No records in the last 30 days.
628
recorded earthquakes
M6.1
largest
1950–2026
record span
2.12
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.1 | 27.10.1969 08:10 | 23.7 km | 109 km |
| 6.1 | 26.10.1969 15:36 | 23.7 km | 106 km |
| 6.0 | 13.04.1964 08:30 | 15 km | 90 km |
| 5.7 | 13.08.1981 02:58 | 7.6 km | 98 km |
| 5.3 | 31.08.1950 17:22 | 15 km | 103 km |
| 5.3 | 28.06.1956 17:42 | 15 km | 59 km |
| 5.2 | 21.03.1953 19:35 | 15 km | 71 km |
| 5.1 | 16.06.1959 03:28 | 15 km | 60 km |
| 5.0 | 29.10.1974 01:05 | 9 km | 11 km |
| 5.0 | 20.06.1974 09:28 | 12 km | 59 km |
| 4.8 | 29.04.1991 21:38 | 19.2 km | 62 km |
| 4.8 | 03.03.1972 21:26 | 9 km | 13 km |
| 4.7 | 30.12.2023 20:43 | 15.1 km | 59 km |
| 4.7 | 27.07.2012 23:12 | 2.4 km | 58 km |
| 4.6 | 03.07.1967 02:53 | 9 km | 44 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.5 | 30.06.2026 04:18 | 13.9 km | 58 km |
| 3.0 | 25.03.2026 09:03 | 12.2 km | 48 km |
| 2.2 | 04.03.2026 03:37 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 2.5 | 17.10.2025 21:31 | 5 km | 53 km |
| 2.5 | 10.08.2025 07:43 | 1 km | 55 km |
| 2.6 | 03.03.2025 05:32 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 2.3 | 12.02.2025 00:26 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 2.4 | 09.12.2024 11:33 | 9.6 km | 57 km |
| 2.7 | 20.11.2024 23:11 | 82 km | 40 km |
| 2.1 | 06.11.2024 15:57 | 10 km | 31 km |
| 3.4 | 10.09.2024 06:33 | 14.1 km | 53 km |
| 3.4 | 02.07.2024 10:19 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 2.4 | 27.06.2024 08:31 | 41.1 km | 50 km |
| 3.5 | 24.05.2024 14:45 | 9 km | 56 km |
| 4.1 | 19.02.2024 08:22 | 9.4 km | 62 km |
| 2.8 | 21.01.2024 17:19 | 10 km | 12 km |
| 4.7 | 30.12.2023 20:43 | 15.1 km | 59 km |
| 2.4 | 08.09.2023 12:07 | 2 km | 32 km |
| 3.2 | 01.09.2023 06:29 | 9 km | 49 km |
| 2.5 | 29.05.2023 10:05 | 1 km | 16 km |
| 4.2 | 19.05.2023 15:22 | 14.7 km | 9 km |
| 4.3 | 15.04.2023 22:10 | 2 km | 53 km |
| 2.6 | 28.03.2023 12:47 | 4 km | 54 km |
| 4.2 | 28.11.2022 07:49 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 3.2 | 20.07.2022 19:45 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 2.7 | 20.07.2022 16:34 | 2 km | 62 km |
| 3.0 | 04.06.2022 19:44 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 3.5 | 05.05.2022 09:40 | 5 km | 47 km |
| 2.4 | 19.02.2022 04:54 | 11 km | 28 km |
| 3.8 | 10.02.2022 14:17 | 9.9 km | 18 km |
| 2.1 | 07.10.2021 22:10 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 3.4 | 20.09.2021 01:01 | 10 km | 30 km |
| 2.4 | 10.05.2021 21:49 | 8 km | 53 km |
| 3.3 | 09.04.2021 10:18 | 10 km | 34 km |
| 2.7 | 14.03.2021 04:10 | 5 km | 50 km |
| 2.6 | 13.03.2021 19:14 | 5 km | 59 km |
| 2.7 | 14.02.2021 07:30 | 2 km | 38 km |
| 1.5 | 03.01.2021 12:37 | 60 km | 42 km |
| 2.6 | 13.10.2020 15:45 | 5 km | 12 km |
| 2.6 | 18.08.2020 13:37 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 2.2 | 16.08.2020 19:57 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 2.1 | 16.08.2020 19:20 | 8 km | 62 km |
| 3.4 | 16.08.2020 18:37 | 10 km | 58 km |
| 2.9 | 15.08.2020 01:12 | 10 km | 53 km |
| 2.7 | 05.07.2020 17:26 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 2.5 | 23.06.2020 01:33 | 5 km | 44 km |
| 2.7 | 26.05.2020 13:53 | 5 km | 22 km |
| 2.4 | 12.12.2019 09:03 | 4 km | 62 km |
| 2.6 | 12.11.2019 17:45 | 11 km | 12 km |
| 2.2 | 24.10.2019 03:47 | 5 km | 11 km |
| 3.0 | 03.10.2019 23:52 | 10 km | 9 km |
| 2.1 | 03.10.2019 21:49 | 7 km | 17 km |
| 2.4 | 24.09.2019 04:19 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 2.6 | 23.09.2019 13:50 | 10 km | 11 km |
| 2.6 | 22.09.2019 22:34 | 10 km | 7 km |
| 2.9 | 22.09.2019 04:28 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 2.1 | 17.09.2019 19:53 | 8 km | 62 km |
| 3.7 | 12.09.2019 20:55 | 10 km | 13 km |
| 3.1 | 11.09.2019 10:54 | 5 km | 10 km |
| 2.6 | 08.09.2019 12:03 | 8 km | 11 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.