No records in the last 30 days.
176
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1901–2026
record span
4.13
mean magnitude
63
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.8 | 07.09.1915 01:20 | 80 km | 200 km |
| 7.7 | 13.01.2001 17:33 | 57.6 km | 222 km |
| 7.3 | 14.10.2014 03:51 | 63.9 km | 218 km |
| 7.2 | 28.03.1921 07:49 | 15 km | 80 km |
| 7.1 | 21.05.1932 10:10 | 15 km | 162 km |
| 7.1 | 08.10.1901 02:14 | 0 km | 151 km |
| 7.0 | 05.11.1926 07:55 | 15 km | 197 km |
| 6.3 | 05.10.1925 04:08 | 35 km | 172 km |
| 6.2 | 07.03.1934 22:41 | 35 km | 137 km |
| 6.2 | 25.01.1947 03:52 | 45 km | 180 km |
| 6.2 | 06.05.1951 23:08 | 10 km | 160 km |
| 6.2 | 20.12.1936 02:43 | 15 km | 174 km |
| 6.1 | 10.06.2016 03:25 | 17 km | 172 km |
| 6.1 | 12.01.1982 05:48 | 12.1 km | 157 km |
| 6.1 | 02.10.1927 04:47 | 15 km | 114 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.8 | 02.07.2026 13:16 | 17 km | 53 km |
| 3.6 | 06.05.2026 10:42 | 0 km | 52 km |
| 2.5 | 17.01.2026 11:34 | 11 km | 91 km |
| 3.8 | 21.12.2025 08:00 | 300 km | 86 km |
| 4.3 | 08.06.2025 22:26 | 10 km | 4 km |
| 2.6 | 18.04.2025 07:43 | 23 km | 97 km |
| 3.4 | 19.03.2025 01:21 | 10 km | 39 km |
| 3.4 | 22.01.2025 08:32 | 5 km | 91 km |
| 2.7 | 11.01.2025 06:18 | 5 km | 84 km |
| 4.2 | 05.01.2025 23:29 | 6 km | 119 km |
| 3.1 | 09.12.2024 20:16 | 1 km | 99 km |
| 4.5 | 09.12.2024 13:46 | 0 km | 111 km |
| 5.6 | 09.12.2024 03:50 | 10 km | 138 km |
| 2.7 | 08.10.2024 08:32 | 5 km | 81 km |
| 2.9 | 01.10.2024 20:18 | 266 km | 89 km |
| 4.0 | 22.09.2024 15:10 | 5 km | 83 km |
| 3.0 | 02.08.2024 22:43 | 1 km | 76 km |
| 2.5 | 21.07.2024 02:34 | 5 km | 77 km |
| 2.8 | 05.05.2024 05:06 | 1 km | 72 km |
| 3.0 | 04.05.2024 12:02 | 198 km | 67 km |
| 2.5 | 11.01.2024 12:22 | 2 km | 63 km |
| 3.5 | 21.10.2023 04:27 | 8.8 km | 74 km |
| 4.8 | 14.10.2023 22:11 | 9.4 km | 74 km |
| 4.5 | 12.10.2023 20:00 | 3.4 km | 77 km |
| 4.0 | 28.09.2023 23:59 | 222.9 km | 118 km |
| 3.5 | 24.09.2023 23:18 | 196 km | 90 km |
| 3.5 | 10.09.2023 12:45 | 364 km | 83 km |
| 4.4 | 04.09.2023 19:39 | 101.4 km | 100 km |
| 3.0 | 26.08.2023 02:22 | 5 km | 59 km |
| 3.7 | 25.08.2023 06:08 | 5 km | 56 km |
| 2.8 | 10.08.2023 13:27 | 87 km | 81 km |
| 2.5 | 08.08.2023 11:53 | 56 km | 81 km |
| 2.5 | 28.07.2023 00:28 | 16 km | 90 km |
| 2.6 | 26.07.2023 23:26 | 103 km | 70 km |
| 3.1 | 26.05.2023 12:30 | 5 km | 60 km |
| 2.5 | 08.05.2023 07:02 | 6 km | 50 km |
| 2.9 | 21.04.2023 19:32 | 5 km | 84 km |
| 2.7 | 02.04.2023 06:02 | 6 km | 53 km |
| 4.2 | 12.02.2023 10:30 | 12.7 km | 49 km |
| 2.8 | 13.01.2023 00:42 | 5 km | 76 km |
| 2.8 | 21.09.2022 05:14 | 1 km | 97 km |
| 2.6 | 28.08.2022 02:02 | 5 km | 83 km |
| 2.7 | 20.06.2022 02:02 | 5 km | 90 km |
| 2.9 | 18.06.2022 02:24 | 68 km | 95 km |
| 3.1 | 11.06.2022 12:30 | 2 km | 67 km |
| 2.8 | 26.05.2022 23:20 | 5 km | 59 km |
| 3.1 | 17.04.2022 18:17 | 1 km | 73 km |
| 2.7 | 19.03.2022 18:15 | 3 km | 66 km |
| 2.9 | 19.03.2022 17:52 | 2 km | 63 km |
| 3.6 | 19.03.2022 17:47 | 1 km | 76 km |
| 2.6 | 11.10.2021 09:20 | 224 km | 84 km |
| 2.7 | 22.09.2021 15:30 | 29 km | 90 km |
| 4.0 | 16.09.2021 13:42 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 3.5 | 03.09.2021 10:26 | 10 km | 82 km |
| 2.7 | 31.05.2021 07:10 | 105 km | 76 km |
| 2.5 | 25.05.2021 17:38 | 3 km | 105 km |
| 2.7 | 24.05.2021 18:40 | 2 km | 102 km |
| 2.9 | 24.05.2021 15:58 | 98 km | 82 km |
| 3.7 | 12.05.2021 11:57 | 10 km | 92 km |
| 3.3 | 06.05.2021 12:50 | 10 km | 88 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.