No records in the last 30 days.
727
recorded earthquakes
M7.5
largest
1927–2026
record span
4.21
mean magnitude
394
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.5 | 22.02.2019 10:17 | 149.9 km | 204 km |
| 7.1 | 06.03.1987 04:10 | 18.5 km | 157 km |
| 7.1 | 12.08.2010 11:54 | 206.6 km | 125 km |
| 7.0 | 16.01.1956 23:37 | 20 km | 197 km |
| 6.7 | 17.05.1971 11:04 | 170.5 km | 113 km |
| 6.5 | 17.09.1965 11:13 | 187.6 km | 117 km |
| 6.5 | 11.05.1955 11:04 | 15 km | 134 km |
| 6.4 | 05.08.1949 19:08 | 15 km | 22 km |
| 6.3 | 22.09.1987 13:43 | 14.2 km | 58 km |
| 6.2 | 07.09.2018 02:12 | 105.1 km | 126 km |
| 6.2 | 28.08.1999 12:40 | 195.3 km | 107 km |
| 6.2 | 10.05.1963 22:22 | 20 km | 145 km |
| 6.2 | 15.09.1988 18:48 | 172.9 km | 78 km |
| 6.1 | 23.12.2005 21:47 | 191.4 km | 104 km |
| 6.0 | 26.04.1999 18:17 | 174.4 km | 99 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 24.03.2026 17:46 | 10 km | 9 km |
| 2.6 | 08.03.2026 03:22 | 11 km | 28 km |
| 3.5 | 10.02.2026 08:20 | 179.7 km | 62 km |
| 5.0 | 19.12.2025 21:59 | 10 km | 92 km |
| 3.7 | 06.12.2025 22:54 | 20 km | 10 km |
| 3.7 | 27.09.2025 14:59 | 8 km | 12 km |
| 2.6 | 27.09.2025 10:01 | 9 km | 12 km |
| 4.5 | 25.09.2025 23:40 | 171.3 km | 66 km |
| 5.4 | 03.09.2025 14:56 | 161.8 km | 79 km |
| 4.1 | 27.07.2025 07:36 | 171.4 km | 72 km |
| 4.4 | 19.06.2025 01:06 | 10 km | 61 km |
| 3.7 | 17.06.2025 18:19 | 3 km | 56 km |
| 4.2 | 17.06.2025 06:47 | 4.9 km | 61 km |
| 5.2 | 17.06.2025 02:46 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 4.5 | 14.06.2025 03:31 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 3.5 | 06.06.2025 02:08 | 5 km | 32 km |
| 4.4 | 27.05.2025 11:29 | 164.5 km | 75 km |
| 2.5 | 18.05.2025 16:56 | 5 km | 19 km |
| 3.5 | 22.04.2025 05:23 | 5 km | 38 km |
| 4.0 | 15.04.2025 00:07 | 161.5 km | 65 km |
| 4.4 | 13.04.2025 22:11 | 161.9 km | 77 km |
| 2.8 | 14.02.2025 16:05 | 148 km | 55 km |
| 2.5 | 07.02.2025 03:50 | 5 km | 61 km |
| 3.8 | 02.02.2025 12:49 | 14 km | 63 km |
| 4.9 | 01.02.2025 11:05 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 4.3 | 01.02.2025 01:50 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 3.7 | 01.02.2025 01:49 | 5 km | 63 km |
| 3.9 | 01.02.2025 01:37 | 15 km | 62 km |
| 3.6 | 31.01.2025 23:15 | 5 km | 60 km |
| 3.5 | 31.01.2025 23:12 | 17 km | 58 km |
| 4.4 | 31.01.2025 23:10 | 5 km | 55 km |
| 5.6 | 31.01.2025 23:02 | 8 km | 64 km |
| 2.7 | 20.01.2025 03:09 | 6 km | 13 km |
| 4.2 | 14.01.2025 15:52 | 150.1 km | 81 km |
| 3.7 | 09.01.2025 23:09 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 4.4 | 23.12.2024 23:00 | 181.1 km | 77 km |
| 2.8 | 13.11.2024 23:25 | 163.5 km | 31 km |
| 2.3 | 08.11.2024 23:28 | 4 km | 11 km |
| 4.0 | 22.08.2024 20:02 | 18.5 km | 54 km |
| 4.2 | 21.05.2024 07:14 | 5 km | 74 km |
| 4.4 | 11.04.2024 00:45 | 143 km | 70 km |
| 2.6 | 02.04.2024 18:34 | 7 km | 17 km |
| 3.0 | 23.02.2024 05:16 | 6 km | 11 km |
| 4.2 | 28.12.2023 22:44 | 164.9 km | 74 km |
| 3.5 | 20.12.2023 13:21 | 118 km | 47 km |
| 5.1 | 07.11.2023 03:33 | 18 km | 95 km |
| 4.4 | 08.09.2023 20:45 | 161.2 km | 71 km |
| 4.0 | 03.09.2023 21:08 | 153.5 km | 62 km |
| 5.0 | 28.07.2023 01:38 | 140.3 km | 88 km |
| 3.9 | 23.07.2023 19:24 | 23 km | 50 km |
| 2.5 | 22.04.2023 21:03 | 4 km | 17 km |
| 5.0 | 05.02.2023 10:38 | 223.4 km | 102 km |
| 4.1 | 18.01.2023 23:43 | 162.3 km | 62 km |
| 3.5 | 10.01.2023 15:01 | 5 km | 42 km |
| 5.0 | 17.11.2022 04:19 | 138.5 km | 89 km |
| 3.5 | 14.10.2022 13:16 | 5 km | 31 km |
| 3.5 | 02.08.2022 02:00 | 5 km | 7 km |
| 4.4 | 17.07.2022 00:53 | 156.6 km | 55 km |
| 5.1 | 12.06.2022 02:37 | 1.3 km | 83 km |
| 2.9 | 28.04.2022 21:59 | 10 km | 38 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.