5.2
543
recorded earthquakes
M7.4
largest
1909–2026
record span
3.87
mean magnitude
275
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.4 | 12.11.2017 18:18 | 20.1 km | 123 km |
| 7.3 | 20.06.1990 21:00 | 15.3 km | 276 km |
| 7.0 | 01.09.1962 19:20 | 15 km | 270 km |
| 6.6 | 16.08.1958 19:13 | 15 km | 174 km |
| 6.5 | 22.06.2002 02:58 | 16.3 km | 189 km |
| 6.5 | 13.12.1957 01:45 | 15 km | 159 km |
| 6.3 | 25.11.2018 16:37 | 17.3 km | 171 km |
| 6.1 | 18.12.1980 12:34 | 42.1 km | 206 km |
| 6.1 | 11.01.1967 11:20 | 22.9 km | 206 km |
| 6.0 | 25.08.2018 22:13 | 11.1 km | 128 km |
| 5.9 | 07.11.2019 22:46 | 6.1 km | 194 km |
| 5.8 | 24.03.1963 12:44 | 20 km | 161 km |
| 5.8 | 08.11.1924 09:05 | 15 km | 56 km |
| 5.8 | 22.07.2018 10:07 | 10.8 km | 133 km |
| 5.7 | 11.04.1909 04:02 | 30 km | 174 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.2 | 20.07.2026 03:48 | 10 km | 126 km |
| 4.8 | 20.07.2026 03:43 | 28 km | 120 km |
| 3.1 | 16.07.2026 17:00 | 7 km | 80 km |
| 4.3 | 15.04.2026 09:00 | 0 km | 173 km |
| 3.4 | 12.02.2026 15:36 | 27.8 km | 106 km |
| 4.1 | 20.11.2025 10:53 | 0 km | 45 km |
| 4.0 | 01.09.2025 08:36 | 16 km | 179 km |
| 3.2 | 18.08.2025 19:46 | 5.6 km | 137 km |
| 3.1 | 28.05.2025 00:05 | 7 km | 75 km |
| 3.2 | 28.05.2025 00:05 | 15 km | 170 km |
| 3.0 | 29.04.2025 13:53 | 8.8 km | 161 km |
| 3.2 | 03.04.2025 01:23 | 10 km | 112 km |
| 3.0 | 21.03.2025 19:51 | 10 km | 79 km |
| 4.2 | 07.03.2025 12:41 | 10 km | 171 km |
| 3.0 | 04.03.2025 04:21 | 10 km | 170 km |
| 3.6 | 14.02.2025 01:09 | 7 km | 73 km |
| 3.0 | 08.02.2025 20:49 | 8 km | 102 km |
| 3.2 | 06.02.2025 15:38 | 14 km | 107 km |
| 3.5 | 28.01.2025 07:37 | 10 km | 167 km |
| 3.1 | 27.01.2025 02:07 | 13 km | 166 km |
| 3.0 | 27.01.2025 01:11 | 14 km | 166 km |
| 4.9 | 27.01.2025 01:02 | 60.5 km | 175 km |
| 3.4 | 27.01.2025 00:14 | 15 km | 167 km |
| 3.0 | 10.01.2025 11:39 | 7 km | 127 km |
| 3.0 | 09.01.2025 00:22 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 1.8 | 15.12.2024 00:00 | 10 km | 124 km |
| 4.2 | 18.10.2024 01:10 | 10 km | 135 km |
| 3.0 | 04.08.2024 07:29 | 6 km | 146 km |
| 3.3 | 02.08.2024 09:50 | 6 km | 105 km |
| 5.0 | 25.07.2024 21:35 | 12.6 km | 149 km |
| 4.9 | 30.06.2024 20:57 | 16.8 km | 174 km |
| 3.2 | 30.03.2024 15:33 | 9 km | 51 km |
| 4.2 | 12.03.2024 00:27 | 6.3 km | 138 km |
| 3.4 | 14.02.2024 04:37 | 7 km | 84 km |
| 4.0 | 25.10.2023 13:31 | 12 km | 154 km |
| 4.2 | 03.10.2023 05:57 | 24 km | 149 km |
| 2.6 | 02.10.2023 00:51 | 15 km | 79 km |
| 4.1 | 15.06.2023 09:01 | 14.7 km | 158 km |
| 5.2 | 16.03.2023 18:32 | 18.5 km | 89 km |
| 3.6 | 10.10.2022 22:18 | 10 km | 132 km |
| 3.8 | 27.08.2022 04:25 | 7 km | 142 km |
| 4.2 | 12.08.2022 08:54 | 10 km | 80 km |
| 4.0 | 05.08.2022 09:07 | 10 km | 181 km |
| 4.1 | 30.07.2022 00:46 | 15 km | 170 km |
| 4.0 | 05.07.2022 13:43 | 10 km | 168 km |
| 4.1 | 29.05.2022 05:52 | 10 km | 181 km |
| 4.5 | 29.05.2022 05:50 | 10 km | 165 km |
| 3.7 | 21.03.2022 07:08 | 10 km | 98 km |
| 4.0 | 13.03.2022 05:04 | 16.3 km | 180 km |
| 3.5 | 05.03.2022 08:33 | 7 km | 54 km |
| 4.2 | 05.01.2022 01:09 | 16.3 km | 173 km |
| 3.8 | 24.12.2021 17:18 | 5 km | 53 km |
| 3.5 | 21.12.2021 01:14 | 10 km | 139 km |
| 3.6 | 07.12.2021 14:06 | 5 km | 54 km |
| 4.0 | 09.11.2021 12:25 | 15 km | 130 km |
| 3.6 | 23.08.2021 01:15 | 19 km | 128 km |
| 3.7 | 31.07.2021 15:01 | 2 km | 98 km |
| 3.7 | 01.07.2021 10:22 | 7 km | 114 km |
| 3.7 | 13.06.2021 19:37 | 8 km | 110 km |
| 4.0 | 23.05.2021 19:57 | 10 km | 53 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.