No records in the last 30 days.
727
recorded earthquakes
M8.6
largest
1906–2026
record span
4.16
mean magnitude
303
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.6 | 31.01.1906 15:36 | 20 km | 201 km |
| 7.8 | 14.05.1942 02:13 | 20 km | 148 km |
| 7.8 | 16.04.2016 23:58 | 8.7 km | 172 km |
| 7.1 | 06.03.1987 04:10 | 18.5 km | 143 km |
| 7.1 | 04.08.1998 18:59 | 24.4 km | 162 km |
| 7.1 | 12.08.2010 11:54 | 206.6 km | 173 km |
| 7.0 | 16.01.1956 23:37 | 20 km | 151 km |
| 6.6 | 12.07.1942 05:05 | 15 km | 134 km |
| 6.5 | 11.05.1955 11:04 | 15 km | 125 km |
| 6.4 | 05.08.1949 19:08 | 15 km | 79 km |
| 6.4 | 06.03.1987 01:54 | 14 km | 156 km |
| 6.3 | 22.09.1987 13:43 | 14.2 km | 99 km |
| 6.2 | 28.08.1999 12:40 | 195.3 km | 157 km |
| 6.2 | 15.09.1988 18:48 | 172.9 km | 132 km |
| 6.1 | 23.12.2005 21:47 | 191.4 km | 157 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.3 | 17.04.2026 18:46 | 3 km | 47 km |
| 3.1 | 24.03.2026 17:46 | 10 km | 73 km |
| 3.5 | 03.03.2026 13:59 | 94 km | 51 km |
| 3.1 | 15.01.2026 08:49 | 27 km | 62 km |
| 3.6 | 15.01.2026 06:35 | 95 km | 62 km |
| 5.0 | 19.12.2025 21:59 | 10 km | 108 km |
| 3.7 | 06.12.2025 22:54 | 20 km | 71 km |
| 2.3 | 29.11.2025 06:16 | 14 km | 77 km |
| 2.7 | 25.11.2025 11:03 | 98 km | 37 km |
| 3.7 | 27.09.2025 14:59 | 8 km | 75 km |
| 2.6 | 27.09.2025 10:01 | 9 km | 75 km |
| 3.8 | 16.08.2025 21:36 | 5 km | 58 km |
| 4.5 | 16.08.2025 10:47 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 4.0 | 14.08.2025 19:37 | 5 km | 56 km |
| 3.5 | 14.08.2025 16:46 | 5 km | 59 km |
| 3.5 | 12.08.2025 07:17 | 5 km | 78 km |
| 4.4 | 03.07.2025 11:02 | 5 km | 52 km |
| 4.4 | 19.06.2025 01:06 | 10 km | 81 km |
| 5.2 | 17.06.2025 02:46 | 10 km | 73 km |
| 4.5 | 14.06.2025 03:31 | 10 km | 14 km |
| 3.6 | 25.05.2025 08:41 | 1 km | 51 km |
| 2.9 | 21.05.2025 02:44 | 7 km | 50 km |
| 3.5 | 22.04.2025 05:23 | 5 km | 63 km |
| 4.0 | 12.04.2025 07:11 | 5 km | 76 km |
| 4.9 | 01.02.2025 11:05 | 10 km | 80 km |
| 4.3 | 01.02.2025 01:50 | 10 km | 80 km |
| 4.4 | 31.01.2025 23:10 | 5 km | 75 km |
| 5.6 | 31.01.2025 23:02 | 8 km | 85 km |
| 2.7 | 20.01.2025 03:09 | 6 km | 64 km |
| 3.7 | 09.01.2025 23:09 | 10 km | 25 km |
| 2.8 | 13.11.2024 23:25 | 163.5 km | 79 km |
| 2.6 | 12.11.2024 08:35 | 78.9 km | 74 km |
| 2.3 | 08.11.2024 23:28 | 4 km | 75 km |
| 3.0 | 03.11.2024 02:18 | 127.2 km | 43 km |
| 3.1 | 21.09.2024 02:04 | 112.5 km | 42 km |
| 3.7 | 11.09.2024 18:23 | 71 km | 75 km |
| 3.5 | 29.08.2024 07:51 | 97 km | 41 km |
| 4.0 | 22.08.2024 20:02 | 18.5 km | 19 km |
| 4.4 | 01.07.2024 05:27 | 15.7 km | 87 km |
| 4.2 | 21.05.2024 07:14 | 5 km | 84 km |
| 3.7 | 25.04.2024 21:43 | 88 km | 44 km |
| 3.0 | 23.02.2024 05:16 | 6 km | 74 km |
| 2.6 | 29.12.2023 02:21 | 5 km | 60 km |
| 3.6 | 19.11.2023 03:33 | 87 km | 47 km |
| 5.1 | 07.11.2023 03:33 | 18 km | 52 km |
| 4.1 | 09.10.2023 14:29 | 108.7 km | 43 km |
| 4.1 | 26.07.2023 01:24 | 107.9 km | 43 km |
| 4.5 | 15.07.2023 18:29 | 12.9 km | 86 km |
| 3.5 | 18.06.2023 16:18 | 5 km | 59 km |
| 3.7 | 17.03.2023 16:04 | 5 km | 38 km |
| 4.0 | 17.03.2023 06:11 | 5 km | 42 km |
| 2.6 | 03.03.2023 04:01 | 1 km | 33 km |
| 2.7 | 02.03.2023 13:41 | 6 km | 36 km |
| 3.1 | 02.03.2023 13:06 | 5 km | 35 km |
| 2.8 | 12.02.2023 20:58 | 3 km | 69 km |
| 3.5 | 27.12.2022 22:03 | 5 km | 65 km |
| 3.5 | 14.10.2022 13:16 | 5 km | 35 km |
| 3.5 | 02.08.2022 02:00 | 5 km | 71 km |
| 2.7 | 18.07.2022 01:27 | 5 km | 69 km |
| 5.1 | 12.06.2022 02:37 | 1.3 km | 95 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.