2.2
296
recorded earthquakes
M5.0
largest
1982–2026
record span
2.90
mean magnitude
210
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | 05.11.2014 16:19 | 2 km | 14 km |
| 4.6 | 06.10.1999 16:26 | 1 km | 65 km |
| 4.2 | 04.06.2015 19:24 | 2 km | 48 km |
| 4.2 | 18.09.1995 16:01 | 0 km | 80 km |
| 4.1 | 16.09.1995 16:42 | 0 km | 85 km |
| 3.7 | 02.11.1997 13:05 | 10 km | 78 km |
| 3.6 | 22.04.2001 17:23 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 3.5 | 01.08.2007 20:31 | 5 km | 74 km |
| 3.4 | 08.06.2017 18:12 | 0 km | 44 km |
| 3.4 | 17.10.2018 12:53 | 0 km | 44 km |
| 3.4 | 28.08.1982 07:24 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 3.4 | 19.11.2019 15:39 | 0 km | 37 km |
| 3.3 | 22.11.2018 10:03 | 8 km | 40 km |
| 3.3 | 24.05.2023 07:19 | 2 km | 27 km |
| 3.3 | 21.05.1989 12:14 | 10 km | 60 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.2 | 21.07.2026 08:46 | 5 km | 70 km |
| 2.2 | 08.07.2026 18:30 | 0 km | 70 km |
| 2.7 | 24.05.2026 20:10 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 3.0 | 19.03.2026 12:44 | 0 km | 63 km |
| 3.1 | 19.03.2026 11:57 | 0 km | 62 km |
| 2.4 | 16.12.2025 09:25 | 0 km | 69 km |
| 2.3 | 10.12.2025 11:29 | 0 km | 69 km |
| 2.2 | 26.09.2025 09:20 | 0 km | 69 km |
| 2.1 | 28.08.2025 06:48 | 0 km | 72 km |
| 2.4 | 29.07.2025 15:37 | 0 km | 30 km |
| 2.2 | 14.04.2025 18:59 | 5.2 km | 30 km |
| 2.4 | 01.04.2025 19:03 | 5.3 km | 29 km |
| 2.7 | 19.03.2025 14:42 | 0 km | 32 km |
| 2.6 | 18.03.2025 14:30 | 0 km | 31 km |
| 2.7 | 12.03.2025 10:59 | 5 km | 32 km |
| 2.8 | 29.08.2024 15:23 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 2.8 | 29.08.2024 10:02 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 3.1 | 11.06.2024 14:55 | 0 km | 47 km |
| 2.4 | 28.02.2024 13:32 | 5 km | 67 km |
| 2.8 | 08.02.2024 11:07 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 3.1 | 07.02.2024 16:01 | 5 km | 50 km |
| 2.1 | 22.08.2023 10:38 | 0 km | 54 km |
| 2.1 | 22.08.2023 10:06 | 0 km | 57 km |
| 3.2 | 24.05.2023 17:23 | 2 km | 39 km |
| 2.9 | 24.05.2023 16:04 | 2 km | 49 km |
| 3.1 | 24.05.2023 11:50 | 5 km | 25 km |
| 3.1 | 24.05.2023 09:12 | 2 km | 45 km |
| 3.3 | 24.05.2023 07:19 | 2 km | 27 km |
| 3.2 | 22.05.2023 13:54 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 2.9 | 17.05.2023 12:23 | 2 km | 37 km |
| 2.7 | 04.10.2022 12:28 | 2 km | 40 km |
| 2.3 | 24.08.2022 17:37 | 0 km | 59 km |
| 2.9 | 23.08.2022 15:59 | 2 km | 51 km |
| 2.8 | 23.08.2022 11:00 | 2 km | 55 km |
| 2.7 | 22.08.2022 17:47 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 2.8 | 21.08.2022 07:46 | 2 km | 40 km |
| 3.0 | 20.08.2022 13:10 | 2 km | 38 km |
| 2.7 | 02.08.2022 16:16 | 2 km | 65 km |
| 2.4 | 07.07.2022 11:37 | 2 km | 50 km |
| 3.1 | 27.06.2022 15:55 | 0 km | 33 km |
| 2.7 | 12.05.2022 10:46 | 0 km | 31 km |
| 2.8 | 30.03.2022 10:59 | 2 km | 70 km |
| 2.7 | 23.03.2022 16:30 | 2 km | 35 km |
| 3.0 | 09.03.2022 10:41 | 5 km | 40 km |
| 2.0 | 02.12.2021 23:24 | 2 km | 46 km |
| 2.2 | 13.10.2021 11:44 | 2 km | 55 km |
| 2.2 | 12.10.2021 11:15 | 2 km | 56 km |
| 3.0 | 18.08.2021 13:35 | 0 km | 60 km |
| 3.3 | 28.06.2021 14:29 | 5 km | 38 km |
| 2.8 | 26.11.2020 16:04 | 2 km | 42 km |
| 2.8 | 26.11.2020 10:52 | 2 km | 29 km |
| 3.1 | 26.11.2020 09:22 | 2 km | 39 km |
| 3.0 | 12.10.2020 14:22 | 2 km | 37 km |
| 2.9 | 12.10.2020 08:03 | 10 km | 35 km |
| 3.0 | 15.06.2020 14:58 | 2 km | 27 km |
| 3.2 | 15.06.2020 08:36 | 0 km | 22 km |
| 3.0 | 11.06.2020 10:25 | 10 km | 15 km |
| 2.6 | 07.06.2020 13:12 | 0 km | 41 km |
| 2.8 | 07.06.2020 12:54 | 0 km | 39 km |
| 2.8 | 07.06.2020 06:41 | 8 km | 38 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.