1.6
600
recorded earthquakes
M6.4
largest
1909–2026
record span
2.49
mean magnitude
317
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 | 114 km |
| 6.0 | 08.10.1909 09:59 | 15 km | 110 km |
| 5.9 | 12.03.1916 03:24 | 15 km | 57 km |
| 5.8 | 14.07.1916 20:27 | 15 km | 1 km |
| 5.5 | 25.11.1986 13:59 | 23.1 km | 114 km |
| 5.3 | 05.09.1925 07:43 | 15 km | 109 km |
| 5.3 | 07.09.1970 20:58 | 16.1 km | 108 km |
| 5.2 | 11.09.1925 04:40 | 15 km | 42 km |
| 5.2 | 20.01.1949 06:48 | 10 km | 27 km |
| 5.2 | 22.02.1976 16:15 | 33 km | 75 km |
| 5.1 | 29.05.1993 08:43 | 15.2 km | 94 km |
| 5.0 | 02.12.1959 18:20 | 15 km | 8 km |
| 4.8 | 16.02.2023 09:47 | 12.8 km | 51 km |
| 4.8 | 11.02.2025 17:43 | 8.2 km | 48 km |
| 4.7 | 16.12.1986 06:22 | 3.8 km | 48 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.6 | 17.07.2026 23:57 | 17 km | 43 km |
| 1.8 | 20.06.2026 08:03 | 3.1 km | 56 km |
| 1.3 | 29.05.2026 09:56 | 12.5 km | 66 km |
| 1.5 | 19.04.2026 21:13 | 8.5 km | 41 km |
| 1.6 | 22.03.2026 19:03 | 9 km | 28 km |
| 1.8 | 22.03.2026 17:07 | 18 km | 12 km |
| 1.8 | 22.03.2026 17:03 | 21 km | 14 km |
| 2.4 | 18.03.2026 13:22 | 10 km | 71 km |
| 2.5 | 01.03.2026 09:10 | 10 km | 46 km |
| 2.0 | 17.02.2026 10:04 | 5 km | 56 km |
| 2.5 | 05.02.2026 06:03 | 2.7 km | 44 km |
| 2.1 | 23.01.2026 11:43 | 9 km | 51 km |
| 2.9 | 06.01.2026 14:36 | 2.7 km | 32 km |
| 1.6 | 20.12.2025 01:20 | 9 km | 61 km |
| 1.7 | 10.12.2025 23:42 | 1.7 km | 70 km |
| 1.5 | 17.11.2025 16:41 | 17.7 km | 73 km |
| 1.5 | 09.11.2025 02:31 | 2.5 km | 42 km |
| 3.2 | 20.10.2025 23:00 | 4.1 km | 36 km |
| 1.5 | 07.10.2025 17:35 | 10.9 km | 52 km |
| 1.5 | 30.09.2025 20:40 | 7.5 km | 38 km |
| 1.6 | 10.08.2025 23:59 | 12 km | 57 km |
| 1.7 | 09.08.2025 08:10 | 18 km | 52 km |
| 1.9 | 08.08.2025 13:01 | 19 km | 53 km |
| 2.2 | 17.07.2025 18:59 | 0.9 km | 50 km |
| 1.4 | 02.07.2025 23:02 | 4 km | 42 km |
| 1.9 | 22.05.2025 23:09 | 19 km | 38 km |
| 3.1 | 11.05.2025 02:52 | 10 km | 58 km |
| 1.4 | 21.04.2025 03:08 | 0 km | 61 km |
| 3.4 | 16.02.2025 23:05 | 10.9 km | 54 km |
| 2.8 | 13.02.2025 09:22 | 5 km | 54 km |
| 2.3 | 11.02.2025 20:56 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 2.8 | 11.02.2025 17:52 | 5 km | 49 km |
| 4.8 | 11.02.2025 17:43 | 8.2 km | 48 km |
| 2.9 | 10.02.2025 05:10 | 27 km | 34 km |
| 1.4 | 11.01.2025 16:37 | 13.5 km | 67 km |
| 1.9 | 07.01.2025 15:25 | 0 km | 44 km |
| 2.0 | 13.12.2024 12:16 | 2.1 km | 64 km |
| 2.1 | 15.10.2024 12:29 | 15 km | 33 km |
| 1.5 | 06.10.2024 23:11 | 2 km | 63 km |
| 2.1 | 06.10.2024 19:57 | 0 km | 50 km |
| 1.1 | 23.09.2024 00:58 | 4.3 km | 43 km |
| 1.4 | 01.09.2024 08:57 | 4.5 km | 48 km |
| 1.4 | 30.08.2024 19:12 | 0 km | 43 km |
| 1.5 | 18.06.2024 20:49 | 0.1 km | 58 km |
| 1.6 | 15.06.2024 15:07 | 1 km | 54 km |
| 3.6 | 12.06.2024 17:23 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 1.8 | 08.06.2024 06:30 | 3 km | 61 km |
| 2.7 | 02.06.2024 21:38 | 0.9 km | 44 km |
| 1.4 | 28.05.2024 15:53 | 3.2 km | 62 km |
| 2.5 | 24.05.2024 08:57 | 5.1 km | 29 km |
| 1.3 | 20.05.2024 20:41 | 0.4 km | 59 km |
| 1.4 | 19.05.2024 06:42 | 1 km | 57 km |
| 3.0 | 09.05.2024 21:16 | 3.9 km | 46 km |
| 1.5 | 09.05.2024 00:47 | 0 km | 44 km |
| 1.6 | 08.05.2024 04:05 | 12 km | 41 km |
| 1.1 | 03.05.2024 21:06 | 6.6 km | 54 km |
| 1.6 | 01.05.2024 18:26 | 5.5 km | 55 km |
| 3.8 | 01.05.2024 17:03 | 7.1 km | 44 km |
| 4.2 | 01.05.2024 03:38 | 13 km | 45 km |
| 2.7 | 24.03.2024 09:43 | 10 km | 34 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.