No records in the last 30 days.
859
recorded earthquakes
M6.2
largest
1917–2026
record span
3.86
mean magnitude
612
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.2 | 18.08.2014 02:32 | 12.9 km | 101 km |
| 6.1 | 18.08.2014 02:32 | 34.7 km | 130 km |
| 6.1 | 05.06.1977 04:45 | 22.2 km | 108 km |
| 6.0 | 18.08.2014 18:08 | 14.4 km | 96 km |
| 5.9 | 15.07.1917 17:58 | 15 km | 85 km |
| 5.8 | 15.10.2014 13:35 | 8.1 km | 97 km |
| 5.8 | 27.08.2008 21:52 | 19.3 km | 51 km |
| 5.8 | 18.08.2014 05:25 | 12.6 km | 103 km |
| 5.6 | 28.08.1941 00:18 | 15 km | 121 km |
| 5.6 | 05.08.1998 14:27 | 50.6 km | 146 km |
| 5.6 | 12.11.1927 14:45 | 35 km | 80 km |
| 5.6 | 22.01.1932 00:48 | 35 km | 114 km |
| 5.6 | 20.08.2014 10:14 | 15.4 km | 101 km |
| 5.6 | 10.06.1941 20:38 | 35 km | 40 km |
| 5.5 | 26.01.1988 09:34 | 32.6 km | 79 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.1 | 25.06.2026 21:31 | 10 km | 85 km |
| 4.2 | 01.06.2026 11:24 | 10 km | 118 km |
| 4.7 | 27.02.2026 01:51 | 10 km | 124 km |
| 4.7 | 11.01.2026 17:02 | 10 km | 143 km |
| 4.1 | 28.10.2025 23:35 | 10 km | 106 km |
| 4.1 | 13.10.2025 21:30 | 10 km | 100 km |
| 3.4 | 11.06.2025 05:06 | 10 km | 113 km |
| 3.6 | 06.04.2025 23:34 | 10 km | 110 km |
| 3.6 | 21.02.2025 06:28 | 10 km | 132 km |
| 5.2 | 16.02.2025 18:55 | 21 km | 164 km |
| 3.1 | 22.01.2025 18:02 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 3.5 | 10.01.2025 05:48 | 10 km | 42 km |
| 3.2 | 09.01.2025 12:57 | 10 km | 76 km |
| 4.0 | 14.11.2024 21:08 | 10 km | 125 km |
| 3.5 | 16.10.2024 18:57 | 9 km | 90 km |
| 4.0 | 09.09.2024 00:03 | 10 km | 34 km |
| 4.3 | 24.02.2024 00:47 | 15.4 km | 124 km |
| 3.4 | 03.02.2024 10:21 | 15 km | 107 km |
| 4.6 | 24.11.2023 06:13 | 10.8 km | 109 km |
| 4.9 | 10.11.2023 15:36 | 19.4 km | 107 km |
| 3.1 | 08.09.2023 08:41 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 3.6 | 04.09.2023 08:24 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 3.4 | 21.08.2023 01:45 | 10 km | 95 km |
| 3.4 | 20.08.2023 21:54 | 10 km | 95 km |
| 3.5 | 02.07.2023 21:51 | 15.6 km | 62 km |
| 4.8 | 28.06.2023 19:08 | 21.7 km | 59 km |
| 4.0 | 06.06.2023 13:24 | 10.2 km | 100 km |
| 3.7 | 25.03.2023 19:13 | 15 km | 85 km |
| 4.2 | 24.11.2022 15:56 | 30.8 km | 102 km |
| 3.2 | 07.08.2022 06:49 | 13.2 km | 82 km |
| 3.6 | 17.05.2022 19:01 | 10 km | 29 km |
| 4.2 | 20.02.2022 12:45 | 17.3 km | 139 km |
| 4.0 | 23.12.2021 13:28 | 15 km | 93 km |
| 5.4 | 04.10.2021 02:39 | 35.1 km | 128 km |
| 4.2 | 05.08.2021 10:33 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 4.3 | 20.06.2021 13:21 | 10 km | 91 km |
| 3.1 | 20.06.2021 13:20 | 10 km | 80 km |
| 3.7 | 13.04.2021 01:06 | 8 km | 90 km |
| 4.0 | 21.02.2021 01:51 | 23 km | 82 km |
| 3.7 | 09.10.2020 18:25 | 10 km | 122 km |
| 3.5 | 15.08.2020 02:23 | 29 km | 51 km |
| 3.6 | 13.03.2020 07:02 | 15.3 km | 82 km |
| 4.9 | 13.03.2020 07:02 | 10 km | 83 km |
| 3.6 | 12.02.2020 10:24 | 20 km | 109 km |
| 4.0 | 12.02.2020 09:42 | 22 km | 104 km |
| 4.0 | 01.02.2020 15:53 | 10 km | 80 km |
| 4.0 | 01.02.2020 10:29 | 10 km | 82 km |
| 4.0 | 29.01.2020 22:42 | 23 km | 71 km |
| 3.6 | 14.01.2020 17:56 | 10 km | 97 km |
| 4.6 | 28.12.2019 10:20 | 10 km | 122 km |
| 4.4 | 26.09.2019 00:35 | 15 km | 127 km |
| 3.8 | 18.07.2019 05:59 | 17 km | 92 km |
| 3.6 | 11.05.2019 12:29 | 10 km | 104 km |
| 4.2 | 15.04.2019 07:28 | 13 km | 120 km |
| 4.0 | 27.02.2019 16:45 | 15 km | 99 km |
| 4.9 | 27.02.2019 05:42 | 12.3 km | 118 km |
| 3.2 | 21.02.2019 03:01 | 15 km | 108 km |
| 4.0 | 18.02.2019 11:04 | 15 km | 97 km |
| 4.1 | 26.12.2018 06:57 | 22 km | 93 km |
| 4.1 | 24.12.2018 04:58 | 15 km | 98 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.