No records in the last 30 days.
302
recorded earthquakes
M8.1
largest
1905–2026
record span
4.53
mean magnitude
64
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.1 | 20.12.1946 19:19 | 15 km | 231 km |
| 7.8 | 02.06.1905 05:39 | 100 km | 154 km |
| 7.7 | 26.02.1961 18:10 | 35 km | 249 km |
| 7.7 | 18.11.1941 16:46 | 35 km | 190 km |
| 7.5 | 01.04.1968 00:42 | 26.2 km | 135 km |
| 7.5 | 02.11.1931 10:03 | 35 km | 202 km |
| 7.2 | 17.04.1948 16:11 | 15 km | 213 km |
| 7.1 | 08.08.2024 07:42 | 55.7 km | 246 km |
| 7.1 | 21.04.1969 07:19 | 26 km | 182 km |
| 7.0 | 25.07.1970 22:41 | 34.6 km | 195 km |
| 6.9 | 06.08.1984 19:06 | 40.5 km | 165 km |
| 6.8 | 01.04.1968 07:13 | 33.4 km | 166 km |
| 6.8 | 24.03.2001 06:27 | 47.7 km | 119 km |
| 6.8 | 05.08.1968 16:17 | 48.4 km | 111 km |
| 6.7 | 20.03.1939 03:22 | 25 km | 182 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 25.06.2026 02:32 | 40 km | 93 km |
| 3.5 | 21.05.2026 15:23 | 40 km | 95 km |
| 3.8 | 06.05.2026 19:30 | 30 km | 72 km |
| 3.6 | 05.04.2026 23:29 | 40 km | 79 km |
| 3.9 | 03.04.2026 21:39 | 50 km | 117 km |
| 3.3 | 01.03.2026 15:50 | 50 km | 96 km |
| 3.1 | 28.12.2025 23:33 | 40 km | 95 km |
| 3.1 | 04.12.2025 13:59 | 30 km | 86 km |
| 3.5 | 02.10.2025 11:41 | 40 km | 97 km |
| 3.0 | 22.08.2025 23:44 | 20 km | 94 km |
| 3.2 | 18.08.2025 05:53 | 10 km | 91 km |
| 3.8 | 11.08.2025 21:34 | 40 km | 82 km |
| 3.4 | 03.08.2025 23:37 | 40 km | 48 km |
| 3.4 | 23.07.2025 05:29 | 40 km | 97 km |
| 4.0 | 03.07.2025 12:28 | 40 km | 122 km |
| 4.3 | 03.06.2025 11:17 | 50.6 km | 110 km |
| 4.2 | 28.02.2025 06:29 | 40 km | 54 km |
| 4.0 | 28.12.2024 16:33 | 10 km | 100 km |
| 3.8 | 30.11.2024 16:24 | 51.4 km | 95 km |
| 4.4 | 20.09.2024 12:22 | 50.3 km | 107 km |
| 3.9 | 12.09.2024 01:59 | 50 km | 101 km |
| 4.5 | 24.08.2024 00:32 | 10 km | 97 km |
| 7.1 | 08.08.2024 07:42 | 55.7 km | 246 km |
| 3.9 | 21.06.2024 05:04 | 40 km | 88 km |
| 3.9 | 21.06.2024 05:03 | 44.4 km | 94 km |
| 4.4 | 31.05.2024 19:02 | 40.3 km | 101 km |
| 3.9 | 05.05.2024 15:50 | 40 km | 95 km |
| 4.0 | 04.05.2024 00:40 | 40 km | 95 km |
| 3.5 | 03.05.2024 02:42 | 40 km | 95 km |
| 3.9 | 28.04.2024 21:09 | 40 km | 95 km |
| 3.8 | 24.04.2024 01:59 | 40 km | 95 km |
| 3.8 | 23.04.2024 05:29 | 40 km | 95 km |
| 3.6 | 23.04.2024 00:51 | 40 km | 95 km |
| 3.8 | 18.04.2024 14:46 | 40 km | 95 km |
| 3.7 | 18.04.2024 03:16 | 30 km | 95 km |
| 3.5 | 17.04.2024 15:44 | 40 km | 95 km |
| 4.1 | 17.04.2024 15:37 | 34.4 km | 98 km |
| 3.7 | 17.04.2024 15:30 | 30 km | 95 km |
| 3.5 | 17.04.2024 14:52 | 40 km | 95 km |
| 4.3 | 17.04.2024 14:27 | 30 km | 104 km |
| 4.8 | 17.04.2024 14:19 | 48.4 km | 94 km |
| 6.3 | 17.04.2024 14:14 | 41.2 km | 101 km |
| 3.5 | 13.04.2024 07:43 | 40 km | 80 km |
| 4.0 | 18.03.2024 01:58 | 40 km | 95 km |
| 5.0 | 26.02.2024 06:24 | 46.6 km | 97 km |
| 3.9 | 21.02.2024 09:27 | 40 km | 67 km |
| 3.5 | 28.12.2023 15:47 | 20 km | 79 km |
| 4.0 | 10.11.2023 01:54 | 31.6 km | 40 km |
| 4.1 | 12.05.2023 12:45 | 46.3 km | 98 km |
| 3.6 | 23.04.2023 21:22 | 40 km | 71 km |
| 4.3 | 28.12.2022 16:47 | 29.3 km | 53 km |
| 3.5 | 23.06.2022 15:20 | 40 km | 58 km |
| 5.0 | 16.06.2022 15:51 | 39.9 km | 131 km |
| 4.0 | 22.05.2022 23:20 | 35 km | 110 km |
| 6.4 | 21.01.2022 16:08 | 44.3 km | 150 km |
| 4.0 | 13.10.2021 17:00 | 12.5 km | 96 km |
| 3.6 | 15.08.2021 21:11 | 40 km | 60 km |
| 4.5 | 31.07.2021 04:09 | 40.3 km | 121 km |
| 4.4 | 18.07.2021 05:35 | 41.7 km | 88 km |
| 4.0 | 07.07.2021 17:39 | 40 km | 103 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.