3.1
2,173
recorded earthquakes
M6.2
largest
1907–2026
record span
2.14
mean magnitude
809
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 | 117 km |
| 5.7 | 22.04.2022 21:07 | 17 km | 84 km |
| 5.7 | 11.06.1962 07:15 | 15 km | 47 km |
| 5.6 | 01.08.1907 10:06 | 15 km | 103 km |
| 5.5 | 29.09.1998 22:14 | 18.2 km | 114 km |
| 5.5 | 14.03.2024 03:06 | 11.6 km | 70 km |
| 5.4 | 17.09.1996 13:45 | 10.3 km | 116 km |
| 5.4 | 13.05.1984 12:45 | 30.6 km | 118 km |
| 5.4 | 26.11.2019 09:19 | 23 km | 85 km |
| 5.4 | 30.04.1999 03:30 | 14.8 km | 117 km |
| 5.3 | 09.09.1996 15:57 | 12.7 km | 120 km |
| 5.3 | 28.06.1956 17:42 | 15 km | 49 km |
| 5.2 | 06.08.1907 15:21 | 15 km | 82 km |
| 5.2 | 25.06.1907 00:32 | 15 km | 75 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 29.07.2026 02:21 | 5.2 km | 44 km |
| 2.5 | 15.07.2026 11:23 | 5.1 km | 37 km |
| 2.2 | 30.05.2026 17:19 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 3.0 | 19.04.2026 16:53 | 2.9 km | 44 km |
| 2.5 | 05.02.2026 02:30 | 5 km | 21 km |
| 2.6 | 08.01.2026 11:20 | 0 km | 44 km |
| 2.8 | 31.12.2025 23:24 | 12.4 km | 54 km |
| 2.8 | 11.11.2025 00:02 | 9.2 km | 22 km |
| 3.7 | 07.11.2025 07:59 | 10 km | 19 km |
| 4.1 | 29.10.2025 13:19 | 10 km | 71 km |
| 2.4 | 26.08.2025 20:06 | 10 km | 35 km |
| 2.6 | 23.02.2025 07:41 | 2 km | 18 km |
| 2.4 | 13.02.2025 19:52 | 9.2 km | 48 km |
| 2.8 | 31.01.2025 20:05 | 1.1 km | 40 km |
| 2.4 | 22.12.2024 14:31 | 5 km | 47 km |
| 2.6 | 04.10.2024 04:02 | 9 km | 46 km |
| 2.4 | 30.09.2024 18:46 | 8 km | 19 km |
| 1.8 | 16.09.2024 06:03 | 5 km | 54 km |
| 2.6 | 01.08.2024 08:42 | 7.4 km | 32 km |
| 3.2 | 02.06.2024 09:04 | 15 km | 65 km |
| 2.5 | 06.04.2024 07:42 | 0 km | 52 km |
| 4.4 | 03.04.2024 10:40 | 17.3 km | 66 km |
| 4.0 | 02.04.2024 19:07 | 13 km | 67 km |
| 3.2 | 14.03.2024 11:48 | 9 km | 45 km |
| 5.5 | 14.03.2024 03:06 | 11.6 km | 70 km |
| 2.0 | 01.03.2024 09:22 | 2 km | 50 km |
| 2.5 | 01.03.2024 09:18 | 5 km | 52 km |
| 2.8 | 24.02.2024 11:46 | 0 km | 59 km |
| 2.6 | 19.02.2024 17:04 | 6 km | 60 km |
| 4.1 | 19.02.2024 08:22 | 9.4 km | 62 km |
| 2.5 | 17.02.2024 00:27 | 5 km | 45 km |
| 2.4 | 05.01.2024 16:50 | 10 km | 39 km |
| 2.2 | 22.12.2023 09:22 | 3.4 km | 20 km |
| 2.3 | 30.10.2023 22:55 | 5 km | 40 km |
| 2.3 | 03.07.2023 02:55 | 9.4 km | 50 km |
| 2.7 | 16.04.2023 15:59 | 5 km | 48 km |
| 2.1 | 08.04.2023 02:34 | 2 km | 66 km |
| 2.1 | 07.04.2023 17:50 | 9 km | 45 km |
| 2.2 | 27.03.2023 04:59 | 5 km | 51 km |
| 2.8 | 20.03.2023 20:05 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 4.3 | 02.12.2022 20:05 | 14.7 km | 83 km |
| 2.9 | 04.10.2022 20:17 | 10 km | 74 km |
| 3.6 | 24.06.2022 12:58 | 5 km | 53 km |
| 2.5 | 06.06.2022 06:21 | 2 km | 51 km |
| 2.5 | 05.06.2022 16:57 | 3 km | 59 km |
| 2.6 | 30.04.2022 05:15 | 2 km | 29 km |
| 4.8 | 24.04.2022 04:27 | 13.3 km | 87 km |
| 3.1 | 23.04.2022 21:23 | 2 km | 76 km |
| 4.3 | 23.04.2022 02:20 | 16.5 km | 89 km |
| 3.1 | 22.04.2022 21:14 | 2 km | 73 km |
| 5.7 | 22.04.2022 21:07 | 17 km | 84 km |
| 2.7 | 14.02.2022 09:17 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 2.5 | 16.01.2022 01:08 | 2 km | 26 km |
| 3.9 | 05.01.2022 20:01 | 10 km | 34 km |
| 2.2 | 29.11.2021 17:54 | 4 km | 28 km |
| 3.1 | 15.08.2021 16:32 | 5 km | 68 km |
| 2.3 | 29.05.2021 21:01 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 2.3 | 18.05.2021 00:18 | 5 km | 48 km |
| 2.7 | 17.05.2021 04:05 | 2 km | 40 km |
| 2.0 | 13.05.2021 22:09 | 5 km | 53 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.