No records in the last 30 days.
369
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1923–2026
record span
4.07
mean magnitude
184
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.2 | 30.09.2012 16:31 | 155.2 km | 213 km |
| 7.1 | 06.03.1987 04:10 | 18.5 km | 134 km |
| 7.1 | 12.08.2010 11:54 | 206.6 km | 170 km |
| 7.0 | 09.02.2013 14:16 | 144.2 km | 148 km |
| 6.5 | 17.09.1965 11:13 | 187.6 km | 191 km |
| 6.5 | 11.05.1955 11:04 | 15 km | 143 km |
| 6.4 | 05.08.1949 19:08 | 15 km | 236 km |
| 6.4 | 06.03.1987 01:54 | 14 km | 124 km |
| 6.3 | 22.09.1987 13:43 | 14.2 km | 200 km |
| 6.3 | 14.12.1923 10:31 | 10 km | 191 km |
| 6.2 | 28.08.1999 12:40 | 195.3 km | 184 km |
| 6.2 | 15.09.1988 18:48 | 172.9 km | 206 km |
| 6.1 | 23.12.2005 21:47 | 191.4 km | 193 km |
| 6.0 | 20.07.1955 21:00 | 15 km | 201 km |
| 6.0 | 08.10.1980 22:01 | 190.2 km | 198 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.9 | 25.04.2026 09:37 | 20 km | 111 km |
| 5.1 | 21.04.2026 02:22 | 119.5 km | 187 km |
| 2.8 | 20.12.2025 02:22 | 3 km | 172 km |
| 5.0 | 19.12.2025 21:59 | 10 km | 163 km |
| 3.5 | 03.09.2025 19:08 | 5 km | 95 km |
| 3.2 | 24.08.2025 20:33 | 1 km | 84 km |
| 3.5 | 23.07.2025 11:57 | 13 km | 121 km |
| 3.7 | 10.07.2025 19:54 | 5 km | 88 km |
| 3.6 | 04.07.2025 22:59 | 0 km | 134 km |
| 4.4 | 19.06.2025 01:06 | 10 km | 195 km |
| 5.2 | 17.06.2025 02:46 | 10 km | 205 km |
| 2.4 | 12.05.2025 01:53 | 13 km | 111 km |
| 4.5 | 03.05.2025 14:50 | 1.7 km | 169 km |
| 4.1 | 06.04.2025 11:46 | 5 km | 141 km |
| 3.5 | 29.03.2025 07:21 | 5 km | 120 km |
| 4.0 | 16.03.2025 07:30 | 3 km | 93 km |
| 3.8 | 20.02.2025 23:09 | 5 km | 101 km |
| 2.2 | 07.02.2025 22:42 | 10 km | 107 km |
| 2.4 | 07.02.2025 22:06 | 2 km | 106 km |
| 2.3 | 07.02.2025 21:32 | 5 km | 112 km |
| 2.2 | 07.02.2025 20:23 | 5 km | 110 km |
| 2.2 | 07.02.2025 18:58 | 5 km | 107 km |
| 2.2 | 07.02.2025 18:49 | 5 km | 106 km |
| 2.3 | 07.02.2025 16:52 | 5 km | 102 km |
| 2.2 | 07.02.2025 15:06 | 5 km | 127 km |
| 2.7 | 06.02.2025 21:47 | 0 km | 110 km |
| 2.5 | 06.02.2025 18:00 | 0 km | 105 km |
| 4.9 | 01.02.2025 11:05 | 10 km | 193 km |
| 4.3 | 01.02.2025 01:50 | 10 km | 194 km |
| 5.6 | 31.01.2025 23:02 | 8 km | 191 km |
| 2.6 | 20.12.2024 04:07 | 10 km | 77 km |
| 4.3 | 04.12.2024 12:55 | 5 km | 123 km |
| 4.1 | 04.12.2024 12:55 | 28 km | 123 km |
| 2.4 | 21.11.2024 20:12 | 20 km | 83 km |
| 2.6 | 31.10.2024 08:22 | 10 km | 66 km |
| 2.6 | 28.10.2024 05:57 | 10 km | 116 km |
| 2.4 | 24.10.2024 05:02 | 122.6 km | 124 km |
| 2.9 | 09.10.2024 23:32 | 11.8 km | 153 km |
| 2.5 | 28.09.2024 17:23 | 13.2 km | 86 km |
| 2.7 | 23.09.2024 22:49 | 10.8 km | 153 km |
| 2.3 | 31.08.2024 05:04 | 7.7 km | 115 km |
| 3.5 | 16.08.2024 22:09 | 5 km | 142 km |
| 3.6 | 01.06.2024 21:27 | 5 km | 73 km |
| 3.9 | 07.05.2024 14:56 | 6 km | 118 km |
| 5.0 | 06.05.2024 15:32 | 14.9 km | 118 km |
| 5.0 | 06.05.2024 15:17 | 10 km | 117 km |
| 4.0 | 03.01.2024 14:47 | 5 km | 171 km |
| 4.8 | 05.10.2023 20:55 | 10 km | 168 km |
| 4.9 | 08.09.2023 20:45 | 10 km | 106 km |
| 2.9 | 16.07.2023 22:09 | 1 km | 171 km |
| 5.1 | 18.06.2023 09:10 | 21.4 km | 136 km |
| 3.5 | 17.06.2023 19:37 | 5 km | 126 km |
| 3.5 | 07.06.2023 10:13 | 5 km | 132 km |
| 3.7 | 02.06.2023 05:52 | 5 km | 126 km |
| 3.5 | 30.05.2023 19:27 | 5 km | 167 km |
| 3.5 | 22.05.2023 21:08 | 1 km | 97 km |
| 4.2 | 21.05.2023 18:39 | 16.7 km | 91 km |
| 3.8 | 05.05.2023 06:05 | 5 km | 168 km |
| 3.3 | 26.04.2023 05:52 | 1 km | 171 km |
| 4.4 | 26.04.2023 03:16 | 1.2 km | 169 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.