5 | 01.06.2025 20:12 | 18.9 km | 48 km |
| 3.0 | 01.05.2025 03:47 | 5 km | 18 km |
| 1.4 | 17.04.2025 19:34 | 7 km | 2 km |
| 2.2 | 12.03.2025 13:10 | 8 km | 40 km |
| 4.4 | 08.03.2025 05:26 | 10 km | 68 km |
| 2.0 | 25.02.2025 21:58 | 17.5 km | 42 km |
| 1.9 | 29.01.2025 12:16 | 7 km | 18 km |
| 2.2 | 28.01.2025 00:31 | 7 km | 38 km |
| 1.6 | 24.01.2025 18:40 | 7 km | 36 km |
| 2.5 | 30.12.2024 20:50 | 5 km | 36 km |
| 2.1 | 11.12.2024 20:24 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 1.5 | 11.12.2024 18:12 | 4.6 km | 28 km |
| 2.7 | 10.12.2024 21:04 | 7 km | 22 km |
| 2.1 | 08.12.2024 20:15 | 6.9 km | 36 km |
| 2.5 | 11.10.2024 16:44 | 13.2 km | 46 km |
| 4.2 | 11.08.2024 22:02 | 0.7 km | 39 km |
| 2.9 | 18.07.2024 15:40 | 7 km | 43 km |
| 3.3 | 30.05.2024 19:27 | 7 km | 44 km |
| 1.5 | 25.05.2024 22:12 | 8.6 km | 33 km |
| 1.9 | 29.04.2024 02:03 | 7 km | 12 km |
| 1.4 | 15.04.2024 23:07 | 7 km | 32 km |
| 1.9 | 13.04.2024 13:10 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 2.2 | 03.11.2023 05:36 | 20.2 km | 53 km |
| 2.1 | 24.08.2023 12:51 | 7.6 km | 33 km |
| 3.4 | 21.08.2023 09:59 | 7 km | 32 km |
| 3.0 | 26.03.2023 14:54 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 2.3 | 18.01.2023 10:19 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 1.3 | 02.01.2023 21:36 | 6.6 km | 8 km |
| 1.2 | 11.12.2022 21:48 | 6.5 km | 51 km |
| 2.1 | 11.12.2022 20:14 | 7 km | 44 km |
| 1.9 | 14.11.2022 19:01 | 15.3 km | 24 km |
| 2.3 | 20.10.2022 12:39 | 2 km | 17 km |
| 3.0 | 18.09.2022 04:04 | 6.6 km | 57 km |
| 2.0 | 05.06.2022 18:25 | 7.1 km | 36 km |
| 3.2 | 29.05.2022 18:09 | 8.8 km | 26 km |
| 1.3 | 27.01.2022 01:49 | 7.2 km | 56 km |
| 2.1 | 09.01.2022 10:00 | 7.4 km | 50 km |
| 3.1 | 14.12.2021 15:31 | 7 km | 26 km |
| 1.7 | 14.12.2021 06:23 | 5.9 km | 9 km |
| 1.2 | 17.10.2021 18:31 | 7 km | 49 km |
| 2.1 | 05.09.2021 18:43 | 7.1 km | 38 km |
| 2.7 | 26.08.2021 22:29 | 7 km | 26 km |
| 3.1 | 29.07.2021 17:09 | 3.1 km | 27 km |
| 2.0 | 24.04.2021 08:13 | 8 km | 37 km |
| 2.3 | 23.04.2021 23:54 | 4.4 km | 38 km |
| 1.9 | 20.02.2021 06:41 | 5.7 km | 46 km |
| 2.0 | 18.02.2021 01:30 | 7 km | 47 km |
| 1.7 | 17.02.2021 03:43 | 6.6 km | 49 km |
| 2.4 | 15.02.2021 14:21 | 5.4 km | 46 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.