No records in the last 30 days.
440
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1911–2026
record span
3.83
mean magnitude
321
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.2 | 10.04.1911 18:42 | 100 km | 81 km |
| 7.1 | 18.10.1992 15:12 | 16.7 km | 307 km |
| 6.8 | 29.07.1967 10:24 | 158.9 km | 303 km |
| 6.5 | 31.08.1977 00:42 | 26 km | 236 km |
| 6.5 | 26.12.1942 12:31 | 35 km | 96 km |
| 6.3 | 09.11.1974 10:30 | 10 km | 294 km |
| 6.2 | 10.03.2015 20:55 | 162 km | 299 km |
| 6.0 | 28.05.1963 08:22 | — | 251 km |
| 6.0 | 29.05.1930 08:30 | 220 km | 213 km |
| 6.0 | 14.09.2016 01:58 | 14.6 km | 249 km |
| 5.8 | 02.05.1938 23:40 | 100 km | 159 km |
| 5.7 | 15.04.2020 10:59 | 52.9 km | 34 km |
| 5.6 | 18.02.1962 17:25 | 46.1 km | 107 km |
| 5.5 | 05.04.1975 20:38 | 34 km | 166 km |
| 5.5 | 30.11.2017 06:40 | 307 km | 221 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.3 | 18.04.2026 14:05 | 66 km | 211 km |
| 4.0 | 08.04.2026 14:35 | 0 km | 100 km |
| 4.1 | 08.12.2025 10:13 | 53.8 km | 135 km |
| 3.6 | 20.11.2025 02:38 | 79.9 km | 160 km |
| 5.4 | 14.09.2025 07:12 | 20 km | 279 km |
| 4.0 | 04.09.2025 15:39 | 29.6 km | 223 km |
| 5.0 | 28.08.2025 11:22 | 10 km | 149 km |
| 4.4 | 11.05.2025 10:41 | 91.8 km | 204 km |
| 3.5 | 20.02.2025 09:47 | 42.4 km | 123 km |
| 4.2 | 19.01.2025 06:28 | 75.5 km | 154 km |
| 5.0 | 26.12.2024 00:52 | 52.2 km | 187 km |
| 4.5 | 24.12.2024 06:39 | 49.8 km | 227 km |
| 4.4 | 28.10.2024 07:45 | 59.3 km | 92 km |
| 3.1 | 28.10.2024 07:45 | 59.3 km | 92 km |
| 4.1 | 11.05.2024 17:25 | 45 km | 119 km |
| 4.5 | 06.05.2024 15:01 | 44.5 km | 112 km |
| 4.5 | 23.02.2024 00:47 | 48 km | 187 km |
| 4.5 | 15.12.2023 17:15 | 26.4 km | 63 km |
| 4.5 | 21.10.2023 23:39 | 59 km | 147 km |
| 3.2 | 21.10.2023 23:38 | 53.2 km | 143 km |
| 3.4 | 17.08.2023 13:28 | 43.3 km | 191 km |
| 4.9 | 14.08.2023 15:55 | 46.1 km | 192 km |
| 4.9 | 11.08.2023 17:59 | 48.2 km | 190 km |
| 3.4 | 27.05.2023 06:01 | 47.7 km | 91 km |
| 4.1 | 18.04.2023 02:26 | 69.3 km | 139 km |
| 4.5 | 30.03.2023 08:24 | 62.5 km | 109 km |
| 3.1 | 30.03.2023 08:24 | 53.1 km | 109 km |
| 3.9 | 25.11.2022 00:35 | 50.4 km | 136 km |
| 2.4 | 13.11.2022 08:03 | 42 km | 99 km |
| 2.5 | 09.10.2022 20:26 | 88 km | 218 km |
| 4.4 | 20.09.2022 04:54 | 62.9 km | 220 km |
| 3.2 | 19.09.2022 17:48 | 45 km | 111 km |
| 4.0 | 17.09.2022 06:12 | 123.2 km | 205 km |
| 2.7 | 02.07.2022 14:45 | 44 km | 121 km |
| 2.7 | 27.06.2022 04:04 | 30 km | 242 km |
| 2.6 | 10.06.2022 01:25 | 16 km | 228 km |
| 2.6 | 09.06.2022 06:03 | 36 km | 171 km |
| 4.5 | 08.06.2022 23:12 | 85.6 km | 243 km |
| 5.5 | 23.02.2022 12:49 | 59.5 km | 130 km |
| 3.4 | 26.11.2021 12:12 | 58 km | 180 km |
| 4.1 | 27.02.2021 08:30 | 114.3 km | 197 km |
| 3.5 | 14.07.2020 12:47 | 96 km | 121 km |
| 3.6 | 01.07.2020 15:45 | 1 km | 180 km |
| 3.6 | 27.04.2020 04:43 | 1 km | 120 km |
| 4.5 | 17.04.2020 04:49 | 47.3 km | 48 km |
| 3.0 | 17.04.2020 04:49 | 51.4 km | 36 km |
| 5.7 | 15.04.2020 10:59 | 52.9 km | 34 km |
| 2.5 | 17.03.2020 15:24 | 14 km | 175 km |
| 2.9 | 28.02.2020 14:44 | 17 km | 176 km |
| 2.9 | 16.02.2020 13:02 | 4 km | 202 km |
| 2.8 | 30.07.2019 02:52 | 22 km | 216 km |
| 4.3 | 19.07.2019 09:41 | 264 km | 190 km |
| 2.3 | 28.06.2019 10:17 | 38 km | 146 km |
| 2.7 | 22.06.2019 05:44 | 55 km | 193 km |
| 2.8 | 08.06.2019 03:07 | 7 km | 114 km |
| 2.8 | 18.04.2019 13:25 | 18 km | 115 km |
| 3.5 | 26.03.2019 04:30 | 33 km | 154 km |
| 2.9 | 19.03.2019 04:24 | 19 km | 155 km |
| 5.2 | 06.03.2019 01:48 | 35 km | 233 km |
| 4.9 | 01.02.2019 19:25 | 5 km | 142 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.