No records in the last 30 days.
266
recorded earthquakes
M6.0
largest
1934–2026
record span
3.81
mean magnitude
111
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | 20.04.1966 16:42 | 27.2 km | 105 km |
| 5.6 | 29.10.1934 16:15 | 35 km | 75 km |
| 5.5 | 20.12.1971 01:41 | 15 km | 48 km |
| 5.5 | 10.02.2014 12:06 | 62.9 km | 80 km |
| 5.5 | 04.09.2015 04:49 | 17.1 km | 60 km |
| 5.4 | 20.12.1971 01:29 | 1 km | 57 km |
| 5.4 | 04.06.1999 09:12 | 31.3 km | 53 km |
| 5.4 | 04.10.2014 04:59 | 17.1 km | 46 km |
| 5.4 | 21.03.1956 04:54 | 15 km | 28 km |
| 5.3 | 29.11.1981 23:37 | 24.7 km | 16 km |
| 5.2 | 02.09.1953 00:35 | — | 89 km |
| 5.2 | 05.02.2019 19:31 | 13.5 km | 32 km |
| 5.2 | 21.11.1970 08:35 | 52.1 km | 82 km |
| 5.2 | 15.11.2017 19:48 | 26.5 km | 102 km |
| 5.2 | 03.02.1972 02:29 | 13.4 km | 28 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.9 | 12.06.2026 11:13 | 41 km | 30 km |
| 4.8 | 12.06.2026 11:12 | 7 km | 44 km |
| 3.6 | 28.02.2026 18:36 | 5.8 km | 42 km |
| 3.0 | 28.02.2026 04:31 | 13 km | 44 km |
| 4.0 | 28.02.2026 02:34 | 0 km | 45 km |
| 3.2 | 27.02.2026 23:38 | 0 km | 44 km |
| 4.1 | 27.02.2026 22:01 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 3.0 | 27.02.2026 20:36 | 8 km | 41 km |
| 3.2 | 27.02.2026 15:12 | 9.7 km | 41 km |
| 4.0 | 27.02.2026 12:04 | 0 km | 47 km |
| 4.9 | 27.02.2026 11:52 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 3.2 | 12.02.2026 13:54 | 18.4 km | 17 km |
| 4.1 | 21.01.2026 01:07 | 0 km | 49 km |
| 3.3 | 20.01.2026 21:52 | 6.8 km | 35 km |
| 4.0 | 18.01.2026 03:56 | 6.2 km | 36 km |
| 3.0 | 11.01.2026 23:07 | 7.8 km | 37 km |
| 3.1 | 11.01.2026 21:41 | 7.8 km | 38 km |
| 3.8 | 10.01.2026 14:55 | 8.4 km | 38 km |
| 4.0 | 01.11.2025 22:50 | 1 km | 27 km |
| 4.2 | 01.11.2025 14:03 | 3.9 km | 27 km |
| 4.4 | 09.08.2025 07:03 | 0 km | 11 km |
| 3.8 | 12.07.2025 03:18 | 9 km | 30 km |
| 3.4 | 06.06.2025 02:40 | 5 km | 45 km |
| 3.6 | 05.06.2025 12:05 | 4.7 km | 45 km |
| 4.3 | 05.06.2025 12:03 | 7.4 km | 52 km |
| 3.7 | 05.06.2025 12:02 | 4.6 km | 36 km |
| 3.2 | 14.05.2025 23:14 | 5 km | 41 km |
| 3.0 | 24.04.2025 10:12 | 5.1 km | 24 km |
| 3.1 | 16.04.2025 18:56 | 11.7 km | 20 km |
| 3.2 | 12.04.2025 14:28 | 3 km | 29 km |
| 3.4 | 12.04.2025 11:31 | 12 km | 49 km |
| 3.5 | 21.03.2025 03:59 | 41.5 km | 48 km |
| 3.7 | 09.03.2025 00:01 | 43.1 km | 33 km |
| 3.0 | 28.02.2025 03:49 | 3 km | 31 km |
| 3.3 | 27.02.2025 05:16 | 44.5 km | 20 km |
| 3.9 | 21.02.2025 17:29 | 42 km | 54 km |
| 3.9 | 19.02.2025 11:11 | 11.2 km | 23 km |
| 3.5 | 31.01.2025 01:18 | 5 km | 31 km |
| 4.0 | 20.11.2024 01:50 | 0 km | 46 km |
| 3.2 | 16.07.2024 22:20 | 43.2 km | 41 km |
| 3.2 | 20.01.2024 15:45 | 4.8 km | 42 km |
| 3.6 | 17.11.2023 00:56 | 6.9 km | 8 km |
| 3.0 | 12.11.2023 22:50 | 7.1 km | 8 km |
| 2.9 | 11.11.2023 18:46 | 7 km | 7 km |
| 3.3 | 11.11.2023 04:00 | 6.9 km | 7 km |
| 3.9 | 16.09.2023 01:48 | 41.3 km | 44 km |
| 3.3 | 21.07.2023 17:17 | 7.2 km | 43 km |
| 3.3 | 18.05.2023 11:28 | 44 km | 47 km |
| 3.0 | 16.05.2023 00:29 | 44 km | 14 km |
| 4.0 | 28.04.2023 06:56 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 3.6 | 27.04.2023 11:51 | 10 km | 37 km |
| 3.6 | 22.04.2023 14:43 | 34 km | 9 km |
| 4.0 | 18.04.2023 15:21 | 12 km | 22 km |
| 4.1 | 12.04.2023 21:38 | 12 km | 18 km |
| 3.2 | 24.03.2023 07:09 | 19.1 km | 13 km |
| 4.1 | 31.01.2023 02:54 | 13 km | 22 km |
| 3.2 | 15.12.2022 19:09 | 24 km | 56 km |
| 3.5 | 25.09.2022 00:35 | 5 km | 40 km |
| 3.4 | 01.09.2022 18:21 | 14 km | 33 km |
| 3.7 | 20.04.2022 18:05 | 50 km | 20 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.