No records in the last 30 days.
372
recorded earthquakes
M7.6
largest
1906–2026
record span
4.74
mean magnitude
94
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.6 | 20.09.1999 17:47 | 25.4 km | 355 km |
| 7.5 | 21.10.1951 21:34 | 25 km | 426 km |
| 7.5 | 01.09.1922 19:16 | 20 km | 413 km |
| 7.4 | 24.11.1951 18:47 | 25 km | 449 km |
| 7.4 | 02.04.2024 23:58 | 30.6 km | 423 km |
| 7.3 | 14.11.1986 21:20 | 25.2 km | 420 km |
| 7.3 | 11.01.1908 03:35 | 5 km | 443 km |
| 7.3 | 24.11.1951 18:50 | 30 km | 443 km |
| 7.3 | 07.09.1938 04:03 | 15 km | 415 km |
| 7.2 | 26.02.1968 10:50 | 14.2 km | 485 km |
| 7.2 | 23.02.1957 20:26 | 55 km | 409 km |
| 7.2 | 28.08.1916 07:27 | 5 km | 329 km |
| 7.2 | 22.10.1951 03:29 | 25 km | 393 km |
| 7.2 | 13.02.1918 06:07 | 15 km | 283 km |
| 7.1 | 22.10.1951 05:43 | 20 km | 406 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.9 | 06.03.2026 15:14 | 10 km | 309 km |
| 3.6 | 16.02.2026 11:00 | 21.6 km | 299 km |
| 4.2 | 20.11.2025 19:43 | 19.1 km | 369 km |
| 4.2 | 20.09.2025 08:51 | 13.8 km | 197 km |
| 4.7 | 19.09.2025 22:56 | 0 km | 197 km |
| 4.3 | 09.05.2025 21:27 | 20.4 km | 350 km |
| 5.2 | 30.01.2025 02:11 | 10 km | 397 km |
| 5.3 | 25.01.2025 23:38 | 15.8 km | 405 km |
| 5.2 | 25.01.2025 11:49 | 10 km | 377 km |
| 5.1 | 20.01.2025 16:26 | 10 km | 389 km |
| 6.1 | 20.01.2025 16:17 | 16 km | 391 km |
| 4.6 | 29.12.2024 19:51 | 24.7 km | 371 km |
| 4.2 | 01.12.2024 00:57 | 13.9 km | 369 km |
| 4.1 | 25.11.2024 02:30 | 13.6 km | 363 km |
| 4.4 | 09.11.2024 11:42 | 5 km | 367 km |
| 4.0 | 27.10.2024 06:28 | 10 km | 373 km |
| 4.0 | 16.09.2024 12:17 | 10.8 km | 354 km |
| 4.0 | 14.09.2024 02:13 | 10.1 km | 354 km |
| 4.2 | 16.04.2024 19:01 | 8.9 km | 355 km |
| 4.2 | 13.04.2024 18:39 | 24.9 km | 355 km |
| 4.2 | 12.04.2024 18:45 | 8.1 km | 352 km |
| 4.7 | 12.04.2024 18:44 | 10.6 km | 352 km |
| 4.2 | 03.04.2024 06:28 | 16.4 km | 351 km |
| 7.4 | 02.04.2024 23:58 | 30.6 km | 423 km |
| 4.2 | 02.04.2024 19:26 | 22.6 km | 356 km |
| 4.1 | 01.04.2024 06:51 | 8.7 km | 354 km |
| 4.4 | 29.02.2024 05:26 | 15.7 km | 349 km |
| 4.0 | 02.02.2024 10:10 | 18 km | 349 km |
| 4.9 | 22.10.2023 19:20 | 10 km | 303 km |
| 5.0 | 05.09.2023 09:30 | 14.9 km | 351 km |
| 4.0 | 16.08.2023 14:58 | 9.2 km | 351 km |
| 4.0 | 05.11.2022 14:42 | 14 km | 375 km |
| 6.0 | 18.09.2022 09:39 | 11.3 km | 440 km |
| 4.7 | 19.03.2022 15:23 | 17.9 km | 362 km |
| 4.0 | 14.03.2022 11:30 | 28 km | 343 km |
| 4.0 | 05.01.2022 13:54 | 11 km | 378 km |
| 4.2 | 17.03.2021 06:27 | 12.9 km | 100 km |
| 4.5 | 06.01.2020 06:53 | 15.6 km | 355 km |
| 4.3 | 17.08.2019 20:48 | 10 km | 283 km |
| 4.6 | 15.08.2019 21:41 | 18 km | 370 km |
| 4.2 | 01.08.2019 08:50 | 10 km | 265 km |
| 4.0 | 29.12.2018 13:44 | 16 km | 366 km |
| 4.0 | 28.11.2018 13:43 | 10 km | 287 km |
| 4.1 | 27.11.2018 10:29 | 9.8 km | 292 km |
| 4.1 | 26.11.2018 12:50 | 8.9 km | 291 km |
| 5.8 | 25.11.2018 23:57 | 21.8 km | 293 km |
| 4.3 | 10.11.2018 01:51 | 7 km | 356 km |
| 4.3 | 02.08.2018 13:38 | 14.4 km | 362 km |
| 4.0 | 02.07.2018 19:36 | 16 km | 365 km |
| 4.2 | 02.07.2018 07:26 | 10 km | 359 km |
| 3.1 | 10.06.2018 08:18 | 10 km | 356 km |
| 4.0 | 23.05.2018 08:30 | 20 km | 351 km |
| 4.6 | 22.03.2018 14:27 | 6 km | 362 km |
| 4.6 | 23.11.2017 20:55 | 18.5 km | 367 km |
| 5.2 | 22.11.2017 14:20 | 19.1 km | 370 km |
| 4.4 | 11.11.2017 12:23 | 18.6 km | 363 km |
| 4.9 | 11.11.2017 12:22 | 16.5 km | 363 km |
| 4.5 | 11.11.2017 11:14 | 19.1 km | 363 km |
| 4.4 | 25.05.2017 05:48 | 13.5 km | 367 km |
| 4.5 | 24.05.2017 13:10 | 18.1 km | 369 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.