No records in the last 30 days.
469
recorded earthquakes
M8.6
largest
1906–2026
record span
3.97
mean magnitude
283
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.6 | 31.01.1906 15:36 | 20 km | 295 km |
| 8.1 | 12.12.1979 07:59 | 29.9 km | 265 km |
| 7.8 | 19.01.1958 14:07 | 27.5 km | 304 km |
| 7.2 | 30.09.2012 16:31 | 155.2 km | 75 km |
| 7.2 | 19.11.1991 22:28 | 18.5 km | 271 km |
| 7.1 | 06.03.1987 04:10 | 18.5 km | 258 km |
| 7.0 | 09.02.1967 15:24 | 36.6 km | 261 km |
| 7.0 | 09.02.2013 14:16 | 144.2 km | 134 km |
| 6.8 | 06.06.1994 20:47 | 17.2 km | 141 km |
| 6.8 | 10.09.2007 01:49 | 24.1 km | 144 km |
| 6.7 | 02.09.1997 12:13 | 204.3 km | 245 km |
| 6.5 | 21.05.1937 13:12 | 90 km | 68 km |
| 6.5 | 09.07.1945 16:42 | 100 km | 68 km |
| 6.5 | 05.06.1907 03:21 | 35 km | 148 km |
| 6.3 | 08.02.1995 18:40 | 76.9 km | 220 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.5 | 08.06.2026 18:05 | 87 km | 179 km |
| 4.4 | 27.08.2025 09:31 | 10 km | 71 km |
| 5.5 | 29.07.2025 18:04 | 45.9 km | 137 km |
| 3.5 | 11.07.2025 17:34 | 5 km | 179 km |
| 3.2 | 20.06.2025 19:58 | 35.1 km | 94 km |
| 4.4 | 20.06.2025 19:58 | 35.1 km | 94 km |
| 4.9 | 23.05.2025 04:56 | 35 km | 142 km |
| 3.6 | 24.06.2024 22:12 | 5 km | 176 km |
| 5.0 | 06.05.2024 15:17 | 10 km | 196 km |
| 4.4 | 05.05.2024 06:11 | 1 km | 104 km |
| 4.0 | 03.01.2024 14:47 | 5 km | 183 km |
| 4.8 | 05.10.2023 20:55 | 10 km | 184 km |
| 5.0 | 03.08.2023 22:09 | 162.3 km | 180 km |
| 4.4 | 26.04.2023 03:16 | 1.2 km | 184 km |
| 3.6 | 24.04.2023 01:12 | 5 km | 179 km |
| 3.6 | 23.04.2023 05:51 | 1 km | 137 km |
| 3.8 | 02.04.2023 04:11 | 5 km | 178 km |
| 3.5 | 13.03.2023 02:21 | 5 km | 179 km |
| 3.7 | 10.03.2023 01:10 | 5 km | 178 km |
| 3.9 | 27.02.2023 13:48 | 10 km | 121 km |
| 4.3 | 15.01.2023 17:59 | 9.7 km | 161 km |
| 4.9 | 04.10.2022 05:13 | 130.4 km | 57 km |
| 3.5 | 30.09.2022 10:46 | 5 km | 179 km |
| 3.9 | 30.08.2022 14:56 | 5 km | 178 km |
| 2.6 | 01.08.2022 01:06 | 31 km | 115 km |
| 4.1 | 31.07.2022 15:06 | 5 km | 184 km |
| 4.0 | 31.07.2022 13:09 | 5 km | 185 km |
| 4.3 | 27.07.2022 12:40 | 4.6 km | 123 km |
| 4.8 | 26.07.2022 10:24 | 10 km | 181 km |
| 4.1 | 25.07.2022 13:38 | 4 km | 183 km |
| 5.7 | 25.07.2022 13:33 | 5.1 km | 188 km |
| 3.5 | 22.07.2022 22:46 | 5 km | 178 km |
| 4.0 | 16.07.2022 15:38 | 5 km | 183 km |
| 3.7 | 12.07.2022 23:01 | 5 km | 179 km |
| 3.5 | 05.07.2022 06:00 | 5 km | 179 km |
| 3.5 | 22.06.2022 04:54 | 5 km | 165 km |
| 4.4 | 22.06.2022 04:50 | 0 km | 188 km |
| 3.5 | 14.06.2022 06:03 | 5 km | 180 km |
| 3.5 | 12.06.2022 09:02 | 5 km | 177 km |
| 4.1 | 12.06.2022 09:02 | 5 km | 187 km |
| 4.0 | 12.06.2022 07:05 | 14.3 km | 178 km |
| 2.5 | 08.05.2022 12:47 | 33 km | 112 km |
| 4.6 | 19.04.2022 19:32 | 24 km | 109 km |
| 4.3 | 29.10.2021 21:43 | 2.1 km | 42 km |
| 3.4 | 16.10.2021 17:48 | 12 km | 119 km |
| 4.3 | 24.09.2021 20:42 | 38.7 km | 176 km |
| 4.3 | 28.12.2020 21:47 | 78.9 km | 158 km |
| 3.6 | 10.10.2020 16:33 | 5 km | 179 km |
| 3.8 | 01.10.2020 03:51 | 5 km | 179 km |
| 4.3 | 11.08.2020 15:34 | 63 km | 164 km |
| 2.7 | 07.06.2020 22:59 | -1 km | 150 km |
| 4.2 | 24.05.2020 12:22 | 9.1 km | 75 km |
| 4.5 | 10.05.2020 23:09 | 82.9 km | 56 km |
| 3.9 | 10.05.2020 23:09 | 79 km | 61 km |
| 5.0 | 16.03.2020 03:53 | 33 km | 224 km |
| 3.5 | 04.10.2019 09:42 | 5 km | 181 km |
| 3.0 | 27.09.2019 14:34 | 5 km | 182 km |
| 4.3 | 27.09.2019 13:44 | 10 km | 183 km |
| 5.0 | 25.08.2019 20:30 | 53.2 km | 136 km |
| 4.0 | 25.07.2019 12:38 | 5 km | 180 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.