No records in the last 30 days.
1,040
recorded earthquakes
M5.4
largest
1904–2026
record span
1.32
mean magnitude
855
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.4 | 23.10.1904 10:27 | 10 km | 232 km |
| 4.6 | 26.04.1993 13:13 | — | 160 km |
| 4.5 | 07.10.1993 10:24 | — | 172 km |
| 4.4 | 15.06.1985 00:40 | 33 km | 39 km |
| 4.4 | 26.01.1993 10:05 | — | 182 km |
| 4.4 | 23.02.1993 12:32 | — | 175 km |
| 4.3 | 26.01.1993 10:23 | — | 192 km |
| 4.3 | 16.12.2008 05:20 | 24.8 km | 135 km |
| 4.2 | 01.04.1986 09:56 | 33 km | 39 km |
| 4.2 | 20.01.1989 09:33 | 10 km | 273 km |
| 4.2 | 06.08.2012 02:57 | 9.8 km | 54 km |
| 4.0 | 19.04.2016 09:29 | 0 km | 206 km |
| 3.9 | 04.10.1995 20:49 | 10 km | 71 km |
| 3.8 | 16.09.2018 08:57 | 10 km | 224 km |
| 3.6 | 24.05.1990 09:52 | 5 km | 140 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.5 | 20.05.2026 14:14 | 10 km | 86 km |
| 2.3 | 02.12.2025 17:52 | 3 km | 195 km |
| 3.8 | 16.09.2018 08:57 | 10 km | 224 km |
| 2.7 | 07.06.2017 17:58 | 10 km | 253 km |
| 4.0 | 19.04.2016 09:29 | 0 km | 206 km |
| 3.4 | 29.07.2015 19:46 | 13.4 km | 181 km |
| 2.8 | 28.04.2015 11:09 | 19 km | 178 km |
| 2.8 | 28.04.2015 09:11 | 14 km | 182 km |
| 4.2 | 06.08.2012 02:57 | 9.8 km | 54 km |
| 1.4 | 30.11.2011 14:15 | 0.1 km | 179 km |
| 1.1 | 30.11.2011 13:01 | 0.1 km | 207 km |
| 1.0 | 30.11.2011 12:02 | 0.1 km | 160 km |
| 1.0 | 30.11.2011 12:00 | 0.1 km | 160 km |
| 1.4 | 29.11.2011 12:59 | 0.1 km | 189 km |
| 1.2 | 29.11.2011 11:33 | 0.1 km | 169 km |
| 1.2 | 28.11.2011 13:08 | 0.1 km | 105 km |
| 1.2 | 28.11.2011 11:36 | 0.1 km | 90 km |
| 1.4 | 25.11.2011 13:03 | 0.1 km | 189 km |
| 0.7 | 25.11.2011 08:45 | 0.1 km | 120 km |
| 1.3 | 24.11.2011 15:11 | 0.1 km | 170 km |
| 1.2 | 24.11.2011 12:27 | 1.1 km | 204 km |
| 0.7 | 24.11.2011 11:08 | 0.1 km | 173 km |
| 1.3 | 22.11.2011 13:18 | 0.1 km | 248 km |
| 1.4 | 21.11.2011 12:01 | 0.1 km | 138 km |
| 1.0 | 21.11.2011 11:08 | 0.1 km | 121 km |
| 1.0 | 18.11.2011 13:02 | 0.1 km | 189 km |
| 1.3 | 18.11.2011 10:52 | 0.1 km | 92 km |
| 1.4 | 17.11.2011 14:14 | 0.1 km | 180 km |
| 0.9 | 17.11.2011 12:55 | 0.1 km | 154 km |
| 1.2 | 16.11.2011 13:19 | 9.9 km | 170 km |
| 1.0 | 16.11.2011 12:02 | 0.1 km | 160 km |
| 1.0 | 16.11.2011 12:00 | 0.1 km | 160 km |
| 1.3 | 15.11.2011 15:00 | 0.1 km | 171 km |
| 0.9 | 14.11.2011 12:42 | 0.1 km | 171 km |
| 0.9 | 14.11.2011 03:46 | 5 km | 120 km |
| 0.8 | 11.11.2011 14:12 | 0.1 km | 130 km |
| 0.7 | 10.11.2011 13:36 | 0.1 km | 199 km |
| 1.2 | 10.11.2011 13:18 | 0.1 km | 143 km |
| 0.9 | 09.11.2011 12:16 | 0.8 km | 205 km |
| 1.0 | 09.11.2011 12:02 | 0.1 km | 160 km |
| 0.9 | 09.11.2011 12:00 | 0.1 km | 160 km |
| 1.1 | 08.11.2011 13:51 | 0.1 km | 244 km |
| 1.0 | 04.11.2011 13:16 | 0.6 km | 189 km |
| 1.7 | 04.11.2011 13:15 | 0.1 km | 189 km |
| 0.9 | 04.11.2011 11:37 | 0.1 km | 152 km |
| 0.9 | 04.11.2011 10:59 | 0.1 km | 83 km |
| 1.1 | 03.11.2011 15:30 | 0.1 km | 170 km |
| 1.2 | 03.11.2011 13:38 | 0.1 km | 207 km |
| 1.1 | 03.11.2011 13:31 | 0.1 km | 198 km |
| 1.4 | 02.11.2011 14:20 | 0.1 km | 180 km |
| 0.9 | 31.10.2011 11:59 | 0.1 km | 102 km |
| 0.8 | 27.10.2011 13:46 | 0.1 km | 119 km |
| 1.4 | 20.10.2011 15:34 | 19.6 km | 44 km |
| 1.4 | 20.10.2011 14:57 | 0.1 km | 171 km |
| 1.8 | 19.10.2011 14:29 | 0.6 km | 205 km |
| 1.1 | 19.10.2011 13:31 | 0.5 km | 204 km |
| 1.1 | 19.10.2011 13:14 | 0.4 km | 158 km |
| 1.3 | 19.10.2011 12:27 | 0.8 km | 204 km |
| 1.7 | 19.10.2011 11:15 | 0.2 km | 189 km |
| 0.8 | 18.10.2011 12:43 | 0.6 km | 132 km |
Regions
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.