No records in the last 30 days.
181
recorded earthquakes
M5.5
largest
1918–2026
record span
2.89
mean magnitude
33
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 | 15.05.1951 22:54 | 35 km | 9 km |
| 5.0 | 24.04.1918 14:21 | 15 km | 63 km |
| 5.0 | 24.11.2004 22:59 | 13.5 km | 85 km |
| 5.0 | 09.11.1983 16:29 | 34 km | 87 km |
| 5.0 | 27.01.2012 14:53 | 65.1 km | 87 km |
| 4.9 | 08.10.1976 08:00 | 33 km | 43 km |
| 4.9 | 29.10.1995 13:00 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 4.6 | 17.12.2020 15:59 | 47.2 km | 33 km |
| 4.5 | 03.10.2012 14:41 | 23 km | 53 km |
| 4.5 | 09.02.1979 14:44 | 24.2 km | 44 km |
| 4.4 | 17.11.1979 20:53 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 4.3 | 13.11.2002 10:48 | 10.5 km | 55 km |
| 4.2 | 25.12.1988 18:27 | 22.8 km | 54 km |
| 4.2 | 19.05.2018 16:41 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 4.2 | 11.04.1990 21:38 | 10 km | 60 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.7 | 11.02.2026 08:15 | 36.2 km | 13 km |
| 2.1 | 15.10.2025 22:06 | 26.6 km | 30 km |
| 3.0 | 03.10.2025 18:57 | 27.1 km | 37 km |
| 2.6 | 28.04.2025 14:21 | 23 km | 38 km |
| 2.5 | 20.11.2024 04:59 | 18.3 km | 45 km |
| 2.3 | 07.03.2024 01:25 | 40.3 km | 30 km |
| 3.1 | 25.02.2024 10:32 | 37.1 km | 16 km |
| 3.5 | 13.10.2023 05:11 | 15.8 km | 40 km |
| 2.7 | 10.10.2023 03:20 | 20.5 km | 38 km |
| 2.4 | 09.10.2023 12:39 | 25.7 km | 37 km |
| 2.2 | 09.10.2023 03:40 | 3.3 km | 30 km |
| 2.2 | 09.10.2023 03:01 | 9.3 km | 37 km |
| 2.2 | 09.10.2023 00:29 | 6.2 km | 32 km |
| 2.4 | 08.10.2023 21:08 | 25 km | 38 km |
| 2.4 | 30.09.2023 03:28 | 20.9 km | 38 km |
| 2.4 | 28.09.2023 02:36 | 8.6 km | 37 km |
| 2.4 | 28.07.2023 01:05 | 9.3 km | 44 km |
| 2.2 | 04.11.2022 11:42 | 29 km | 32 km |
| 2.0 | 23.05.2022 17:44 | 43 km | 20 km |
| 2.6 | 09.04.2022 22:51 | 26 km | 41 km |
| 2.2 | 21.03.2022 21:33 | 37 km | 18 km |
| 2.2 | 22.12.2021 05:17 | 23 km | 13 km |
| 2.0 | 07.11.2021 15:41 | 2 km | 40 km |
| 3.1 | 11.10.2021 23:18 | 35 km | 25 km |
| 2.8 | 29.08.2021 08:15 | 9 km | 44 km |
| 2.8 | 17.01.2021 10:27 | 48 km | 34 km |
| 4.6 | 17.12.2020 15:59 | 47.2 km | 33 km |
| 2.0 | 14.12.2020 14:14 | 35 km | 14 km |
| 2.1 | 28.10.2020 09:28 | 20 km | 36 km |
| 2.1 | 28.05.2020 01:46 | 27 km | 39 km |
| 2.1 | 21.04.2020 20:31 | 27 km | 41 km |
| 3.8 | 19.04.2020 09:53 | 32 km | 44 km |
| 2.2 | 30.06.2019 12:01 | 40 km | 26 km |
| 2.3 | 25.04.2019 23:11 | 8 km | 14 km |
| 2.5 | 09.12.2018 23:18 | 17 km | 32 km |
| 2.6 | 09.12.2018 20:27 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 2.0 | 19.06.2018 10:43 | 20 km | 31 km |
| 4.2 | 19.05.2018 16:41 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 3.3 | 10.09.2016 15:13 | 31 km | 26 km |
| 2.6 | 15.06.2016 02:27 | 20 km | 41 km |
| 2.5 | 14.12.2015 09:23 | 37 km | 5 km |
| 2.0 | 08.12.2015 14:02 | 8 km | 25 km |
| 2.1 | 27.10.2015 01:55 | 45 km | 22 km |
| 2.3 | 22.09.2015 12:41 | 51 km | 36 km |
| 2.4 | 14.09.2015 22:20 | 11 km | 41 km |
| 2.0 | 08.09.2015 18:57 | 2 km | 36 km |
| 3.3 | 23.12.2013 03:17 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 2.2 | 09.08.2013 22:47 | 34 km | 19 km |
| 2.0 | 09.08.2013 13:29 | 10 km | 37 km |
| 4.5 | 03.10.2012 14:41 | 23 km | 53 km |
| 5.0 | 27.01.2012 14:53 | 65.1 km | 87 km |
| 2.6 | 30.09.2011 00:41 | 40 km | 40 km |
| 2.7 | 10.09.2011 23:14 | 48.5 km | 29 km |
| 2.7 | 06.09.2011 21:46 | 20 km | 23 km |
| 2.4 | 18.08.2011 22:33 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 2.1 | 18.08.2011 22:29 | 5 km | 45 km |
| 1.9 | 10.01.2011 11:12 | 10 km | 32 km |
| 2.6 | 15.11.2010 12:22 | 20 km | 46 km |
| 2.5 | 30.07.2010 19:05 | 30 km | 30 km |
| 2.2 | 01.07.2010 03:06 | 5 km | 34 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.