No records in the last 30 days.
563
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1917–2026
record span
3.77
mean magnitude
442
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.2 | 05.10.1948 20:12 | 15 km | 135 km |
| 7.1 | 01.05.1929 15:37 | 10 km | 96 km |
| 6.7 | 30.07.1970 00:52 | 12.4 km | 111 km |
| 6.5 | 04.02.1997 10:37 | 20.4 km | 33 km |
| 6.4 | 17.09.1923 07:09 | 15 km | 93 km |
| 6.3 | 04.05.1940 21:01 | 15 km | 206 km |
| 6.1 | 29.10.1985 13:13 | 15.5 km | 219 km |
| 6.0 | 13.05.1929 13:27 | 15 km | 82 km |
| 5.9 | 09.05.1950 11:16 | 15 km | 171 km |
| 5.9 | 13.07.1929 07:36 | 15 km | 128 km |
| 5.8 | 28.11.1917 14:42 | 15 km | 68 km |
| 5.8 | 19.09.1939 03:24 | 15 km | 125 km |
| 5.8 | 08.11.1939 17:21 | 15 km | 146 km |
| 5.8 | 19.12.1938 18:56 | 15 km | 167 km |
| 5.8 | 25.07.1929 00:17 | 15 km | 88 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.9 | 25.06.2026 06:28 | 0 km | 27 km |
| 3.9 | 06.12.2025 16:46 | 0 km | 101 km |
| 4.1 | 03.12.2025 21:51 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 4.1 | 20.11.2025 20:56 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 3.0 | 17.05.2025 14:10 | 9 km | 83 km |
| 3.1 | 26.04.2025 15:33 | 10 km | 76 km |
| 3.3 | 22.04.2025 04:47 | 9 km | 77 km |
| 3.2 | 18.04.2025 07:20 | 8 km | 93 km |
| 3.2 | 26.03.2025 09:30 | 12 km | 55 km |
| 3.0 | 25.03.2025 03:07 | 5 km | 105 km |
| 3.1 | 05.03.2025 21:04 | 7 km | 78 km |
| 3.7 | 05.03.2025 19:33 | 8 km | 79 km |
| 3.2 | 24.01.2025 06:56 | 8 km | 117 km |
| 3.1 | 24.01.2025 05:05 | 10 km | 110 km |
| 5.0 | 22.09.2024 12:43 | 0 km | 22 km |
| 4.8 | 21.09.2024 23:58 | 0 km | 14 km |
| 4.3 | 21.09.2024 23:51 | 7.3 km | 26 km |
| 3.8 | 10.09.2024 22:16 | 0 km | 32 km |
| 3.6 | 03.05.2024 12:07 | 11.2 km | 113 km |
| 3.4 | 06.11.2023 12:43 | 10 km | 53 km |
| 3.6 | 29.09.2023 12:25 | 10 km | 24 km |
| 3.3 | 08.09.2023 23:53 | 10 km | 68 km |
| 3.1 | 08.09.2023 19:53 | 10 km | 82 km |
| 3.1 | 01.09.2023 01:11 | 10 km | 84 km |
| 4.4 | 15.08.2023 13:05 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 3.4 | 14.08.2023 19:36 | 8 km | 99 km |
| 3.4 | 14.08.2023 19:26 | 8 km | 100 km |
| 4.1 | 03.06.2023 09:23 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 4.0 | 01.03.2023 04:47 | 12 km | 32 km |
| 4.3 | 21.01.2023 15:54 | 2 km | 164 km |
| 3.6 | 23.12.2022 09:49 | 10 km | 28 km |
| 4.0 | 27.07.2022 15:02 | 10 km | 42 km |
| 3.7 | 27.07.2022 13:55 | 10 km | 58 km |
| 3.5 | 03.05.2022 02:26 | 10 km | 43 km |
| 4.0 | 11.10.2021 13:13 | 20 km | 39 km |
| 3.5 | 11.09.2021 00:48 | 10 km | 34 km |
| 4.0 | 23.06.2021 13:19 | 10 km | 32 km |
| 3.6 | 11.06.2021 14:31 | 10 km | 37 km |
| 3.6 | 29.05.2021 22:53 | 5 km | 51 km |
| 3.8 | 29.05.2021 21:17 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 4.2 | 29.05.2021 08:26 | 10 km | 5 km |
| 4.0 | 24.05.2021 04:02 | 20 km | 31 km |
| 4.1 | 22.05.2021 14:34 | 2 km | 40 km |
| 4.3 | 22.05.2021 03:07 | 10 km | 28 km |
| 4.0 | 19.05.2021 13:58 | 10 km | 32 km |
| 4.0 | 19.05.2021 04:07 | 10 km | 27 km |
| 3.3 | 18.05.2021 21:50 | 10 km | 37 km |
| 3.1 | 18.05.2021 17:16 | 10 km | 25 km |
| 3.4 | 17.05.2021 08:47 | 10 km | 38 km |
| 4.1 | 17.05.2021 07:31 | 10 km | 39 km |
| 3.7 | 17.05.2021 02:57 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 3.4 | 17.05.2021 02:46 | 10 km | 34 km |
| 4.2 | 17.05.2021 01:03 | 10 km | 31 km |
| 5.5 | 17.05.2021 00:54 | 11.8 km | 37 km |
| 5.3 | 16.05.2021 23:04 | 12.5 km | 34 km |
| 3.5 | 05.05.2021 15:57 | 2 km | 101 km |
| 3.8 | 12.04.2021 21:26 | 10 km | 87 km |
| 4.4 | 18.03.2021 08:09 | 10 km | 15 km |
| 3.6 | 17.03.2021 04:51 | 2 km | 89 km |
| 3.8 | 14.03.2021 16:54 | 10 km | 103 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.