No records in the last 30 days.
179
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1911–2025
record span
3.79
mean magnitude
113
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 | 128 km |
| 6.5 | 26.12.1942 12:31 | 35 km | 226 km |
| 6.3 | 09.11.1974 10:30 | 10 km | 176 km |
| 5.7 | 15.04.2020 10:59 | 52.9 km | 130 km |
| 5.5 | 30.11.2017 06:40 | 307 km | 99 km |
| 5.2 | 06.03.2019 01:48 | 35 km | 114 km |
| 5.1 | 18.03.1999 23:54 | 68.9 km | 69 km |
| 5.1 | 08.09.2001 22:45 | 22.5 km | 204 km |
| 5.0 | 14.08.1983 05:05 | 76.4 km | 124 km |
| 5.0 | 28.08.2025 11:22 | 10 km | 189 km |
| 5.0 | 27.10.1984 11:56 | 50 km | 75 km |
| 4.9 | 11.06.1984 10:14 | 59 km | 82 km |
| 4.9 | 26.10.2017 07:59 | 87.2 km | 73 km |
| 4.9 | 15.04.2002 17:48 | 0 km | 144 km |
| 4.8 | 06.02.2022 07:13 | 87.7 km | 111 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.2 | 20.09.2025 19:31 | 5 km | 170 km |
| 5.0 | 28.08.2025 11:22 | 10 km | 189 km |
| 3.5 | 20.02.2025 09:47 | 42.4 km | 23 km |
| 4.1 | 31.12.2024 08:59 | 10 km | 184 km |
| 4.1 | 11.09.2024 19:15 | 0 km | 99 km |
| 3.2 | 05.08.2024 16:02 | 4.9 km | 99 km |
| 3.3 | 26.12.2022 07:27 | 41.5 km | 122 km |
| 4.1 | 27.11.2022 01:24 | 37.6 km | 131 km |
| 3.2 | 19.09.2022 17:48 | 45 km | 78 km |
| 2.7 | 02.07.2022 14:45 | 44 km | 69 km |
| 4.8 | 06.02.2022 07:13 | 87.7 km | 111 km |
| 3.5 | 14.07.2020 12:47 | 96 km | 148 km |
| 4.5 | 17.04.2020 04:49 | 47.3 km | 119 km |
| 3.0 | 17.04.2020 04:49 | 51.4 km | 119 km |
| 5.7 | 15.04.2020 10:59 | 52.9 km | 130 km |
| 2.9 | 28.02.2020 14:44 | 17 km | 32 km |
| 2.8 | 30.07.2019 02:52 | 22 km | 71 km |
| 2.3 | 28.06.2019 10:17 | 38 km | 26 km |
| 4.4 | 24.06.2019 00:30 | 126.4 km | 181 km |
| 2.6 | 27.03.2019 20:11 | 16 km | 127 km |
| 5.2 | 06.03.2019 01:48 | 35 km | 114 km |
| 2.4 | 05.01.2019 20:45 | 15 km | 107 km |
| 2.6 | 04.11.2018 00:08 | 22 km | 132 km |
| 4.1 | 19.10.2018 07:40 | 16 km | 40 km |
| 2.8 | 08.08.2018 02:31 | 3 km | 141 km |
| 2.8 | 01.08.2018 11:53 | 66 km | 46 km |
| 2.7 | 29.07.2018 22:04 | 81 km | 103 km |
| 2.9 | 29.07.2018 06:08 | 94 km | 65 km |
| 2.6 | 05.07.2018 04:47 | 19 km | 32 km |
| 4.0 | 26.06.2018 07:03 | 15 km | 135 km |
| 4.0 | 26.06.2018 07:03 | 28 km | 145 km |
| 2.7 | 06.04.2018 04:32 | 107 km | 103 km |
| 2.5 | 01.04.2018 07:39 | 7 km | 129 km |
| 4.2 | 26.01.2018 15:03 | 55.3 km | 125 km |
| 2.8 | 08.01.2018 11:51 | 23 km | 133 km |
| 2.7 | 05.01.2018 02:42 | 32 km | 101 km |
| 5.5 | 30.11.2017 06:40 | 307 km | 99 km |
| 4.9 | 26.10.2017 07:59 | 87.2 km | 73 km |
| 3.4 | 04.10.2017 08:21 | 13 km | 158 km |
| 4.5 | 23.09.2017 05:17 | 52.8 km | 66 km |
| 2.5 | 29.08.2017 07:52 | 9 km | 138 km |
| 2.5 | 21.08.2017 13:05 | 14 km | 95 km |
| 2.9 | 21.08.2017 05:21 | 86 km | 73 km |
| 3.0 | 20.08.2017 06:45 | 0 km | 151 km |
| 2.6 | 19.07.2017 18:37 | 12 km | 111 km |
| 2.4 | 19.06.2017 02:05 | 25 km | 74 km |
| 3.2 | 21.03.2017 14:12 | 0 km | 169 km |
| 4.1 | 13.03.2017 07:52 | 73.9 km | 109 km |
| 3.3 | 03.03.2017 20:06 | 20 km | 95 km |
| 2.6 | 28.02.2017 13:50 | 4 km | 125 km |
| 3.9 | 08.02.2017 19:41 | 100 km | 135 km |
| 4.1 | 25.11.2016 19:21 | 135 km | 92 km |
| 3.7 | 19.11.2016 16:20 | 125 km | 153 km |
| 3.6 | 04.09.2016 06:12 | 89 km | 148 km |
| 3.3 | 16.06.2016 17:41 | 114 km | 135 km |
| 3.1 | 11.06.2016 21:37 | 0 km | 131 km |
| 2.3 | 02.05.2016 03:23 | 31 km | 66 km |
| 2.9 | 23.04.2016 21:43 | 12 km | 126 km |
| 3.1 | 23.04.2016 12:01 | 26 km | 95 km |
| 3.9 | 08.04.2016 05:51 | 7 km | 39 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.