2.5
850
recorded earthquakes
M6.0
largest
1956–2026
record span
1.78
mean magnitude
623
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | 13.04.1964 08:30 | 15 km | 143 km |
| 5.7 | 11.06.1962 07:15 | 15 km | 103 km |
| 5.5 | 29.09.1998 22:14 | 18.2 km | 71 km |
| 5.4 | 30.04.1999 03:30 | 14.8 km | 74 km |
| 5.3 | 28.06.1956 17:42 | 15 km | 41 km |
| 5.1 | 16.06.1959 03:28 | 15 km | 39 km |
| 5.0 | 29.10.1974 01:05 | 9 km | 69 km |
| 4.8 | 07.06.1992 11:45 | 4.4 km | 53 km |
| 4.8 | 29.04.1991 21:38 | 19.2 km | 18 km |
| 4.8 | 03.03.1972 21:26 | 9 km | 71 km |
| 4.6 | 03.07.1967 02:53 | 9 km | 15 km |
| 4.6 | 03.12.1968 20:57 | 9 km | 65 km |
| 4.4 | 22.08.1980 21:09 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 4.4 | 08.03.2015 20:47 | 5.5 km | 56 km |
| 4.4 | 19.10.1992 12:40 | 10 km | 59 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 | 15.07.2026 11:23 | 5.1 km | 44 km |
| 2.6 | 08.01.2026 11:20 | 0 km | 33 km |
| 2.6 | 03.03.2025 05:32 | 10 km | 43 km |
| 2.4 | 22.12.2024 14:31 | 5 km | 33 km |
| 2.5 | 06.04.2024 07:42 | 0 km | 27 km |
| 4.1 | 19.02.2024 08:22 | 9.4 km | 69 km |
| 2.5 | 17.02.2024 00:27 | 5 km | 37 km |
| 2.8 | 21.01.2024 17:19 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 2.4 | 08.09.2023 12:07 | 2 km | 30 km |
| 2.3 | 03.07.2023 02:55 | 9.4 km | 35 km |
| 4.2 | 19.05.2023 15:22 | 14.7 km | 67 km |
| 2.6 | 28.03.2023 12:47 | 4 km | 14 km |
| 2.2 | 27.03.2023 04:59 | 5 km | 30 km |
| 2.7 | 06.10.2022 10:32 | 8 km | 39 km |
| 2.5 | 05.06.2022 16:57 | 3 km | 55 km |
| 2.4 | 19.02.2022 04:54 | 11 km | 35 km |
| 2.7 | 28.11.2021 11:21 | 230 km | 46 km |
| 2.6 | 07.11.2021 01:51 | 5 km | 33 km |
| 3.1 | 15.08.2021 16:32 | 5 km | 37 km |
| 2.3 | 29.05.2021 21:01 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 2.4 | 10.05.2021 21:49 | 8 km | 34 km |
| 2.6 | 13.03.2021 19:14 | 5 km | 17 km |
| 2.4 | 21.08.2020 08:36 | 2 km | 15 km |
| 2.5 | 23.06.2020 08:20 | 5 km | 62 km |
| 2.7 | 26.05.2020 13:53 | 5 km | 39 km |
| 3.0 | 03.10.2019 23:52 | 10 km | 58 km |
| 3.1 | 11.09.2019 10:54 | 5 km | 64 km |
| 2.6 | 08.09.2019 12:03 | 8 km | 64 km |
| 4.2 | 30.08.2019 13:01 | 16 km | 67 km |
| 2.4 | 01.09.2018 18:26 | 5 km | 59 km |
| 3.0 | 01.09.2018 08:15 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 2.5 | 21.01.2018 13:05 | 4 km | 34 km |
| 2.8 | 15.09.2017 13:12 | 2 km | 26 km |
| 2.4 | 04.04.2017 11:12 | 3 km | 40 km |
| 2.6 | 30.03.2017 07:54 | 4 km | 50 km |
| 4.1 | 29.03.2017 23:38 | 24.8 km | 39 km |
| 2.1 | 06.12.2016 22:35 | 4 km | 17 km |
| 2.3 | 23.11.2016 13:31 | 4 km | 60 km |
| 2.6 | 23.06.2016 11:28 | 5 km | 31 km |
| 2.1 | 22.06.2016 23:28 | 4 km | 30 km |
| 2.9 | 23.02.2016 16:48 | 8 km | 25 km |
| 2.1 | 03.02.2016 02:51 | 3 km | 28 km |
| 3.2 | 02.12.2015 20:35 | 2 km | 24 km |
| 2.0 | 05.11.2015 06:03 | 3 km | 30 km |
| 2.5 | 08.10.2015 03:35 | 4 km | 59 km |
| 2.6 | 25.05.2015 05:12 | 3 km | 24 km |
| 2.4 | 15.04.2015 07:59 | 2 km | 34 km |
| 2.1 | 15.04.2015 07:43 | 2 km | 33 km |
| 4.2 | 12.04.2015 00:05 | 4.9 km | 75 km |
| 4.4 | 08.03.2015 20:47 | 5.5 km | 56 km |
| 2.5 | 02.03.2015 20:22 | 1 km | 26 km |
| 2.5 | 22.02.2015 10:52 | 2 km | 42 km |
| 3.6 | 21.02.2015 21:21 | 3.1 km | 34 km |
| 3.2 | 17.02.2015 10:33 | 5 km | 38 km |
| 2.9 | 15.02.2015 14:48 | 2 km | 29 km |
| 2.1 | 15.02.2015 09:19 | 1 km | 58 km |
| 2.5 | 08.01.2015 04:48 | 2 km | 23 km |
| 2.5 | 18.08.2014 07:48 | 5 km | 41 km |
| 2.4 | 22.05.2014 13:53 | 4 km | 49 km |
| 2.7 | 21.04.2014 02:36 | 1 km | 23 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.