No records in the last 30 days.
587
recorded earthquakes
M7.3
largest
1909–2025
record span
3.40
mean magnitude
300
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 | 275 km |
| 7.3 | 23.01.1909 02:48 | 15 km | 56 km |
| 7.0 | 01.09.1962 19:20 | 15 km | 119 km |
| 6.6 | 16.08.1958 19:13 | 15 km | 195 km |
| 6.5 | 22.06.2002 02:58 | 16.3 km | 141 km |
| 6.3 | 28.05.2004 12:38 | 18.9 km | 245 km |
| 6.2 | 19.12.1980 01:16 | 13.6 km | 61 km |
| 6.1 | 31.03.2006 01:17 | 15.7 km | 149 km |
| 5.7 | 22.12.1980 12:51 | 24 km | 62 km |
| 5.6 | 04.12.1955 14:02 | 15 km | 172 km |
| 5.5 | 18.06.2007 14:29 | 14.9 km | 84 km |
| 5.5 | 30.06.1963 07:41 | — | 130 km |
| 5.4 | 26.04.1968 02:58 | 18.4 km | 55 km |
| 5.3 | 31.03.2006 01:31 | 22 km | 141 km |
| 5.3 | 29.05.1987 06:27 | 11 km | 171 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 28.09.2025 15:58 | 12 km | 102 km |
| 3.1 | 26.06.2025 18:39 | 10 km | 104 km |
| 3.3 | 25.06.2025 01:34 | 10 km | 101 km |
| 3.2 | 23.06.2025 12:54 | 10 km | 121 km |
| 3.6 | 17.05.2025 22:48 | 10 km | 34 km |
| 3.3 | 14.05.2025 03:48 | 6 km | 151 km |
| 3.0 | 07.05.2025 10:09 | 6 km | 129 km |
| 3.7 | 06.05.2025 09:05 | 8 km | 70 km |
| 3.0 | 06.05.2025 00:46 | 8 km | 142 km |
| 4.0 | 03.05.2025 17:30 | 8 km | 152 km |
| 3.3 | 30.03.2025 13:45 | 8 km | 109 km |
| 4.1 | 11.03.2025 05:49 | 8 km | 152 km |
| 3.3 | 06.02.2025 09:15 | 9 km | 43 km |
| 3.1 | 02.02.2025 16:37 | 8 km | 126 km |
| 3.6 | 19.10.2024 05:16 | 7 km | 131 km |
| 3.7 | 03.02.2024 17:23 | 10 km | 34 km |
| 4.1 | 10.11.2023 13:47 | 15 km | 66 km |
| 3.4 | 08.09.2023 18:14 | 10 km | 122 km |
| 3.6 | 02.09.2022 03:59 | 8 km | 49 km |
| 4.0 | 27.05.2022 12:03 | 2 km | 137 km |
| 3.7 | 17.04.2022 09:44 | 9 km | 82 km |
| 3.5 | 11.04.2022 18:03 | 9 km | 111 km |
| 4.2 | 30.11.2021 15:04 | 10 km | 170 km |
| 3.8 | 11.11.2021 09:40 | 10 km | 125 km |
| 4.2 | 11.11.2021 08:24 | 13 km | 148 km |
| 4.4 | 28.01.2021 07:24 | 10 km | 169 km |
| 5.0 | 24.10.2020 11:34 | 7.3 km | 151 km |
| 3.9 | 24.10.2020 11:32 | 10 km | 151 km |
| 3.5 | 20.04.2020 20:48 | 12 km | 69 km |
| 3.5 | 17.04.2020 10:17 | 11 km | 59 km |
| 4.0 | 14.03.2020 20:41 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 3.8 | 18.02.2020 17:04 | 8 km | 75 km |
| 4.0 | 28.01.2020 08:12 | 8 km | 146 km |
| 3.8 | 26.11.2019 15:23 | 10 km | 124 km |
| 3.8 | 03.11.2019 16:22 | 10 km | 133 km |
| 3.6 | 21.10.2019 05:01 | 17 km | 132 km |
| 3.6 | 14.06.2019 04:21 | 2 km | 147 km |
| 3.6 | 26.05.2019 04:34 | 10 km | 119 km |
| 4.0 | 14.04.2019 13:29 | 10 km | 148 km |
| 3.9 | 11.03.2019 19:39 | 20 km | 143 km |
| 3.5 | 02.12.2018 23:30 | 10 km | 110 km |
| 4.2 | 19.09.2018 12:41 | 13 km | 148 km |
| 3.6 | 16.07.2018 04:30 | 8 km | 143 km |
| 3.5 | 08.07.2018 16:08 | 8 km | 61 km |
| 3.9 | 10.06.2018 06:41 | 6 km | 156 km |
| 3.5 | 07.06.2018 17:46 | 9 km | 29 km |
| 4.0 | 28.05.2018 16:32 | 8.8 km | 127 km |
| 3.5 | 15.04.2018 09:49 | 8 km | 111 km |
| 4.0 | 26.12.2017 21:24 | 10 km | 173 km |
| 4.9 | 20.12.2017 19:57 | 12.3 km | 148 km |
| 3.7 | 23.11.2017 22:30 | 10 km | 150 km |
| 3.6 | 23.09.2017 05:01 | 11 km | 40 km |
| 4.1 | 08.06.2017 08:15 | 19 km | 155 km |
| 4.2 | 19.03.2017 23:46 | 10 km | 134 km |
| 3.6 | 15.03.2017 16:05 | 8 km | 74 km |
| 3.3 | 02.11.2016 11:11 | 10 km | 157 km |
| 3.5 | 04.04.2016 04:09 | 8 km | 101 km |
| 3.8 | 13.03.2016 23:27 | 2 km | 136 km |
| 4.0 | 28.09.2015 05:29 | 8 km | 51 km |
| 3.8 | 15.05.2015 21:03 | 9 km | 41 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.