No records in the last 30 days.
2,757
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1927–2026
record span
2.48
mean magnitude
2,283
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 | 22.11.1995 04:15 | 14 km | 303 km |
| 6.2 | 11.07.1927 13:04 | 15 km | 75 km |
| 6.1 | 03.08.1993 12:43 | 10.1 km | 296 km |
| 5.7 | 23.11.1995 18:07 | 24.5 km | 236 km |
| 5.6 | 27.06.2015 15:34 | 14.4 km | 279 km |
| 5.4 | 18.12.1956 17:53 | 15 km | 41 km |
| 5.3 | 16.03.1956 19:32 | 15 km | 264 km |
| 5.3 | 11.02.2004 08:15 | 22.4 km | 49 km |
| 5.3 | 24.08.1984 06:02 | 23.4 km | 133 km |
| 5.1 | 15.02.2008 10:36 | 10.4 km | 211 km |
| 5.1 | 16.03.1956 19:43 | 15 km | 259 km |
| 5.1 | 26.03.1997 04:22 | 15.6 km | 216 km |
| 5.1 | 23.04.1979 13:01 | 16 km | 49 km |
| 5.0 | 03.02.1983 13:46 | 22.1 km | 242 km |
| 4.9 | 03.02.1983 23:38 | 1 km | 251 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.7 | 28.06.2026 19:48 | 6.2 km | 191 km |
| 3.1 | 24.05.2026 17:42 | 18.5 km | 166 km |
| 4.4 | 06.04.2026 07:52 | 10 km | 240 km |
| 3.2 | 19.01.2026 13:39 | 14.2 km | 164 km |
| 4.1 | 15.01.2026 07:00 | 10 km | 38 km |
| 2.4 | 28.08.2025 17:16 | 15.5 km | 235 km |
| 2.2 | 24.08.2025 14:08 | 1.9 km | 164 km |
| 2.1 | 21.08.2025 07:33 | 9.1 km | 163 km |
| 2.8 | 02.07.2025 00:58 | 16.3 km | 125 km |
| 2.4 | 14.05.2025 14:37 | 17.7 km | 29 km |
| 3.2 | 29.03.2025 14:47 | 7.2 km | 208 km |
| 3.0 | 04.01.2025 17:25 | 2.1 km | 76 km |
| 3.5 | 26.10.2024 04:02 | 0 km | 194 km |
| 3.8 | 21.07.2024 20:15 | 9.2 km | 30 km |
| 2.8 | 23.03.2024 18:35 | 1.6 km | 118 km |
| 3.0 | 28.08.2023 00:09 | 37.8 km | 42 km |
| 3.1 | 07.06.2023 14:11 | 9 km | 213 km |
| 3.8 | 07.02.2023 21:14 | 10.3 km | 77 km |
| 3.4 | 13.07.2022 08:43 | 0 km | 186 km |
| 3.6 | 29.06.2022 17:45 | 2 km | 116 km |
| 3.4 | 20.05.2022 18:51 | 0 km | 210 km |
| 3.8 | 15.02.2022 18:54 | 0 km | 136 km |
| 3.7 | 23.01.2022 10:28 | 10 km | 140 km |
| 4.1 | 22.01.2022 21:36 | 10 km | 135 km |
| 4.1 | 15.06.2021 23:08 | 26 km | 149 km |
| 3.2 | 11.06.2021 19:22 | 4 km | 193 km |
| 3.2 | 21.02.2021 14:54 | 12 km | 221 km |
| 2.3 | 23.12.2020 20:07 | 40 km | 233 km |
| 3.9 | 15.12.2020 02:30 | 10 km | 209 km |
| 3.9 | 10.11.2020 21:49 | 40 km | 220 km |
| 3.6 | 11.08.2020 08:40 | 6.5 km | 215 km |
| 4.4 | 09.08.2020 09:18 | 10 km | 163 km |
| 2.6 | 05.06.2020 05:57 | 4 km | 175 km |
| 3.0 | 05.06.2020 05:22 | 10 km | 178 km |
| 3.2 | 26.05.2020 23:32 | 8 km | 217 km |
| 3.1 | 11.05.2020 03:53 | 20 km | 206 km |
| 2.9 | 11.05.2020 02:38 | 6.9 km | 163 km |
| 3.2 | 06.05.2020 00:56 | 5 km | 83 km |
| 4.1 | 10.04.2020 16:31 | 5.8 km | 100 km |
| 4.4 | 06.02.2020 04:53 | 17 km | 149 km |
| 3.8 | 25.11.2019 11:48 | 12 km | 45 km |
| 3.7 | 25.11.2019 11:39 | 12 km | 48 km |
| 3.3 | 25.11.2019 08:07 | 12 km | 46 km |
| 3.5 | 01.11.2019 18:40 | 7 km | 153 km |
| 2.7 | 07.10.2019 18:46 | 6 km | 51 km |
| 3.7 | 16.09.2019 10:35 | 12 km | 179 km |
| 2.7 | 09.08.2019 02:24 | 4 km | 211 km |
| 2.7 | 26.06.2019 12:18 | 5 km | 54 km |
| 4.0 | 26.06.2019 08:53 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 3.1 | 22.04.2019 17:25 | 1 km | 235 km |
| 2.6 | 31.01.2019 11:43 | 5 km | 164 km |
| 3.4 | 24.01.2019 20:04 | 1 km | 149 km |
| 3.9 | 15.01.2019 15:59 | 20 km | 227 km |
| 3.8 | 26.12.2018 03:38 | 12 km | 46 km |
| 3.2 | 25.09.2018 17:06 | 0 km | 186 km |
| 2.5 | 28.08.2018 05:47 | 16 km | 63 km |
| 2.7 | 05.08.2018 05:52 | 15 km | 42 km |
| 2.9 | 27.07.2018 08:51 | 10 km | 160 km |
| 2.9 | 22.07.2018 06:41 | 10 km | 160 km |
| 3.0 | 09.07.2018 15:16 | 1 km | 163 km |
Regions
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.