3.2
262
recorded earthquakes
M7.0
largest
1911–2026
record span
3.06
mean magnitude
99
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | 12.01.2010 21:53 | 13.9 km | 121 km |
| 7.0 | 06.10.1911 10:16 | 35 km | 115 km |
| 6.6 | 31.05.1953 19:58 | 16.7 km | 137 km |
| 6.4 | 22.09.2003 04:45 | 13.1 km | 127 km |
| 6.0 | 22.01.1945 07:47 | 35 km | 129 km |
| 5.6 | 12.01.1962 23:12 | 100 km | 67 km |
| 5.6 | 12.07.1994 13:47 | 11.9 km | 103 km |
| 5.3 | 23.09.2018 05:45 | 19.2 km | 80 km |
| 5.1 | 08.04.1993 19:13 | 11.9 km | 103 km |
| 5.1 | 03.09.1987 00:04 | 26.8 km | 84 km |
| 5.1 | 10.11.2023 17:22 | 23.8 km | 82 km |
| 5.0 | 07.07.2012 20:32 | 25.4 km | 98 km |
| 4.9 | 31.01.2021 11:10 | 112.1 km | 63 km |
| 4.7 | 25.02.2008 18:36 | 117.8 km | 59 km |
| 4.5 | 21.10.2008 16:55 | 165.7 km | 31 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.2 | 31.07.2026 08:56 | 181.1 km | 22 km |
| 2.9 | 24.11.2025 13:45 | 9 km | 54 km |
| 3.1 | 19.10.2025 06:50 | 104.8 km | 35 km |
| 3.0 | 17.10.2025 01:17 | 76.9 km | 24 km |
| 3.1 | 15.10.2025 05:17 | 27.1 km | 33 km |
| 3.2 | 15.09.2025 09:01 | 18.3 km | 50 km |
| 3.2 | 15.09.2025 08:02 | 18.6 km | 56 km |
| 3.3 | 11.09.2025 21:36 | 12.7 km | 36 km |
| 3.2 | 28.07.2025 17:06 | 71.1 km | 28 km |
| 3.1 | 19.01.2025 04:45 | 19.5 km | 46 km |
| 3.0 | 15.12.2024 09:55 | 26.8 km | 33 km |
| 3.3 | 09.11.2024 10:42 | 79.6 km | 29 km |
| 3.0 | 08.10.2024 21:44 | 19.9 km | 36 km |
| 3.1 | 19.09.2024 22:18 | 28.1 km | 55 km |
| 3.0 | 26.08.2024 00:24 | 64.2 km | 30 km |
| 3.2 | 17.06.2024 03:46 | 22 km | 47 km |
| 3.3 | 20.05.2024 07:20 | 20.2 km | 60 km |
| 3.1 | 18.03.2024 00:33 | 25.8 km | 59 km |
| 3.0 | 30.01.2024 23:49 | 25.2 km | 40 km |
| 3.2 | 18.01.2024 00:32 | 35.5 km | 46 km |
| 3.0 | 14.12.2023 09:12 | 24.9 km | 12 km |
| 3.4 | 14.12.2023 08:07 | 216.5 km | 26 km |
| 3.0 | 14.12.2023 07:43 | 22.1 km | 11 km |
| 3.0 | 14.12.2023 07:14 | 21.3 km | 11 km |
| 5.1 | 10.11.2023 17:22 | 23.8 km | 82 km |
| 4.2 | 08.10.2023 07:22 | 18.4 km | 64 km |
| 3.5 | 29.09.2023 09:04 | 246.2 km | 6 km |
| 3.4 | 09.09.2023 05:21 | 255.1 km | 42 km |
| 3.0 | 24.08.2023 23:55 | 23.6 km | 18 km |
| 3.1 | 18.08.2023 04:57 | 12 km | 23 km |
| 3.4 | 25.07.2023 03:43 | 142.1 km | 48 km |
| 3.0 | 01.07.2023 06:33 | 29.4 km | 35 km |
| 3.3 | 11.06.2023 20:43 | 21 km | 58 km |
| 3.2 | 18.02.2023 11:00 | 13 km | 41 km |
| 3.1 | 03.12.2022 21:09 | 5 km | 16 km |
| 3.0 | 19.11.2022 13:09 | 19 km | 42 km |
| 3.3 | 25.09.2022 17:46 | 4 km | 42 km |
| 2.5 | 19.01.2022 02:47 | 3 km | 46 km |
| 3.2 | 15.01.2022 10:27 | 5 km | 48 km |
| 2.6 | 01.01.2022 18:34 | 14 km | 44 km |
| 2.5 | 19.12.2021 11:14 | 29 km | 59 km |
| 2.5 | 28.11.2021 13:16 | 19 km | 24 km |
| 2.5 | 19.11.2021 09:23 | 17 km | 32 km |
| 2.7 | 12.11.2021 06:50 | 11 km | 31 km |
| 2.6 | 06.11.2021 23:02 | 10 km | 28 km |
| 2.6 | 04.11.2021 23:16 | 15 km | 43 km |
| 2.6 | 03.11.2021 08:59 | 9 km | 31 km |
| 2.9 | 23.10.2021 08:26 | 10 km | 42 km |
| 2.5 | 13.10.2021 01:17 | 23 km | 22 km |
| 2.5 | 25.09.2021 17:56 | 12 km | 31 km |
| 2.5 | 22.09.2021 17:56 | 12 km | 31 km |
| 2.7 | 05.09.2021 22:33 | 10 km | 31 km |
| 1.5 | 05.08.2021 08:42 | 11 km | 51 km |
| 1.8 | 04.08.2021 10:24 | 1 km | 53 km |
| 2.5 | 28.07.2021 17:25 | 22.2 km | 49 km |
| 2.6 | 27.07.2021 20:26 | 12 km | 51 km |
| 2.6 | 26.07.2021 23:34 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 2.7 | 26.07.2021 07:25 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 2.0 | 26.07.2021 02:59 | 1 km | 24 km |
| 2.6 | 26.07.2021 02:10 | 5 km | 50 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.