No records in the last 30 days.
593
recorded earthquakes
M6.1
largest
1907–2026
record span
2.84
mean magnitude
140
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.1 | 20.05.2012 02:03 | 17.7 km | 102 km |
| 5.9 | 29.05.2012 07:00 | 14.3 km | 92 km |
| 5.5 | 15.05.1951 22:54 | 35 km | 40 km |
| 5.5 | 29.05.2012 10:55 | 13 km | 83 km |
| 5.4 | 10.12.1937 18:03 | 15 km | 97 km |
| 5.4 | 23.12.2008 15:24 | 26 km | 77 km |
| 5.4 | 28.06.1923 15:11 | 15 km | 78 km |
| 5.4 | 15.10.1996 09:56 | 14 km | 77 km |
| 5.3 | 24.05.1930 22:01 | 15 km | 107 km |
| 5.2 | 26.10.1930 07:14 | 15 km | 110 km |
| 5.2 | 20.05.2012 03:02 | 16 km | 95 km |
| 5.0 | 24.04.1918 14:21 | 15 km | 79 km |
| 5.0 | 24.11.2004 22:59 | 13.5 km | 63 km |
| 5.0 | 09.11.1983 16:29 | 34 km | 66 km |
| 5.0 | 27.01.2012 14:53 | 65.1 km | 75 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.5 | 01.06.2026 12:18 | 30 km | 54 km |
| 2.0 | 12.05.2026 12:52 | 12 km | 49 km |
| 2.2 | 08.05.2026 18:05 | 8.6 km | 46 km |
| 1.5 | 21.02.2026 18:49 | 12 km | 55 km |
| 2.7 | 11.02.2026 08:15 | 36.2 km | 33 km |
| 1.5 | 10.02.2026 11:13 | 12 km | 49 km |
| 1.8 | 14.01.2026 15:58 | 30 km | 45 km |
| 1.8 | 25.11.2025 23:44 | 30 km | 44 km |
| 2.1 | 15.10.2025 22:06 | 26.6 km | 62 km |
| 3.0 | 03.10.2025 18:57 | 27.1 km | 60 km |
| 1.8 | 03.10.2025 18:23 | 6 km | 52 km |
| 1.9 | 11.07.2025 23:59 | 14 km | 54 km |
| 2.4 | 02.05.2025 09:17 | 22.1 km | 52 km |
| 2.6 | 28.04.2025 14:21 | 23 km | 51 km |
| 2.2 | 02.04.2025 15:18 | 4.3 km | 44 km |
| 2.5 | 31.03.2025 17:08 | 21.5 km | 42 km |
| 3.2 | 31.03.2025 16:48 | 23.9 km | 45 km |
| 1.4 | 06.03.2025 22:39 | 8.8 km | 53 km |
| 2.2 | 25.02.2025 00:36 | 8.8 km | 51 km |
| 1.8 | 24.02.2025 14:13 | 0 km | 42 km |
| 2.2 | 16.02.2025 15:23 | 23.8 km | 33 km |
| 1.8 | 24.01.2025 11:00 | 0 km | 44 km |
| 2.0 | 23.01.2025 08:41 | 0 km | 44 km |
| 2.0 | 30.12.2024 19:27 | 11.1 km | 49 km |
| 2.7 | 17.12.2024 03:00 | 8.6 km | 51 km |
| 2.9 | 28.11.2024 22:48 | 7 km | 59 km |
| 2.3 | 24.11.2024 15:52 | 18.3 km | 49 km |
| 2.5 | 24.11.2024 12:46 | 18.8 km | 47 km |
| 2.5 | 20.11.2024 04:59 | 18.3 km | 28 km |
| 2.0 | 10.11.2024 16:48 | 7.5 km | 54 km |
| 1.9 | 10.09.2024 16:23 | 25 km | 44 km |
| 2.0 | 16.07.2024 18:33 | 8 km | 44 km |
| 1.7 | 11.07.2024 19:58 | 0 km | 52 km |
| 1.9 | 06.06.2024 14:30 | 0 km | 49 km |
| 2.0 | 30.05.2024 20:30 | 24.2 km | 59 km |
| 1.1 | 04.05.2024 16:29 | 50 km | 68 km |
| 1.7 | 08.04.2024 05:19 | 0 km | 52 km |
| 1.3 | 20.03.2024 10:18 | 18 km | 69 km |
| 2.1 | 14.03.2024 01:07 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 3.1 | 25.02.2024 10:32 | 37.1 km | 40 km |
| 4.1 | 17.02.2024 00:23 | 31.6 km | 67 km |
| 2.8 | 11.02.2024 20:50 | 28.4 km | 57 km |
| 4.2 | 09.02.2024 12:06 | 17.5 km | 62 km |
| 1.6 | 07.02.2024 22:37 | 20 km | 52 km |
| 2.3 | 22.11.2023 16:16 | 23.6 km | 41 km |
| 2.6 | 15.10.2023 17:17 | 24.4 km | 41 km |
| 2.2 | 14.10.2023 19:16 | 32.5 km | 42 km |
| 2.4 | 13.10.2023 07:52 | 23.3 km | 40 km |
| 2.4 | 13.10.2023 07:43 | 21.4 km | 41 km |
| 3.7 | 13.10.2023 07:25 | 24 km | 42 km |
| 2.4 | 13.10.2023 06:29 | 24.2 km | 41 km |
| 2.6 | 13.10.2023 06:17 | 25 km | 39 km |
| 2.5 | 13.10.2023 05:42 | 23.6 km | 41 km |
| 2.5 | 13.10.2023 05:19 | 21.5 km | 40 km |
| 3.5 | 13.10.2023 05:11 | 15.8 km | 37 km |
| 1.6 | 11.10.2023 23:55 | 20 km | 55 km |
| 2.4 | 11.10.2023 22:39 | 4.5 km | 51 km |
| 2.4 | 11.10.2023 03:02 | 25.2 km | 43 km |
| 2.7 | 10.10.2023 03:20 | 20.5 km | 39 km |
| 2.4 | 09.10.2023 12:39 | 25.7 km | 41 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.