1.8
780
recorded earthquakes
M5.5
largest
1927–2026
record span
2.03
mean magnitude
560
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.5 | 03.10.1936 15:48 | 10 km | 131 km |
| 5.4 | 25.07.1927 20:35 | 15 km | 135 km |
| 4.8 | 12.06.1973 21:02 | 5 km | 126 km |
| 4.7 | 29.01.1967 00:12 | 14.4 km | 35 km |
| 4.5 | 14.04.1983 14:52 | 10 km | 104 km |
| 4.4 | 01.10.2004 10:01 | 10 km | 131 km |
| 4.4 | 20.04.2009 06:33 | 2 km | 82 km |
| 4.3 | 10.11.1995 00:32 | 10 km | 111 km |
| 4.2 | 06.02.1979 09:49 | 10 km | 102 km |
| 4.1 | 18.07.2008 22:54 | 10 km | 73 km |
| 4.1 | 21.11.1989 21:52 | 9.7 km | 104 km |
| 4.0 | 12.12.1985 02:58 | — | 69 km |
| 3.9 | 23.01.2024 03:50 | 4.2 km | 113 km |
| 3.9 | 20.01.2021 07:30 | 9.6 km | 68 km |
| 3.9 | 18.06.2004 08:10 | 10 km | 80 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8 | 19.07.2026 11:00 | 5.6 km | 80 km |
| 1.7 | 30.05.2026 15:31 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 1.9 | 11.03.2026 15:22 | 32.2 km | 34 km |
| 2.3 | 13.10.2025 13:16 | 5 km | 120 km |
| 2.3 | 28.07.2025 09:12 | 1 km | 76 km |
| 1.9 | 18.07.2025 21:14 | 2 km | 80 km |
| 2.3 | 18.07.2025 03:22 | 2 km | 78 km |
| 1.2 | 30.05.2025 21:26 | 10 km | 107 km |
| 1.8 | 16.04.2025 08:17 | 1 km | 85 km |
| 2.1 | 21.12.2024 23:01 | 10 km | 110 km |
| 2.8 | 12.11.2024 11:11 | 10 km | 114 km |
| 1.9 | 02.10.2024 05:23 | 2 km | 84 km |
| 2.4 | 17.09.2024 14:36 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 1.5 | 31.08.2024 16:52 | 10 km | 117 km |
| 1.3 | 20.04.2024 01:19 | 5 km | 114 km |
| 1.6 | 12.02.2024 06:07 | 10 km | 110 km |
| 2.0 | 31.01.2024 09:40 | 10 km | 116 km |
| 1.8 | 27.01.2024 17:59 | 10 km | 116 km |
| 2.0 | 26.01.2024 05:40 | 10 km | 117 km |
| 2.0 | 25.01.2024 00:24 | 10 km | 117 km |
| 3.9 | 23.01.2024 03:50 | 4.2 km | 113 km |
| 1.9 | 22.01.2024 19:35 | 10 km | 115 km |
| 1.5 | 20.01.2024 14:31 | 10 km | 116 km |
| 2.6 | 20.01.2024 13:35 | 2 km | 112 km |
| 3.0 | 19.01.2024 19:28 | 3.3 km | 113 km |
| 1.7 | 19.01.2024 10:54 | 10 km | 114 km |
| 2.4 | 19.01.2024 09:40 | 10 km | 114 km |
| 2.9 | 19.01.2024 02:30 | 4.7 km | 110 km |
| 2.0 | 18.01.2024 13:19 | 10 km | 116 km |
| 2.8 | 18.01.2024 00:42 | 10 km | 101 km |
| 1.9 | 14.01.2024 12:21 | 10 km | 110 km |
| 2.6 | 13.01.2024 01:58 | 10 km | 106 km |
| 2.5 | 07.03.2023 08:02 | 10 km | 99 km |
| 2.1 | 08.12.2022 12:02 | 10 km | 101 km |
| 2.4 | 22.08.2022 16:39 | 3 km | 63 km |
| 2.2 | 24.07.2022 16:25 | 10 km | 83 km |
| 3.3 | 25.02.2022 21:18 | 8 km | 99 km |
| 2.1 | 24.01.2022 15:22 | 10 km | 39 km |
| 3.0 | 18.01.2022 21:09 | 20 km | 39 km |
| 2.9 | 18.01.2022 17:35 | 19 km | 38 km |
| 2.5 | 15.01.2022 02:54 | 20 km | 38 km |
| 2.3 | 26.10.2021 12:09 | 2 km | 79 km |
| 3.0 | 31.08.2021 12:31 | 8 km | 74 km |
| 2.7 | 24.07.2021 03:03 | 5 km | 71 km |
| 2.3 | 21.07.2021 00:28 | 5 km | 73 km |
| 2.2 | 20.07.2021 11:47 | 5 km | 74 km |
| 2.9 | 03.05.2021 05:55 | 5 km | 56 km |
| 2.7 | 15.04.2021 13:23 | 2 km | 76 km |
| 3.0 | 27.01.2021 00:43 | 5 km | 112 km |
| 3.9 | 20.01.2021 07:30 | 9.6 km | 68 km |
| 2.6 | 21.07.2020 21:14 | 28 km | 65 km |
| 2.0 | 26.05.2020 07:49 | 10 km | 105 km |
| 2.5 | 13.05.2020 20:29 | 30 km | 107 km |
| 2.1 | 12.04.2020 07:14 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 2.1 | 31.05.2019 04:31 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 2.3 | 29.05.2019 02:24 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 2.0 | 03.12.2018 13:32 | 4 km | 78 km |
| 2.3 | 16.03.2018 11:01 | 2 km | 43 km |
| 2.8 | 20.06.2017 08:05 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 2.4 | 12.06.2017 10:57 | 5 km | 120 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.