No records in the last 30 days.
198
recorded earthquakes
M7.0
largest
1904–2026
record span
2.79
mean magnitude
111
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | 04.04.1904 10:26 | 15 km | 102 km |
| 6.8 | 04.04.1904 10:02 | 15 km | 95 km |
| 6.4 | 26.07.1963 04:17 | 15 km | 142 km |
| 6.1 | 08.10.1905 07:27 | 15 km | 30 km |
| 5.7 | 22.05.2012 00:01 | 16 km | 14 km |
| 5.6 | 22.05.2012 00:00 | 10.8 km | 13 km |
| 5.4 | 23.02.1910 07:52 | 10 km | 85 km |
| 5.2 | 09.06.1922 15:36 | 15 km | 93 km |
| 5.2 | 13.08.1907 02:20 | 10 km | 75 km |
| 5.1 | 16.06.1959 00:32 | 15 km | 80 km |
| 4.8 | 22.05.2012 01:30 | 6.5 km | 10 km |
| 4.8 | 22.05.2012 01:31 | 10.3 km | 15 km |
| 4.8 | 05.01.1985 13:06 | 11.7 km | 62 km |
| 4.5 | 09.03.1980 16:52 | 3.9 km | 66 km |
| 4.5 | 04.10.2007 23:47 | 10 km | 55 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.9 | 10.02.2026 18:00 | 14.5 km | 42 km |
| 3.7 | 02.09.2025 19:06 | 19.4 km | 40 km |
| 2.1 | 07.04.2025 10:45 | 11.1 km | 17 km |
| 3.2 | 29.12.2024 17:57 | 10.2 km | 37 km |
| 2.6 | 26.09.2024 02:21 | 4.2 km | 29 km |
| 2.4 | 03.09.2024 19:18 | 7 km | 37 km |
| 2.7 | 20.08.2024 12:59 | 7.9 km | 37 km |
| 2.5 | 18.05.2024 23:39 | 2.9 km | 21 km |
| 3.2 | 02.12.2023 11:03 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 2.3 | 19.12.2022 17:02 | 12 km | 55 km |
| 2.7 | 07.12.2022 06:25 | 10 km | 28 km |
| 3.0 | 25.07.2022 11:55 | 10 km | 31 km |
| 2.8 | 15.07.2022 02:44 | 20 km | 35 km |
| 2.2 | 29.05.2022 17:48 | 20 km | 35 km |
| 2.9 | 16.01.2022 01:42 | 5 km | 11 km |
| 2.8 | 04.10.2021 01:42 | 12 km | 24 km |
| 2.8 | 06.08.2021 04:56 | 2 km | 36 km |
| 2.7 | 05.10.2020 17:41 | 2 km | 50 km |
| 2.6 | 29.09.2020 15:20 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 2.7 | 29.09.2020 05:09 | 2 km | 39 km |
| 2.5 | 15.09.2020 22:56 | 2 km | 13 km |
| 3.0 | 01.09.2020 11:29 | 5 km | 36 km |
| 2.7 | 18.03.2020 21:06 | 2 km | 33 km |
| 3.5 | 08.03.2020 19:45 | 2 km | 51 km |
| 4.4 | 30.12.2019 18:01 | 9.3 km | 75 km |
| 4.1 | 29.12.2019 17:36 | 15 km | 45 km |
| 2.7 | 09.10.2019 21:29 | 10 km | 35 km |
| 2.7 | 02.09.2019 15:27 | 5 km | 49 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2019 14:11 | 10 km | 43 km |
| 2.7 | 23.07.2019 17:09 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 2.4 | 21.07.2019 21:31 | 2 km | 49 km |
| 2.6 | 02.05.2019 13:08 | 10 km | 28 km |
| 2.8 | 03.04.2019 14:48 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 2.9 | 07.01.2019 03:23 | 2 km | 58 km |
| 2.6 | 09.04.2018 18:50 | 2 km | 35 km |
| 4.1 | 11.11.2017 04:54 | 11.4 km | 53 km |
| 3.1 | 14.09.2017 01:53 | 10 km | 7 km |
| 2.2 | 16.06.2017 10:21 | 10 km | 13 km |
| 2.1 | 25.03.2017 06:24 | 2 km | 45 km |
| 2.3 | 10.07.2015 21:01 | 2 km | 30 km |
| 3.1 | 05.05.2015 02:11 | 667 km | 19 km |
| 2.0 | 27.03.2015 09:54 | 0 km | 21 km |
| 2.7 | 02.01.2015 15:20 | 1 km | 19 km |
| 2.5 | 06.12.2014 18:48 | 5 km | 42 km |
| 2.8 | 07.11.2014 07:01 | 30 km | 9 km |
| 2.0 | 14.10.2014 08:04 | 29 km | 46 km |
| 2.9 | 02.09.2014 04:54 | 2 km | 9 km |
| 3.3 | 06.05.2014 01:54 | 5 km | 11 km |
| 2.6 | 03.05.2014 01:55 | 3 km | 54 km |
| 2.2 | 28.04.2014 01:58 | 2 km | 46 km |
| 2.6 | 15.03.2014 13:44 | 2 km | 6 km |
| 2.5 | 02.02.2014 12:06 | 2 km | 7 km |
| 2.2 | 04.08.2013 22:11 | 5 km | 5 km |
| 2.1 | 08.04.2013 04:28 | 5 km | 6 km |
| 2.2 | 26.02.2013 04:25 | 10 km | 39 km |
| 2.8 | 15.01.2013 10:34 | 2 km | 6 km |
| 2.3 | 19.10.2012 01:29 | 2 km | 11 km |
| 2.5 | 22.09.2012 19:57 | 2 km | 12 km |
| 2.5 | 19.09.2012 17:00 | 2 km | 17 km |
| 2.6 | 14.09.2012 11:32 | 2 km | 15 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.