No records in the last 30 days.
198
recorded earthquakes
M6.2
largest
1927–2022
record span
2.15
mean magnitude
34
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 | 11.07.1927 13:04 | 15 km | 41 km |
| 5.3 | 11.02.2004 08:15 | 22.4 km | 68 km |
| 5.3 | 24.08.1984 06:02 | 23.4 km | 76 km |
| 4.6 | 24.10.1999 01:23 | 9.8 km | 21 km |
| 4.5 | 07.07.2004 14:35 | 18.6 km | 45 km |
| 4.4 | 09.09.2006 04:58 | 0.4 km | 38 km |
| 4.2 | 13.01.1982 18:36 | 1 km | 36 km |
| 4.2 | 05.11.1984 01:44 | 4 km | 43 km |
| 4.2 | 03.10.2005 04:03 | 23 km | 29 km |
| 4.1 | 30.01.1988 03:00 | — | 26 km |
| 4.1 | 22.01.2022 21:36 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 4.1 | 24.02.2002 09:56 | 2 km | 36 km |
| 3.9 | 03.01.1989 17:10 | 10 km | 31 km |
| 3.7 | 07.09.2005 08:33 | 0 km | 20 km |
| 3.7 | 17.06.2002 04:19 | 2 km | 24 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.6 | 29.06.2022 17:45 | 2 km | 25 km |
| 4.1 | 22.01.2022 21:36 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 3.5 | 06.01.2017 05:15 | 15 km | 10 km |
| 1.2 | 03.09.2011 09:40 | 5.8 km | 22 km |
| 1.9 | 23.05.2011 09:01 | 10 km | 8 km |
| 1.6 | 15.05.2011 11:41 | 5 km | 29 km |
| 1.3 | 01.05.2011 09:33 | 7 km | 22 km |
| 1.2 | 24.04.2011 09:13 | 0 km | 29 km |
| 1.1 | 24.04.2011 09:03 | 6 km | 27 km |
| 1.4 | 16.04.2011 08:42 | 2 km | 21 km |
| 1.4 | 09.04.2011 08:48 | 0 km | 20 km |
| 1.6 | 02.04.2011 09:31 | 3 km | 14 km |
| 1.5 | 30.03.2011 12:47 | 7 km | 15 km |
| 1.7 | 21.03.2011 13:51 | 14 km | 20 km |
| 1.5 | 12.03.2011 14:03 | 3 km | 17 km |
| 1.6 | 14.02.2011 13:32 | 1 km | 21 km |
| 1.3 | 26.01.2011 10:56 | 9 km | 15 km |
| 2.0 | 22.01.2011 00:02 | 5 km | 21 km |
| 2.1 | 12.01.2011 17:32 | 5 km | 25 km |
| 1.4 | 29.12.2010 14:34 | 0 km | 16 km |
| 1.7 | 25.12.2010 09:45 | 1 km | 16 km |
| 2.5 | 05.12.2010 12:37 | 5 km | 23 km |
| 1.4 | 21.11.2010 13:41 | 5 km | 17 km |
| 1.6 | 21.11.2010 10:58 | 0 km | 25 km |
| 1.2 | 23.10.2010 14:13 | 9 km | 22 km |
| 1.5 | 18.10.2010 11:42 | 5 km | 17 km |
| 1.3 | 23.03.2010 13:40 | 0.3 km | 16 km |
| 1.4 | 14.03.2010 14:30 | 11.1 km | 17 km |
| 1.4 | 20.02.2010 11:09 | 0 km | 17 km |
| 1.1 | 06.01.2010 11:39 | 0.5 km | 20 km |
| 1.3 | 23.12.2009 15:15 | 0.5 km | 20 km |
| 1.8 | 23.12.2009 15:02 | 0.9 km | 20 km |
| 1.4 | 22.12.2009 11:58 | 1.7 km | 16 km |
| 1.6 | 28.10.2009 07:13 | 0 km | 26 km |
| 1.6 | 11.10.2009 11:03 | 0 km | 27 km |
| 1.7 | 19.09.2009 08:33 | 12.1 km | 16 km |
| 1.7 | 02.09.2009 11:58 | 3.9 km | 22 km |
| 1.0 | 02.08.2009 13:08 | 8.9 km | 28 km |
| 1.5 | 29.07.2009 08:13 | 0 km | 18 km |
| 1.1 | 26.07.2009 10:02 | 0.1 km | 31 km |
| 1.4 | 08.07.2009 10:59 | 0 km | 22 km |
| 1.4 | 13.06.2009 08:31 | 4 km | 18 km |
| 1.5 | 18.05.2009 13:16 | 0 km | 23 km |
| 1.4 | 11.04.2009 09:43 | 0 km | 20 km |
| 1.6 | 29.03.2009 11:57 | 5.1 km | 15 km |
| 1.5 | 21.03.2009 13:33 | 2.7 km | 18 km |
| 3.0 | 10.12.2008 11:14 | 0 km | 27 km |
| 2.3 | 18.04.2008 23:50 | 20 km | 25 km |
| 1.4 | 26.01.2008 10:27 | 0 km | 28 km |
| 1.8 | 26.01.2008 10:04 | 0 km | 26 km |
| 1.9 | 17.01.2008 11:58 | 0 km | 25 km |
| 1.9 | 13.01.2008 10:26 | 0 km | 24 km |
| 1.5 | 12.01.2008 14:28 | 0 km | 25 km |
| 2.4 | 12.01.2008 09:56 | 0 km | 19 km |
| 1.7 | 12.01.2008 09:40 | 0 km | 25 km |
| 2.3 | 06.01.2008 14:28 | 0 km | 25 km |
| 3.1 | 04.01.2008 15:50 | 5 km | 33 km |
| 2.3 | 04.01.2008 09:25 | 5 km | 33 km |
| 2.3 | 01.01.2008 12:03 | 0 km | 25 km |
| 2.2 | 01.01.2008 09:26 | 0 km | 19 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.