4.3
398
recorded earthquakes
M6.2
largest
1909–2026
record span
2.60
mean magnitude
169
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 | 29.06.1919 15:06 | 15 km | 144 km |
| 5.8 | 07.09.1920 05:55 | 35 km | 116 km |
| 5.6 | 27.10.1914 09:22 | 15 km | 116 km |
| 5.6 | 20.04.1929 01:09 | 35 km | 138 km |
| 5.3 | 21.06.2013 10:33 | 12.1 km | 126 km |
| 5.2 | 11.02.1939 11:16 | 10 km | 133 km |
| 5.2 | 05.09.1931 01:25 | 15 km | 94 km |
| 5.2 | 13.09.1911 22:29 | 15 km | 97 km |
| 5.2 | 25.08.1909 00:29 | 15 km | 82 km |
| 5.2 | 18.07.1929 21:01 | 15 km | 123 km |
| 5.0 | 23.01.1985 10:10 | 10.2 km | 128 km |
| 4.9 | 19.08.1970 12:19 | 12 km | 66 km |
| 4.8 | 05.01.1982 18:17 | 10 km | 105 km |
| 4.7 | 21.05.1984 14:07 | 21.6 km | 46 km |
| 4.6 | 21.12.1978 03:01 | 10 km | 74 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.3 | 04.08.2026 08:15 | 7.9 km | 72 km |
| 2.1 | 02.08.2026 09:52 | 5.6 km | 59 km |
| 2.6 | 30.07.2026 23:30 | 10 km | 85 km |
| 3.2 | 06.04.2026 02:14 | 8.3 km | 60 km |
| 2.0 | 02.03.2026 06:50 | 8.8 km | 53 km |
| 2.5 | 03.01.2026 22:54 | 10.3 km | 85 km |
| 2.0 | 28.11.2025 20:46 | 8.4 km | 56 km |
| 2.4 | 26.11.2025 19:09 | 9.4 km | 62 km |
| 2.7 | 26.11.2025 19:06 | 9.1 km | 61 km |
| 2.2 | 06.08.2025 22:16 | 11.1 km | 89 km |
| 2.2 | 19.07.2025 22:09 | 8.1 km | 48 km |
| 2.0 | 30.05.2025 04:45 | 9.1 km | 47 km |
| 2.3 | 21.05.2025 18:26 | 10 km | 95 km |
| 2.1 | 21.05.2025 14:02 | 5.4 km | 52 km |
| 2.6 | 27.01.2025 06:33 | 8.7 km | 52 km |
| 2.2 | 18.01.2025 22:45 | 6.7 km | 57 km |
| 2.1 | 18.01.2025 00:11 | 8.9 km | 61 km |
| 2.3 | 23.08.2024 09:12 | 4.9 km | 61 km |
| 2.1 | 18.01.2024 09:22 | 9.2 km | 58 km |
| 2.0 | 25.08.2023 20:49 | 7.4 km | 95 km |
| 2.5 | 10.07.2023 02:52 | 7.6 km | 47 km |
| 2.0 | 01.04.2023 10:46 | 9 km | 54 km |
| 2.2 | 14.12.2022 04:31 | 11 km | 98 km |
| 2.2 | 02.12.2022 06:21 | 8 km | 59 km |
| 2.4 | 12.08.2022 00:45 | 29 km | 78 km |
| 2.4 | 06.04.2022 11:11 | 8 km | 59 km |
| 4.3 | 06.02.2022 01:36 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 2.1 | 20.11.2021 17:50 | 9 km | 50 km |
| 2.1 | 20.11.2021 05:25 | 5 km | 55 km |
| 2.0 | 20.11.2021 05:24 | 6 km | 53 km |
| 3.5 | 20.11.2021 05:21 | 13 km | 52 km |
| 2.0 | 05.10.2021 09:39 | 1 km | 70 km |
| 2.3 | 24.07.2021 18:40 | 9 km | 55 km |
| 2.7 | 11.04.2021 00:55 | 10 km | 58 km |
| 2.0 | 24.12.2020 13:01 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 2.0 | 08.09.2020 10:01 | 3 km | 46 km |
| 2.1 | 05.03.2020 09:47 | 10 km | 71 km |
| 3.7 | 07.12.2019 21:56 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 2.1 | 02.11.2019 05:48 | 7 km | 51 km |
| 2.2 | 02.11.2019 04:28 | 8 km | 51 km |
| 2.2 | 25.10.2019 09:45 | 15 km | 69 km |
| 2.7 | 24.10.2019 02:46 | 8 km | 71 km |
| 2.4 | 19.09.2019 03:11 | 5 km | 55 km |
| 2.4 | 27.08.2019 04:16 | 10 km | 79 km |
| 2.7 | 13.08.2019 12:26 | 2 km | 53 km |
| 2.4 | 13.08.2019 12:15 | 3 km | 56 km |
| 2.3 | 23.04.2019 15:48 | 7 km | 60 km |
| 2.3 | 10.04.2019 06:07 | 7 km | 51 km |
| 2.1 | 27.01.2019 07:36 | 8 km | 70 km |
| 2.5 | 27.11.2018 00:11 | 2 km | 46 km |
| 2.2 | 17.11.2018 11:16 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 2.6 | 10.09.2018 05:16 | 2 km | 45 km |
| 2.1 | 10.09.2018 02:06 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 3.7 | 01.05.2018 05:16 | 7.1 km | 59 km |
| 3.4 | 11.04.2018 04:41 | 8 km | 49 km |
| 2.2 | 11.01.2018 15:37 | 4 km | 61 km |
| 2.9 | 07.10.2017 11:36 | 8 km | 59 km |
| 2.6 | 07.07.2017 14:46 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 2.0 | 11.03.2017 00:24 | 13 km | 83 km |
| 2.7 | 01.02.2017 15:08 | 2 km | 83 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.