No records in the last 30 days.
299
recorded earthquakes
M6.5
largest
1941–2026
record span
2.90
mean magnitude
189
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.5 | 16.03.1941 16:35 | 100 km | 145 km |
| 6.4 | 15.01.1968 02:01 | 12.6 km | 57 km |
| 5.9 | 06.09.2002 01:21 | 13.3 km | 147 km |
| 5.8 | 16.03.1941 18:48 | 100 km | 145 km |
| 5.3 | 08.12.1979 04:06 | 15.4 km | 100 km |
| 5.2 | 27.09.2002 06:10 | 15 km | 148 km |
| 5.2 | 14.01.1968 12:28 | 16 km | 63 km |
| 5.2 | 20.06.1998 02:25 | 14.7 km | 96 km |
| 5.1 | 25.01.1968 09:56 | 15 km | 57 km |
| 5.1 | 10.10.1983 03:51 | 15 km | 127 km |
| 5.1 | 16.01.1968 16:42 | 24.5 km | 62 km |
| 5.0 | 15.01.1968 01:33 | 41.4 km | 71 km |
| 5.0 | 14.09.1998 05:24 | 6.9 km | 140 km |
| 4.9 | 07.06.1981 13:00 | 10.3 km | 26 km |
| 4.8 | 17.01.1998 12:32 | 18.8 km | 103 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.7 | 14.04.2026 15:08 | 5 km | 11 km |
| 3.7 | 20.03.2026 17:58 | 16.9 km | 108 km |
| 4.5 | 14.02.2026 22:48 | 10 km | 95 km |
| 2.2 | 28.12.2025 21:57 | 10 km | 107 km |
| 2.8 | 02.11.2025 22:07 | 1 km | 99 km |
| 3.0 | 22.10.2025 19:51 | 26.6 km | 95 km |
| 2.6 | 21.09.2025 00:37 | 5 km | 93 km |
| 4.8 | 26.08.2025 04:07 | 1.2 km | 118 km |
| 2.0 | 13.05.2025 23:41 | 9.3 km | 77 km |
| 4.0 | 15.03.2025 20:45 | 10 km | 73 km |
| 2.0 | 21.01.2025 00:39 | 2.4 km | 91 km |
| 2.4 | 26.12.2024 23:09 | 12.3 km | 51 km |
| 2.7 | 26.12.2024 14:48 | 14.2 km | 51 km |
| 2.3 | 25.12.2024 10:08 | 9.8 km | 52 km |
| 2.3 | 18.11.2024 20:45 | 10.4 km | 47 km |
| 3.2 | 28.09.2024 14:12 | 1.4 km | 83 km |
| 2.2 | 21.09.2024 13:07 | 1.2 km | 77 km |
| 3.9 | 21.09.2024 03:00 | 8.3 km | 78 km |
| 2.1 | 26.06.2024 16:42 | 27.2 km | 95 km |
| 2.4 | 17.05.2024 18:37 | 10.3 km | 64 km |
| 2.4 | 02.05.2024 09:43 | 7.3 km | 66 km |
| 3.0 | 26.04.2024 06:10 | 18.7 km | 52 km |
| 2.1 | 07.03.2024 06:36 | 21.2 km | 58 km |
| 2.2 | 14.02.2024 16:58 | 10 km | 101 km |
| 2.1 | 29.01.2024 11:09 | 10.2 km | 61 km |
| 2.4 | 25.01.2024 05:22 | 4.5 km | 45 km |
| 2.2 | 18.01.2024 11:09 | 14.2 km | 71 km |
| 2.0 | 31.12.2023 21:54 | 10.6 km | 49 km |
| 2.5 | 26.12.2023 06:25 | 10.6 km | 46 km |
| 2.6 | 23.12.2023 19:44 | 19.2 km | 100 km |
| 2.7 | 07.12.2023 09:01 | 3 km | 48 km |
| 3.1 | 16.10.2023 00:24 | 9 km | 75 km |
| 2.3 | 01.10.2023 07:47 | 3.8 km | 52 km |
| 2.2 | 31.08.2023 18:44 | 10 km | 79 km |
| 2.0 | 19.08.2023 19:41 | 9.5 km | 46 km |
| 2.1 | 18.05.2023 19:02 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 2.0 | 28.03.2023 06:44 | 8 km | 48 km |
| 2.1 | 10.11.2022 07:55 | 8 km | 64 km |
| 2.4 | 12.10.2022 05:11 | 2 km | 107 km |
| 2.2 | 12.10.2022 04:41 | 2 km | 107 km |
| 2.5 | 20.09.2022 00:51 | 6 km | 66 km |
| 2.3 | 25.08.2022 00:20 | 1 km | 55 km |
| 2.1 | 23.08.2022 17:56 | 7 km | 56 km |
| 4.1 | 21.08.2022 04:52 | 10.4 km | 57 km |
| 2.0 | 13.03.2022 01:00 | 7 km | 61 km |
| 2.1 | 16.01.2022 01:19 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 2.8 | 13.10.2021 03:02 | 10 km | 92 km |
| 2.0 | 18.09.2021 14:40 | 11 km | 93 km |
| 3.4 | 18.09.2021 14:02 | 26 km | 91 km |
| 2.2 | 02.08.2021 02:44 | 10 km | 99 km |
| 2.2 | 09.07.2021 15:16 | 10 km | 25 km |
| 2.1 | 23.04.2021 21:06 | 11 km | 52 km |
| 2.5 | 28.03.2021 13:48 | 23 km | 94 km |
| 2.1 | 19.01.2021 21:17 | 4 km | 99 km |
| 2.5 | 19.01.2021 21:15 | 4 km | 99 km |
| 2.0 | 16.11.2020 21:45 | 12 km | 53 km |
| 2.0 | 10.11.2020 02:33 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 2.2 | 30.09.2020 04:39 | 13 km | 50 km |
| 2.0 | 30.09.2020 01:44 | 8 km | 98 km |
| 2.8 | 29.09.2020 20:14 | 9 km | 99 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.