No records in the last 30 days.
2,339
recorded earthquakes
M5.1
largest
1978–2026
record span
2.29
mean magnitude
2,237
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.1 | 21.12.1985 10:16 | 10 km | 103 km |
| 5.0 | 12.10.2008 07:44 | 12.2 km | 113 km |
| 4.8 | 11.09.1996 03:36 | 0 km | 134 km |
| 4.8 | 23.12.1985 04:27 | 10 km | 113 km |
| 4.6 | 20.12.1985 16:36 | 10 km | 109 km |
| 4.6 | 07.12.1984 11:00 | 0 km | 51 km |
| 4.6 | 21.12.1985 10:04 | 24.1 km | 109 km |
| 4.6 | 24.12.1985 00:04 | 10 km | 109 km |
| 4.5 | 23.01.1986 02:22 | 9 km | 114 km |
| 4.5 | 23.12.1985 03:24 | 24.2 km | 108 km |
| 4.4 | 10.10.2008 08:08 | 10.1 km | 105 km |
| 4.3 | 20.01.1986 23:38 | 10 km | 115 km |
| 4.2 | 28.10.2008 08:30 | 10 km | 105 km |
| 4.2 | 21.12.1985 02:07 | 20.3 km | 109 km |
| 4.2 | 06.11.2000 22:07 | 10 km | 104 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1 | 09.06.2026 18:50 | 11 km | 102 km |
| 2.1 | 24.04.2026 10:49 | 11.2 km | 101 km |
| 3.2 | 14.04.2026 16:22 | 13 km | 84 km |
| 1.8 | 14.04.2026 10:03 | 0 km | 130 km |
| 1.8 | 20.02.2026 00:57 | 11.8 km | 109 km |
| 2.2 | 20.02.2026 00:30 | 5 km | 110 km |
| 1.8 | 17.02.2026 09:44 | 12 km | 109 km |
| 1.9 | 11.02.2026 16:25 | 11.7 km | 110 km |
| 1.8 | 09.02.2026 12:02 | 10.7 km | 110 km |
| 2.4 | 08.02.2026 15:38 | 11.4 km | 110 km |
| 2.2 | 08.02.2026 14:50 | 5 km | 111 km |
| 2.2 | 08.02.2026 11:54 | 11.5 km | 109 km |
| 2.5 | 08.02.2026 09:42 | 11.8 km | 110 km |
| 1.6 | 08.02.2026 08:02 | 5 km | 108 km |
| 1.9 | 08.02.2026 07:39 | 11.3 km | 110 km |
| 2.4 | 03.02.2026 15:13 | 0 km | 90 km |
| 0.4 | 19.01.2026 07:48 | 13 km | 103 km |
| 0.8 | 18.01.2026 12:41 | 17.3 km | 101 km |
| 1.6 | 04.01.2026 20:17 | 7.9 km | 102 km |
| 1.8 | 04.01.2026 04:39 | 7.7 km | 103 km |
| 2.0 | 02.01.2026 14:29 | 6.6 km | 102 km |
| 2.0 | 02.01.2026 14:27 | 8.4 km | 102 km |
| 2.1 | 02.01.2026 04:27 | 7.5 km | 101 km |
| 2.0 | 02.01.2026 02:12 | 8.2 km | 102 km |
| 1.9 | 01.01.2026 18:52 | 7.4 km | 102 km |
| 2.0 | 01.01.2026 18:45 | 8.1 km | 102 km |
| 2.5 | 01.01.2026 17:44 | 7.9 km | 102 km |
| 2.6 | 01.01.2026 17:13 | 8.6 km | 102 km |
| 3.3 | 01.01.2026 17:04 | 8.1 km | 102 km |
| 1.9 | 01.01.2026 16:46 | 8.6 km | 102 km |
| 3.3 | 01.01.2026 16:38 | 8.2 km | 102 km |
| 2.9 | 01.01.2026 15:31 | 8.5 km | 102 km |
| 0.9 | 25.12.2025 20:26 | 10.5 km | 104 km |
| 1.6 | 18.12.2025 14:25 | 10.3 km | 101 km |
| 1.7 | 18.12.2025 14:10 | 9.9 km | 101 km |
| 0.8 | 16.12.2025 20:55 | 10 km | 102 km |
| 2.2 | 14.12.2025 01:51 | 10.3 km | 102 km |
| 1.9 | 14.12.2025 01:02 | 10 km | 102 km |
| 2.0 | 11.12.2025 01:23 | 10.7 km | 102 km |
| 1.9 | 11.12.2025 01:08 | 3.2 km | 101 km |
| 2.8 | 10.12.2025 23:44 | 2 km | 102 km |
| 2.9 | 10.12.2025 23:39 | 10.9 km | 101 km |
| 2.3 | 10.12.2025 19:43 | 4.5 km | 102 km |
| 2.2 | 10.12.2025 17:27 | 2.2 km | 102 km |
| 1.9 | 10.12.2025 16:42 | 3.5 km | 100 km |
| 2.1 | 10.12.2025 16:25 | 2 km | 101 km |
| 2.4 | 10.12.2025 14:49 | 1.9 km | 101 km |
| 2.5 | 10.12.2025 12:26 | 11.2 km | 101 km |
| 3.0 | 10.12.2025 09:58 | 10.9 km | 101 km |
| 2.5 | 10.12.2025 09:42 | 11.1 km | 101 km |
| 2.3 | 10.12.2025 05:35 | 11.3 km | 101 km |
| 2.4 | 10.12.2025 00:18 | 11.1 km | 101 km |
| 2.1 | 09.12.2025 22:52 | 11.5 km | 101 km |
| 2.5 | 09.12.2025 17:05 | 3 km | 101 km |
| 2.5 | 09.12.2025 08:21 | 5 km | 101 km |
| 2.0 | 08.12.2025 16:12 | 11 km | 101 km |
| 2.2 | 06.12.2025 22:10 | 11.3 km | 101 km |
| 2.1 | 06.12.2025 22:01 | 5 km | 100 km |
| 2.2 | 06.12.2025 21:34 | 11.7 km | 101 km |
| 2.3 | 06.12.2025 21:26 | 10.6 km | 101 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.