No records in the last 30 days.
809
recorded earthquakes
M5.5
largest
1914–2026
record span
2.23
mean magnitude
517
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.5 | 26.10.1914 03:43 | 15 km | 68 km |
| 5.5 | 22.01.1983 12:41 | 10 km | 92 km |
| 4.9 | 21.08.2000 17:14 | 23.4 km | 20 km |
| 4.8 | 11.04.2003 09:26 | 9.3 km | 53 km |
| 4.6 | 06.08.1982 13:29 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 4.5 | 19.04.2009 12:39 | 40.2 km | 30 km |
| 4.4 | 05.08.1982 13:29 | — | 8 km |
| 4.4 | 21.11.1995 04:04 | 21.7 km | 58 km |
| 4.3 | 11.02.1990 07:00 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 4.2 | 10.06.2003 22:59 | 19.9 km | 45 km |
| 4.2 | 18.07.2001 22:47 | 9.8 km | 20 km |
| 4.1 | 06.10.1980 05:02 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 3.8 | 29.05.1991 20:24 | 10 km | 21 km |
| 3.7 | 27.10.2000 14:37 | 1.8 km | 18 km |
| 3.6 | 11.09.2006 15:04 | 55.4 km | 41 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.0 | 22.04.2026 04:46 | 8.7 km | 47 km |
| 2.1 | 16.03.2026 20:44 | 7.2 km | 50 km |
| 2.1 | 25.09.2025 19:13 | 9.9 km | 48 km |
| 2.0 | 28.02.2025 07:40 | 11.1 km | 29 km |
| 2.4 | 28.09.2024 10:12 | 19.2 km | 21 km |
| 2.3 | 31.12.2023 11:11 | 13 km | 27 km |
| 2.0 | 19.09.2023 08:55 | 44.4 km | 25 km |
| 2.2 | 22.08.2023 18:16 | 23.1 km | 22 km |
| 2.0 | 07.07.2023 16:35 | 10.7 km | 50 km |
| 2.4 | 09.02.2023 03:42 | 24 km | 9 km |
| 3.2 | 07.02.2023 22:35 | 10 km | 14 km |
| 2.0 | 05.12.2022 16:47 | 37 km | 38 km |
| 2.0 | 08.03.2022 14:32 | 8 km | 56 km |
| 2.0 | 12.11.2021 10:05 | 8 km | 47 km |
| 2.2 | 27.07.2021 20:18 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 2.4 | 18.12.2020 18:20 | 314 km | 44 km |
| 3.0 | 01.11.2020 13:16 | 11 km | 24 km |
| 2.3 | 20.07.2020 07:38 | 54 km | 41 km |
| 2.6 | 22.02.2020 00:53 | 9 km | 44 km |
| 2.5 | 31.01.2020 01:29 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 3.1 | 19.01.2020 05:22 | 12 km | 14 km |
| 2.1 | 06.01.2020 08:28 | 44 km | 34 km |
| 2.7 | 15.03.2019 08:09 | 5 km | 29 km |
| 3.0 | 20.02.2019 09:30 | 5 km | 28 km |
| 2.5 | 01.11.2018 00:31 | 5 km | 30 km |
| 2.7 | 15.09.2018 16:37 | 10 km | 6 km |
| 2.5 | 15.05.2018 18:05 | 60 km | 30 km |
| 2.0 | 06.05.2018 07:22 | 43 km | 37 km |
| 2.1 | 04.01.2018 10:59 | 10 km | 38 km |
| 2.4 | 25.01.2017 17:54 | 40 km | 27 km |
| 2.4 | 22.01.2017 21:56 | 19 km | 33 km |
| 2.2 | 17.03.2016 18:37 | 52 km | 45 km |
| 2.2 | 22.07.2015 12:50 | 46 km | 33 km |
| 2.1 | 04.02.2015 09:58 | 10 km | 30 km |
| 2.5 | 30.12.2014 03:45 | 10 km | 38 km |
| 2.4 | 14.07.2014 08:57 | 64 km | 34 km |
| 2.8 | 22.06.2014 13:30 | 47 km | 33 km |
| 2.6 | 20.12.2013 20:02 | 56 km | 26 km |
| 2.3 | 20.12.2013 09:44 | 52 km | 44 km |
| 2.5 | 06.05.2013 05:26 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 2.0 | 26.02.2013 12:32 | 39 km | 40 km |
| 2.8 | 29.01.2013 03:19 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 2.4 | 01.12.2012 13:22 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 2.2 | 22.11.2012 10:27 | 25 km | 17 km |
| 2.8 | 20.11.2012 16:17 | 27 km | 17 km |
| 2.4 | 20.11.2012 11:49 | 28 km | 16 km |
| 3.5 | 20.11.2012 10:32 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 2.7 | 29.10.2012 02:32 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 2.8 | 28.10.2012 11:07 | 5 km | 19 km |
| 2.7 | 28.10.2012 10:34 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 2.7 | 14.10.2012 20:49 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 2.9 | 12.10.2012 04:51 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 2.3 | 10.10.2012 00:35 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 2.9 | 07.10.2012 07:58 | 10 km | 19 km |
| 2.9 | 07.10.2012 06:40 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 2.8 | 18.04.2012 13:05 | 59 km | 21 km |
| 2.6 | 31.12.2011 18:18 | 12 km | 40 km |
| 2.3 | 19.12.2011 10:53 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 3.2 | 09.12.2011 04:32 | 15 km | 42 km |
| 2.3 | 30.10.2011 03:43 | 15 km | 33 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.