No records in the last 30 days.
1,171
recorded earthquakes
M6.6
largest
1913–2026
record span
4.05
mean magnitude
971
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.6 | 28.12.1977 02:45 | 8.2 km | 160 km |
| 6.5 | 20.08.1989 11:16 | 19 km | 468 km |
| 6.4 | 21.08.1989 01:09 | 19.5 km | 440 km |
| 6.2 | 11.01.1941 08:31 | 35 km | 401 km |
| 6.2 | 05.03.1992 08:55 | 9.8 km | 526 km |
| 6.2 | 05.04.1969 02:18 | 14.8 km | 401 km |
| 6.2 | 29.03.1969 09:15 | 15.9 km | 403 km |
| 6.2 | 23.09.1915 08:14 | 10 km | 141 km |
| 6.2 | 31.03.1945 22:07 | 15 km | 75 km |
| 6.1 | 11.03.1961 08:41 | 15 km | 530 km |
| 6.1 | 20.08.1989 11:46 | 27.3 km | 438 km |
| 6.1 | 20.08.1989 19:25 | 11.3 km | 435 km |
| 6.1 | 21.08.1989 05:03 | 9.6 km | 445 km |
| 6.0 | 01.04.1973 07:12 | 9.7 km | 532 km |
| 6.0 | 14.01.1980 04:10 | 1.3 km | 159 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.9 | 11.06.2026 07:23 | 0 km | 114 km |
| 3.3 | 21.01.2026 23:52 | 0 km | 150 km |
| 3.6 | 21.01.2026 23:19 | 0 km | 157 km |
| 3.5 | 04.01.2026 20:05 | 0 km | 146 km |
| 2.8 | 25.12.2025 21:00 | 0 km | 296 km |
| 5.4 | 23.11.2025 12:53 | 3 km | 203 km |
| 5.4 | 23.11.2025 12:21 | 10 km | 238 km |
| 4.7 | 23.11.2025 08:55 | 10 km | 160 km |
| 4.2 | 23.11.2025 08:54 | 0 km | 248 km |
| 3.5 | 16.11.2025 09:41 | 9.3 km | 388 km |
| 3.7 | 01.11.2025 09:57 | 10 km | 167 km |
| 3.4 | 20.10.2025 16:27 | 0 km | 108 km |
| 4.8 | 20.10.2025 16:26 | 10 km | 131 km |
| 4.0 | 20.10.2025 10:31 | 0 km | 344 km |
| 3.2 | 17.10.2025 05:43 | 10 km | 152 km |
| 3.6 | 15.10.2025 06:01 | 0 km | 155 km |
| 3.6 | 14.10.2025 20:22 | 10 km | 144 km |
| 3.3 | 14.10.2025 13:02 | 0 km | 161 km |
| 3.4 | 14.10.2025 09:12 | 0 km | 160 km |
| 3.6 | 11.10.2025 23:57 | 0 km | 157 km |
| 3.5 | 11.10.2025 21:41 | 10 km | 143 km |
| 3.4 | 11.10.2025 21:23 | 10 km | 146 km |
| 4.9 | 11.10.2025 19:30 | 10 km | 151 km |
| 4.9 | 11.10.2025 18:38 | 10 km | 147 km |
| 4.1 | 11.10.2025 18:36 | 10 km | 159 km |
| 4.5 | 11.10.2025 16:25 | 10 km | 148 km |
| 5.5 | 11.10.2025 16:18 | 10 km | 155 km |
| 5.3 | 11.10.2025 16:01 | 10 km | 152 km |
| 4.3 | 11.10.2025 12:07 | 10 km | 150 km |
| 3.5 | 07.10.2025 18:06 | 0 km | 292 km |
| 4.4 | 07.10.2025 10:16 | 10 km | 299 km |
| 5.0 | 07.10.2025 10:10 | 10 km | 293 km |
| 2.5 | 23.09.2025 18:08 | 0.8 km | 395 km |
| 4.1 | 09.09.2025 19:50 | 10 km | 339 km |
| 2.7 | 02.09.2025 07:43 | 10 km | 373 km |
| 3.3 | 02.09.2025 06:23 | 0 km | 294 km |
| 3.4 | 29.08.2025 19:17 | 10 km | 279 km |
| 3.2 | 29.08.2025 02:13 | 0 km | 226 km |
| 3.8 | 28.08.2025 11:03 | 0 km | 245 km |
| 3.8 | 25.08.2025 20:00 | 10 km | 274 km |
| 4.4 | 25.08.2025 20:00 | 10 km | 318 km |
| 2.3 | 24.08.2025 14:52 | 10.7 km | 375 km |
| 4.0 | 31.07.2025 12:14 | 0 km | 210 km |
| 4.3 | 31.07.2025 04:15 | 10 km | 190 km |
| 4.5 | 30.07.2025 04:46 | 10 km | 190 km |
| 4.2 | 29.07.2025 20:57 | 10 km | 202 km |
| 5.4 | 29.07.2025 12:04 | 10 km | 210 km |
| 5.0 | 29.07.2025 11:31 | 10 km | 218 km |
| 4.4 | 29.07.2025 11:03 | 10 km | 170 km |
| 3.7 | 29.07.2025 10:19 | 0 km | 193 km |
| 3.8 | 29.07.2025 08:27 | 0 km | 212 km |
| 3.5 | 29.07.2025 06:41 | 0 km | 226 km |
| 3.6 | 29.07.2025 06:13 | 0 km | 204 km |
| 4.3 | 29.07.2025 06:02 | 10 km | 192 km |
| 3.6 | 29.07.2025 05:32 | 10 km | 196 km |
| 4.2 | 29.07.2025 05:12 | 10 km | 227 km |
| 3.9 | 29.07.2025 05:07 | 0 km | 196 km |
| 4.0 | 29.07.2025 04:49 | 0 km | 324 km |
| 3.4 | 21.07.2025 22:26 | 10 km | 257 km |
| 5.0 | 15.07.2025 05:54 | 10 km | 168 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.