No records in the last 30 days.
677
recorded earthquakes
M7.3
largest
1918–2026
record span
4.07
mean magnitude
571
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 | 16.09.1978 15:35 | 17.5 km | 213 km |
| 7.2 | 28.07.1981 17:22 | 12.5 km | 302 km |
| 7.2 | 10.05.1997 07:57 | 15 km | 160 km |
| 7.1 | 31.08.1968 10:47 | 14.1 km | 215 km |
| 7.0 | 27.11.1979 17:10 | 7.9 km | 189 km |
| 6.9 | 23.09.1947 12:28 | 15 km | 164 km |
| 6.6 | 11.06.1981 07:24 | 17.7 km | 313 km |
| 6.6 | 14.03.1998 19:40 | 26.4 km | 305 km |
| 6.5 | 14.11.1979 02:21 | 9.2 km | 185 km |
| 6.5 | 16.01.1979 09:50 | 9.2 km | 179 km |
| 6.4 | 22.02.2005 02:25 | 10.8 km | 308 km |
| 6.3 | 15.10.2023 03:36 | 8.6 km | 353 km |
| 6.3 | 16.02.1941 16:39 | 15 km | 144 km |
| 6.3 | 24.02.1994 00:11 | 11.4 km | 201 km |
| 6.3 | 07.10.2023 07:12 | 11.9 km | 340 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.3 | 04.05.2026 16:47 | 10 km | 198 km |
| 4.3 | 27.04.2026 05:27 | 10 km | 260 km |
| 4.1 | 31.08.2025 19:56 | 10 km | 256 km |
| 5.4 | 19.07.2025 21:36 | 0 km | 219 km |
| 3.1 | 27.06.2025 21:22 | 7 km | 74 km |
| 4.1 | 25.06.2025 01:33 | 8 km | 281 km |
| 3.2 | 04.06.2025 18:42 | 10 km | 214 km |
| 3.1 | 28.05.2025 21:00 | 19 km | 226 km |
| 3.7 | 24.05.2025 13:27 | 14 km | 104 km |
| 3.7 | 17.05.2025 13:40 | 8 km | 59 km |
| 3.0 | 17.05.2025 01:12 | 9 km | 56 km |
| 3.3 | 08.03.2025 11:53 | 7 km | 196 km |
| 4.1 | 06.03.2025 15:08 | 15 km | 152 km |
| 3.3 | 01.03.2025 00:17 | 13 km | 204 km |
| 3.2 | 26.02.2025 07:02 | 8 km | 226 km |
| 3.3 | 09.02.2025 20:46 | 4 km | 103 km |
| 3.3 | 19.01.2025 18:07 | 10 km | 135 km |
| 3.8 | 15.01.2025 19:33 | 10 km | 228 km |
| 3.1 | 13.01.2025 09:53 | 8 km | 114 km |
| 3.2 | 21.12.2024 02:59 | 10 km | 94 km |
| 4.3 | 20.12.2024 23:31 | 10 km | 201 km |
| 4.3 | 20.12.2024 23:31 | 12 km | 94 km |
| 3.3 | 03.12.2024 08:27 | 13 km | 131 km |
| 4.0 | 24.11.2024 18:33 | 34 km | 159 km |
| 3.1 | 09.11.2024 07:36 | 15 km | 276 km |
| 3.4 | 04.11.2024 22:58 | 9 km | 204 km |
| 4.2 | 03.10.2024 21:36 | 11 km | 131 km |
| 4.0 | 20.09.2024 17:31 | 10 km | 109 km |
| 3.6 | 21.07.2024 01:12 | 13 km | 121 km |
| 3.2 | 30.01.2024 22:57 | 8 km | 230 km |
| 3.1 | 27.01.2024 02:11 | 8 km | 89 km |
| 4.3 | 23.01.2024 07:03 | 12 km | 34 km |
| 3.4 | 28.11.2023 01:17 | 7 km | 172 km |
| 4.3 | 09.11.2023 04:53 | 10 km | 26 km |
| 4.9 | 01.11.2023 10:39 | 10 km | 30 km |
| 4.1 | 31.10.2023 19:20 | 9 km | 38 km |
| 4.9 | 31.10.2023 09:13 | 4.8 km | 40 km |
| 3.5 | 27.10.2023 12:47 | 10 km | 35 km |
| 4.1 | 26.10.2023 21:57 | 9 km | 34 km |
| 5.0 | 26.10.2023 20:34 | 9.5 km | 32 km |
| 4.0 | 21.10.2023 11:12 | 10 km | 247 km |
| 6.3 | 15.10.2023 03:36 | 8.6 km | 353 km |
| 6.2 | 11.10.2023 00:41 | 7.5 km | 348 km |
| 6.3 | 07.10.2023 07:12 | 11.9 km | 340 km |
| 6.2 | 07.10.2023 06:41 | 12.3 km | 341 km |
| 3.0 | 02.09.2023 10:07 | 16 km | 74 km |
| 3.4 | 24.08.2023 19:17 | 14 km | 189 km |
| 3.0 | 17.08.2023 22:42 | 5 km | 96 km |
| 3.3 | 17.08.2023 20:36 | 8 km | 96 km |
| 3.2 | 17.08.2023 20:34 | 10 km | 68 km |
| 4.1 | 01.07.2023 05:57 | 10 km | 244 km |
| 3.7 | 11.01.2023 05:39 | 13 km | 77 km |
| 5.1 | 13.12.2022 14:14 | 10 km | 284 km |
| 3.4 | 26.08.2022 09:50 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 5.2 | 26.06.2022 13:07 | 10 km | 227 km |
| 3.6 | 15.06.2022 20:59 | 10 km | 193 km |
| 3.6 | 15.05.2022 11:46 | 8 km | 202 km |
| 3.7 | 03.04.2022 22:33 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 3.9 | 03.04.2022 12:01 | 10 km | 202 km |
| 3.9 | 28.03.2022 12:59 | 7 km | 198 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.