No records in the last 30 days.
345
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1935–2026
record span
3.83
mean magnitude
130
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 | 23.11.1979 23:40 | 110 km | 51 km |
| 7.2 | 15.11.2004 09:06 | 11.4 km | 191 km |
| 7.2 | 19.11.1991 22:28 | 18.5 km | 183 km |
| 6.7 | 02.09.1997 12:13 | 204.3 km | 138 km |
| 6.5 | 19.08.1995 21:43 | 123.6 km | 22 km |
| 6.5 | 30.07.1962 20:18 | 64 km | 64 km |
| 6.3 | 11.12.1997 07:56 | 188.4 km | 128 km |
| 6.3 | 08.02.1995 18:40 | 76.9 km | 143 km |
| 6.3 | 25.06.1980 12:04 | 164.9 km | 70 km |
| 6.2 | 03.04.1973 13:54 | 150.6 km | 59 km |
| 6.2 | 18.09.1935 04:58 | 80 km | 48 km |
| 6.1 | 25.01.1999 18:19 | 22.9 km | 90 km |
| 6.1 | 23.03.2019 19:21 | 127.7 km | 78 km |
| 6.0 | 23.11.1990 22:35 | 146.3 km | 53 km |
| 5.9 | 15.08.1992 19:02 | 120.9 km | 26 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.6 | 28.06.2026 08:39 | 114.4 km | 44 km |
| 3.8 | 26.06.2026 18:47 | 0 km | 68 km |
| 3.7 | 02.05.2026 13:37 | 120.8 km | 48 km |
| 3.4 | 22.03.2026 15:15 | 117.5 km | 35 km |
| 4.6 | 09.03.2026 22:11 | 89.7 km | 60 km |
| 4.8 | 13.02.2026 11:40 | 100.8 km | 55 km |
| 3.7 | 30.12.2025 17:04 | 147.5 km | 39 km |
| 3.7 | 03.11.2025 02:50 | 0 km | 80 km |
| 4.2 | 04.10.2025 08:56 | 141.2 km | 15 km |
| 4.7 | 11.08.2025 00:16 | 128.7 km | 80 km |
| 4.2 | 09.04.2025 12:41 | 164.8 km | 76 km |
| 4.5 | 01.04.2025 02:04 | 99.6 km | 59 km |
| 4.4 | 04.01.2025 08:17 | 52 km | 87 km |
| 4.7 | 30.04.2024 15:44 | 112.5 km | 44 km |
| 4.0 | 23.03.2024 07:30 | 4 km | 83 km |
| 4.2 | 10.02.2024 13:57 | 89.3 km | 42 km |
| 4.3 | 19.01.2024 11:47 | 76.3 km | 39 km |
| 5.6 | 19.01.2024 11:26 | 66.6 km | 46 km |
| 4.1 | 31.10.2023 09:52 | 123.5 km | 91 km |
| 5.8 | 27.08.2023 21:44 | 9.1 km | 106 km |
| 4.4 | 27.01.2023 04:34 | 104.9 km | 59 km |
| 4.5 | 30.08.2022 19:17 | 99.3 km | 55 km |
| 2.9 | 25.08.2022 16:35 | 85 km | 58 km |
| 4.3 | 17.08.2022 15:46 | 121.4 km | 47 km |
| 4.4 | 30.06.2022 23:37 | 111.2 km | 48 km |
| 2.3 | 24.06.2022 02:24 | 111 km | 28 km |
| 2.4 | 20.05.2022 10:45 | 56 km | 65 km |
| 4.1 | 27.11.2021 12:05 | 34.8 km | 83 km |
| 4.3 | 18.08.2021 12:36 | 94.6 km | 61 km |
| 4.5 | 24.02.2021 07:55 | 93.1 km | 33 km |
| 5.0 | 27.01.2021 07:57 | 160.9 km | 79 km |
| 4.0 | 03.04.2020 18:52 | 134.5 km | 64 km |
| 3.8 | 03.04.2020 18:52 | 96 km | 55 km |
| 4.8 | 02.04.2020 03:15 | 94.2 km | 67 km |
| 4.5 | 26.12.2019 06:27 | 28.5 km | 50 km |
| 2.6 | 24.11.2019 23:36 | 82 km | 57 km |
| 4.3 | 10.11.2019 09:50 | 112.9 km | 34 km |
| 4.6 | 26.10.2019 01:01 | 56.2 km | 79 km |
| 2.5 | 14.10.2019 07:20 | 86 km | 56 km |
| 3.1 | 23.09.2019 14:01 | 111 km | 20 km |
| 3.6 | 07.05.2019 22:32 | 96 km | 58 km |
| 2.5 | 22.04.2019 07:49 | 83 km | 50 km |
| 3.5 | 13.04.2019 23:03 | 114 km | 71 km |
| 2.9 | 24.03.2019 04:34 | 122 km | 77 km |
| 6.1 | 23.03.2019 19:21 | 127.7 km | 78 km |
| 2.8 | 14.02.2019 21:16 | 25 km | 61 km |
| 4.6 | 14.02.2019 21:09 | 45.6 km | 71 km |
| 4.1 | 10.02.2019 02:21 | 137.9 km | 45 km |
| 3.8 | 10.02.2019 02:21 | 133 km | 44 km |
| 4.1 | 05.11.2018 22:44 | 127.1 km | 30 km |
| 4.5 | 24.10.2018 20:02 | 119.4 km | 72 km |
| 3.0 | 15.09.2018 22:16 | 85 km | 55 km |
| 2.5 | 30.07.2018 04:17 | 115 km | 73 km |
| 4.4 | 24.07.2018 01:59 | 125 km | 46 km |
| 2.4 | 06.06.2018 10:42 | 93 km | 48 km |
| 2.5 | 13.05.2018 09:38 | 105 km | 62 km |
| 4.0 | 29.04.2018 01:08 | 103.8 km | 57 km |
| 3.7 | 24.04.2018 23:25 | 10 km | 25 km |
| 5.4 | 23.04.2018 15:42 | 120 km | 21 km |
| 2.6 | 08.04.2018 03:02 | 103 km | 18 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.