No records in the last 30 days.
276
recorded earthquakes
M6.5
largest
1922–2026
record span
4.30
mean magnitude
204
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.5 | 22.09.1960 09:05 | 13.7 km | 104 km |
| 6.5 | 16.04.1922 13:07 | 15 km | 173 km |
| 6.3 | 22.09.1960 09:14 | 15 km | 116 km |
| 6.2 | 24.10.2002 06:08 | 14.2 km | 178 km |
| 6.1 | 31.01.1952 20:55 | 20 km | 234 km |
| 5.9 | 03.02.2008 07:34 | 12.1 km | 140 km |
| 5.8 | 03.07.1954 00:32 | 15 km | 110 km |
| 5.8 | 07.08.2015 01:25 | 8.8 km | 161 km |
| 5.8 | 29.06.1986 21:48 | 21.6 km | 283 km |
| 5.7 | 22.09.1960 05:38 | 15 km | 121 km |
| 5.6 | 22.01.1957 11:18 | 15 km | 178 km |
| 5.5 | 07.08.2015 01:28 | 3.1 km | 164 km |
| 5.5 | 08.03.1962 21:38 | 10 km | 95 km |
| 5.5 | 24.10.2002 07:12 | 9.4 km | 179 km |
| 5.3 | 05.07.1957 15:32 | 15 km | 234 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.3 | 12.03.2026 23:39 | 10 km | 212 km |
| 4.2 | 12.03.2026 02:00 | 10 km | 205 km |
| 3.7 | 08.12.2025 12:19 | 10 km | 93 km |
| 3.6 | 24.11.2025 12:22 | 10 km | 94 km |
| 4.4 | 01.11.2025 17:30 | 10 km | 133 km |
| 5.2 | 28.07.2025 13:38 | 10 km | 133 km |
| 4.3 | 05.04.2025 15:13 | 10 km | 183 km |
| 3.4 | 04.01.2025 14:51 | 0 km | 133 km |
| 5.0 | 02.05.2024 08:27 | 10 km | 245 km |
| 4.8 | 24.09.2023 14:21 | 10 km | 191 km |
| 3.2 | 07.07.2023 22:00 | 12 km | 158 km |
| 4.4 | 07.07.2023 22:00 | 10 km | 159 km |
| 4.0 | 30.05.2023 13:44 | 10 km | 89 km |
| 3.7 | 15.09.2022 00:45 | 10 km | 196 km |
| 3.2 | 24.06.2022 20:14 | 10 km | 91 km |
| 3.8 | 14.02.2022 04:04 | 10 km | 171 km |
| 3.4 | 07.09.2021 01:48 | 12 km | 150 km |
| 5.0 | 10.06.2021 08:54 | 6.6 km | 26 km |
| 4.0 | 09.06.2021 13:36 | 10 km | 26 km |
| 3.6 | 27.05.2021 09:33 | 10 km | 228 km |
| 3.5 | 27.05.2021 03:23 | 10 km | 228 km |
| 4.2 | 26.05.2021 23:26 | 10 km | 211 km |
| 3.6 | 26.05.2021 23:19 | 10 km | 220 km |
| 3.5 | 26.05.2021 17:32 | 10 km | 219 km |
| 4.5 | 26.05.2021 16:07 | 10 km | 218 km |
| 3.2 | 26.05.2021 16:07 | 10 km | 220 km |
| 3.7 | 26.05.2021 11:41 | 10 km | 225 km |
| 3.6 | 26.05.2021 08:51 | 10 km | 218 km |
| 3.4 | 26.05.2021 07:01 | 10 km | 228 km |
| 4.5 | 26.05.2021 03:46 | 10 km | 224 km |
| 3.5 | 25.05.2021 20:38 | 10 km | 235 km |
| 3.5 | 25.05.2021 12:16 | 10 km | 218 km |
| 3.4 | 25.05.2021 10:40 | 10 km | 225 km |
| 4.4 | 25.05.2021 09:41 | 10 km | 219 km |
| 4.9 | 25.05.2021 09:03 | 10 km | 227 km |
| 4.1 | 25.05.2021 08:19 | 10 km | 229 km |
| 4.8 | 24.05.2021 08:37 | 10 km | 230 km |
| 5.0 | 24.05.2021 00:23 | 14 km | 241 km |
| 4.3 | 23.05.2021 22:52 | 10 km | 233 km |
| 3.5 | 23.05.2021 20:38 | 12 km | 215 km |
| 3.5 | 23.05.2021 16:52 | 10 km | 221 km |
| 3.5 | 23.05.2021 13:07 | 10 km | 220 km |
| 4.2 | 23.05.2021 11:51 | 10 km | 226 km |
| 3.5 | 22.05.2021 23:54 | 10 km | 220 km |
| 5.1 | 22.05.2021 16:52 | 31.6 km | 217 km |
| 4.6 | 24.03.2021 11:33 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 3.7 | 25.02.2021 14:29 | 12 km | 160 km |
| 3.5 | 24.01.2021 17:07 | 10 km | 146 km |
| 4.2 | 08.12.2020 07:28 | 10 km | 147 km |
| 4.9 | 24.08.2020 14:13 | 11.8 km | 133 km |
| 3.4 | 24.08.2020 10:13 | 10 km | 133 km |
| 4.3 | 16.07.2020 01:23 | 12 km | 130 km |
| 4.2 | 21.06.2020 13:56 | 10 km | 196 km |
| 4.0 | 01.06.2020 18:30 | 10 km | 125 km |
| 4.0 | 31.05.2020 22:47 | 10 km | 232 km |
| 4.2 | 20.05.2020 19:56 | 10 km | 123 km |
| 4.0 | 24.03.2020 07:11 | 10 km | 225 km |
| 4.0 | 21.03.2020 10:28 | 0.1 km | 80 km |
| 4.0 | 02.02.2020 04:44 | 0 km | 126 km |
| 4.1 | 11.01.2020 17:04 | 12 km | 149 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.