5.5
360
recorded earthquakes
M7.0
largest
1912–2026
record span
4.13
mean magnitude
32
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | 06.05.1912 19:00 | 35 km | 162 km |
| 6.8 | 28.03.1963 00:15 | 10 km | 85 km |
| 6.5 | 17.06.2000 15:40 | 10.4 km | 182 km |
| 6.4 | 21.06.2000 00:51 | 8.7 km | 178 km |
| 6.3 | 23.07.1929 18:43 | 10 km | 180 km |
| 6.3 | 29.05.2008 15:46 | 4.2 km | 178 km |
| 6.3 | 13.01.1976 13:29 | 3.6 km | 161 km |
| 6.2 | 02.06.1934 13:42 | 35 km | 92 km |
| 6.2 | 23.08.1921 20:17 | 35 km | 190 km |
| 6.0 | 21.06.2020 19:07 | 9 km | 117 km |
| 5.8 | 20.06.2020 19:26 | 8.5 km | 100 km |
| 5.7 | 14.05.1920 17:57 | 10 km | 147 km |
| 5.6 | 26.09.1992 05:45 | 7.8 km | 127 km |
| 5.6 | 31.07.1927 20:59 | 35 km | 34 km |
| 5.6 | 21.10.2012 01:25 | 7.4 km | 103 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.5 | 28.07.2026 05:36 | 10 km | 139 km |
| 2.8 | 01.07.2026 23:33 | 19.2 km | 45 km |
| 5.5 | 31.01.2026 11:54 | 10 km | 131 km |
| 5.5 | 29.10.2025 16:46 | 10 km | 155 km |
| 2.9 | 25.09.2025 15:55 | 10.2 km | 74 km |
| 2.8 | 31.08.2025 03:01 | 8.2 km | 71 km |
| 2.8 | 17.08.2025 13:57 | 6.8 km | 101 km |
| 3.0 | 17.08.2025 08:28 | 3.2 km | 60 km |
| 2.8 | 16.08.2025 23:35 | 3.6 km | 60 km |
| 5.3 | 27.07.2025 23:40 | 10 km | 153 km |
| 5.4 | 05.05.2025 21:14 | 10 km | 138 km |
| 4.1 | 05.05.2025 05:34 | 10 km | 127 km |
| 2.9 | 03.04.2025 18:11 | 10.1 km | 105 km |
| 5.1 | 22.02.2025 21:04 | 10 km | 125 km |
| 2.8 | 28.01.2025 23:57 | 1.1 km | 74 km |
| 5.2 | 14.01.2025 08:05 | 8 km | 137 km |
| 4.5 | 14.01.2025 07:47 | 10 km | 130 km |
| 2.8 | 17.12.2024 16:47 | 2.9 km | 68 km |
| 2.9 | 13.12.2024 20:48 | 2.7 km | 83 km |
| 2.8 | 11.12.2024 22:10 | 2.6 km | 70 km |
| 5.2 | 08.12.2024 01:49 | 10 km | 144 km |
| 5.2 | 06.10.2024 17:56 | 10 km | 145 km |
| 3.1 | 16.09.2024 18:11 | 15.3 km | 56 km |
| 5.1 | 03.09.2024 16:31 | 10 km | 148 km |
| 2.9 | 03.07.2024 03:47 | 2.1 km | 101 km |
| 2.9 | 03.07.2024 03:45 | 8.1 km | 99 km |
| 5.4 | 21.04.2024 06:37 | 1.1 km | 137 km |
| 2.9 | 09.04.2024 10:17 | 2.5 km | 75 km |
| 2.8 | 30.11.2023 06:44 | 11.6 km | 76 km |
| 3.4 | 10.11.2023 17:51 | 1.1 km | 98 km |
| 3.7 | 10.11.2023 17:46 | 10.7 km | 86 km |
| 5.2 | 24.10.2023 22:19 | 3 km | 129 km |
| 4.1 | 14.10.2023 16:13 | 10 km | 126 km |
| 3.0 | 12.08.2023 19:37 | 1.1 km | 78 km |
| 2.8 | 06.07.2023 18:07 | 8.1 km | 111 km |
| 3.0 | 28.06.2023 09:20 | 1.1 km | 57 km |
| 5.3 | 21.02.2023 08:41 | 10.9 km | 132 km |
| 3.3 | 10.09.2022 14:55 | 1 km | 103 km |
| 3.1 | 09.09.2022 13:34 | 1 km | 84 km |
| 5.2 | 08.09.2022 04:01 | 3.3 km | 156 km |
| 3.4 | 31.07.2022 17:54 | 1 km | 97 km |
| 3.2 | 30.07.2022 15:10 | 1 km | 91 km |
| 5.0 | 24.07.2022 13:45 | 1.8 km | 136 km |
| 3.0 | 27.06.2022 23:21 | 5 km | 107 km |
| 2.8 | 27.06.2022 22:44 | 4 km | 107 km |
| 3.7 | 23.06.2022 22:29 | 5 km | 94 km |
| 4.6 | 23.06.2022 22:12 | 10 km | 96 km |
| 4.0 | 30.05.2022 09:20 | 6 km | 109 km |
| 3.8 | 30.05.2022 01:51 | 5 km | 109 km |
| 5.1 | 22.02.2022 10:11 | 2.2 km | 133 km |
| 3.0 | 25.12.2021 01:24 | 5 km | 74 km |
| 3.2 | 15.08.2021 09:35 | 8 km | 87 km |
| 5.0 | 29.07.2021 06:25 | 1 km | 147 km |
| 5.1 | 27.07.2021 22:12 | 10 km | 139 km |
| 3.1 | 20.10.2020 15:07 | 1 km | 104 km |
| 3.0 | 06.10.2020 06:01 | 11 km | 110 km |
| 3.0 | 06.10.2020 05:50 | 7 km | 110 km |
| 4.1 | 06.10.2020 05:47 | 4 km | 110 km |
| 3.9 | 06.10.2020 05:37 | 3 km | 110 km |
| 3.7 | 06.10.2020 05:35 | 11 km | 109 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.