No records in the last 30 days.
258
recorded earthquakes
M7.3
largest
1917–2026
record span
3.81
mean magnitude
109
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.3 | 31.08.1917 11:36 | 35 km | 202 km |
| 7.2 | 23.11.1979 23:40 | 110 km | 106 km |
| 6.5 | 19.08.1995 21:43 | 123.6 km | 42 km |
| 6.5 | 30.07.1962 20:18 | 64 km | 120 km |
| 6.3 | 11.12.1997 07:56 | 188.4 km | 155 km |
| 6.3 | 25.06.1980 12:04 | 164.9 km | 105 km |
| 6.2 | 03.04.1973 13:54 | 150.6 km | 84 km |
| 6.2 | 18.09.1935 04:58 | 80 km | 83 km |
| 6.1 | 25.01.1999 18:19 | 22.9 km | 116 km |
| 6.1 | 23.03.2019 19:21 | 127.7 km | 129 km |
| 6.0 | 23.11.1990 22:35 | 146.3 km | 71 km |
| 5.9 | 15.08.1992 19:02 | 120.9 km | 37 km |
| 5.8 | 19.05.1976 04:07 | 162.7 km | 114 km |
| 5.8 | 22.05.1942 10:30 | 130 km | 93 km |
| 5.7 | 13.09.2008 09:32 | 134.5 km | 58 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.4 | 22.03.2026 15:15 | 117.5 km | 81 km |
| 4.6 | 09.03.2026 22:11 | 89.7 km | 114 km |
| 3.7 | 30.12.2025 17:04 | 147.5 km | 26 km |
| 4.2 | 04.10.2025 08:56 | 141.2 km | 44 km |
| 4.5 | 01.04.2025 02:04 | 99.6 km | 112 km |
| 4.7 | 30.04.2024 15:44 | 112.5 km | 102 km |
| 4.2 | 10.02.2024 13:57 | 89.3 km | 93 km |
| 4.3 | 19.01.2024 11:47 | 76.3 km | 94 km |
| 5.6 | 19.01.2024 11:26 | 66.6 km | 97 km |
| 4.3 | 17.08.2022 15:46 | 121.4 km | 103 km |
| 4.4 | 30.06.2022 23:37 | 111.2 km | 107 km |
| 2.3 | 24.06.2022 02:24 | 111 km | 85 km |
| 4.1 | 27.11.2021 12:05 | 34.8 km | 100 km |
| 5.2 | 01.03.2021 22:57 | 40.2 km | 140 km |
| 4.5 | 24.02.2021 07:55 | 93.1 km | 92 km |
| 4.8 | 02.04.2020 03:15 | 94.2 km | 84 km |
| 4.5 | 26.12.2019 06:27 | 28.5 km | 40 km |
| 4.3 | 10.11.2019 09:50 | 112.9 km | 41 km |
| 4.6 | 26.10.2019 01:01 | 56.2 km | 95 km |
| 3.1 | 23.09.2019 14:01 | 111 km | 78 km |
| 6.1 | 23.03.2019 19:21 | 127.7 km | 129 km |
| 2.8 | 14.02.2019 21:16 | 25 km | 88 km |
| 4.6 | 14.02.2019 21:09 | 45.6 km | 97 km |
| 4.1 | 10.02.2019 02:21 | 137.9 km | 56 km |
| 3.8 | 10.02.2019 02:21 | 133 km | 59 km |
| 2.5 | 17.01.2019 04:32 | 4 km | 92 km |
| 4.1 | 05.11.2018 22:44 | 127.1 km | 39 km |
| 4.4 | 24.07.2018 01:59 | 125 km | 102 km |
| 3.7 | 24.04.2018 23:25 | 10 km | 71 km |
| 5.4 | 23.04.2018 15:42 | 120 km | 39 km |
| 2.6 | 08.04.2018 03:02 | 103 km | 76 km |
| 3.1 | 05.03.2018 14:57 | 4 km | 60 km |
| 2.3 | 26.02.2018 07:18 | 17 km | 69 km |
| 2.5 | 24.02.2018 14:49 | 1 km | 87 km |
| 2.4 | 20.02.2018 07:12 | 26 km | 81 km |
| 2.4 | 07.02.2018 17:13 | 20 km | 91 km |
| 2.8 | 11.01.2018 15:02 | 0 km | 87 km |
| 4.2 | 16.11.2017 00:56 | 96.3 km | 115 km |
| 2.7 | 27.10.2017 15:56 | 115 km | 86 km |
| 2.3 | 25.10.2017 02:53 | 4 km | 41 km |
| 2.3 | 24.10.2017 18:43 | 8 km | 70 km |
| 2.5 | 14.10.2017 03:36 | 9 km | 97 km |
| 2.2 | 07.10.2017 22:09 | 22 km | 91 km |
| 2.1 | 02.10.2017 04:10 | 25 km | 78 km |
| 2.0 | 25.09.2017 20:38 | 5 km | 38 km |
| 2.6 | 25.09.2017 12:19 | 5 km | 38 km |
| 2.8 | 23.09.2017 13:24 | 0 km | 35 km |
| 2.8 | 18.09.2017 03:24 | 6 km | 37 km |
| 3.0 | 09.09.2017 01:56 | 6 km | 37 km |
| 2.1 | 30.08.2017 18:36 | 16 km | 68 km |
| 2.0 | 12.08.2017 12:01 | 1 km | 49 km |
| 3.1 | 07.08.2017 22:26 | 41 km | 90 km |
| 3.7 | 30.07.2017 05:57 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 4.1 | 30.07.2017 05:40 | 0.8 km | 52 km |
| 2.4 | 06.07.2017 16:03 | 1 km | 97 km |
| 2.1 | 05.07.2017 10:43 | 1 km | 63 km |
| 3.2 | 15.06.2017 00:45 | 18 km | 80 km |
| 2.6 | 07.06.2017 06:19 | 4 km | 84 km |
| 2.5 | 05.06.2017 15:47 | 30 km | 62 km |
| 2.2 | 03.06.2017 04:13 | 5 km | 79 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.