No records in the last 30 days.
329
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1911–2026
record span
4.16
mean magnitude
153
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 | 194 km |
| 7.1 | 18.10.1992 15:12 | 16.7 km | 197 km |
| 7.1 | 13.07.1974 01:18 | 13.4 km | 226 km |
| 6.6 | 17.10.1992 08:32 | 15.5 km | 216 km |
| 6.5 | 31.08.1977 00:42 | 26 km | 131 km |
| 6.5 | 26.12.1942 12:31 | 35 km | 20 km |
| 6.5 | 25.05.2023 03:05 | 9.7 km | 168 km |
| 6.3 | 20.04.1985 18:23 | 33.6 km | 201 km |
| 6.3 | 04.11.1996 17:24 | 10.6 km | 230 km |
| 6.0 | 13.09.1994 10:01 | 16.7 km | 187 km |
| 6.0 | 29.05.1930 08:30 | 220 km | 201 km |
| 6.0 | 14.09.2016 01:58 | 14.6 km | 147 km |
| 5.8 | 14.02.1952 21:02 | 20 km | 141 km |
| 5.8 | 02.03.2011 18:50 | 34.3 km | 138 km |
| 5.8 | 02.05.1938 23:40 | 100 km | 124 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.9 | 30.05.2026 19:55 | 0 km | 131 km |
| 4.3 | 18.04.2026 14:05 | 66 km | 149 km |
| 4.0 | 08.04.2026 14:35 | 0 km | 19 km |
| 4.3 | 25.09.2025 16:25 | 46 km | 109 km |
| 4.3 | 20.08.2025 15:10 | 34 km | 150 km |
| 4.2 | 19.01.2025 06:28 | 75.5 km | 136 km |
| 5.0 | 26.12.2024 00:52 | 52.2 km | 127 km |
| 4.5 | 24.12.2024 06:39 | 49.8 km | 144 km |
| 3.1 | 28.10.2024 07:45 | 59.3 km | 51 km |
| 4.4 | 28.10.2024 07:45 | 59.3 km | 51 km |
| 4.1 | 11.05.2024 17:25 | 45 km | 98 km |
| 4.5 | 06.05.2024 15:01 | 44.5 km | 49 km |
| 4.5 | 23.02.2024 00:47 | 48 km | 111 km |
| 4.4 | 15.12.2023 20:24 | 2.1 km | 165 km |
| 4.5 | 15.12.2023 17:15 | 26.4 km | 89 km |
| 4.5 | 21.10.2023 23:39 | 59 km | 112 km |
| 3.2 | 21.10.2023 23:38 | 53.2 km | 105 km |
| 3.4 | 17.08.2023 13:28 | 43.3 km | 113 km |
| 4.9 | 14.08.2023 15:55 | 46.1 km | 115 km |
| 4.9 | 11.08.2023 17:59 | 48.2 km | 113 km |
| 5.2 | 30.07.2023 02:27 | 51.5 km | 134 km |
| 3.4 | 27.05.2023 06:01 | 47.7 km | 97 km |
| 6.5 | 25.05.2023 03:05 | 9.7 km | 168 km |
| 4.1 | 18.04.2023 02:26 | 69.3 km | 83 km |
| 4.3 | 07.04.2023 04:10 | 43.7 km | 105 km |
| 4.5 | 30.03.2023 08:24 | 62.5 km | 109 km |
| 3.1 | 30.03.2023 08:24 | 53.1 km | 111 km |
| 3.9 | 25.11.2022 00:35 | 50.4 km | 86 km |
| 2.4 | 13.11.2022 08:03 | 42 km | 105 km |
| 2.3 | 13.06.2022 01:28 | 26 km | 115 km |
| 2.6 | 09.06.2022 06:03 | 36 km | 127 km |
| 4.8 | 25.04.2022 01:49 | 39.3 km | 117 km |
| 5.5 | 23.02.2022 12:49 | 59.5 km | 165 km |
| 3.4 | 26.11.2021 12:12 | 58 km | 124 km |
| 5.0 | 02.04.2021 22:44 | 29.9 km | 187 km |
| 3.6 | 01.07.2020 15:45 | 1 km | 137 km |
| 3.6 | 27.04.2020 04:43 | 1 km | 93 km |
| 5.7 | 15.04.2020 10:59 | 52.9 km | 149 km |
| 2.8 | 08.06.2019 03:07 | 7 km | 76 km |
| 2.8 | 18.04.2019 13:25 | 18 km | 28 km |
| 3.5 | 26.03.2019 04:30 | 33 km | 113 km |
| 2.9 | 19.03.2019 04:24 | 19 km | 58 km |
| 2.4 | 05.01.2019 20:45 | 15 km | 141 km |
| 4.1 | 09.12.2018 06:19 | 76.6 km | 91 km |
| 2.2 | 07.08.2018 23:23 | 22 km | 141 km |
| 2.4 | 02.06.2018 08:25 | -2 km | 121 km |
| 4.3 | 12.04.2018 04:32 | 57.7 km | 108 km |
| 2.9 | 18.03.2018 00:36 | 0 km | 146 km |
| 3.1 | 09.02.2018 17:23 | 21 km | 157 km |
| 4.2 | 26.01.2018 15:03 | 55.3 km | 121 km |
| 4.3 | 23.01.2018 05:31 | 47.2 km | 73 km |
| 3.2 | 20.01.2018 12:56 | 16 km | 124 km |
| 3.5 | 10.01.2018 07:23 | 0 km | 148 km |
| 4.0 | 29.11.2017 20:08 | 77 km | 107 km |
| 4.4 | 23.11.2017 20:44 | 19.2 km | 133 km |
| 3.4 | 04.10.2017 08:21 | 13 km | 88 km |
| 3.2 | 28.09.2017 17:33 | 0 km | 128 km |
| 3.0 | 20.08.2017 06:45 | 0 km | 95 km |
| 3.1 | 15.07.2017 05:36 | 15 km | 135 km |
| 3.7 | 13.06.2017 01:33 | 38 km | 83 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.