No records in the last 30 days.
307
recorded earthquakes
M8.0
largest
1911–2025
record span
3.76
mean magnitude
210
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 | 31.07.1970 17:08 | 647.1 km | 327 km |
| 7.3 | 31.08.1917 11:36 | 35 km | 320 km |
| 7.2 | 30.09.2012 16:31 | 155.2 km | 298 km |
| 7.1 | 28.04.1911 09:52 | 600 km | 337 km |
| 7.1 | 12.08.2010 11:54 | 206.6 km | 483 km |
| 7.0 | 09.02.1967 15:24 | 36.6 km | 225 km |
| 6.8 | 06.06.1994 20:47 | 17.2 km | 308 km |
| 6.5 | 09.07.1945 16:42 | 100 km | 336 km |
| 6.4 | 30.08.1917 03:24 | 15 km | 289 km |
| 6.3 | 27.09.1974 04:09 | 28.1 km | 321 km |
| 6.2 | 21.12.1918 09:24 | 35 km | 261 km |
| 6.0 | 09.05.1944 14:29 | 100 km | 242 km |
| 6.0 | 24.12.2019 19:03 | 7.7 km | 259 km |
| 5.8 | 24.12.2019 19:19 | 9.3 km | 262 km |
| 5.6 | 31.03.1983 13:12 | 16.5 km | 348 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.4 | 21.12.2025 14:05 | 10 km | 259 km |
| 4.4 | 20.06.2025 19:58 | 35.1 km | 308 km |
| 3.2 | 20.06.2025 19:58 | 35.1 km | 308 km |
| 4.4 | 05.05.2024 06:11 | 1 km | 270 km |
| 5.0 | 30.06.2023 01:52 | 9.5 km | 212 km |
| 4.3 | 07.05.2023 08:05 | 183 km | 232 km |
| 4.2 | 04.03.2023 07:10 | 70 km | 209 km |
| 3.9 | 27.02.2023 13:48 | 10 km | 261 km |
| 2.6 | 01.08.2022 01:06 | 31 km | 258 km |
| 2.5 | 08.05.2022 12:47 | 33 km | 260 km |
| 4.6 | 19.04.2022 19:32 | 24 km | 265 km |
| 4.9 | 23.01.2021 21:12 | 19.2 km | 249 km |
| 3.5 | 27.08.2020 05:44 | 5 km | 237 km |
| 4.0 | 20.08.2020 12:08 | 0 km | 202 km |
| 3.0 | 20.06.2020 11:02 | 0 km | 168 km |
| 2.8 | 13.02.2020 20:27 | 100 km | 177 km |
| 3.2 | 15.01.2020 01:21 | 25 km | 230 km |
| 5.8 | 24.12.2019 19:19 | 9.3 km | 262 km |
| 6.0 | 24.12.2019 19:03 | 7.7 km | 259 km |
| 4.5 | 08.08.2019 20:29 | 0 km | 305 km |
| 3.6 | 17.03.2019 23:24 | 10 km | 317 km |
| 3.9 | 26.02.2019 15:03 | 7 km | 318 km |
| 3.6 | 26.02.2019 13:59 | 12 km | 319 km |
| 3.6 | 18.02.2019 11:29 | 10 km | 318 km |
| 3.6 | 11.02.2019 19:53 | 7 km | 317 km |
| 3.8 | 09.02.2019 00:29 | 8 km | 318 km |
| 3.6 | 29.01.2019 16:31 | 8 km | 319 km |
| 4.0 | 29.01.2019 06:10 | 10 km | 314 km |
| 4.0 | 29.01.2019 06:10 | 1 km | 316 km |
| 3.5 | 29.01.2019 00:34 | 10 km | 316 km |
| 3.9 | 28.01.2019 22:40 | 8 km | 321 km |
| 4.1 | 28.01.2019 22:33 | 10 km | 319 km |
| 4.0 | 28.01.2019 22:02 | 5 km | 318 km |
| 4.0 | 28.01.2019 21:28 | 8 km | 317 km |
| 5.5 | 28.01.2019 21:07 | 7.7 km | 317 km |
| 4.1 | 27.01.2019 11:22 | 10 km | 317 km |
| 3.9 | 26.01.2019 16:53 | 10 km | 318 km |
| 3.7 | 26.01.2019 13:27 | 10 km | 318 km |
| 4.4 | 26.01.2019 13:10 | 9 km | 319 km |
| 3.7 | 26.01.2019 12:35 | 1 km | 317 km |
| 5.6 | 26.01.2019 12:32 | 9.9 km | 315 km |
| 3.9 | 19.01.2019 22:03 | 1.6 km | 223 km |
| 4.0 | 19.01.2019 22:03 | 1 km | 223 km |
| 3.6 | 05.01.2019 19:54 | 11 km | 233 km |
| 3.8 | 15.09.2018 03:52 | 10 km | 267 km |
| 4.6 | 27.08.2018 07:06 | 5 km | 249 km |
| 3.5 | 10.07.2018 19:48 | 8 km | 318 km |
| 4.3 | 10.07.2018 05:17 | 8 km | 316 km |
| 4.0 | 10.07.2018 05:16 | 8 km | 317 km |
| 4.2 | 07.07.2018 00:19 | 2.3 km | 318 km |
| 2.8 | 08.05.2018 05:20 | 1 km | 266 km |
| 4.1 | 01.05.2018 01:58 | 30.8 km | 260 km |
| 2.1 | 30.04.2018 16:19 | 1 km | 240 km |
| 2.3 | 17.03.2018 21:41 | 18 km | 241 km |
| 3.1 | 02.03.2018 14:17 | 17 km | 239 km |
| 4.0 | 14.02.2018 02:44 | 119 km | 155 km |
| 3.5 | 10.02.2018 21:40 | 16 km | 241 km |
| 3.4 | 09.02.2018 22:48 | 0 km | 195 km |
| 2.2 | 01.02.2018 06:02 | 13 km | 241 km |
| 2.9 | 29.01.2018 01:40 | 4 km | 268 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.