No records in the last 30 days.
321
recorded earthquakes
M7.7
largest
1911–2026
record span
4.58
mean magnitude
217
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.7 | 16.08.1911 22:41 | 15 km | 1500 km |
| 7.5 | 29.09.1912 20:51 | 15 km | 1506 km |
| 7.2 | 28.01.1931 21:24 | 15 km | 782 km |
| 7.1 | 15.11.1929 18:50 | 10 km | 860 km |
| 7.1 | 09.05.1917 15:54 | 15 km | 779 km |
| 7.0 | 31.10.1912 17:24 | 35 km | 1384 km |
| 6.9 | 18.06.1942 09:31 | 15 km | 1126 km |
| 6.9 | 09.09.1935 06:17 | 15 km | 1025 km |
| 6.8 | 12.04.1936 20:51 | 15 km | 1431 km |
| 6.6 | 15.03.1943 04:47 | 35 km | 969 km |
| 6.5 | 03.07.1988 11:43 | 26.2 km | 1403 km |
| 6.4 | 08.12.2017 00:22 | 25.6 km | 1170 km |
| 6.4 | 23.11.1919 05:56 | 15 km | 1385 km |
| 6.4 | 03.07.1950 10:03 | 35 km | 1029 km |
| 6.3 | 11.12.1983 09:13 | 32.4 km | 1465 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.2 | 30.06.2026 21:49 | 10 km | 507 km |
| 4.0 | 09.04.2026 05:35 | 10 km | 595 km |
| 3.6 | 27.03.2026 20:01 | 0 km | 1381 km |
| 3.8 | 31.01.2026 08:43 | 60.6 km | 1394 km |
| 4.5 | 07.12.2025 00:54 | 10 km | 1359 km |
| 4.6 | 29.11.2025 13:29 | 10 km | 1380 km |
| 3.9 | 07.11.2025 13:01 | 0 km | 1053 km |
| 5.3 | 15.10.2025 10:22 | 10 km | 993 km |
| 5.9 | 13.10.2025 11:11 | 10 km | 986 km |
| 4.4 | 02.07.2025 05:01 | 35.4 km | 1083 km |
| 4.9 | 24.05.2025 16:46 | 10 km | 287 km |
| 4.6 | 23.03.2025 13:34 | 10 km | 1005 km |
| 3.2 | 23.03.2025 13:34 | 0 km | 1013 km |
| 5.3 | 01.03.2025 20:01 | 33 km | 583 km |
| 3.4 | 02.02.2025 23:47 | 0 km | 1371 km |
| 4.8 | 02.11.2024 12:17 | 0 km | 794 km |
| 4.7 | 19.06.2024 16:14 | 10 km | 290 km |
| 4.3 | 14.05.2024 03:58 | 10 km | 149 km |
| 4.1 | 15.09.2023 00:45 | 35 km | 1325 km |
| 5.6 | 03.09.2023 21:29 | 8.2 km | 295 km |
| 4.8 | 06.07.2023 21:41 | 10 km | 1348 km |
| 3.6 | 06.07.2023 21:41 | 10 km | 1342 km |
| 3.4 | 19.06.2023 04:37 | 35 km | 1382 km |
| 4.6 | 19.06.2023 04:37 | 10 km | 1381 km |
| 4.1 | 29.05.2023 20:23 | 10 km | 859 km |
| 5.1 | 09.04.2023 15:30 | 18.7 km | 419 km |
| 4.1 | 08.02.2023 10:15 | 10 km | 1374 km |
| 3.5 | 08.02.2023 06:57 | 10 km | 1340 km |
| 4.8 | 07.02.2023 16:44 | 12 km | 1360 km |
| 5.1 | 07.02.2023 14:20 | 14.6 km | 1348 km |
| 5.0 | 24.12.2022 04:58 | 10 km | 1348 km |
| 3.4 | 24.12.2022 04:58 | 10 km | 1337 km |
| 4.3 | 25.09.2022 14:42 | 10 km | 1384 km |
| 4.8 | 24.04.2022 06:15 | 10 km | 953 km |
| 5.1 | 23.04.2022 18:22 | 14.3 km | 328 km |
| 3.7 | 18.04.2022 05:57 | 10 km | 264 km |
| 4.1 | 14.02.2022 04:36 | 35 km | 419 km |
| 4.9 | 28.10.2021 23:34 | 10 km | 1346 km |
| 3.8 | 13.09.2021 04:12 | 35 km | 1064 km |
| 3.7 | 21.07.2021 13:31 | 35 km | 1354 km |
| 4.3 | 26.02.2021 11:30 | 10 km | 1387 km |
| 4.8 | 26.02.2021 08:38 | 10 km | 1374 km |
| 5.5 | 26.02.2021 07:46 | 17.9 km | 1409 km |
| 5.1 | 26.02.2021 07:34 | 18.3 km | 1393 km |
| 4.8 | 09.01.2021 15:00 | 10 km | 367 km |
| 4.6 | 17.09.2020 05:22 | 10 km | 974 km |
| 3.2 | 17.09.2020 05:22 | 10 km | 975 km |
| 5.0 | 21.08.2020 12:35 | 10 km | 1169 km |
| 4.3 | 20.08.2020 23:45 | 35 km | 142 km |
| 4.8 | 19.07.2020 01:41 | 10 km | 1364 km |
| 3.4 | 19.07.2020 01:41 | 10 km | 1365 km |
| 3.6 | 07.07.2020 19:09 | 46 km | 1384 km |
| 5.2 | 21.06.2020 09:58 | 18.1 km | 1358 km |
| 5.1 | 14.04.2020 06:31 | 14.1 km | 795 km |
| 5.1 | 02.01.2020 05:28 | 49.6 km | 1384 km |
| 4.9 | 10.10.2019 22:33 | 10 km | 171 km |
| 4.2 | 28.08.2019 00:53 | 35 km | 1366 km |
| 4.3 | 18.08.2019 16:45 | 10 km | 529 km |
| 4.0 | 04.05.2019 23:39 | 10 km | 531 km |
| 5.2 | 18.11.2018 09:29 | 10 km | 759 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.