No records in the last 30 days.
324
recorded earthquakes
M5.9
largest
2011–2023
record span
3.88
mean magnitude
9
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.9 | 15.05.2018 15:48 | 8.7 km | 50 km |
| 5.5 | 21.05.2018 00:47 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 5.4 | 20.05.2018 08:01 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 5.4 | 12.06.2018 17:17 | 12.6 km | 65 km |
| 5.3 | 25.06.2018 17:41 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 5.2 | 27.06.2018 06:40 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 5.2 | 14.05.2018 14:41 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 5.1 | 03.06.2018 06:13 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 5.1 | 02.01.2020 16:00 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 5.1 | 25.05.2018 06:36 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 5.1 | 18.06.2018 13:43 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 5.1 | 21.10.2018 17:12 | 0 km | 22 km |
| 5.1 | 13.01.2019 05:15 | 10 km | 25 km |
| 5.1 | 13.03.2019 04:27 | 10 km | 27 km |
| 5.1 | 30.05.2018 05:54 | 10 km | 47 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.1 | 31.08.2023 08:10 | 39.5 km | 43 km |
| 4.1 | 14.04.2022 12:57 | 46 km | 40 km |
| 3.8 | 26.08.2021 11:08 | 34 km | 27 km |
| 3.0 | 31.07.2021 21:35 | 33 km | 27 km |
| 3.3 | 13.04.2021 20:53 | 31 km | 23 km |
| 3.5 | 05.12.2020 17:09 | 36 km | 22 km |
| 3.4 | 16.10.2020 21:49 | 36 km | 24 km |
| 3.2 | 06.10.2020 03:18 | 28 km | 26 km |
| 3.3 | 18.09.2020 14:11 | 30 km | 23 km |
| 4.0 | 17.09.2020 17:53 | 44 km | 39 km |
| 3.1 | 27.08.2020 07:28 | 39 km | 16 km |
| 4.1 | 25.08.2020 20:05 | 47 km | 36 km |
| 4.4 | 13.08.2020 15:35 | 52 km | 41 km |
| 3.1 | 29.07.2020 03:41 | 30 km | 28 km |
| 3.8 | 06.06.2020 17:30 | 34 km | 20 km |
| 3.4 | 04.06.2020 13:23 | 30 km | 24 km |
| 3.4 | 01.06.2020 23:46 | 36 km | 24 km |
| 3.5 | 02.05.2020 21:07 | 30 km | 25 km |
| 3.2 | 29.04.2020 17:08 | 35 km | 26 km |
| 3.1 | 29.04.2020 12:00 | 40 km | 24 km |
| 4.0 | 27.04.2020 08:37 | 40 km | 24 km |
| 3.1 | 16.04.2020 06:58 | 40 km | 17 km |
| 3.0 | 11.04.2020 07:14 | 25 km | 23 km |
| 3.6 | 10.04.2020 08:00 | 31 km | 21 km |
| 3.2 | 09.04.2020 08:02 | 28 km | 22 km |
| 3.2 | 01.04.2020 06:21 | 25 km | 23 km |
| 3.4 | 21.03.2020 11:09 | 31 km | 23 km |
| 3.1 | 13.03.2020 03:26 | 25 km | 21 km |
| 3.1 | 09.03.2020 22:24 | 24 km | 21 km |
| 3.2 | 02.03.2020 13:40 | 36 km | 22 km |
| 3.0 | 24.02.2020 02:14 | 29 km | 20 km |
| 3.1 | 23.02.2020 13:20 | 26 km | 22 km |
| 3.0 | 20.02.2020 06:40 | 32 km | 17 km |
| 3.3 | 17.02.2020 22:50 | 29 km | 21 km |
| 3.1 | 16.02.2020 22:57 | 24 km | 22 km |
| 3.2 | 12.02.2020 16:55 | 29 km | 21 km |
| 3.2 | 09.02.2020 02:58 | 29 km | 20 km |
| 3.0 | 08.02.2020 08:15 | 25 km | 23 km |
| 3.1 | 07.02.2020 10:13 | 22 km | 20 km |
| 3.1 | 01.02.2020 04:52 | 32 km | 21 km |
| 3.0 | 26.01.2020 19:58 | 32 km | 21 km |
| 3.5 | 26.01.2020 05:43 | 29 km | 21 km |
| 3.2 | 23.01.2020 09:56 | 23 km | 24 km |
| 3.2 | 21.01.2020 14:22 | 28 km | 22 km |
| 3.1 | 11.01.2020 10:11 | 25 km | 21 km |
| 3.6 | 08.01.2020 05:04 | 26 km | 20 km |
| 3.2 | 06.01.2020 00:05 | 38 km | 27 km |
| 3.1 | 04.01.2020 09:47 | 30 km | 22 km |
| 5.1 | 02.01.2020 16:00 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 3.3 | 01.01.2020 16:39 | 31 km | 21 km |
| 3.0 | 27.12.2019 01:18 | 31 km | 25 km |
| 3.5 | 21.12.2019 03:06 | 30 km | 22 km |
| 3.2 | 20.12.2019 17:45 | 32 km | 17 km |
| 3.1 | 15.12.2019 23:55 | 35 km | 25 km |
| 3.6 | 15.12.2019 19:13 | 27 km | 21 km |
| 3.1 | 06.12.2019 19:14 | 31 km | 20 km |
| 3.5 | 02.12.2019 21:30 | 26 km | 21 km |
| 3.2 | 01.12.2019 13:37 | 26 km | 22 km |
| 3.2 | 29.11.2019 13:41 | 25 km | 20 km |
| 3.6 | 25.11.2019 02:13 | 34 km | 21 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.