1.8
360
recorded earthquakes
M6.2
largest
1907–2026
record span
3.28
mean magnitude
133
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.2 | 11.01.1962 05:05 | 15 km | 104 km |
| 6.1 | 07.01.1962 10:03 | 15 km | 112 km |
| 6.1 | 15.03.1923 05:40 | 15 km | 152 km |
| 5.8 | 15.08.1956 12:02 | 15 km | 57 km |
| 5.5 | 25.11.1986 13:59 | 23.1 km | 54 km |
| 5.5 | 27.11.1990 04:38 | 28.3 km | 64 km |
| 5.5 | 29.03.2003 17:42 | 25.9 km | 76 km |
| 5.4 | 20.01.1943 12:38 | 15 km | 93 km |
| 5.4 | 20.07.1937 07:01 | 15 km | 92 km |
| 5.3 | 27.11.1990 04:51 | 24 km | 67 km |
| 5.3 | 07.07.1941 22:43 | 15 km | 8 km |
| 5.3 | 25.11.2004 06:21 | 12.9 km | 76 km |
| 5.3 | 07.09.1970 20:58 | 16.1 km | 36 km |
| 5.2 | 18.05.1907 00:59 | 15 km | 76 km |
| 5.2 | 22.02.1976 16:15 | 33 km | 44 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8 | 21.07.2026 16:58 | 29 km | 61 km |
| 2.4 | 28.06.2026 09:25 | 13 km | 55 km |
| 2.2 | 19.06.2026 14:13 | 22 km | 64 km |
| 2.1 | 04.06.2026 08:19 | 13 km | 62 km |
| 2.1 | 26.05.2026 11:33 | 25 km | 58 km |
| 3.6 | 25.05.2026 15:38 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 3.8 | 25.05.2026 15:25 | 10 km | 58 km |
| 1.3 | 19.05.2026 13:13 | 12 km | 32 km |
| 3.2 | 29.03.2026 20:00 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 3.6 | 04.03.2026 00:23 | 10 km | 34 km |
| 2.8 | 03.03.2026 23:50 | 15.6 km | 56 km |
| 2.4 | 07.02.2026 07:19 | 6 km | 20 km |
| 2.9 | 27.01.2026 10:52 | 8 km | 46 km |
| 0.4 | 01.08.2025 12:09 | 24 km | 9 km |
| 3.1 | 10.06.2025 07:48 | 15 km | 50 km |
| 2.4 | 17.05.2025 20:50 | 10 km | 39 km |
| 2.5 | 01.05.2025 06:55 | 4 km | 65 km |
| 2.4 | 15.04.2025 15:10 | 12 km | 68 km |
| 2.4 | 14.02.2025 00:56 | 15 km | 37 km |
| 2.9 | 11.02.2025 17:38 | 6 km | 37 km |
| 3.2 | 31.01.2025 04:02 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 2.6 | 13.10.2024 15:16 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 2.1 | 13.10.2024 14:59 | 15 km | 39 km |
| 2.3 | 19.08.2024 23:16 | 6 km | 41 km |
| 3.8 | 27.12.2023 18:56 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 2.7 | 27.12.2023 05:32 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 2.1 | 15.11.2023 06:38 | 14 km | 45 km |
| 2.7 | 05.08.2023 18:34 | 4.4 km | 55 km |
| 2.7 | 24.11.2022 18:58 | 8 km | 2 km |
| 2.6 | 23.11.2022 05:50 | 13 km | 58 km |
| 2.3 | 26.06.2022 17:12 | 15 km | 53 km |
| 3.4 | 14.06.2022 17:56 | 5 km | 17 km |
| 3.0 | 25.02.2022 02:29 | 10 km | 42 km |
| 2.6 | 19.02.2022 05:25 | 0 km | 6 km |
| 3.1 | 08.01.2022 03:22 | 80 km | 51 km |
| 3.2 | 01.09.2021 07:05 | 5 km | 2 km |
| 2.9 | 19.06.2021 07:35 | 4 km | 19 km |
| 3.0 | 16.06.2021 21:21 | 10 km | 31 km |
| 4.2 | 08.06.2021 03:59 | 9.3 km | 20 km |
| 3.2 | 20.04.2021 22:46 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 3.3 | 08.04.2021 03:57 | 18 km | 50 km |
| 3.1 | 07.03.2021 07:09 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 2.5 | 15.02.2021 15:22 | 14 km | 58 km |
| 4.3 | 01.11.2020 13:15 | 18.1 km | 66 km |
| 2.7 | 06.09.2020 13:15 | 17 km | 46 km |
| 1.9 | 09.08.2020 04:57 | 19 km | 49 km |
| 2.3 | 12.07.2020 20:19 | 2 km | 44 km |
| 3.4 | 27.03.2020 02:37 | 6 km | 59 km |
| 3.0 | 06.03.2020 16:26 | 2 km | 45 km |
| 2.4 | 17.02.2020 18:31 | 11 km | 39 km |
| 4.0 | 06.02.2020 04:10 | 25.5 km | 53 km |
| 2.3 | 27.06.2019 15:22 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 4.0 | 13.06.2019 12:17 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 3.9 | 30.03.2019 02:08 | 7.9 km | 49 km |
| 3.0 | 09.11.2018 12:19 | 2 km | 55 km |
| 4.2 | 15.09.2018 03:09 | 10 km | 7 km |
| 2.8 | 14.09.2018 23:48 | 10 km | 15 km |
| 4.2 | 30.08.2018 03:33 | 16.9 km | 66 km |
| 2.3 | 07.07.2018 07:10 | 0 km | 36 km |
| 3.3 | 29.06.2018 22:18 | 10 km | 31 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.