4.8
437
recorded earthquakes
M6.5
largest
1929–2026
record span
4.18
mean magnitude
98
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 | 20.08.1989 11:16 | 19 km | 140 km |
| 6.4 | 21.08.1989 01:09 | 19.5 km | 143 km |
| 6.2 | 05.03.1992 08:55 | 9.8 km | 89 km |
| 6.1 | 11.03.1961 08:41 | 15 km | 70 km |
| 6.1 | 20.08.1989 19:25 | 11.3 km | 142 km |
| 6.1 | 20.08.1989 11:46 | 27.3 km | 134 km |
| 6.1 | 21.08.1989 05:03 | 9.6 km | 146 km |
| 6.0 | 01.04.1973 07:12 | 9.7 km | 77 km |
| 6.0 | 22.01.1929 14:43 | 35 km | 99 km |
| 6.0 | 04.01.1960 06:16 | 15 km | 111 km |
| 5.9 | 28.03.1973 13:42 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 5.9 | 11.04.1994 11:20 | 12.9 km | 69 km |
| 5.8 | 08.11.1978 05:07 | 10 km | 99 km |
| 5.7 | 21.12.1978 04:03 | 14.6 km | 86 km |
| 5.7 | 05.10.1963 14:57 | 15 km | 97 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.8 | 25.07.2026 00:50 | 10 km | 72 km |
| 3.7 | 05.06.2024 06:43 | 3.5 km | 60 km |
| 3.8 | 10.02.2024 17:13 | 19 km | 57 km |
| 4.9 | 03.02.2024 21:26 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 3.8 | 03.02.2024 17:45 | 10 km | 61 km |
| 5.2 | 25.01.2024 17:00 | 6.4 km | 63 km |
| 4.4 | 05.11.2023 22:59 | 6.2 km | 56 km |
| 4.6 | 25.10.2023 22:51 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 4.4 | 29.09.2023 00:25 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 4.9 | 28.09.2023 05:53 | 19 km | 60 km |
| 4.9 | 28.09.2023 01:22 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 3.6 | 02.02.2023 01:34 | 7 km | 56 km |
| 5.2 | 26.01.2023 13:05 | 4 km | 102 km |
| 4.3 | 18.01.2023 16:30 | 6 km | 56 km |
| 3.8 | 04.01.2023 05:40 | 6 km | 56 km |
| 3.6 | 02.01.2023 01:34 | 7 km | 56 km |
| 3.5 | 25.12.2022 11:12 | 4 km | 61 km |
| 3.5 | 11.12.2022 10:49 | 5 km | 63 km |
| 5.3 | 15.06.2022 06:01 | 0 km | 72 km |
| 5.0 | 14.04.2017 10:44 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 5.0 | 14.04.2017 05:53 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 3.5 | 22.02.2017 05:58 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 4.1 | 11.04.2016 22:30 | 0 km | 67 km |
| 5.0 | 30.05.2015 06:48 | 19 km | 56 km |
| 3.5 | 06.06.2014 20:40 | 2 km | 57 km |
| 3.2 | 10.09.2012 14:06 | 5 km | 51 km |
| 3.9 | 10.09.2012 04:30 | 5 km | 48 km |
| 4.4 | 08.09.2012 21:11 | 19 km | 58 km |
| 3.4 | 24.08.2012 09:38 | 8 km | 55 km |
| 3.8 | 02.06.2012 07:36 | 12 km | 49 km |
| 3.2 | 26.05.2012 21:28 | 6 km | 52 km |
| 4.1 | 20.03.2012 15:45 | 13 km | 61 km |
| 3.1 | 18.01.2012 06:48 | 6 km | 53 km |
| 4.7 | 10.01.2012 04:11 | 15 km | 58 km |
| 3.5 | 05.01.2012 07:52 | 5 km | 52 km |
| 3.6 | 20.10.2011 01:48 | 6 km | 52 km |
| 3.0 | 12.07.2011 07:23 | 6 km | 54 km |
| 3.0 | 22.05.2011 18:21 | 6 km | 57 km |
| 4.6 | 21.04.2011 19:07 | 4 km | 74 km |
| 3.5 | 23.03.2011 09:42 | 6 km | 54 km |
| 4.3 | 30.01.2011 03:24 | 10 km | 66 km |
| 5.0 | 30.01.2011 02:28 | 9 km | 105 km |
| 3.5 | 18.12.2010 21:36 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 5.0 | 11.12.2010 14:06 | 4 km | 109 km |
| 4.7 | 23.11.2010 14:31 | 10 km | 77 km |
| 4.2 | 17.11.2010 01:45 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 5.1 | 16.11.2010 02:06 | 19.7 km | 94 km |
| 4.9 | 15.11.2010 11:12 | 6.6 km | 68 km |
| 5.1 | 14.11.2010 23:25 | 10.5 km | 99 km |
| 5.3 | 14.11.2010 22:22 | 10 km | 67 km |
| 4.8 | 14.11.2010 21:14 | 11.4 km | 81 km |
| 5.1 | 14.11.2010 20:18 | 13.1 km | 83 km |
| 5.0 | 14.11.2010 19:15 | 4 km | 96 km |
| 5.2 | 14.11.2010 17:39 | 4 km | 100 km |
| 4.4 | 14.11.2010 17:19 | 10 km | 76 km |
| 4.3 | 14.11.2010 17:18 | 14 km | 90 km |
| 5.2 | 14.11.2010 17:17 | 4 km | 90 km |
| 4.4 | 14.11.2010 17:03 | 10 km | 82 km |
| 5.5 | 14.11.2010 17:02 | 13.7 km | 89 km |
| 5.0 | 14.11.2010 16:33 | 10 km | 87 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.