2.1
231
recorded earthquakes
M6.4
largest
1906–2026
record span
2.61
mean magnitude
107
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.4 | 29.12.2020 11:19 | 10.6 km | 90 km |
| 6.0 | 13.04.1964 08:30 | 15 km | 134 km |
| 6.0 | 08.10.1909 09:59 | 15 km | 93 km |
| 5.8 | 02.01.1906 04:26 | 15 km | 85 km |
| 5.8 | 29.01.1917 08:22 | 15 km | 96 km |
| 5.6 | 27.03.1938 11:16 | 35 km | 19 km |
| 5.3 | 22.03.2020 05:24 | 10.7 km | 68 km |
| 5.3 | 21.10.1935 11:07 | 15 km | 90 km |
| 5.0 | 12.05.1963 11:52 | — | 96 km |
| 4.9 | 22.03.2020 06:01 | 12.3 km | 68 km |
| 4.7 | 16.03.1982 13:52 | 21.8 km | 57 km |
| 4.5 | 01.06.1993 19:51 | 12.9 km | 29 km |
| 4.5 | 07.03.2019 19:07 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 4.2 | 02.06.1998 18:02 | 15 km | 14 km |
| 4.2 | 12.05.1998 15:18 | 10 km | 18 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1 | 03.08.2026 01:55 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 2.1 | 15.07.2026 18:51 | 6 km | 27 km |
| 1.9 | 20.05.2026 08:57 | 10 km | 32 km |
| 2.2 | 15.04.2026 23:30 | 2 km | 37 km |
| 1.4 | 23.03.2026 18:23 | 9 km | 16 km |
| 2.1 | 10.03.2026 01:50 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 1.5 | 03.07.2025 10:11 | 1.4 km | 52 km |
| 1.6 | 05.05.2025 21:08 | 11 km | 50 km |
| 1.0 | 02.02.2025 06:35 | 2.4 km | 43 km |
| 2.0 | 10.12.2024 06:45 | 7 km | 16 km |
| 1.6 | 14.11.2024 22:39 | 9 km | 47 km |
| 1.4 | 20.08.2024 05:27 | 0.3 km | 53 km |
| 1.2 | 17.08.2024 02:59 | 0 km | 46 km |
| 2.6 | 15.08.2024 03:44 | 0 km | 19 km |
| 4.1 | 13.08.2024 06:43 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 1.4 | 07.05.2024 21:34 | 13 km | 48 km |
| 1.3 | 05.05.2024 20:25 | 2.1 km | 52 km |
| 1.0 | 30.04.2024 05:43 | 28.6 km | 42 km |
| 1.5 | 09.04.2024 01:13 | 5 km | 45 km |
| 1.4 | 06.03.2024 12:22 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 3.0 | 07.01.2024 00:49 | 2 km | 58 km |
| 2.1 | 27.10.2023 09:49 | 12 km | 28 km |
| 1.4 | 14.10.2023 21:01 | 16 km | 34 km |
| 1.1 | 11.10.2023 18:38 | 1 km | 52 km |
| 1.5 | 27.02.2023 03:00 | 4 km | 55 km |
| 1.1 | 17.02.2023 09:12 | 1 km | 51 km |
| 1.5 | 21.01.2023 01:05 | 10 km | 32 km |
| 2.4 | 22.10.2022 20:59 | 6 km | 49 km |
| 2.2 | 22.10.2022 19:50 | 9 km | 45 km |
| 1.3 | 22.10.2022 00:03 | 1 km | 59 km |
| 2.2 | 19.10.2022 07:22 | 13 km | 47 km |
| 1.5 | 24.09.2022 08:16 | 1 km | 52 km |
| 1.1 | 07.08.2022 19:16 | 14 km | 49 km |
| 1.3 | 16.07.2022 03:03 | 1 km | 39 km |
| 1.6 | 16.07.2022 00:21 | 1 km | 43 km |
| 1.5 | 13.06.2022 04:25 | 1 km | 37 km |
| 2.5 | 19.01.2022 17:17 | 1 km | 32 km |
| 1.6 | 09.01.2022 12:35 | 11 km | 25 km |
| 2.0 | 25.12.2021 07:30 | 15 km | 60 km |
| 2.2 | 19.11.2021 04:40 | 2 km | 43 km |
| 2.3 | 02.07.2021 14:07 | 9 km | 28 km |
| 1.6 | 02.03.2021 03:12 | 2 km | 38 km |
| 2.5 | 05.02.2021 03:30 | 2 km | 21 km |
| 1.6 | 02.02.2021 14:04 | 2 km | 40 km |
| 1.1 | 02.02.2021 01:54 | 0 km | 31 km |
| 2.0 | 31.12.2020 07:51 | 1 km | 27 km |
| 6.4 | 29.12.2020 11:19 | 10.6 km | 90 km |
| 0.8 | 14.06.2020 16:43 | 2 km | 55 km |
| 3.5 | 03.06.2020 15:51 | 9 km | 42 km |
| 0.9 | 10.04.2020 21:53 | 1 km | 59 km |
| 2.0 | 05.04.2020 20:30 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 1.5 | 28.03.2020 12:48 | 1 km | 59 km |
| 4.9 | 22.03.2020 06:01 | 12.3 km | 68 km |
| 5.3 | 22.03.2020 05:24 | 10.7 km | 68 km |
| 3.3 | 28.01.2020 07:53 | 10 km | 53 km |
| 2.9 | 05.01.2020 01:13 | 6 km | 28 km |
| 3.1 | 13.09.2019 17:40 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 3.4 | 31.08.2019 07:58 | 15 km | 12 km |
| 4.5 | 07.03.2019 19:07 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 2.7 | 17.02.2019 14:40 | 1 km | 42 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.