No records in the last 30 days.
444
recorded earthquakes
M7.3
largest
1909–2026
record span
3.50
mean magnitude
278
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 | 23.01.1909 02:48 | 15 km | 196 km |
| 7.1 | 02.07.1957 00:42 | 15 km | 116 km |
| 7.0 | 01.09.1962 19:20 | 15 km | 190 km |
| 6.4 | 11.04.1935 23:14 | 15 km | 197 km |
| 6.3 | 28.05.2004 12:38 | 18.9 km | 96 km |
| 6.2 | 19.12.1980 01:16 | 13.6 km | 170 km |
| 6.0 | 05.03.1935 10:26 | 35 km | 146 km |
| 5.9 | 20.01.1990 01:27 | 28.5 km | 104 km |
| 5.7 | 02.10.1930 15:33 | 15 km | 52 km |
| 5.7 | 07.04.1937 18:31 | 15 km | 103 km |
| 5.6 | 10.10.2002 12:13 | 11 km | 57 km |
| 5.6 | 20.05.1932 19:16 | 35 km | 181 km |
| 5.5 | 18.06.2007 14:29 | 14.9 km | 149 km |
| 5.5 | 25.09.1940 19:31 | 15 km | 125 km |
| 5.5 | 07.10.1930 20:53 | 15 km | 14 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.3 | 12.05.2026 20:16 | 10 km | 15 km |
| 4.0 | 10.09.2025 16:15 | 12 km | 143 km |
| 4.9 | 21.08.2025 20:30 | 36.4 km | 91 km |
| 5.0 | 20.06.2025 17:49 | 10 km | 100 km |
| 3.4 | 18.05.2025 10:59 | 8 km | 68 km |
| 3.3 | 14.05.2025 03:48 | 6 km | 101 km |
| 4.0 | 03.05.2025 17:30 | 8 km | 101 km |
| 3.0 | 17.04.2025 16:33 | 7 km | 128 km |
| 3.1 | 17.04.2025 07:09 | 6 km | 128 km |
| 4.0 | 10.04.2025 06:00 | 0 km | 124 km |
| 3.0 | 13.03.2025 23:54 | 9 km | 50 km |
| 3.3 | 13.03.2025 23:05 | 8 km | 52 km |
| 4.8 | 13.12.2024 18:28 | 10 km | 134 km |
| 3.4 | 30.11.2024 22:30 | 8 km | 64 km |
| 3.6 | 03.11.2024 01:46 | 10 km | 46 km |
| 3.4 | 05.10.2024 19:15 | 7.2 km | 77 km |
| 3.9 | 19.08.2023 10:18 | 10 km | 6 km |
| 4.0 | 09.01.2023 08:21 | 8 km | 71 km |
| 3.6 | 07.01.2023 04:58 | 10 km | 122 km |
| 3.8 | 07.01.2023 02:41 | 2 km | 117 km |
| 3.7 | 16.12.2022 01:41 | 2 km | 88 km |
| 3.5 | 28.08.2022 07:35 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 3.7 | 28.08.2022 05:20 | 10 km | 92 km |
| 4.0 | 27.05.2022 12:03 | 2 km | 72 km |
| 3.6 | 13.05.2022 04:43 | 5 km | 102 km |
| 3.6 | 18.04.2022 22:31 | 5 km | 118 km |
| 3.6 | 18.04.2022 22:01 | 10 km | 131 km |
| 3.2 | 10.03.2022 02:58 | 10 km | 107 km |
| 3.6 | 23.01.2022 18:04 | 12 km | 33 km |
| 3.6 | 06.01.2022 23:47 | 8 km | 57 km |
| 3.9 | 15.08.2021 12:41 | 10 km | 28 km |
| 3.9 | 19.01.2021 06:00 | 8 km | 123 km |
| 4.0 | 18.12.2020 23:35 | 8 km | 34 km |
| 3.5 | 15.11.2020 21:06 | 8 km | 54 km |
| 4.1 | 03.10.2020 15:15 | 2 km | 103 km |
| 3.5 | 29.08.2020 20:27 | 8 km | 123 km |
| 3.8 | 13.07.2020 07:58 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 3.5 | 12.07.2020 16:37 | 8 km | 63 km |
| 4.0 | 12.07.2020 07:19 | 6 km | 66 km |
| 3.6 | 12.07.2020 00:45 | 8 km | 64 km |
| 3.8 | 27.05.2020 09:11 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 3.8 | 09.05.2020 22:21 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 3.5 | 07.05.2020 22:22 | 11 km | 33 km |
| 3.9 | 07.05.2020 21:49 | 11 km | 33 km |
| 5.0 | 07.05.2020 20:18 | 13.6 km | 29 km |
| 3.5 | 20.04.2020 20:48 | 12 km | 138 km |
| 4.0 | 22.11.2019 21:06 | 2 km | 121 km |
| 3.6 | 06.11.2019 02:29 | 8 km | 118 km |
| 3.8 | 02.10.2019 23:03 | 10 km | 103 km |
| 3.9 | 20.05.2019 02:45 | 8 km | 49 km |
| 3.5 | 15.05.2018 11:38 | 12 km | 130 km |
| 4.2 | 23.04.2018 16:09 | 10 km | 138 km |
| 4.0 | 01.04.2018 18:26 | 10 km | 39 km |
| 3.6 | 09.02.2018 17:38 | 13 km | 10 km |
| 3.6 | 27.01.2018 12:39 | 10 km | 113 km |
| 3.7 | 15.01.2018 13:50 | 5 km | 71 km |
| 4.0 | 26.12.2017 21:24 | 10 km | 66 km |
| 4.9 | 20.12.2017 19:57 | 12.3 km | 89 km |
| 3.8 | 21.10.2017 23:00 | 12 km | 114 km |
| 3.9 | 14.06.2017 05:03 | 8 km | 101 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.