No records in the last 30 days.
217
recorded earthquakes
M6.6
largest
1921–2026
record span
4.06
mean magnitude
155
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.6 | 24.09.2025 22:33 | 10 km | 251 km |
| 6.5 | 21.12.1943 13:46 | 35 km | 230 km |
| 6.5 | 22.12.1943 12:53 | 35 km | 163 km |
| 6.5 | 23.12.1943 15:56 | 35 km | 230 km |
| 6.3 | 25.09.2025 03:51 | 14 km | 247 km |
| 6.3 | 13.11.1921 08:40 | 15 km | 109 km |
| 6.2 | 05.01.1944 10:59 | 35 km | 230 km |
| 6.2 | 24.12.1943 01:00 | 35 km | 230 km |
| 6.2 | 24.09.2025 22:21 | 0 km | 240 km |
| 5.6 | 17.02.1932 16:06 | 35 km | 138 km |
| 5.5 | 20.10.1969 13:11 | 17.1 km | 81 km |
| 5.5 | 02.12.1999 01:33 | 18.1 km | 207 km |
| 5.3 | 12.02.2017 09:32 | 16.3 km | 114 km |
| 5.2 | 14.12.1970 04:06 | 161.2 km | 172 km |
| 5.2 | 13.01.1983 12:00 | 25.7 km | 134 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.1 | 15.05.2026 23:21 | 10 km | 96 km |
| 3.3 | 01.01.2026 12:37 | 49.3 km | 124 km |
| 4.6 | 01.01.2026 12:37 | 25.5 km | 111 km |
| 4.7 | 24.10.2025 21:30 | 96.6 km | 61 km |
| 6.3 | 25.09.2025 03:51 | 14 km | 247 km |
| 6.6 | 24.09.2025 22:33 | 10 km | 251 km |
| 6.2 | 24.09.2025 22:21 | 0 km | 240 km |
| 4.3 | 05.01.2025 19:24 | 23.8 km | 123 km |
| 4.1 | 31.12.2024 08:59 | 10 km | 107 km |
| 4.2 | 13.11.2024 01:42 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 4.8 | 28.09.2024 19:13 | 10 km | 128 km |
| 4.5 | 28.09.2024 19:12 | 10 km | 127 km |
| 3.2 | 05.08.2024 16:02 | 4.9 km | 154 km |
| 4.7 | 12.05.2024 10:19 | 6 km | 133 km |
| 3.9 | 12.05.2024 01:01 | 5 km | 132 km |
| 4.2 | 02.05.2024 07:34 | 28.7 km | 48 km |
| 3.9 | 23.02.2024 12:44 | 23.7 km | 140 km |
| 3.2 | 19.09.2023 15:16 | 27 km | 83 km |
| 4.5 | 19.03.2023 17:41 | 55.6 km | 34 km |
| 4.3 | 10.10.2022 17:08 | 46.6 km | 146 km |
| 2.4 | 25.09.2022 10:46 | 61 km | 59 km |
| 2.9 | 14.05.2022 19:32 | 8 km | 109 km |
| 4.8 | 06.02.2022 07:13 | 87.7 km | 141 km |
| 4.0 | 30.07.2021 10:24 | 49 km | 60 km |
| 5.2 | 22.07.2020 03:16 | 105.3 km | 54 km |
| 3.6 | 22.11.2019 15:05 | 10 km | 133 km |
| 2.6 | 31.10.2019 10:42 | 25 km | 122 km |
| 4.9 | 29.09.2019 11:20 | 25.9 km | 159 km |
| 2.6 | 29.09.2019 10:10 | 12 km | 161 km |
| 2.3 | 08.09.2019 10:38 | 22 km | 116 km |
| 2.4 | 30.08.2019 02:18 | 62 km | 77 km |
| 4.9 | 13.07.2019 02:39 | 120.2 km | 163 km |
| 2.4 | 23.06.2019 01:32 | 17 km | 75 km |
| 4.5 | 14.05.2019 08:00 | 103.2 km | 48 km |
| 2.6 | 27.03.2019 20:11 | 16 km | 148 km |
| 3.1 | 13.12.2018 01:36 | 37 km | 137 km |
| 2.6 | 27.11.2018 12:08 | 35 km | 66 km |
| 2.6 | 04.11.2018 00:08 | 22 km | 138 km |
| 2.5 | 17.09.2018 18:13 | 74 km | 44 km |
| 2.7 | 29.07.2018 22:04 | 81 km | 150 km |
| 2.5 | 03.07.2018 12:44 | 10 km | 104 km |
| 2.1 | 04.05.2018 04:10 | 20 km | 49 km |
| 2.7 | 21.03.2018 01:56 | 17 km | 112 km |
| 3.6 | 17.03.2018 10:16 | 35 km | 97 km |
| 2.7 | 05.01.2018 02:42 | 32 km | 150 km |
| 4.9 | 26.10.2017 07:59 | 87.2 km | 191 km |
| 3.9 | 03.10.2017 17:25 | 100 km | 117 km |
| 2.6 | 13.09.2017 04:39 | 0 km | 136 km |
| 2.5 | 29.08.2017 07:52 | 9 km | 127 km |
| 2.2 | 07.07.2017 21:18 | 122 km | 141 km |
| 4.7 | 09.06.2017 21:17 | 59 km | 28 km |
| 3.3 | 27.05.2017 16:33 | 4 km | 57 km |
| 4.2 | 04.04.2017 15:09 | 30.4 km | 117 km |
| 3.5 | 05.03.2017 05:38 | 2 km | 114 km |
| 3.3 | 03.03.2017 20:06 | 20 km | 161 km |
| 5.3 | 12.02.2017 09:32 | 16.3 km | 114 km |
| 3.8 | 15.12.2016 01:43 | 58.6 km | 85 km |
| 4.3 | 16.10.2016 17:45 | 35 km | 100 km |
| 3.4 | 07.08.2016 20:22 | 116 km | 154 km |
| 2.9 | 06.08.2016 15:05 | 97 km | 132 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.