No records in the last 30 days.
492
recorded earthquakes
M5.5
largest
1951–2026
record span
1.96
mean magnitude
251
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 | 14.03.1951 09:46 | 15 km | 82 km |
| 5.3 | 13.04.1992 01:20 | 19.7 km | 81 km |
| 4.8 | 23.06.2001 01:39 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 4.7 | 08.11.1983 00:49 | 14 km | 33 km |
| 4.7 | 10.01.1970 12:09 | 7.7 km | 65 km |
| 4.5 | 22.07.2002 05:45 | 13.2 km | 54 km |
| 4.4 | 29.03.1978 21:51 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 4.3 | 14.04.1992 01:06 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 4.0 | 17.03.2002 14:46 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 4.0 | 22.06.1989 22:02 | 20 km | 16 km |
| 4.0 | 23.06.2001 01:53 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 3.9 | 23.07.1996 22:30 | 10 km | 6 km |
| 3.9 | 27.12.1988 11:53 | 30.7 km | 5 km |
| 3.9 | 17.10.1988 19:39 | 10 km | 13 km |
| 3.8 | 07.03.2001 09:17 | 10 km | 43 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.2 | 13.05.2026 16:52 | 13.7 km | 20 km |
| 3.0 | 16.03.2026 04:28 | 15.8 km | 28 km |
| 1.1 | 10.02.2026 04:39 | 15 km | 36 km |
| 2.0 | 01.01.2026 21:49 | 9.2 km | 55 km |
| 0.7 | 31.12.2025 02:14 | 22 km | 44 km |
| 1.7 | 31.12.2025 01:27 | 24 km | 44 km |
| 1.1 | 02.12.2025 12:52 | 20 km | 47 km |
| 0.7 | 30.11.2025 04:20 | 22 km | 54 km |
| 1.6 | 23.08.2025 02:31 | 17.4 km | 38 km |
| 0.6 | 21.06.2025 00:40 | 7 km | 52 km |
| 1.4 | 31.05.2025 14:54 | 0 km | 77 km |
| 0.9 | 15.03.2025 05:03 | 26 km | 53 km |
| 2.0 | 24.02.2025 05:05 | 7.7 km | 7 km |
| 1.5 | 16.02.2025 21:15 | 10 km | 27 km |
| 1.0 | 21.01.2025 16:49 | 15.4 km | 10 km |
| 1.7 | 21.01.2025 14:02 | 1.6 km | 22 km |
| 2.5 | 03.01.2025 07:07 | 5 km | 50 km |
| 0.7 | 22.12.2024 05:47 | 5.3 km | 43 km |
| 1.9 | 13.12.2024 00:14 | 5 km | 51 km |
| 1.0 | 13.12.2024 00:08 | 7.8 km | 50 km |
| 0.7 | 18.02.2024 00:57 | 24 km | 47 km |
| 1.2 | 26.01.2024 23:52 | 3 km | 31 km |
| 1.1 | 01.11.2023 11:31 | 6 km | 33 km |
| 3.1 | 16.09.2023 15:53 | 2 km | 50 km |
| 1.4 | 15.09.2023 09:30 | 29.2 km | 62 km |
| 2.5 | 23.04.2023 08:00 | 15 km | 49 km |
| 2.0 | 12.04.2023 16:13 | 10 km | 56 km |
| 2.2 | 01.03.2023 17:58 | 1 km | 51 km |
| 2.0 | 22.02.2023 02:46 | 14 km | 53 km |
| 2.5 | 14.12.2022 07:18 | 15 km | 72 km |
| 2.0 | 08.04.2021 06:42 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 0.9 | 04.03.2021 00:18 | 9.8 km | 46 km |
| 2.0 | 23.02.2021 23:00 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 2.5 | 20.02.2021 13:58 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 1.1 | 12.02.2021 01:45 | 6.8 km | 56 km |
| 0.8 | 09.02.2021 11:52 | 6.2 km | 58 km |
| 1.7 | 14.01.2021 20:20 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 2.7 | 14.01.2021 18:06 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 2.5 | 02.01.2021 06:36 | 10.1 km | 43 km |
| 1.1 | 01.01.2021 14:26 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 1.6 | 26.09.2020 14:55 | 23 km | 50 km |
| 2.1 | 10.12.2019 21:37 | 10 km | 74 km |
| 1.9 | 27.03.2019 23:07 | 18 km | 17 km |
| 1.5 | 29.11.2018 19:36 | 13 km | 57 km |
| 3.2 | 17.11.2018 05:25 | 3 km | 48 km |
| 2.3 | 13.09.2018 22:31 | 18 km | 4 km |
| 1.5 | 30.07.2018 01:13 | 4 km | 55 km |
| 2.2 | 23.07.2018 08:38 | 5 km | 53 km |
| 2.8 | 21.04.2018 11:47 | 15 km | 75 km |
| 2.0 | 08.04.2018 10:33 | 8 km | 34 km |
| 2.1 | 08.03.2018 12:31 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 1.8 | 19.05.2017 08:06 | 21 km | 46 km |
| 2.1 | 08.05.2017 03:18 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 1.5 | 04.04.2017 23:35 | 16 km | 56 km |
| 2.1 | 26.12.2016 00:08 | 13 km | 55 km |
| 2.5 | 23.09.2016 01:10 | 5 km | 70 km |
| 1.1 | 10.09.2016 01:45 | 12 km | 35 km |
| 1.2 | 14.07.2016 11:32 | 6 km | 23 km |
| 1.2 | 08.07.2016 03:05 | 23 km | 42 km |
| 2.2 | 02.06.2016 08:48 | 10 km | 64 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.