EveryQuake

Earthquakes in Southern Peninsula

1,740 earthquakes catalogued in and around Southern Peninsula between 1912 and 2026. Recorded measurements; not a forecast.

Last updated 4 August 2026 · merged from 5 catalogues
No records in the last 30 days.
1,740
recorded earthquakes
M7.0
largest
1912–2026
record span
3.41
mean magnitude
1,396
epicentre inside the border

By year

Stacked by magnitude; one column per year.

03306601912: 1 (M5+)19121920: 1 (M5+)19211924: 1 (M5+)1929: 2 (M5+)19301933: 1 (M5+)1935: 1 (M5+)19391944: 1 (M5+)1948: 1 (M5+)19481952: 2 (M5+)1955: 3 (M5+)195719661967: 4 (M4–5)1967: 1 (M5+)1968: 1 (M5+)1970: 1 (M4–5)1971: 5 (M4–5)1972: 2 (M4–5)1973: 3 (M4–5)1973: 2 (M5+)1974: 8 (M4–5)1975: 3 (M4–5)19751977: 2 (M4–5)1983: 1 (M4–5)19841987: 1 (M4–5)1990: 1 (M3–4)1990: 1 (M4–5)1991: 1 (M5+)1992: 1 (M3–4)19931994: 1 (M4–5)1996: 1 (M4–5)1997: 1 (M3–4)1997: 3 (M4–5)1998: 3 (M4–5)1998: 2 (M5+)2000: 4 (M5+)20022003: 1 (M5+)2004: 1 (M4–5)2005: 3 (M3–4)2006: 1 (M3–4)2007: 4 (M3–4)2007: 1 (M4–5)2008: 5 (M3–4)2008: 11 (M4–5)2008: 1 (M5+)2009: 1 (M<3)2009: 9 (M3–4)2009: 5 (M4–5)2010: 1 (M3–4)2010: 1 (M5+)2011: 8 (M3–4)2011: 1 (M4–5)20112012: 4 (M3–4)2013: 5 (M3–4)2013: 4 (M4–5)2013: 1 (M5+)2015: 3 (M3–4)2015: 5 (M4–5)2017: 14 (M3–4)2017: 2 (M4–5)2018: 9 (M3–4)2018: 1 (M4–5)2019: 14 (M3–4)2020: 126 (M3–4)2020: 13 (M4–5)2020: 1 (M5+)20202021: 327 (M3–4)2021: 46 (M4–5)2021: 6 (M5+)2022: 33 (M<3)2022: 100 (M3–4)2022: 16 (M4–5)2022: 2 (M5+)2023: 207 (M<3)2023: 395 (M3–4)2023: 54 (M4–5)2023: 4 (M5+)2024: 25 (M<3)2024: 34 (M3–4)2024: 4 (M4–5)2025: 50 (M<3)2025: 77 (M3–4)2025: 12 (M4–5)2026: 11 (M<3)2026: 12 (M3–4)2026: 2 (M4–5)2026
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.

MagnitudeDateDepthDistance
7.006.05.1912 19:0035 km107 km
6.517.06.2000 15:4010.4 km78 km
6.421.06.2000 00:518.7 km69 km
6.323.07.1929 18:4310 km23 km
6.329.05.2008 15:464.2 km54 km
6.010.06.1933 12:0635 km40 km
6.005.12.1968 09:4410 km24 km
5.909.10.1935 22:0815 km66 km
5.714.05.1920 17:5710 km57 km
5.620.10.2020 13:433.2 km7 km
5.619.02.1944 11:3515 km73 km
5.604.09.1924 16:0135 km73 km
5.623.07.1929 20:0410 km39 km
5.517.06.2000 15:4510 km7 km
5.414.03.2021 14:150.9 km11 km

Latest earthquakes

MagnitudeDateDepthDistance
2.815.06.2026 18:035.1 km24 km
2.810.06.2026 02:559.2 km36 km
3.203.06.2026 10:403 km32 km
3.401.06.2026 16:464 km37 km
3.801.06.2026 16:172.7 km37 km
3.601.06.2026 13:450 km43 km
2.931.05.2026 18:283.7 km38 km
3.531.05.2026 17:154.5 km37 km
2.931.05.2026 17:012.6 km38 km
2.831.05.2026 06:553.5 km38 km
3.024.05.2026 18:317.9 km38 km
3.424.05.2026 05:069.1 km39 km
2.824.05.2026 04:211.3 km37 km
2.823.05.2026 22:456.5 km38 km
3.613.05.2026 00:310 km44 km
2.925.04.2026 23:444.9 km32 km
4.123.03.2026 18:4510 km32 km
4.223.03.2026 17:2510 km52 km
2.809.02.2026 16:530 km38 km
2.809.02.2026 15:586.3 km43 km
3.009.02.2026 11:270.7 km39 km
3.308.02.2026 18:1010.2 km43 km
3.408.02.2026 16:507.4 km44 km
2.808.02.2026 13:087.5 km44 km
3.028.01.2026 02:016.6 km34 km
3.027.12.2025 01:486.1 km10 km
2.924.12.2025 10:426.8 km18 km
2.903.12.2025 02:129.2 km42 km
2.902.12.2025 22:2210 km44 km
2.819.11.2025 04:267.8 km32 km
3.622.10.2025 15:244.9 km7 km
3.122.10.2025 04:505.1 km7 km
3.004.10.2025 14:134.2 km8 km
2.803.10.2025 14:034.8 km8 km
3.303.10.2025 07:394.5 km8 km
2.827.09.2025 12:266.9 km35 km
2.909.09.2025 05:397.2 km21 km
2.805.09.2025 01:455 km6 km
3.605.09.2025 01:425.1 km7 km
3.331.08.2025 08:588.2 km35 km
3.331.08.2025 04:488.2 km36 km
3.130.08.2025 12:464.3 km10 km
3.218.08.2025 18:105.3 km21 km
2.908.08.2025 14:287.5 km35 km
3.307.08.2025 21:125 km23 km
2.907.08.2025 21:101.1 km22 km
2.820.07.2025 02:556 km6 km
2.823.06.2025 01:118.5 km39 km
3.418.06.2025 22:265.1 km8 km
2.926.05.2025 06:165.9 km29 km
2.925.05.2025 10:366.8 km29 km
2.825.05.2025 05:396.9 km29 km
2.824.05.2025 18:098.8 km45 km
2.924.05.2025 16:441.1 km42 km
4.124.05.2025 15:4911.6 km56 km
4.324.05.2025 15:4510 km38 km
4.824.05.2025 15:420 km55 km
4.424.05.2025 15:3610 km35 km
4.024.05.2025 14:259.7 km54 km
5.024.05.2025 14:2110 km38 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.