No records in the last 30 days.
455
recorded earthquakes
M7.3
largest
1917–2026
record span
3.80
mean magnitude
370
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.3 | 20.06.1990 21:00 | 15.3 km | 56 km |
| 7.0 | 01.09.1962 19:20 | 15 km | 208 km |
| 6.5 | 04.05.1980 18:35 | 25.6 km | 79 km |
| 6.3 | 04.11.1978 15:22 | 31.1 km | 53 km |
| 6.3 | 28.05.2004 12:38 | 18.9 km | 227 km |
| 6.1 | 28.02.1997 12:57 | 22.6 km | 144 km |
| 6.0 | 19.02.1924 06:59 | 35 km | 201 km |
| 5.9 | 09.07.1998 14:19 | 29 km | 156 km |
| 5.9 | 07.11.2019 22:46 | 6.1 km | 126 km |
| 5.7 | 21.06.1990 09:02 | 11.2 km | 97 km |
| 5.7 | 08.04.2026 09:05 | 23.6 km | 151 km |
| 5.6 | 28.11.1991 17:20 | 38.7 km | 75 km |
| 5.6 | 22.07.1983 02:41 | 19.2 km | 71 km |
| 5.6 | 04.08.1981 18:35 | 33.9 km | 81 km |
| 5.5 | 22.07.1980 05:17 | 38.1 km | 68 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.6 | 17.06.2026 07:53 | 13 km | 117 km |
| 3.0 | 10.06.2026 04:55 | 69.7 km | 110 km |
| 5.7 | 08.04.2026 09:05 | 23.6 km | 151 km |
| 3.3 | 21.02.2026 05:09 | 0 km | 60 km |
| 3.5 | 05.10.2025 01:36 | 48.7 km | 121 km |
| 3.7 | 22.06.2025 06:15 | 8 km | 88 km |
| 3.1 | 05.06.2025 12:47 | 10 km | 147 km |
| 3.1 | 20.05.2025 08:45 | 8 km | 50 km |
| 3.3 | 19.03.2025 02:14 | 16 km | 24 km |
| 3.1 | 04.03.2025 07:33 | 1 km | 73 km |
| 3.4 | 20.01.2025 13:37 | 6 km | 16 km |
| 5.0 | 11.05.2024 13:21 | 34.5 km | 165 km |
| 3.7 | 14.12.2023 11:00 | 18.2 km | 81 km |
| 3.1 | 08.12.2023 17:00 | 10.7 km | 98 km |
| 3.1 | 22.11.2023 01:02 | 23 km | 39 km |
| 3.0 | 10.08.2023 10:24 | 6 km | 77 km |
| 3.7 | 08.02.2023 06:19 | 28 km | 32 km |
| 4.0 | 06.02.2023 01:38 | 11.8 km | 138 km |
| 3.5 | 25.11.2022 00:30 | 20 km | 38 km |
| 3.8 | 14.10.2022 04:26 | 20 km | 98 km |
| 4.2 | 12.08.2022 18:21 | 10 km | 30 km |
| 4.1 | 30.07.2022 00:46 | 15 km | 147 km |
| 4.1 | 22.07.2022 18:24 | 10 km | 90 km |
| 4.0 | 03.07.2022 14:05 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 4.2 | 21.06.2022 03:49 | 10 km | 78 km |
| 4.6 | 14.06.2022 15:30 | 10 km | 95 km |
| 3.4 | 14.06.2022 15:30 | 12 km | 97 km |
| 4.0 | 30.05.2022 16:42 | 10 km | 74 km |
| 3.9 | 20.04.2022 23:30 | 10 km | 70 km |
| 3.8 | 04.03.2022 04:07 | 16 km | 60 km |
| 3.8 | 17.05.2021 01:34 | 2 km | 60 km |
| 3.5 | 12.05.2021 11:02 | 2 km | 75 km |
| 3.5 | 13.09.2020 00:44 | 20 km | 36 km |
| 4.1 | 26.06.2020 01:14 | 277 km | 142 km |
| 3.6 | 29.04.2020 19:19 | 10 km | 43 km |
| 3.9 | 17.02.2020 22:35 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 4.2 | 12.02.2020 10:53 | 24 km | 49 km |
| 5.9 | 07.11.2019 22:46 | 6.1 km | 126 km |
| 3.6 | 05.10.2019 14:26 | 10 km | 61 km |
| 3.6 | 16.09.2019 16:58 | 9.7 km | 111 km |
| 4.0 | 11.09.2019 12:56 | 20 km | 132 km |
| 3.6 | 27.08.2019 10:13 | 16 km | 71 km |
| 3.1 | 09.08.2019 02:57 | 7 km | 114 km |
| 3.8 | 02.08.2019 20:58 | 10 km | 91 km |
| 3.2 | 05.07.2019 23:05 | 16 km | 118 km |
| 3.7 | 03.07.2019 19:38 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 3.9 | 03.05.2019 06:34 | 2 km | 54 km |
| 4.7 | 31.01.2019 09:31 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 3.5 | 25.01.2019 14:17 | 2 km | 53 km |
| 3.1 | 25.01.2019 13:47 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 3.8 | 23.12.2018 05:38 | 9 km | 96 km |
| 4.2 | 17.12.2018 10:03 | 49.3 km | 89 km |
| 4.0 | 31.08.2018 10:10 | 15 km | 91 km |
| 3.7 | 05.07.2018 03:06 | 9 km | 81 km |
| 3.5 | 18.02.2018 22:04 | 15 km | 122 km |
| 3.8 | 11.01.2018 03:13 | 26 km | 136 km |
| 3.6 | 05.12.2017 15:27 | 14.4 km | 64 km |
| 5.0 | 27.08.2017 23:14 | 14.6 km | 69 km |
| 4.0 | 26.06.2017 23:59 | 10 km | 78 km |
| 3.8 | 11.06.2017 08:07 | 2 km | 102 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.