No records in the last 30 days.
152
recorded earthquakes
M5.5
largest
1921–2026
record span
2.71
mean magnitude
60
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.5 | 18.09.1939 00:14 | 15 km | 91 km |
| 5.5 | 08.10.1927 19:49 | 15 km | 61 km |
| 5.2 | 08.11.1938 03:11 | 35 km | 64 km |
| 5.2 | 05.03.1930 23:55 | 15 km | 46 km |
| 5.2 | 04.05.1921 17:35 | 15 km | 90 km |
| 5.1 | 15.08.1985 04:28 | 6.9 km | 92 km |
| 5.0 | 11.07.2000 10:56 | 10 km | 72 km |
| 4.6 | 03.12.1994 12:28 | 12.2 km | 81 km |
| 4.5 | 09.01.1996 01:07 | 10 km | 70 km |
| 4.4 | 11.07.2000 02:49 | 7.8 km | 74 km |
| 4.3 | 29.01.2011 17:41 | 2.4 km | 83 km |
| 4.2 | 20.09.2013 02:06 | 14.6 km | 63 km |
| 4.1 | 25.05.2004 07:30 | 9.6 km | 31 km |
| 4.1 | 25.07.2005 03:06 | 12.1 km | 73 km |
| 4.1 | 01.11.2011 23:56 | 5 km | 14 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.7 | 24.04.2026 02:11 | 10 km | 35 km |
| 2.7 | 10.03.2026 20:39 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 2.9 | 10.03.2026 08:02 | 11 km | 34 km |
| 2.6 | 21.02.2026 20:17 | 7 km | 34 km |
| 2.5 | 21.02.2026 17:44 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 3.4 | 21.02.2026 12:44 | 3.6 km | 35 km |
| 2.5 | 24.06.2025 18:56 | 6 km | 27 km |
| 1.8 | 19.02.2025 21:09 | 14 km | 43 km |
| 1.4 | 18.02.2025 19:20 | 0 km | 42 km |
| 2.3 | 18.02.2025 11:53 | 2 km | 46 km |
| 1.7 | 18.02.2025 08:02 | 5 km | 44 km |
| 2.4 | 12.02.2025 23:03 | 13 km | 50 km |
| 2.2 | 03.02.2024 05:00 | 2 km | 7 km |
| 2.8 | 16.10.2023 04:23 | 7 km | 49 km |
| 2.8 | 06.01.2023 04:32 | 3 km | 72 km |
| 3.2 | 23.07.2022 16:00 | 12 km | 41 km |
| 2.7 | 18.09.2021 04:47 | 5 km | 64 km |
| 2.9 | 18.09.2021 03:07 | 15 km | 47 km |
| 2.4 | 21.05.2021 15:11 | 4 km | 43 km |
| 4.0 | 30.03.2021 16:25 | 7 km | 79 km |
| 2.3 | 01.06.2020 17:24 | 7 km | 13 km |
| 2.6 | 14.06.2019 12:34 | 11 km | 46 km |
| 2.4 | 11.06.2017 16:22 | 5 km | 50 km |
| 2.4 | 17.02.2017 20:39 | 8 km | 60 km |
| 3.0 | 23.12.2015 21:22 | 5 km | 57 km |
| 2.4 | 15.12.2015 17:55 | 6 km | 58 km |
| 3.0 | 19.10.2013 07:02 | 10 km | 58 km |
| 2.7 | 02.10.2013 19:42 | 5 km | 65 km |
| 3.6 | 02.10.2013 17:17 | 11.6 km | 66 km |
| 3.2 | 24.09.2013 13:53 | 16 km | 17 km |
| 4.2 | 20.09.2013 02:06 | 14.6 km | 63 km |
| 2.9 | 17.01.2013 10:50 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 1.3 | 18.12.2011 10:27 | 24.4 km | 19 km |
| 1.3 | 18.11.2011 00:30 | 5 km | 48 km |
| 1.7 | 02.11.2011 02:16 | 15 km | 15 km |
| 4.1 | 01.11.2011 23:56 | 5 km | 14 km |
| 1.3 | 15.08.2011 23:26 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 1.6 | 23.07.2011 03:10 | 15 km | 65 km |
| 1.5 | 08.07.2011 21:40 | 2 km | 66 km |
| 0.6 | 25.03.2011 19:44 | 13.5 km | 67 km |
| 1.0 | 13.03.2011 22:56 | 6.5 km | 66 km |
| 1.1 | 03.03.2011 09:31 | 17.1 km | 59 km |
| 4.3 | 29.01.2011 17:41 | 2.4 km | 83 km |
| 2.6 | 26.01.2011 20:23 | 5 km | 53 km |
| 2.1 | 18.12.2010 06:26 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 2.9 | 18.12.2010 06:19 | 2 km | 67 km |
| 1.3 | 21.11.2010 04:55 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 1.5 | 30.08.2010 19:02 | 20 km | 55 km |
| 2.6 | 24.06.2010 17:47 | 5 km | 70 km |
| 2.0 | 21.06.2010 21:03 | 2 km | 51 km |
| 1.1 | 18.04.2010 01:21 | 5 km | 62 km |
| 1.7 | 25.11.2009 18:03 | 8 km | 59 km |
| 0.9 | 19.11.2009 01:12 | 10 km | 66 km |
| 2.5 | 20.10.2009 18:16 | 2 km | 30 km |
| 1.4 | 27.07.2009 12:21 | 10 km | 66 km |
| 1.3 | 27.07.2009 03:46 | 10 km | 67 km |
| 2.8 | 18.01.2009 16:53 | 2 km | 68 km |
| 2.2 | 14.01.2009 05:11 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 1.5 | 14.01.2009 02:51 | 10 km | 58 km |
| 1.2 | 14.01.2009 01:48 | 2 km | 65 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.