No records in the last 30 days.
323
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1911–2026
record span
3.88
mean magnitude
203
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 | 60 km |
| 6.3 | 30.08.1973 18:25 | 178.6 km | 251 km |
| 6.2 | 10.03.2015 20:55 | 162 km | 281 km |
| 6.0 | 29.05.1930 08:30 | 220 km | 275 km |
| 6.0 | 28.05.1963 08:22 | — | 253 km |
| 5.9 | 18.10.1981 04:31 | 33.6 km | 171 km |
| 5.9 | 17.11.1968 00:16 | 170.5 km | 102 km |
| 5.7 | 15.04.2020 10:59 | 52.9 km | 104 km |
| 5.5 | 20.10.1969 13:11 | 17.1 km | 203 km |
| 5.5 | 29.06.1952 09:56 | 160 km | 121 km |
| 5.5 | 14.06.1962 03:45 | 75 km | 92 km |
| 5.5 | 23.02.2022 12:49 | 59.5 km | 180 km |
| 5.2 | 22.10.1977 01:23 | 168 km | 246 km |
| 5.2 | 26.11.1980 17:35 | 12 km | 193 km |
| 5.2 | 31.07.1999 14:47 | 161.2 km | 145 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.2 | 22.03.2026 09:11 | 155.3 km | 191 km |
| 5.0 | 01.03.2026 10:12 | 185.7 km | 206 km |
| 4.1 | 08.12.2025 10:13 | 53.8 km | 113 km |
| 3.6 | 20.11.2025 02:38 | 79.9 km | 188 km |
| 4.2 | 20.09.2025 19:31 | 5 km | 49 km |
| 5.0 | 28.08.2025 11:22 | 10 km | 71 km |
| 4.2 | 05.07.2025 19:35 | 131.4 km | 161 km |
| 4.0 | 12.11.2024 21:25 | 177.4 km | 163 km |
| 3.9 | 01.10.2024 03:44 | 10 km | 93 km |
| 4.1 | 11.09.2024 19:15 | 0 km | 54 km |
| 3.2 | 05.08.2024 16:02 | 4.9 km | 163 km |
| 4.1 | 03.05.2024 12:04 | 15.5 km | 81 km |
| 4.3 | 27.11.2022 16:47 | 133.2 km | 202 km |
| 2.3 | 04.05.2022 11:23 | 147 km | 63 km |
| 5.5 | 23.02.2022 12:49 | 59.5 km | 180 km |
| 4.8 | 06.02.2022 07:13 | 87.7 km | 157 km |
| 4.1 | 27.02.2021 08:30 | 114.3 km | 183 km |
| 4.5 | 12.12.2020 01:07 | 187.8 km | 169 km |
| 5.2 | 22.07.2020 03:16 | 105.3 km | 225 km |
| 3.5 | 14.07.2020 12:47 | 96 km | 39 km |
| 3.8 | 24.05.2020 19:59 | 5 km | 95 km |
| 4.5 | 17.04.2020 04:49 | 47.3 km | 91 km |
| 5.7 | 15.04.2020 10:59 | 52.9 km | 104 km |
| 4.2 | 12.04.2020 13:02 | 129.6 km | 59 km |
| 2.9 | 28.02.2020 14:44 | 17 km | 135 km |
| 2.9 | 10.08.2019 15:40 | 38 km | 92 km |
| 2.3 | 06.08.2019 04:20 | 106 km | 108 km |
| 2.8 | 30.07.2019 02:52 | 22 km | 175 km |
| 3.6 | 13.07.2019 08:01 | 120 km | 105 km |
| 4.9 | 13.07.2019 02:39 | 120.2 km | 109 km |
| 4.4 | 24.06.2019 00:30 | 126.4 km | 60 km |
| 3.1 | 10.03.2019 16:51 | 133 km | 65 km |
| 4.2 | 10.01.2019 02:04 | 124 km | 94 km |
| 4.0 | 10.01.2019 02:04 | 128 km | 98 km |
| 4.2 | 27.11.2018 13:10 | 126.9 km | 202 km |
| 4.1 | 19.10.2018 07:40 | 16 km | 135 km |
| 4.3 | 25.09.2018 16:28 | 146.1 km | 202 km |
| 4.3 | 05.08.2018 11:04 | 215.3 km | 189 km |
| 2.8 | 01.08.2018 11:53 | 66 km | 97 km |
| 2.7 | 29.07.2018 22:04 | 81 km | 145 km |
| 2.9 | 29.07.2018 06:08 | 94 km | 96 km |
| 2.8 | 20.07.2018 08:59 | 4 km | 87 km |
| 4.0 | 14.07.2018 17:09 | 84.8 km | 201 km |
| 2.3 | 06.05.2018 08:35 | 13 km | 190 km |
| 4.2 | 23.04.2018 06:49 | 138.9 km | 212 km |
| 2.7 | 06.04.2018 04:32 | 107 km | 27 km |
| 2.8 | 02.03.2018 01:58 | 121 km | 102 km |
| 3.2 | 19.02.2018 13:50 | 26 km | 115 km |
| 2.8 | 08.01.2018 11:51 | 23 km | 85 km |
| 2.7 | 05.01.2018 02:42 | 32 km | 153 km |
| 3.1 | 04.01.2018 04:39 | 75 km | 80 km |
| 3.3 | 01.11.2017 11:01 | 142 km | 126 km |
| 2.4 | 27.10.2017 03:29 | 95 km | 83 km |
| 4.9 | 26.10.2017 07:59 | 87.2 km | 104 km |
| 5.2 | 01.10.2017 01:35 | 136.2 km | 187 km |
| 3.2 | 16.09.2017 03:05 | 121 km | 100 km |
| 2.6 | 13.09.2017 04:39 | 0 km | 136 km |
| 4.7 | 13.09.2017 03:07 | 128.4 km | 49 km |
| 2.9 | 21.08.2017 05:21 | 86 km | 58 km |
| 2.7 | 15.08.2017 10:46 | 112 km | 171 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.