No records in the last 30 days.
280
recorded earthquakes
M6.3
largest
1903–2026
record span
3.80
mean magnitude
125
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.3 | 20.02.1920 11:44 | 15 km | 92 km |
| 6.0 | 29.06.1948 16:06 | 35 km | 53 km |
| 6.0 | 20.04.1966 16:42 | 27.2 km | 130 km |
| 6.0 | 20.02.1920 00:01 | 15 km | 94 km |
| 5.9 | 07.05.2012 04:40 | 17.4 km | 12 km |
| 5.6 | 02.09.1936 13:12 | 15 km | 34 km |
| 5.6 | 14.10.2012 10:13 | 24 km | 31 km |
| 5.5 | 04.06.2018 18:40 | 10 km | 14 km |
| 5.5 | 08.12.2022 06:42 | 62.5 km | 73 km |
| 5.5 | 26.05.1978 13:43 | 17 km | 39 km |
| 5.5 | 04.09.2015 04:49 | 17.1 km | 96 km |
| 5.4 | 04.07.1985 05:08 | 12.8 km | 99 km |
| 5.3 | 07.05.2012 14:15 | 16.1 km | 6 km |
| 5.3 | 05.06.2018 18:40 | 15.9 km | 13 km |
| 5.3 | 17.09.2013 04:09 | 13.6 km | 90 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.6 | 06.02.2026 12:41 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 4.0 | 18.01.2026 20:56 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 4.2 | 27.06.2025 04:59 | 23.2 km | 24 km |
| 3.2 | 24.05.2025 05:07 | 10 km | 35 km |
| 3.3 | 01.03.2025 03:12 | 10 km | 43 km |
| 3.1 | 27.11.2024 10:41 | 10.9 km | 49 km |
| 4.1 | 22.07.2024 08:10 | 11.5 km | 54 km |
| 4.7 | 22.07.2024 08:08 | 25.4 km | 58 km |
| 4.1 | 17.07.2024 02:09 | 33 km | 59 km |
| 3.0 | 01.05.2024 09:15 | 13.5 km | 21 km |
| 3.3 | 06.11.2023 09:51 | 4.7 km | 12 km |
| 3.1 | 26.10.2023 19:25 | 16 km | 38 km |
| 3.0 | 24.09.2023 05:21 | 1 km | 37 km |
| 3.4 | 18.07.2023 17:05 | 5 km | 26 km |
| 3.4 | 25.03.2023 05:03 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 3.6 | 14.01.2023 08:36 | 25.7 km | 36 km |
| 2.6 | 26.12.2022 03:02 | 1.2 km | 51 km |
| 5.5 | 08.12.2022 06:42 | 62.5 km | 73 km |
| 3.6 | 23.11.2022 09:41 | 5 km | 55 km |
| 3.8 | 27.10.2022 06:28 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 3.4 | 23.07.2022 08:09 | 10 km | 21 km |
| 3.3 | 14.07.2022 07:22 | 2 km | 56 km |
| 3.1 | 20.04.2022 13:37 | 5 km | 40 km |
| 4.1 | 15.04.2022 13:02 | 19.6 km | 15 km |
| 2.9 | 16.03.2022 21:05 | 2 km | 8 km |
| 2.7 | 03.03.2022 17:51 | 20 km | 29 km |
| 4.2 | 01.03.2022 10:34 | 7.6 km | 12 km |
| 3.5 | 07.12.2021 03:38 | 40 km | 25 km |
| 3.1 | 28.09.2021 18:46 | 10 km | 6 km |
| 3.1 | 11.10.2020 16:04 | 10 km | 14 km |
| 3.1 | 05.10.2020 20:47 | 1 km | 15 km |
| 3.5 | 22.09.2020 08:35 | 8 km | 51 km |
| 2.9 | 11.09.2020 22:23 | 10 km | 40 km |
| 3.5 | 10.09.2020 06:48 | 12 km | 16 km |
| 4.0 | 12.07.2020 16:17 | 50.8 km | 55 km |
| 3.6 | 03.06.2020 08:41 | 8 km | 41 km |
| 3.6 | 25.05.2020 02:06 | 5 km | 38 km |
| 3.0 | 09.04.2020 19:08 | 15 km | 30 km |
| 3.7 | 31.03.2020 04:48 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 3.8 | 31.03.2020 04:26 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 3.3 | 13.03.2020 09:46 | 10 km | 24 km |
| 3.8 | 06.03.2020 13:22 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 3.5 | 06.03.2020 07:29 | 10 km | 9 km |
| 3.8 | 01.12.2019 10:06 | 10 km | 7 km |
| 3.4 | 23.09.2019 21:20 | 10 km | 46 km |
| 3.4 | 23.09.2019 18:32 | 10 km | 43 km |
| 3.2 | 23.09.2019 17:09 | 2 km | 48 km |
| 4.2 | 23.09.2019 16:38 | 2 km | 50 km |
| 3.5 | 26.08.2019 21:43 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 3.4 | 11.08.2019 03:29 | 13.4 km | 10 km |
| 4.1 | 10.08.2019 11:22 | 10 km | 8 km |
| 3.6 | 10.08.2019 10:00 | 1 km | 19 km |
| 4.0 | 10.08.2019 07:35 | 11.6 km | 10 km |
| 3.2 | 08.08.2019 14:58 | 2 km | 26 km |
| 3.3 | 15.07.2019 05:43 | 30 km | 29 km |
| 3.5 | 05.06.2019 07:25 | 12 km | 14 km |
| 4.1 | 07.04.2019 08:27 | 33.5 km | 33 km |
| 3.4 | 19.03.2019 06:17 | 10 km | 32 km |
| 3.3 | 30.12.2018 09:40 | 2 km | 37 km |
| 3.3 | 06.10.2018 14:48 | 15 km | 43 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.