No records in the last 30 days.
1,195
recorded earthquakes
M5.1
largest
1978–2026
record span
2.48
mean magnitude
47
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.1 | 21.12.1985 10:16 | 10 km | 107 km |
| 5.0 | 12.10.2008 07:44 | 12.2 km | 90 km |
| 4.8 | 23.12.1985 04:27 | 10 km | 91 km |
| 4.6 | 20.12.1985 16:36 | 10 km | 87 km |
| 4.6 | 24.12.1985 00:04 | 10 km | 87 km |
| 4.6 | 21.12.1985 10:04 | 24.1 km | 88 km |
| 4.5 | 23.01.1986 02:22 | 9 km | 95 km |
| 4.5 | 23.12.1985 03:24 | 24.2 km | 92 km |
| 4.4 | 10.10.2008 08:08 | 10.1 km | 90 km |
| 4.3 | 20.01.1986 23:38 | 10 km | 93 km |
| 4.2 | 21.12.1985 02:07 | 20.3 km | 90 km |
| 4.2 | 28.10.2008 08:30 | 10 km | 90 km |
| 4.2 | 14.12.1985 05:38 | 22.9 km | 89 km |
| 4.2 | 06.11.2000 22:07 | 10 km | 87 km |
| 4.1 | 14.10.2008 19:00 | 6.8 km | 89 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8 | 20.02.2026 00:57 | 11.8 km | 84 km |
| 2.2 | 20.02.2026 00:30 | 5 km | 83 km |
| 1.8 | 17.02.2026 09:44 | 12 km | 84 km |
| 1.9 | 11.02.2026 16:25 | 11.7 km | 84 km |
| 1.8 | 09.02.2026 12:02 | 10.7 km | 84 km |
| 2.4 | 08.02.2026 15:38 | 11.4 km | 85 km |
| 2.2 | 08.02.2026 14:50 | 5 km | 83 km |
| 2.2 | 08.02.2026 11:54 | 11.5 km | 85 km |
| 2.5 | 08.02.2026 09:42 | 11.8 km | 84 km |
| 1.6 | 08.02.2026 08:02 | 5 km | 83 km |
| 1.9 | 08.02.2026 07:39 | 11.3 km | 85 km |
| 1.8 | 04.01.2026 04:39 | 7.7 km | 93 km |
| 0.9 | 25.12.2025 20:26 | 10.5 km | 91 km |
| 0.4 | 17.08.2025 17:20 | 8.1 km | 93 km |
| 0.4 | 26.07.2025 03:09 | 7.4 km | 94 km |
| 0.5 | 11.05.2025 00:04 | 10 km | 71 km |
| 1.7 | 12.01.2025 10:17 | 12.1 km | 90 km |
| 2.1 | 12.01.2025 10:13 | 12.9 km | 90 km |
| 0.3 | 12.01.2025 02:23 | 11.5 km | 89 km |
| 1.2 | 11.01.2025 23:07 | 11.9 km | 91 km |
| 0.7 | 11.01.2025 22:52 | 13.2 km | 90 km |
| 0.7 | 11.01.2025 22:14 | 13.1 km | 90 km |
| 1.5 | 11.01.2025 21:52 | 13.8 km | 90 km |
| 1.6 | 11.01.2025 10:02 | 12.9 km | 91 km |
| 3.4 | 07.03.2024 10:41 | 12.9 km | 68 km |
| 0.9 | 31.08.2023 02:38 | 9.4 km | 87 km |
| 3.1 | 08.12.2022 15:45 | 5 km | 93 km |
| 2.2 | 14.10.2022 23:54 | 1 km | 45 km |
| 2.4 | 05.08.2021 04:03 | 12 km | 82 km |
| 2.1 | 10.05.2021 06:09 | 8 km | 92 km |
| 2.6 | 03.07.2020 09:15 | 1 km | 25 km |
| 2.0 | 25.10.2019 20:06 | 2 km | 44 km |
| 2.1 | 10.02.2019 18:58 | 11 km | 20 km |
| 3.5 | 23.08.2018 23:36 | 8 km | 92 km |
| 3.1 | 18.06.2018 23:10 | 8 km | 93 km |
| 2.4 | 01.06.2018 05:05 | 7 km | 93 km |
| 2.8 | 01.06.2018 04:46 | 2 km | 91 km |
| 2.6 | 24.05.2018 04:08 | 2 km | 92 km |
| 2.1 | 23.05.2018 04:22 | 9 km | 93 km |
| 2.5 | 22.05.2018 23:01 | 9 km | 91 km |
| 2.4 | 22.05.2018 22:19 | 9 km | 92 km |
| 3.2 | 22.05.2018 22:02 | 3 km | 92 km |
| 2.2 | 22.05.2018 17:51 | 9 km | 92 km |
| 2.6 | 22.05.2018 13:34 | 9 km | 93 km |
| 2.4 | 22.05.2018 13:30 | 5 km | 93 km |
| 2.9 | 22.05.2018 10:27 | 9 km | 92 km |
| 2.5 | 22.05.2018 08:59 | 9 km | 93 km |
| 2.3 | 22.05.2018 01:58 | 9 km | 93 km |
| 2.2 | 21.05.2018 23:57 | 10 km | 93 km |
| 2.4 | 21.05.2018 23:01 | 9 km | 93 km |
| 3.2 | 21.05.2018 21:16 | 10 km | 93 km |
| 2.6 | 21.05.2018 21:10 | 9 km | 93 km |
| 4.1 | 21.05.2018 21:04 | 13.9 km | 101 km |
| 2.0 | 21.05.2018 20:14 | 10 km | 93 km |
| 3.0 | 21.05.2018 19:52 | 10 km | 93 km |
| 2.6 | 18.05.2018 12:22 | 3 km | 84 km |
| 2.4 | 16.05.2018 10:42 | 11 km | 85 km |
| 2.1 | 11.05.2018 09:46 | 2 km | 94 km |
| 2.0 | 10.05.2018 18:27 | 11 km | 93 km |
| 2.3 | 04.10.2017 19:38 | 8 km | 89 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.