4.8
626
recorded earthquakes
M6.5
largest
1926–2026
record span
4.14
mean magnitude
378
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 | 72 km |
| 6.4 | 21.08.1989 01:09 | 19.5 km | 82 km |
| 6.2 | 05.03.1992 08:55 | 9.8 km | 45 km |
| 6.2 | 05.04.1969 02:18 | 14.8 km | 143 km |
| 6.2 | 29.03.1969 09:15 | 15.9 km | 154 km |
| 6.1 | 11.03.1961 08:41 | 15 km | 56 km |
| 6.1 | 20.08.1989 11:46 | 27.3 km | 75 km |
| 6.1 | 20.08.1989 19:25 | 11.3 km | 83 km |
| 6.1 | 21.08.1989 05:03 | 9.6 km | 83 km |
| 6.0 | 01.04.1973 07:12 | 9.7 km | 54 km |
| 6.0 | 31.10.1926 11:43 | 15 km | 178 km |
| 6.0 | 18.05.1929 01:02 | 35 km | 124 km |
| 6.0 | 22.01.1929 14:43 | 35 km | 106 km |
| 6.0 | 27.10.1930 23:28 | 15 km | 165 km |
| 6.0 | 04.01.1960 06:16 | 15 km | 50 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.8 | 25.07.2026 00:50 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 3.7 | 03.02.2026 23:09 | 10 km | 37 km |
| 3.6 | 28.07.2025 05:30 | 0 km | 21 km |
| 3.7 | 05.06.2024 06:43 | 3.5 km | 50 km |
| 3.8 | 10.02.2024 17:13 | 19 km | 70 km |
| 3.5 | 06.02.2024 23:47 | 14 km | 76 km |
| 3.7 | 06.02.2024 18:24 | 14 km | 78 km |
| 4.9 | 03.02.2024 21:26 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 3.8 | 03.02.2024 17:45 | 10 km | 67 km |
| 5.2 | 25.01.2024 17:00 | 6.4 km | 87 km |
| 4.4 | 05.11.2023 22:59 | 6.2 km | 56 km |
| 4.6 | 25.10.2023 22:51 | 10 km | 61 km |
| 4.4 | 29.09.2023 00:25 | 10 km | 58 km |
| 4.9 | 28.09.2023 05:53 | 19 km | 57 km |
| 4.9 | 28.09.2023 01:22 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 3.6 | 02.02.2023 01:34 | 7 km | 56 km |
| 5.2 | 26.01.2023 13:05 | 4 km | 135 km |
| 4.5 | 18.01.2023 19:28 | 9.5 km | 79 km |
| 3.6 | 18.01.2023 19:28 | 14 km | 81 km |
| 4.3 | 18.01.2023 16:30 | 6 km | 67 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 | 70 km |
| 3.5 | 11.12.2022 10:49 | 5 km | 58 km |
| 5.3 | 15.06.2022 06:01 | 0 km | 130 km |
| 4.0 | 14.05.2022 01:11 | 15 km | 55 km |
| 4.3 | 16.10.2021 20:26 | 2 km | 37 km |
| 3.8 | 11.08.2021 10:44 | 7 km | 86 km |
| 3.9 | 11.08.2021 10:37 | 7 km | 86 km |
| 3.6 | 08.08.2021 13:24 | 8 km | 89 km |
| 3.3 | 03.08.2021 00:33 | 3 km | 44 km |
| 3.7 | 25.08.2017 05:20 | 10 km | 81 km |
| 5.0 | 14.04.2017 10:44 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 5.0 | 14.04.2017 05:53 | 10 km | 85 km |
| 4.3 | 03.04.2017 04:47 | 1 km | 33 km |
| 3.5 | 22.02.2017 05:58 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 3.8 | 11.01.2017 19:57 | 6 km | 34 km |
| 4.4 | 06.12.2016 04:33 | 0.2 km | 42 km |
| 3.5 | 14.05.2016 17:25 | 11.6 km | 46 km |
| 4.0 | 14.05.2016 17:20 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 4.1 | 11.04.2016 22:30 | 0 km | 55 km |
| 4.1 | 11.04.2016 17:39 | 6 km | 70 km |
| 3.5 | 12.12.2015 05:30 | 4 km | 46 km |
| 4.8 | 29.09.2015 05:31 | 10 km | 75 km |
| 4.2 | 28.08.2015 12:40 | 5 km | 52 km |
| 3.4 | 23.06.2015 08:15 | 10 km | 85 km |
| 5.0 | 30.05.2015 06:48 | 19 km | 55 km |
| 3.5 | 06.06.2014 20:40 | 2 km | 51 km |
| 4.1 | 20.05.2014 02:05 | 16.4 km | 99 km |
| 4.2 | 19.05.2014 15:02 | 8 km | 121 km |
| 3.5 | 12.05.2013 16:44 | 3 km | 32 km |
| 3.9 | 16.09.2012 09:06 | 3 km | 49 km |
| 3.1 | 15.09.2012 16:01 | 3 km | 49 km |
| 3.1 | 14.09.2012 04:22 | 3 km | 48 km |
| 3.0 | 14.09.2012 02:29 | 2 km | 48 km |
| 3.2 | 10.09.2012 14:06 | 5 km | 57 km |
| 3.9 | 10.09.2012 04:30 | 5 km | 57 km |
| 4.4 | 08.09.2012 21:11 | 19 km | 70 km |
| 3.4 | 24.08.2012 09:38 | 8 km | 52 km |
| 3.8 | 02.06.2012 07:36 | 12 km | 53 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.