No records in the last 30 days.
600
recorded earthquakes
M6.6
largest
1905–2026
record span
2.38
mean magnitude
81
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.6 | 30.10.2016 06:40 | 9.6 km | 95 km |
| 6.6 | 13.01.1915 06:52 | 15 km | 38 km |
| 6.3 | 06.04.2009 01:32 | 11.7 km | 54 km |
| 6.2 | 24.08.2016 01:36 | 11.6 km | 79 km |
| 6.1 | 26.10.2016 19:18 | 7.9 km | 101 km |
| 5.9 | 07.05.1984 17:49 | 18.2 km | 62 km |
| 5.7 | 18.01.2017 10:14 | 10.1 km | 66 km |
| 5.7 | 01.11.2002 15:09 | 9.7 km | 92 km |
| 5.7 | 05.09.1950 04:09 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 5.7 | 18.01.2017 10:25 | 12.3 km | 66 km |
| 5.6 | 29.12.1922 12:22 | 15 km | 86 km |
| 5.6 | 03.10.1943 08:28 | 35 km | 66 km |
| 5.6 | 26.09.1933 03:33 | 35 km | 40 km |
| 5.6 | 24.08.2016 02:33 | 11.1 km | 90 km |
| 5.5 | 07.04.2009 17:47 | 16.7 km | 44 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.4 | 12.05.2026 17:46 | 8.8 km | 36 km |
| 2.0 | 12.05.2026 02:13 | 7.9 km | 35 km |
| 2.5 | 21.01.2026 23:59 | 8.1 km | 35 km |
| 4.0 | 30.05.2025 00:06 | 72.5 km | 51 km |
| 2.0 | 14.04.2025 13:46 | 8.7 km | 31 km |
| 2.2 | 21.12.2024 02:48 | 11.7 km | 18 km |
| 2.7 | 07.12.2024 05:36 | 21.5 km | 20 km |
| 2.0 | 07.11.2024 12:50 | 6.3 km | 36 km |
| 2.4 | 17.06.2024 03:37 | 8.7 km | 33 km |
| 2.3 | 02.06.2024 04:38 | 13.3 km | 34 km |
| 2.6 | 02.06.2024 04:15 | 14 km | 33 km |
| 2.1 | 30.05.2024 07:10 | 9.6 km | 32 km |
| 2.1 | 12.02.2024 07:47 | 10.4 km | 39 km |
| 2.4 | 17.01.2024 07:36 | 9.2 km | 15 km |
| 2.0 | 03.01.2024 01:47 | 49.8 km | 23 km |
| 2.0 | 22.06.2023 15:21 | 8 km | 25 km |
| 2.8 | 21.06.2023 05:27 | 9 km | 26 km |
| 2.1 | 15.05.2023 23:20 | 7 km | 41 km |
| 2.0 | 12.12.2022 06:06 | 10 km | 35 km |
| 2.2 | 18.11.2022 17:58 | 11 km | 37 km |
| 2.0 | 15.10.2022 12:44 | 9 km | 24 km |
| 2.9 | 09.04.2022 12:49 | 14 km | 33 km |
| 2.2 | 01.04.2022 11:01 | 24 km | 38 km |
| 2.0 | 07.03.2022 09:54 | 9 km | 34 km |
| 3.2 | 26.02.2022 08:46 | 24 km | 38 km |
| 2.1 | 19.08.2021 01:10 | 12 km | 26 km |
| 2.5 | 11.02.2021 06:18 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 2.1 | 03.06.2020 16:56 | 16 km | 37 km |
| 2.1 | 29.02.2020 07:17 | 24 km | 29 km |
| 2.3 | 10.02.2020 12:10 | 20 km | 36 km |
| 2.1 | 25.05.2019 05:47 | 21 km | 42 km |
| 2.6 | 01.05.2019 17:00 | 20 km | 3 km |
| 2.0 | 03.02.2019 12:07 | 9 km | 40 km |
| 2.3 | 22.01.2019 23:25 | 38 km | 16 km |
| 2.1 | 10.01.2019 16:22 | 16 km | 32 km |
| 2.1 | 05.01.2019 21:10 | 8 km | 38 km |
| 2.2 | 05.01.2019 11:24 | 8 km | 37 km |
| 4.1 | 01.01.2019 18:37 | 15.6 km | 61 km |
| 5.3 | 16.08.2018 18:19 | 10.5 km | 83 km |
| 4.1 | 31.03.2018 01:18 | 11 km | 48 km |
| 2.7 | 07.03.2018 13:29 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 3.2 | 01.07.2017 19:12 | 8 km | 36 km |
| 2.9 | 12.06.2017 07:52 | 10 km | 35 km |
| 2.1 | 17.04.2017 22:50 | 9 km | 34 km |
| 2.0 | 08.04.2017 19:04 | 10 km | 34 km |
| 2.4 | 05.04.2017 03:47 | 10 km | 35 km |
| 5.3 | 18.01.2017 13:33 | 12.7 km | 65 km |
| 5.7 | 18.01.2017 10:25 | 12.3 km | 66 km |
| 5.7 | 18.01.2017 10:14 | 10.1 km | 66 km |
| 5.4 | 18.01.2017 09:25 | 9.3 km | 67 km |
| 6.6 | 30.10.2016 06:40 | 9.6 km | 95 km |
| 6.1 | 26.10.2016 19:18 | 7.9 km | 101 km |
| 5.6 | 24.08.2016 02:33 | 11.1 km | 90 km |
| 6.2 | 24.08.2016 01:36 | 11.6 km | 79 km |
| 2.7 | 09.03.2016 19:42 | 10 km | 34 km |
| 3.2 | 03.02.2016 22:41 | 9 km | 35 km |
| 2.0 | 15.09.2015 05:46 | 8 km | 27 km |
| 2.0 | 11.08.2015 09:09 | 8 km | 30 km |
| 2.2 | 25.05.2015 01:58 | 10 km | 37 km |
| 2.1 | 08.04.2015 01:19 | 11 km | 40 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.