No records in the last 30 days.
434
recorded earthquakes
M7.0
largest
1911–2026
record span
3.02
mean magnitude
232
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 | 117 km |
| 7.0 | 06.10.1911 10:16 | 35 km | 162 km |
| 6.5 | 08.01.1962 01:00 | 35.6 km | 123 km |
| 5.6 | 12.01.1962 23:12 | 100 km | 88 km |
| 5.4 | 08.01.1997 06:43 | 43.4 km | 85 km |
| 5.1 | 08.04.1993 19:13 | 11.9 km | 51 km |
| 5.0 | 07.07.2012 20:32 | 25.4 km | 52 km |
| 5.0 | 24.07.1994 20:35 | 24.7 km | 59 km |
| 4.9 | 26.09.1985 08:03 | 35 km | 64 km |
| 4.8 | 13.01.2015 11:16 | 10.4 km | 47 km |
| 4.8 | 03.09.1977 15:33 | 35 km | 72 km |
| 4.7 | 12.01.2010 05:46 | 0 km | 68 km |
| 4.7 | 09.04.1997 03:11 | 10 km | 8 km |
| 4.5 | 14.02.2019 01:20 | 12.2 km | 22 km |
| 4.5 | 30.11.2020 11:12 | 12.4 km | 34 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.3 | 05.02.2026 07:31 | 10 km | 38 km |
| 4.1 | 01.12.2025 21:45 | 14.7 km | 57 km |
| 3.0 | 04.10.2025 07:34 | 84.9 km | 6 km |
| 3.5 | 06.07.2025 07:11 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 3.1 | 27.03.2025 01:28 | 24 km | 25 km |
| 4.4 | 19.03.2025 16:52 | 10.1 km | 55 km |
| 3.0 | 09.02.2025 13:05 | 18 km | 33 km |
| 3.3 | 22.01.2025 22:57 | 35.2 km | 58 km |
| 3.5 | 28.09.2024 15:44 | 15 km | 46 km |
| 3.0 | 13.09.2024 01:08 | 24.9 km | 30 km |
| 3.2 | 01.09.2024 23:28 | 24.3 km | 48 km |
| 3.6 | 24.08.2024 18:59 | 10 km | 56 km |
| 3.1 | 21.08.2024 23:44 | 15.2 km | 12 km |
| 3.1 | 05.08.2024 09:45 | 17.8 km | 36 km |
| 3.3 | 07.05.2024 10:33 | 8 km | 57 km |
| 3.0 | 25.04.2024 00:30 | 22.1 km | 53 km |
| 3.0 | 23.04.2024 10:23 | 16.7 km | 53 km |
| 3.3 | 28.03.2024 21:23 | 5 km | 40 km |
| 3.1 | 18.03.2024 02:16 | 33.2 km | 53 km |
| 3.0 | 05.03.2024 11:23 | 21.2 km | 14 km |
| 3.2 | 12.02.2024 01:12 | 24.8 km | 22 km |
| 3.0 | 05.02.2024 05:43 | 203.1 km | 46 km |
| 3.3 | 19.01.2024 14:30 | 62 km | 48 km |
| 3.0 | 18.01.2024 04:49 | 123.1 km | 26 km |
| 3.1 | 15.01.2024 02:33 | 22.3 km | 28 km |
| 3.0 | 20.12.2023 06:20 | 32.2 km | 39 km |
| 3.1 | 30.11.2023 16:06 | 21 km | 51 km |
| 3.1 | 27.11.2023 07:49 | 65.3 km | 58 km |
| 3.0 | 20.11.2023 06:34 | 24.7 km | 20 km |
| 3.0 | 20.11.2023 02:25 | 36.5 km | 30 km |
| 3.1 | 13.11.2023 08:31 | 42 km | 30 km |
| 3.0 | 06.11.2023 05:47 | 27 km | 52 km |
| 4.2 | 08.10.2023 07:22 | 18.4 km | 53 km |
| 3.0 | 18.09.2023 08:59 | 29.3 km | 25 km |
| 3.0 | 18.09.2023 08:35 | 31.7 km | 24 km |
| 3.1 | 31.08.2023 21:26 | 15.1 km | 19 km |
| 3.3 | 31.07.2023 01:41 | 33.5 km | 47 km |
| 3.2 | 25.06.2023 18:53 | 18 km | 54 km |
| 4.0 | 10.06.2023 23:55 | 25.3 km | 31 km |
| 3.0 | 16.02.2023 02:11 | 19 km | 44 km |
| 3.1 | 07.02.2023 01:10 | 12 km | 48 km |
| 3.5 | 23.01.2023 02:46 | 30 km | 53 km |
| 3.9 | 19.12.2022 13:53 | 30 km | 18 km |
| 3.7 | 17.12.2022 06:53 | 18 km | 38 km |
| 3.3 | 28.11.2022 06:40 | 30 km | 15 km |
| 3.1 | 05.10.2022 04:36 | 23 km | 43 km |
| 4.1 | 06.09.2022 17:30 | 13 km | 53 km |
| 3.2 | 26.08.2022 12:16 | 30 km | 26 km |
| 3.3 | 20.08.2022 08:48 | 28 km | 23 km |
| 3.7 | 16.07.2022 02:44 | 21 km | 43 km |
| 3.0 | 09.06.2022 22:25 | 5 km | 51 km |
| 3.2 | 04.06.2022 14:36 | 26 km | 7 km |
| 4.2 | 04.06.2022 11:00 | 20 km | 44 km |
| 3.1 | 30.04.2022 08:02 | 15 km | 43 km |
| 2.9 | 04.02.2022 03:17 | 15 km | 30 km |
| 2.5 | 03.02.2022 03:27 | 18 km | 45 km |
| 4.2 | 30.01.2022 05:45 | 8.5 km | 42 km |
| 3.1 | 28.01.2022 08:44 | 10 km | 35 km |
| 2.6 | 24.01.2022 09:07 | 10 km | 46 km |
| 2.7 | 23.01.2022 09:36 | 17 km | 48 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.