No records in the last 30 days.
783
recorded earthquakes
M6.5
largest
1929–2025
record span
3.96
mean magnitude
542
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.5 | 20.08.1989 11:16 | 19 km | 234 km |
| 6.4 | 21.08.1989 01:09 | 19.5 km | 210 km |
| 6.2 | 05.03.1992 08:55 | 9.8 km | 268 km |
| 6.2 | 29.03.1969 09:15 | 15.9 km | 213 km |
| 6.2 | 05.04.1969 02:18 | 14.8 km | 203 km |
| 6.1 | 11.03.1961 08:41 | 15 km | 267 km |
| 6.1 | 20.08.1989 19:25 | 11.3 km | 204 km |
| 6.1 | 20.08.1989 11:46 | 27.3 km | 204 km |
| 6.1 | 21.08.1989 05:03 | 9.6 km | 216 km |
| 6.0 | 01.04.1973 07:12 | 9.7 km | 269 km |
| 6.0 | 18.05.1929 01:02 | 35 km | 242 km |
| 5.9 | 05.12.2001 15:52 | 2 km | 249 km |
| 5.8 | 29.03.1969 11:04 | 1.6 km | 203 km |
| 5.8 | 21.08.1989 05:05 | 12 km | 191 km |
| 5.7 | 24.02.2001 16:26 | 36 km | 178 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.8 | 25.12.2025 21:00 | 0 km | 128 km |
| 5.4 | 23.11.2025 12:53 | 3 km | 116 km |
| 5.4 | 23.11.2025 12:21 | 10 km | 100 km |
| 4.7 | 23.11.2025 08:55 | 10 km | 129 km |
| 4.2 | 23.11.2025 08:54 | 0 km | 169 km |
| 3.5 | 16.11.2025 09:41 | 9.3 km | 176 km |
| 5.5 | 11.10.2025 16:18 | 10 km | 202 km |
| 5.3 | 11.10.2025 16:01 | 10 km | 206 km |
| 2.5 | 23.09.2025 18:08 | 0.8 km | 166 km |
| 2.7 | 02.09.2025 07:43 | 10 km | 133 km |
| 3.3 | 02.09.2025 06:23 | 0 km | 173 km |
| 3.4 | 29.08.2025 19:17 | 10 km | 112 km |
| 3.8 | 28.08.2025 11:03 | 0 km | 116 km |
| 3.8 | 25.08.2025 20:00 | 10 km | 118 km |
| 2.3 | 24.08.2025 14:52 | 10.7 km | 140 km |
| 4.0 | 29.07.2025 04:49 | 0 km | 203 km |
| 3.4 | 21.07.2025 22:26 | 10 km | 182 km |
| 5.0 | 15.07.2025 05:54 | 10 km | 161 km |
| 5.2 | 02.03.2025 08:14 | 10 km | 203 km |
| 3.7 | 16.03.2024 07:09 | 10 km | 84 km |
| 3.9 | 14.03.2024 09:50 | 10 km | 79 km |
| 4.0 | 14.03.2024 09:38 | 10 km | 72 km |
| 4.8 | 19.10.2023 05:30 | 10 km | 168 km |
| 4.1 | 04.07.2023 13:01 | 0 km | 208 km |
| 4.0 | 14.04.2023 22:37 | 3.7 km | 143 km |
| 3.9 | 25.01.2023 23:38 | 14 km | 177 km |
| 5.1 | 28.12.2022 16:14 | 18 km | 213 km |
| 5.5 | 26.12.2022 12:21 | 10.8 km | 207 km |
| 3.5 | 16.10.2022 23:08 | 10 km | 137 km |
| 3.8 | 11.08.2021 10:44 | 7 km | 156 km |
| 3.9 | 11.08.2021 10:37 | 7 km | 155 km |
| 3.6 | 08.08.2021 13:24 | 8 km | 154 km |
| 4.1 | 24.02.2021 17:07 | 10 km | 145 km |
| 4.9 | 30.06.2019 14:26 | 10 km | 106 km |
| 4.0 | 30.06.2019 01:16 | 0 km | 82 km |
| 5.2 | 24.03.2018 10:27 | 13.1 km | 202 km |
| 3.7 | 25.08.2017 05:20 | 10 km | 150 km |
| 4.5 | 20.06.2017 21:01 | 0 km | 30 km |
| 5.0 | 14.04.2017 10:44 | 10 km | 250 km |
| 5.0 | 14.04.2017 05:53 | 10 km | 261 km |
| 4.4 | 06.12.2016 04:33 | 0.2 km | 183 km |
| 3.5 | 09.07.2014 01:57 | 6 km | 85 km |
| 3.9 | 09.07.2014 00:50 | 5 km | 84 km |
| 4.1 | 10.05.2013 21:56 | 10 km | 132 km |
| 4.5 | 06.12.2012 01:49 | 10 km | 151 km |
| 3.9 | 06.12.2012 01:25 | 2 km | 149 km |
| 4.5 | 05.12.2012 08:50 | 10 km | 164 km |
| 4.0 | 05.12.2012 00:41 | 12 km | 172 km |
| 4.3 | 04.12.2012 20:53 | 10 km | 159 km |
| 4.2 | 04.12.2012 20:05 | 13.9 km | 149 km |
| 4.1 | 04.12.2012 16:56 | 13 km | 162 km |
| 4.0 | 04.12.2012 13:00 | 17.8 km | 154 km |
| 4.0 | 04.12.2012 10:43 | 12.4 km | 157 km |
| 4.3 | 04.12.2012 10:12 | 9 km | 161 km |
| 4.4 | 03.12.2012 23:56 | 7.7 km | 164 km |
| 4.7 | 03.12.2012 17:52 | 10 km | 145 km |
| 3.9 | 26.11.2012 07:46 | 18 km | 167 km |
| 4.3 | 29.10.2012 09:38 | 2.1 km | 207 km |
| 5.0 | 01.07.2012 16:19 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 3.7 | 20.03.2012 19:34 | 2 km | 37 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.