No records in the last 30 days.
654
recorded earthquakes
M7.1
largest
1915–2026
record span
4.27
mean magnitude
582
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.1 | 20.05.1990 02:22 | 13.8 km | 717 km |
| 7.0 | 24.05.1990 20:00 | 25.5 km | 697 km |
| 6.6 | 21.05.1915 04:18 | 35 km | 676 km |
| 6.6 | 20.03.1966 01:42 | 27.4 km | 351 km |
| 6.5 | 24.05.1990 19:34 | 25.8 km | 710 km |
| 6.4 | 30.06.1952 21:04 | 15 km | 413 km |
| 6.3 | 09.07.1990 15:11 | 17.5 km | 689 km |
| 6.2 | 24.10.2002 06:08 | 14.2 km | 463 km |
| 6.2 | 05.02.1994 23:34 | 12.5 km | 394 km |
| 6.0 | 18.03.1945 08:01 | 35 km | 608 km |
| 5.9 | 03.02.2008 07:34 | 12.1 km | 499 km |
| 5.9 | 10.09.2016 12:27 | 34.6 km | 610 km |
| 5.8 | 15.06.2007 18:49 | 14.7 km | 446 km |
| 5.8 | 07.08.2015 01:25 | 8.8 km | 483 km |
| 5.8 | 11.09.1946 09:55 | — | 283 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.7 | 07.05.2026 23:45 | 0 km | 380 km |
| 4.3 | 12.03.2026 23:39 | 10 km | 383 km |
| 4.2 | 12.03.2026 02:00 | 10 km | 406 km |
| 3.5 | 02.02.2026 03:08 | 0 km | 380 km |
| 3.7 | 04.05.2025 18:11 | 10 km | 387 km |
| 4.3 | 05.04.2025 15:13 | 10 km | 481 km |
| 3.9 | 13.02.2025 11:16 | 0 km | 374 km |
| 4.5 | 15.12.2024 21:08 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 3.2 | 15.12.2024 21:08 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 3.7 | 30.11.2024 10:59 | 0 km | 383 km |
| 4.3 | 16.09.2024 01:07 | 10 km | 270 km |
| 3.5 | 27.08.2024 22:12 | 0 km | 258 km |
| 3.7 | 03.08.2024 03:17 | 14.5 km | 435 km |
| 4.3 | 19.01.2024 05:24 | 10 km | 371 km |
| 4.9 | 13.11.2023 18:54 | 14.5 km | 571 km |
| 3.7 | 09.09.2023 18:21 | 10 km | 335 km |
| 4.8 | 24.08.2023 22:01 | 10 km | 406 km |
| 3.2 | 07.07.2023 22:00 | 12 km | 493 km |
| 4.4 | 07.07.2023 22:00 | 10 km | 487 km |
| 3.5 | 15.06.2023 09:04 | 10 km | 406 km |
| 3.5 | 12.04.2023 18:59 | 10 km | 348 km |
| 3.4 | 08.04.2023 12:41 | 10 km | 503 km |
| 4.9 | 27.03.2023 18:20 | 10 km | 376 km |
| 4.2 | 04.03.2023 11:32 | 14 km | 400 km |
| 4.4 | 04.03.2023 08:54 | 14 km | 395 km |
| 3.5 | 04.03.2023 05:34 | 14 km | 393 km |
| 4.1 | 28.02.2023 09:30 | 14 km | 407 km |
| 4.5 | 19.02.2023 04:03 | 10 km | 363 km |
| 4.0 | 31.12.2022 23:13 | 30.2 km | 402 km |
| 4.7 | 27.12.2022 08:18 | 6.2 km | 399 km |
| 4.8 | 24.12.2022 17:49 | 10.1 km | 403 km |
| 4.3 | 24.12.2022 11:28 | 33.4 km | 451 km |
| 4.0 | 15.12.2022 18:18 | 18.5 km | 503 km |
| 4.4 | 13.12.2022 14:04 | 15 km | 408 km |
| 4.1 | 11.12.2022 20:33 | 4.6 km | 405 km |
| 4.5 | 11.12.2022 18:18 | 8.9 km | 390 km |
| 4.4 | 09.12.2022 18:41 | 13 km | 415 km |
| 4.7 | 07.12.2022 08:18 | 27.7 km | 436 km |
| 4.1 | 02.12.2022 23:03 | 20.5 km | 379 km |
| 4.0 | 27.11.2022 02:11 | 30 km | 400 km |
| 4.9 | 25.11.2022 08:36 | 19.9 km | 501 km |
| 4.0 | 25.11.2022 02:05 | 8.7 km | 372 km |
| 4.0 | 22.11.2022 23:02 | 0 km | 366 km |
| 4.2 | 21.11.2022 22:03 | 0 km | 414 km |
| 4.1 | 19.11.2022 19:41 | 25.1 km | 397 km |
| 4.6 | 11.11.2022 04:19 | 31.3 km | 403 km |
| 4.1 | 10.11.2022 13:54 | 12.3 km | 409 km |
| 4.6 | 10.11.2022 11:28 | 19.5 km | 285 km |
| 4.6 | 10.11.2022 11:20 | 0 km | 411 km |
| 4.2 | 10.11.2022 10:29 | 0 km | 412 km |
| 4.5 | 10.11.2022 07:36 | 12.6 km | 410 km |
| 4.7 | 10.11.2022 05:34 | 12.6 km | 410 km |
| 4.5 | 10.11.2022 05:29 | 12.6 km | 410 km |
| 4.2 | 10.11.2022 03:36 | 15.2 km | 410 km |
| 4.0 | 09.11.2022 16:47 | 0.1 km | 444 km |
| 4.3 | 04.11.2022 14:55 | 10.2 km | 411 km |
| 4.0 | 02.11.2022 08:12 | 9.1 km | 370 km |
| 4.4 | 25.10.2022 10:04 | 0 km | 439 km |
| 4.5 | 23.10.2022 16:30 | 13 km | 399 km |
| 4.1 | 23.10.2022 08:17 | 12.4 km | 452 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.