No records in the last 30 days.
2,441
recorded earthquakes
M6.2
largest
1963–2026
record span
2.02
mean magnitude
1,659
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 | 19.07.1963 05:45 | 15 km | 100 km |
| 4.8 | 22.04.1977 13:06 | 41 km | 43 km |
| 4.5 | 24.02.1997 12:06 | 20 km | 61 km |
| 4.5 | 19.04.2009 12:39 | 40.2 km | 67 km |
| 4.4 | 17.07.1993 06:26 | 5 km | 4 km |
| 4.3 | 02.09.2006 01:21 | 2 km | 60 km |
| 4.2 | 06.02.2001 22:28 | 16.6 km | 31 km |
| 4.2 | 17.07.1993 10:35 | 6.6 km | 10 km |
| 4.2 | 18.01.1972 23:26 | 11 km | 22 km |
| 4.2 | 18.04.1968 19:38 | 4.6 km | 19 km |
| 4.1 | 25.12.1993 10:42 | 12.5 km | 5 km |
| 4.1 | 08.11.1997 01:56 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 4.1 | 01.02.2009 14:52 | 11.8 km | 34 km |
| 4.0 | 25.09.1971 10:34 | 12 km | 31 km |
| 4.0 | 17.07.1993 05:46 | 5 km | 5 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.0 | 22.04.2026 04:46 | 8.7 km | 46 km |
| 2.7 | 21.03.2026 10:07 | 9.3 km | 55 km |
| 2.1 | 16.03.2026 20:44 | 7.2 km | 39 km |
| 2.2 | 17.11.2025 08:33 | 10 km | 38 km |
| 2.6 | 05.11.2025 00:32 | 16 km | 41 km |
| 2.1 | 25.09.2025 19:13 | 9.9 km | 30 km |
| 2.4 | 27.08.2025 04:47 | 5 km | 21 km |
| 2.0 | 28.02.2025 07:40 | 11.1 km | 38 km |
| 2.4 | 25.06.2024 10:51 | 12 km | 52 km |
| 2.6 | 15.05.2024 20:24 | 5 km | 48 km |
| 2.1 | 15.05.2024 12:20 | 5 km | 56 km |
| 2.1 | 15.05.2024 11:27 | 6.7 km | 49 km |
| 2.1 | 06.05.2024 09:50 | 7 km | 55 km |
| 2.0 | 07.07.2023 16:35 | 10.7 km | 35 km |
| 3.1 | 29.04.2023 04:04 | 5 km | 35 km |
| 2.7 | 31.03.2023 16:08 | 259 km | 26 km |
| 2.2 | 29.01.2023 01:24 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 2.5 | 14.01.2023 13:14 | 5 km | 46 km |
| 2.6 | 26.09.2022 11:49 | 6 km | 27 km |
| 2.5 | 27.07.2022 07:31 | 10 km | 8 km |
| 2.0 | 08.03.2022 14:32 | 8 km | 32 km |
| 2.4 | 27.12.2021 16:23 | 9 km | 5 km |
| 2.0 | 12.11.2021 10:05 | 8 km | 33 km |
| 2.2 | 27.07.2021 20:18 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 2.6 | 17.02.2021 20:18 | 5 km | 31 km |
| 2.4 | 18.12.2020 18:20 | 314 km | 33 km |
| 3.0 | 01.11.2020 13:16 | 11 km | 49 km |
| 2.6 | 22.02.2020 00:53 | 9 km | 48 km |
| 2.2 | 03.12.2019 07:19 | 2 km | 36 km |
| 2.7 | 15.03.2019 08:09 | 5 km | 41 km |
| 3.0 | 20.02.2019 09:30 | 5 km | 42 km |
| 2.5 | 01.11.2018 00:31 | 5 km | 37 km |
| 2.7 | 14.10.2018 06:36 | 9 km | 48 km |
| 2.5 | 14.10.2018 06:34 | 10 km | 40 km |
| 2.0 | 19.09.2018 10:20 | 0 km | 42 km |
| 2.1 | 15.07.2018 12:00 | 9 km | 35 km |
| 2.2 | 16.05.2018 10:50 | 11 km | 44 km |
| 2.0 | 06.05.2018 07:22 | 43 km | 52 km |
| 2.6 | 29.04.2018 15:42 | 11 km | 57 km |
| 2.8 | 05.03.2018 08:43 | 7 km | 57 km |
| 2.6 | 24.02.2018 00:55 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 2.7 | 22.02.2018 06:24 | 11 km | 36 km |
| 2.3 | 21.02.2018 20:23 | 10 km | 28 km |
| 3.0 | 21.02.2018 09:55 | 10 km | 39 km |
| 2.6 | 20.02.2018 23:01 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 2.1 | 04.01.2018 10:59 | 10 km | 32 km |
| 2.3 | 08.05.2017 19:26 | 9 km | 41 km |
| 2.5 | 02.03.2017 00:01 | 5 km | 31 km |
| 3.7 | 10.10.2015 20:18 | 11 km | 48 km |
| 2.4 | 10.04.2015 03:48 | 10 km | 7 km |
| 2.0 | 10.04.2015 03:45 | 8 km | 9 km |
| 2.0 | 10.04.2015 03:42 | 8 km | 7 km |
| 2.6 | 10.11.2014 17:02 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 2.4 | 10.11.2014 17:01 | 10 km | 19 km |
| 2.9 | 24.04.2014 15:47 | 10 km | 46 km |
| 2.1 | 07.04.2014 15:41 | 10 km | 39 km |
| 3.6 | 03.04.2014 10:33 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 2.9 | 10.02.2014 13:37 | 2 km | 30 km |
| 2.2 | 09.02.2014 22:59 | 8 km | 23 km |
| 2.1 | 09.02.2014 22:46 | 4 km | 14 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.