No records in the last 30 days.
331
recorded earthquakes
M8.0
largest
1911–2026
record span
4.89
mean magnitude
225
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.0 | 31.07.1970 17:08 | 647.1 km | 867 km |
| 7.9 | 17.01.1922 03:50 | 475 km | 716 km |
| 7.7 | 24.11.2015 22:50 | 621.4 km | 971 km |
| 7.6 | 09.11.1963 21:15 | 590.7 km | 927 km |
| 7.6 | 19.08.1961 05:09 | 612.2 km | 1001 km |
| 7.5 | 24.11.2015 22:45 | 609.3 km | 1001 km |
| 7.4 | 28.04.1911 09:52 | 560 km | 915 km |
| 7.3 | 18.12.1921 15:29 | 540 km | 717 km |
| 7.2 | 23.04.1915 15:29 | 650 km | 570 km |
| 7.2 | 31.08.1961 01:48 | 597.5 km | 1006 km |
| 7.1 | 28.04.1911 09:52 | 600 km | 784 km |
| 7.1 | 24.08.2018 09:04 | 625.5 km | 1034 km |
| 7.0 | 05.05.1989 18:28 | 602.5 km | 859 km |
| 7.0 | 24.08.2011 17:46 | 149.3 km | 1135 km |
| 7.0 | 20.06.2003 06:19 | 562.2 km | 851 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.3 | 03.06.2026 17:21 | 150.6 km | 1135 km |
| 4.2 | 29.05.2026 09:08 | 191.6 km | 1100 km |
| 3.3 | 29.05.2026 09:08 | 171.8 km | 1088 km |
| 2.9 | 17.05.2026 21:23 | 0 km | 1041 km |
| 3.9 | 27.04.2026 17:11 | 0 km | 906 km |
| 3.6 | 25.11.2025 05:14 | 0 km | 1010 km |
| 4.6 | 24.11.2025 12:03 | 10 km | 1060 km |
| 3.1 | 24.11.2025 12:03 | 0 km | 1058 km |
| 4.1 | 03.08.2025 14:11 | 319.4 km | 957 km |
| 4.3 | 03.08.2025 11:42 | 466 km | 919 km |
| 4.0 | 29.06.2025 21:23 | 0 km | 680 km |
| 4.3 | 29.05.2025 18:07 | 10 km | 749 km |
| 4.5 | 12.03.2025 15:14 | 183.4 km | 1114 km |
| 4.3 | 04.12.2024 20:51 | 193.2 km | 1067 km |
| 4.3 | 22.10.2024 17:50 | 10 km | 997 km |
| 4.0 | 18.10.2024 17:51 | 0 km | 439 km |
| 4.0 | 02.10.2024 09:21 | 171.3 km | 782 km |
| 4.4 | 03.08.2024 07:29 | 0 km | 931 km |
| 4.2 | 27.03.2024 14:16 | 11.2 km | 1019 km |
| 6.5 | 28.01.2024 09:38 | 627.7 km | 875 km |
| 6.7 | 20.01.2024 21:31 | 623.3 km | 820 km |
| 4.6 | 22.09.2023 10:14 | 200 km | 1113 km |
| 5.3 | 02.09.2023 11:11 | 150.8 km | 1132 km |
| 4.6 | 27.05.2023 03:27 | 10 km | 636 km |
| 5.1 | 05.04.2023 06:19 | 562 km | 948 km |
| 4.3 | 17.01.2023 09:59 | 635 km | 844 km |
| 4.1 | 19.11.2022 03:02 | 584.7 km | 796 km |
| 5.0 | 11.11.2022 12:34 | 635.1 km | 888 km |
| 4.4 | 17.09.2022 21:09 | 22 km | 962 km |
| 4.3 | 24.07.2022 08:17 | 603 km | 901 km |
| 4.7 | 08.06.2022 01:53 | 614.2 km | 906 km |
| 6.5 | 08.06.2022 00:55 | 619.2 km | 903 km |
| 4.5 | 14.05.2022 22:27 | 587.2 km | 888 km |
| 4.2 | 19.04.2022 08:21 | 202 km | 1071 km |
| 4.1 | 04.04.2022 09:12 | 10 km | 747 km |
| 3.0 | 04.11.2021 04:52 | 2 km | 745 km |
| 2.6 | 04.11.2021 02:29 | 2 km | 745 km |
| 4.1 | 12.10.2021 04:34 | 602 km | 947 km |
| 5.9 | 02.10.2021 12:52 | 606.4 km | 942 km |
| 4.5 | 27.09.2021 21:52 | 35 km | 921 km |
| 4.8 | 09.09.2021 01:14 | 35 km | 918 km |
| 3.7 | 26.08.2021 00:22 | 2 km | 1055 km |
| 5.0 | 22.08.2021 08:28 | 153 km | 1143 km |
| 4.1 | 18.05.2021 15:20 | 124 km | 984 km |
| 3.1 | 17.05.2021 17:09 | 2 km | 915 km |
| 4.7 | 28.04.2021 03:26 | 13 km | 525 km |
| 4.1 | 11.04.2021 04:21 | 550 km | 913 km |
| 4.3 | 31.01.2021 20:03 | 2 km | 935 km |
| 4.3 | 31.01.2021 19:36 | 2 km | 935 km |
| 4.2 | 31.01.2021 19:32 | 2 km | 935 km |
| 5.6 | 31.01.2021 19:05 | 3.8 km | 944 km |
| 4.2 | 29.01.2021 15:46 | 158 km | 1107 km |
| 4.0 | 03.08.2020 03:45 | 608 km | 909 km |
| 3.3 | 15.03.2020 18:33 | 35 km | 648 km |
| 2.8 | 13.02.2020 20:27 | 100 km | 966 km |
| 4.4 | 17.01.2020 17:51 | 177 km | 1124 km |
| 4.0 | 20.04.2019 07:40 | 166 km | 1094 km |
| 5.4 | 16.04.2019 03:19 | 591.8 km | 879 km |
| 4.3 | 26.02.2019 09:05 | 153 km | 1064 km |
| 5.1 | 08.01.2019 10:00 | 16 km | 998 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.