5.0
3,480
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1927–2026
record span
2.90
mean magnitude
3,302
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 | 22.11.1995 04:15 | 14 km | 447 km |
| 6.6 | 31.03.1969 07:15 | 8.1 km | 317 km |
| 6.2 | 11.07.1927 13:04 | 15 km | 744 km |
| 6.2 | 12.09.1955 06:09 | 63.7 km | 631 km |
| 6.1 | 03.08.1993 12:43 | 10.1 km | 429 km |
| 5.8 | 14.11.1981 09:05 | 18.7 km | 383 km |
| 5.8 | 12.10.1992 13:09 | 22.4 km | 330 km |
| 5.7 | 03.08.1993 16:33 | 12.4 km | 439 km |
| 5.7 | 23.11.1995 18:07 | 24.5 km | 485 km |
| 5.6 | 28.06.1972 09:49 | 9.9 km | 313 km |
| 5.6 | 27.06.2015 15:34 | 14.4 km | 456 km |
| 5.5 | 08.03.1997 06:00 | 1 km | 353 km |
| 5.5 | 28.05.1998 18:33 | 26.6 km | 604 km |
| 5.4 | 12.11.1955 05:32 | 15 km | 415 km |
| 5.4 | 18.12.1956 17:53 | 15 km | 701 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | 03.08.2026 00:00 | 10 km | 427 km |
| 3.9 | 14.06.2026 11:51 | 14.7 km | 352 km |
| 4.3 | 26.04.2026 00:13 | 26.1 km | 352 km |
| 4.2 | 26.03.2026 20:28 | 19 km | 326 km |
| 4.1 | 15.01.2026 07:00 | 10 km | 650 km |
| 4.1 | 25.12.2025 04:05 | 4.5 km | 307 km |
| 2.1 | 21.08.2025 07:33 | 9.1 km | 562 km |
| 3.0 | 13.07.2025 04:52 | 4.7 km | 470 km |
| 3.0 | 10.07.2025 07:12 | 5 km | 469 km |
| 2.6 | 04.07.2025 23:20 | 4.9 km | 471 km |
| 2.4 | 14.05.2025 14:37 | 17.7 km | 676 km |
| 4.0 | 16.03.2025 11:31 | 18.6 km | 449 km |
| 4.2 | 06.03.2025 11:42 | 19.3 km | 465 km |
| 4.1 | 23.02.2025 21:16 | 9.9 km | 651 km |
| 3.7 | 31.10.2024 04:34 | 0 km | 383 km |
| 5.2 | 22.10.2024 22:29 | 107 km | 425 km |
| 4.2 | 19.09.2024 10:55 | 10 km | 384 km |
| 3.8 | 21.07.2024 20:15 | 9.2 km | 689 km |
| 3.7 | 09.03.2024 22:04 | 3.3 km | 98 km |
| 4.4 | 23.01.2024 11:18 | 8.6 km | 272 km |
| 3.0 | 28.08.2023 00:09 | 37.8 km | 645 km |
| 4.3 | 16.05.2023 19:05 | 16 km | 444 km |
| 3.8 | 13.05.2023 19:12 | 20 km | 291 km |
| 4.4 | 14.04.2023 23:58 | 1.4 km | 336 km |
| 3.5 | 29.03.2023 22:55 | 10 km | 543 km |
| 4.0 | 22.03.2023 00:01 | 9.3 km | 366 km |
| 3.8 | 23.02.2023 22:25 | 16.4 km | 414 km |
| 4.2 | 02.02.2023 23:41 | 8 km | 335 km |
| 4.4 | 29.12.2022 14:54 | 15 km | 293 km |
| 3.9 | 29.12.2022 02:58 | 20 km | 294 km |
| 3.7 | 28.12.2022 23:19 | 4 km | 262 km |
| 4.6 | 27.12.2022 00:11 | 13.5 km | 293 km |
| 3.4 | 03.09.2022 13:21 | 92.1 km | 562 km |
| 4.0 | 15.03.2022 01:01 | 2.5 km | 263 km |
| 3.8 | 12.02.2022 04:06 | 14 km | 359 km |
| 4.2 | 01.02.2022 09:01 | 28.1 km | 292 km |
| 4.1 | 15.06.2021 23:08 | 26 km | 559 km |
| 4.3 | 19.02.2021 08:40 | 10 km | 474 km |
| 4.2 | 06.02.2021 16:14 | 19.7 km | 643 km |
| 3.7 | 07.01.2021 03:54 | 9 km | 665 km |
| 3.8 | 22.12.2020 13:01 | 10 km | 749 km |
| 3.9 | 15.12.2020 02:30 | 10 km | 515 km |
| 3.8 | 25.09.2020 20:22 | 16 km | 327 km |
| 3.8 | 09.07.2020 13:46 | 12 km | 310 km |
| 5.3 | 16.06.2020 14:30 | 7.5 km | 391 km |
| 4.0 | 03.06.2020 20:57 | 12 km | 744 km |
| 3.2 | 06.05.2020 00:56 | 5 km | 610 km |
| 4.4 | 11.04.2020 16:31 | 10 km | 648 km |
| 4.1 | 10.04.2020 16:31 | 5.8 km | 571 km |
| 4.3 | 05.04.2020 05:04 | 4.8 km | 450 km |
| 4.5 | 18.01.2020 21:46 | 10 km | 389 km |
| 3.8 | 30.12.2019 00:27 | 18 km | 633 km |
| 3.8 | 25.11.2019 11:48 | 12 km | 687 km |
| 3.7 | 25.11.2019 11:39 | 12 km | 689 km |
| 3.3 | 25.11.2019 08:07 | 12 km | 689 km |
| 3.9 | 19.11.2019 23:04 | 12 km | 379 km |
| 2.7 | 07.10.2019 18:46 | 6 km | 670 km |
| 3.7 | 16.09.2019 10:35 | 12 km | 498 km |
| 2.7 | 26.06.2019 12:18 | 5 km | 673 km |
| 4.0 | 26.06.2019 08:53 | 10 km | 674 km |
Regions
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.