3.1
263
recorded earthquakes
M6.2
largest
1907–2026
record span
2.47
mean magnitude
49
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.2 | 14.02.1927 03:43 | 50 km | 100 km |
| 6.1 | 15.03.1923 05:40 | 15 km | 112 km |
| 5.7 | 11.06.1962 07:15 | 15 km | 40 km |
| 5.3 | 28.06.1956 17:42 | 15 km | 39 km |
| 5.2 | 25.06.1907 00:32 | 15 km | 67 km |
| 5.1 | 16.06.1959 03:28 | 15 km | 40 km |
| 5.1 | 27.09.2005 00:25 | 22 km | 81 km |
| 4.8 | 11.08.1979 12:31 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 4.8 | 07.06.1992 11:45 | 4.4 km | 18 km |
| 4.7 | 20.03.1977 07:41 | 33 km | 38 km |
| 4.4 | 02.07.1967 01:14 | 12 km | 35 km |
| 4.2 | 12.04.2015 00:05 | 4.9 km | 25 km |
| 4.2 | 15.06.1968 14:31 | 10 km | 34 km |
| 4.1 | 19.02.2024 08:22 | 9.4 km | 49 km |
| 4.1 | 31.03.2009 01:46 | 12.1 km | 45 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 29.07.2026 02:21 | 5.2 km | 32 km |
| 3.0 | 19.04.2026 16:53 | 2.9 km | 32 km |
| 2.5 | 05.02.2026 02:30 | 5 km | 34 km |
| 3.7 | 07.11.2025 07:59 | 10 km | 31 km |
| 2.6 | 23.02.2025 07:41 | 2 km | 18 km |
| 2.4 | 30.09.2024 18:46 | 8 km | 10 km |
| 4.1 | 19.02.2024 08:22 | 9.4 km | 49 km |
| 2.4 | 05.01.2024 16:50 | 10 km | 27 km |
| 2.1 | 07.04.2023 17:50 | 9 km | 33 km |
| 2.6 | 30.04.2022 05:15 | 2 km | 16 km |
| 2.7 | 14.02.2022 09:17 | 10 km | 29 km |
| 2.5 | 16.01.2022 01:08 | 2 km | 14 km |
| 2.3 | 18.05.2021 00:18 | 5 km | 36 km |
| 2.5 | 07.07.2020 07:52 | 10 km | 32 km |
| 2.5 | 23.06.2020 08:20 | 5 km | 30 km |
| 2.4 | 12.12.2019 07:39 | 11 km | 27 km |
| 2.6 | 31.07.2019 12:52 | 10 km | 26 km |
| 2.7 | 21.07.2019 18:46 | 5 km | 32 km |
| 3.2 | 21.07.2019 09:07 | 1.6 km | 27 km |
| 2.5 | 09.07.2019 13:10 | 10 km | 28 km |
| 2.9 | 16.03.2019 22:55 | 6 km | 18 km |
| 2.7 | 22.02.2019 13:56 | 10 km | 23 km |
| 2.5 | 20.02.2019 15:02 | 2 km | 33 km |
| 2.6 | 26.01.2019 04:52 | 2 km | 14 km |
| 3.0 | 10.04.2018 12:10 | 4 km | 20 km |
| 3.0 | 04.02.2018 23:47 | 3 km | 22 km |
| 2.6 | 08.08.2017 01:54 | 5 km | 32 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2017 07:37 | 3 km | 33 km |
| 2.4 | 19.12.2016 01:14 | 2 km | 35 km |
| 2.7 | 11.09.2016 21:20 | 3 km | 4 km |
| 2.8 | 04.09.2016 06:48 | 2 km | 4 km |
| 3.9 | 29.07.2016 22:38 | 6 km | 2 km |
| 2.7 | 06.07.2016 03:58 | 6 km | 21 km |
| 3.2 | 24.03.2016 17:26 | 4 km | 1 km |
| 2.5 | 11.01.2016 12:33 | 3 km | 21 km |
| 3.0 | 08.01.2016 20:52 | 3 km | 21 km |
| 3.1 | 12.12.2015 15:10 | 5 km | 29 km |
| 2.6 | 12.11.2015 00:20 | 3 km | 23 km |
| 2.4 | 11.11.2015 13:56 | 4 km | 23 km |
| 2.5 | 08.10.2015 03:35 | 4 km | 13 km |
| 3.0 | 04.08.2015 04:56 | 5 km | 15 km |
| 2.3 | 08.05.2015 07:12 | 4 km | 22 km |
| 2.5 | 08.05.2015 03:11 | 4 km | 23 km |
| 2.7 | 08.05.2015 03:09 | 4 km | 23 km |
| 2.3 | 01.05.2015 17:55 | 1 km | 25 km |
| 3.2 | 16.04.2015 02:08 | 2 km | 20 km |
| 4.2 | 12.04.2015 00:05 | 4.9 km | 25 km |
| 2.5 | 02.04.2015 07:07 | 3 km | 27 km |
| 3.2 | 28.02.2015 09:17 | 2 km | 35 km |
| 4.1 | 28.02.2015 08:24 | 9.1 km | 37 km |
| 2.1 | 15.02.2015 09:19 | 1 km | 13 km |
| 3.2 | 14.01.2014 04:08 | 9 km | 14 km |
| 2.9 | 21.05.2013 04:23 | 4 km | 22 km |
| 2.7 | 03.05.2013 21:20 | 3 km | 25 km |
| 2.8 | 14.02.2013 08:07 | 2 km | 31 km |
| 2.2 | 22.11.2012 02:39 | 2 km | 22 km |
| 2.0 | 10.09.2012 15:27 | 4 km | 14 km |
| 2.8 | 09.09.2012 02:43 | 4 km | 25 km |
| 1.7 | 20.12.2011 15:43 | 2 km | 18 km |
| 2.1 | 12.12.2011 19:51 | 2 km | 22 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.