No records in the last 30 days.
566
recorded earthquakes
M5.1
largest
1978–2026
record span
2.17
mean magnitude
523
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 | 111 km |
| 4.6 | 07.12.1984 11:00 | 0 km | 79 km |
| 3.8 | 13.04.1995 08:59 | 10 km | 24 km |
| 3.7 | 20.07.1989 14:08 | 10 km | 90 km |
| 3.7 | 20.12.1985 08:44 | 10 km | 58 km |
| 3.7 | 21.09.1984 07:58 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 3.7 | 22.10.1987 10:00 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 3.7 | 09.10.1988 19:01 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 3.6 | 29.05.1986 09:00 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 3.6 | 25.01.1985 08:31 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 3.6 | 13.08.2020 09:00 | 28 km | 69 km |
| 3.5 | 13.11.1987 12:59 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 3.5 | 16.08.1985 06:30 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 3.5 | 08.05.1987 08:00 | 10 km | 63 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.4 | 03.02.2026 15:13 | 0 km | 77 km |
| 2.2 | 14.10.2025 11:53 | 0 km | 49 km |
| 1.9 | 30.09.2025 08:23 | 1 km | 58 km |
| 1.7 | 24.06.2025 08:39 | 1 km | 21 km |
| 1.5 | 11.04.2025 09:08 | 0 km | 65 km |
| 2.2 | 01.02.2025 08:12 | 8.1 km | 50 km |
| 1.8 | 15.09.2023 08:38 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 3.6 | 13.08.2020 09:00 | 28 km | 69 km |
| 2.5 | 21.07.2020 07:45 | 1 km | 61 km |
| 3.0 | 21.05.2020 09:05 | 26 km | 32 km |
| 2.0 | 09.05.2020 18:50 | 14 km | 75 km |
| 2.2 | 05.09.2015 08:32 | 10 km | 42 km |
| 2.6 | 02.06.2014 16:03 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 2.0 | 30.05.2014 09:22 | 2 km | 16 km |
| 2.0 | 27.05.2014 08:48 | 16 km | 37 km |
| 2.0 | 24.05.2014 15:50 | 2 km | 62 km |
| 2.3 | 22.05.2014 09:47 | 8 km | 18 km |
| 2.0 | 17.05.2014 09:00 | 2 km | 18 km |
| 2.1 | 10.05.2014 10:47 | 8 km | 17 km |
| 2.2 | 29.04.2014 09:58 | 12 km | 37 km |
| 2.1 | 28.04.2014 14:36 | 2 km | 60 km |
| 2.1 | 28.04.2014 10:07 | 12 km | 37 km |
| 2.2 | 19.04.2014 10:05 | 8 km | 18 km |
| 2.0 | 17.04.2014 10:39 | 6 km | 18 km |
| 2.1 | 14.04.2014 13:14 | 2 km | 10 km |
| 2.1 | 02.04.2014 09:50 | 8 km | 65 km |
| 2.0 | 01.04.2014 10:44 | 2 km | 42 km |
| 2.1 | 31.03.2014 10:59 | 10 km | 95 km |
| 2.0 | 31.03.2014 08:29 | 10 km | 67 km |
| 2.1 | 28.03.2014 11:55 | 14 km | 39 km |
| 2.0 | 24.03.2014 11:44 | 10 km | 23 km |
| 2.2 | 20.03.2014 11:30 | 2 km | 75 km |
| 2.0 | 16.03.2014 11:24 | 14 km | 21 km |
| 2.0 | 11.03.2014 13:55 | 14 km | 4 km |
| 2.6 | 06.03.2014 10:59 | 2 km | 54 km |
| 2.1 | 05.03.2014 12:03 | 16 km | 14 km |
| 2.1 | 22.02.2014 10:46 | 2 km | 19 km |
| 2.0 | 20.02.2014 11:40 | 22 km | 38 km |
| 2.1 | 14.02.2014 11:46 | 2 km | 11 km |
| 2.1 | 07.02.2014 14:12 | 10 km | 15 km |
| 2.3 | 05.02.2014 13:57 | 8 km | 22 km |
| 2.4 | 28.01.2014 11:21 | 2 km | 42 km |
| 2.7 | 22.01.2014 11:58 | 2 km | 22 km |
| 2.4 | 21.01.2014 11:25 | 2 km | 14 km |
| 2.1 | 19.01.2014 11:41 | 2 km | 20 km |
| 1.9 | 15.01.2014 12:04 | 14 km | 14 km |
| 2.0 | 14.01.2014 13:36 | 2 km | 49 km |
| 2.3 | 13.01.2014 12:14 | 2 km | 17 km |
| 2.2 | 12.01.2014 12:48 | 2 km | 19 km |
| 2.2 | 11.01.2014 11:23 | 2 km | 19 km |
| 2.1 | 10.01.2014 12:11 | 2 km | 18 km |
| 2.0 | 09.01.2014 13:00 | 2 km | 7 km |
| 2.2 | 08.01.2014 12:49 | 2 km | 20 km |
| 2.1 | 07.01.2014 11:56 | 2 km | 20 km |
| 2.1 | 06.01.2014 12:36 | 2 km | 19 km |
| 2.1 | 03.01.2014 12:49 | 2 km | 19 km |
| 1.9 | 19.12.2013 11:59 | 2 km | 59 km |
| 1.9 | 17.12.2013 13:04 | 2 km | 16 km |
| 1.9 | 16.12.2013 13:19 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 1.9 | 16.12.2013 12:00 | 2 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.