No records in the last 30 days.
465
recorded earthquakes
M8.0
largest
1920–2026
record span
4.08
mean magnitude
298
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 | 16.12.1920 12:05 | 15 km | 285 km |
| 6.8 | 25.12.1920 11:33 | 15 km | 315 km |
| 6.1 | 28.12.1920 03:16 | 15 km | 331 km |
| 6.1 | 25.05.2008 08:21 | 18.6 km | 433 km |
| 6.0 | 01.08.1936 06:24 | 35 km | 281 km |
| 6.0 | 07.01.1921 09:42 | 15 km | 341 km |
| 6.0 | 05.08.2008 09:49 | 11.1 km | 406 km |
| 5.8 | 17.05.2008 17:08 | 15.7 km | 489 km |
| 5.7 | 17.12.1962 17:25 | 20 km | 323 km |
| 5.6 | 23.07.1930 18:53 | 15 km | 116 km |
| 5.6 | 24.07.2008 07:09 | 11.5 km | 407 km |
| 5.6 | 12.05.2008 08:47 | 12.3 km | 482 km |
| 5.5 | 22.09.1976 20:07 | 16.8 km | 523 km |
| 5.5 | 27.05.2008 08:37 | 13.4 km | 409 km |
| 5.5 | 15.04.2015 07:39 | 8.2 km | 489 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.4 | 14.06.2026 17:13 | 10 km | 171 km |
| 3.2 | 14.06.2026 17:13 | 0 km | 175 km |
| 3.9 | 29.04.2026 17:58 | 10 km | 383 km |
| 3.7 | 05.04.2026 18:32 | 10 km | 316 km |
| 4.0 | 18.02.2026 12:58 | 0 km | 226 km |
| 3.5 | 16.02.2026 01:53 | 0 km | 444 km |
| 3.6 | 06.12.2025 07:11 | 0 km | 76 km |
| 4.5 | 22.09.2025 03:10 | 10 km | 488 km |
| 4.6 | 25.07.2025 02:12 | 10 km | 268 km |
| 4.0 | 01.05.2025 18:36 | 0 km | 421 km |
| 3.5 | 28.04.2025 05:08 | 10 km | 415 km |
| 4.7 | 28.04.2025 05:08 | 10 km | 415 km |
| 3.7 | 20.02.2025 12:04 | 10 km | 363 km |
| 4.5 | 10.01.2025 12:31 | 10 km | 265 km |
| 3.3 | 10.01.2025 12:31 | 10 km | 265 km |
| 4.7 | 02.01.2025 08:43 | 0 km | 376 km |
| 4.9 | 02.01.2025 02:01 | 12.5 km | 359 km |
| 4.2 | 25.04.2024 17:26 | 10 km | 411 km |
| 3.5 | 24.11.2023 05:33 | 10 km | 336 km |
| 4.1 | 18.11.2023 09:48 | 10 km | 194 km |
| 4.2 | 25.10.2022 18:40 | 0 km | 213 km |
| 4.2 | 13.07.2022 04:06 | 10 km | 218 km |
| 3.6 | 09.06.2022 03:00 | 10 km | 291 km |
| 3.2 | 18.11.2021 12:42 | 10 km | 314 km |
| 4.2 | 11.08.2021 22:29 | 0 km | 460 km |
| 4.3 | 21.05.2021 23:58 | 9 km | 342 km |
| 4.0 | 18.03.2021 02:10 | 10 km | 435 km |
| 4.1 | 10.03.2021 18:18 | 10 km | 402 km |
| 4.0 | 16.01.2021 23:23 | 35 km | 394 km |
| 4.3 | 14.12.2020 23:55 | 10 km | 362 km |
| 4.0 | 07.11.2020 23:11 | 35 km | 130 km |
| 4.3 | 31.10.2020 06:38 | 10 km | 485 km |
| 4.2 | 13.09.2020 16:24 | 10 km | 490 km |
| 4.2 | 11.09.2020 05:47 | 0 km | 383 km |
| 5.1 | 12.09.2018 11:06 | 7.9 km | 398 km |
| 4.7 | 18.02.2018 03:44 | 10 km | 478 km |
| 4.3 | 27.01.2018 02:23 | 0 km | 444 km |
| 5.1 | 30.09.2017 06:14 | 16.6 km | 490 km |
| 3.7 | 01.09.2017 19:30 | 10 km | 231 km |
| 4.7 | 16.07.2017 22:56 | 11.8 km | 455 km |
| 4.0 | 13.01.2017 11:11 | 10 km | 392 km |
| 4.1 | 11.01.2017 19:10 | 10 km | 75 km |
| 4.2 | 17.09.2016 12:32 | 10 km | 284 km |
| 4.5 | 29.07.2016 20:41 | 160 km | 327 km |
| 4.3 | 27.05.2016 21:29 | 10 km | 409 km |
| 4.0 | 23.04.2016 11:19 | 14.8 km | 176 km |
| 4.1 | 11.04.2016 12:34 | 80 km | 336 km |
| 3.9 | 26.03.2016 19:58 | 15 km | 258 km |
| 4.1 | 22.03.2016 19:03 | 10 km | 498 km |
| 3.7 | 12.03.2016 03:14 | 3.6 km | 254 km |
| 3.5 | 12.01.2016 17:11 | 34 km | 200 km |
| 4.4 | 28.10.2015 02:01 | 14.7 km | 477 km |
| 4.1 | 21.10.2015 00:36 | 35 km | 329 km |
| 4.7 | 22.09.2015 18:01 | 14 km | 440 km |
| 3.5 | 22.09.2015 18:01 | 11 km | 435 km |
| 4.2 | 21.08.2015 15:34 | 10 km | 496 km |
| 4.0 | 27.05.2015 11:17 | 10 km | 431 km |
| 4.3 | 15.04.2015 07:44 | 10 km | 451 km |
| 5.5 | 15.04.2015 07:39 | 8.2 km | 489 km |
| 4.0 | 09.04.2015 19:37 | 10 km | 271 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.