No records in the last 30 days.
1,410
recorded earthquakes
M6.2
largest
1927–2026
record span
2.45
mean magnitude
1,147
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 | 11.07.1927 13:04 | 15 km | 110 km |
| 5.3 | 16.03.1956 19:32 | 15 km | 99 km |
| 5.3 | 24.08.1984 06:02 | 23.4 km | 45 km |
| 5.1 | 15.02.2008 10:36 | 10.4 km | 49 km |
| 5.1 | 16.03.1956 19:43 | 15 km | 94 km |
| 5.1 | 26.03.1997 04:22 | 15.6 km | 53 km |
| 4.8 | 04.07.2018 19:45 | 7.4 km | 11 km |
| 4.6 | 16.04.1971 21:27 | 12 km | 76 km |
| 4.6 | 24.10.1999 01:23 | 9.8 km | 55 km |
| 4.4 | 09.08.2020 09:18 | 10 km | 11 km |
| 4.4 | 06.02.2020 04:53 | 17 km | 65 km |
| 4.3 | 24.11.1981 09:37 | 8 km | 20 km |
| 4.3 | 02.12.2016 04:35 | 7.1 km | 64 km |
| 4.2 | 12.06.2008 15:41 | 0 km | 46 km |
| 4.2 | 13.01.1982 18:36 | 1 km | 38 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.7 | 28.06.2026 19:48 | 6.2 km | 30 km |
| 3.1 | 24.05.2026 17:42 | 18.5 km | 17 km |
| 3.2 | 19.01.2026 13:39 | 14.2 km | 16 km |
| 2.2 | 24.08.2025 14:08 | 1.9 km | 10 km |
| 2.8 | 02.07.2025 00:58 | 16.3 km | 41 km |
| 3.2 | 29.03.2025 14:47 | 7.2 km | 50 km |
| 3.5 | 26.10.2024 04:02 | 0 km | 35 km |
| 2.8 | 23.03.2024 18:35 | 1.6 km | 50 km |
| 3.4 | 13.07.2022 08:43 | 0 km | 20 km |
| 3.6 | 29.06.2022 17:45 | 2 km | 55 km |
| 3.4 | 20.05.2022 18:51 | 0 km | 48 km |
| 3.8 | 15.02.2022 18:54 | 0 km | 32 km |
| 3.7 | 23.01.2022 10:28 | 10 km | 27 km |
| 4.1 | 22.01.2022 21:36 | 10 km | 32 km |
| 3.2 | 11.06.2021 19:22 | 4 km | 28 km |
| 3.2 | 21.02.2021 14:54 | 12 km | 57 km |
| 2.3 | 23.12.2020 20:07 | 40 km | 82 km |
| 3.6 | 11.08.2020 08:40 | 6.5 km | 52 km |
| 4.4 | 09.08.2020 09:18 | 10 km | 11 km |
| 2.6 | 05.06.2020 05:57 | 4 km | 19 km |
| 3.0 | 05.06.2020 05:22 | 10 km | 30 km |
| 3.2 | 26.05.2020 23:32 | 8 km | 52 km |
| 2.9 | 11.05.2020 02:38 | 6.9 km | 8 km |
| 4.4 | 06.02.2020 04:53 | 17 km | 65 km |
| 3.5 | 01.11.2019 18:40 | 7 km | 16 km |
| 2.7 | 09.08.2019 02:24 | 4 km | 47 km |
| 3.1 | 22.04.2019 17:25 | 1 km | 69 km |
| 2.6 | 31.01.2019 11:43 | 5 km | 17 km |
| 3.4 | 24.01.2019 20:04 | 1 km | 19 km |
| 3.2 | 25.09.2018 17:06 | 0 km | 22 km |
| 2.9 | 27.07.2018 08:51 | 10 km | 9 km |
| 2.9 | 22.07.2018 06:41 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 3.0 | 09.07.2018 15:16 | 1 km | 15 km |
| 3.5 | 08.07.2018 21:42 | 10 km | 14 km |
| 3.0 | 08.07.2018 20:04 | 10 km | 11 km |
| 2.9 | 08.07.2018 19:00 | 5 km | 12 km |
| 3.9 | 08.07.2018 13:30 | 10 km | 11 km |
| 3.3 | 07.07.2018 02:07 | 5 km | 20 km |
| 3.5 | 04.07.2018 21:49 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 4.8 | 04.07.2018 19:45 | 7.4 km | 11 km |
| 3.0 | 04.07.2018 04:19 | 10 km | 12 km |
| 3.7 | 04.07.2018 03:52 | 9.7 km | 37 km |
| 2.1 | 04.07.2018 03:41 | 3 km | 13 km |
| 3.3 | 04.07.2018 01:58 | 10 km | 13 km |
| 4.0 | 04.07.2018 01:50 | 10 km | 12 km |
| 2.1 | 02.07.2018 05:59 | 5 km | 14 km |
| 3.3 | 07.06.2018 23:47 | 5 km | 37 km |
| 2.6 | 10.06.2017 21:20 | 5 km | 43 km |
| 2.8 | 17.05.2017 00:17 | 2 km | 45 km |
| 3.7 | 04.04.2017 07:52 | 12.4 km | 47 km |
| 3.4 | 29.03.2017 18:43 | 2 km | 69 km |
| 3.5 | 06.01.2017 05:15 | 15 km | 71 km |
| 3.1 | 16.12.2016 17:12 | 0 km | 39 km |
| 4.3 | 02.12.2016 04:35 | 7.1 km | 64 km |
| 3.2 | 01.12.2016 14:53 | 2 km | 49 km |
| 3.4 | 19.11.2016 23:37 | 8 km | 44 km |
| 3.0 | 05.04.2016 03:18 | 3 km | 64 km |
| 3.1 | 13.03.2016 14:34 | 5 km | 64 km |
| 2.4 | 13.02.2016 22:06 | 3 km | 53 km |
| 3.0 | 20.12.2015 13:24 | 15 km | 70 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.