No records in the last 30 days.
364
recorded earthquakes
M6.9
largest
1930–2026
record span
2.24
mean magnitude
161
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.9 | 23.11.1980 18:34 | 6.4 km | 123 km |
| 6.4 | 23.07.1930 00:08 | 15 km | 120 km |
| 6.2 | 13.02.1963 12:45 | — | 99 km |
| 5.8 | 05.05.1990 07:21 | 13.8 km | 93 km |
| 5.6 | 06.08.1954 19:21 | 15 km | 77 km |
| 5.5 | 18.08.1948 21:12 | 15 km | 105 km |
| 5.3 | 22.08.1948 23:16 | 15 km | 117 km |
| 5.3 | 21.08.1948 08:44 | 15 km | 102 km |
| 4.9 | 05.05.1990 07:38 | 14 km | 84 km |
| 4.4 | 23.11.1980 19:09 | 10 km | 80 km |
| 4.2 | 07.09.2006 15:31 | 27 km | 68 km |
| 4.2 | 28.08.1990 19:02 | 13 km | 77 km |
| 4.2 | 24.09.1978 08:07 | 28 km | 61 km |
| 4.1 | 24.09.1981 12:20 | 10 km | 79 km |
| 4.0 | 21.05.2019 08:13 | 10 km | 59 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1 | 27.06.2026 21:45 | 7.7 km | 28 km |
| 2.0 | 27.12.2025 05:36 | 20 km | 9 km |
| 2.1 | 11.11.2025 09:29 | 33.2 km | 48 km |
| 3.0 | 03.01.2025 14:56 | 27.6 km | 56 km |
| 2.1 | 27.10.2024 23:29 | 17.6 km | 59 km |
| 2.2 | 04.05.2024 22:13 | 32.7 km | 27 km |
| 2.1 | 01.04.2024 12:31 | 10.6 km | 42 km |
| 2.1 | 23.11.2023 13:11 | 23.2 km | 50 km |
| 2.4 | 22.09.2023 10:46 | 31.3 km | 49 km |
| 2.1 | 30.03.2023 21:15 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 2.1 | 16.03.2023 10:07 | 8 km | 43 km |
| 2.2 | 30.12.2022 13:50 | 9 km | 50 km |
| 2.1 | 15.07.2022 13:16 | 33 km | 29 km |
| 2.1 | 29.05.2022 08:28 | 8 km | 39 km |
| 2.0 | 20.04.2022 14:53 | 38 km | 50 km |
| 2.7 | 07.04.2022 03:04 | 25 km | 49 km |
| 2.2 | 24.02.2022 05:26 | 23 km | 51 km |
| 2.2 | 03.02.2022 22:04 | 7 km | 51 km |
| 2.5 | 27.10.2021 10:31 | 7 km | 64 km |
| 2.0 | 23.09.2021 00:07 | 10 km | 46 km |
| 2.0 | 06.09.2021 01:16 | 27 km | 58 km |
| 2.5 | 02.07.2021 16:16 | 31 km | 51 km |
| 2.3 | 31.05.2021 23:11 | 20 km | 42 km |
| 2.5 | 31.05.2021 22:41 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 2.2 | 14.04.2021 07:34 | 5 km | 47 km |
| 2.3 | 08.04.2021 23:51 | 10 km | 66 km |
| 2.6 | 11.02.2021 19:36 | 30 km | 47 km |
| 2.5 | 08.02.2021 15:38 | 2 km | 25 km |
| 2.0 | 16.11.2020 22:56 | 22 km | 50 km |
| 2.5 | 28.06.2020 23:18 | 26 km | 60 km |
| 2.1 | 30.04.2020 06:25 | 10 km | 42 km |
| 2.2 | 16.01.2020 05:00 | 20 km | 40 km |
| 2.7 | 08.01.2020 07:50 | 10 km | 53 km |
| 2.2 | 09.10.2019 22:36 | 7 km | 49 km |
| 2.0 | 21.09.2019 13:02 | 26 km | 45 km |
| 2.4 | 27.06.2019 14:43 | 9 km | 35 km |
| 4.0 | 21.05.2019 08:13 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 3.6 | 09.11.2018 12:45 | 38 km | 20 km |
| 2.2 | 07.11.2018 19:39 | 6 km | 55 km |
| 2.3 | 07.11.2018 13:03 | 3 km | 60 km |
| 2.0 | 28.08.2018 07:28 | 6 km | 33 km |
| 2.0 | 14.06.2018 16:15 | 37 km | 21 km |
| 2.5 | 03.04.2018 20:39 | 16 km | 49 km |
| 2.0 | 01.04.2018 03:30 | 17 km | 22 km |
| 2.2 | 13.03.2018 05:23 | 11 km | 70 km |
| 2.0 | 24.02.2018 07:26 | 9 km | 55 km |
| 2.0 | 18.02.2018 17:13 | 22 km | 69 km |
| 2.7 | 31.07.2016 00:14 | 5 km | 34 km |
| 2.5 | 30.07.2016 20:01 | 8 km | 35 km |
| 2.8 | 28.10.2015 18:53 | 5 km | 58 km |
| 2.1 | 12.07.2015 20:50 | 27 km | 58 km |
| 2.3 | 13.04.2015 03:13 | 39 km | 24 km |
| 3.2 | 03.04.2015 19:22 | 2 km | 53 km |
| 2.0 | 24.01.2015 13:21 | 27 km | 63 km |
| 2.1 | 24.01.2015 07:12 | 31 km | 63 km |
| 2.7 | 20.01.2015 22:43 | 11 km | 44 km |
| 2.4 | 18.01.2015 12:15 | 10 km | 25 km |
| 2.1 | 14.01.2015 23:55 | 11 km | 25 km |
| 2.2 | 12.01.2015 00:21 | 9 km | 25 km |
| 4.0 | 12.08.2014 20:15 | 16 km | 65 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.