No records in the last 30 days.
283
recorded earthquakes
M6.2
largest
1927–2019
record span
2.61
mean magnitude
148
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 | 83 km |
| 5.4 | 18.12.1956 17:53 | 15 km | 92 km |
| 5.3 | 11.02.2004 08:15 | 22.4 km | 92 km |
| 5.1 | 23.04.1979 13:01 | 16 km | 112 km |
| 4.6 | 25.01.1985 06:08 | 27.1 km | 93 km |
| 4.5 | 07.07.2004 14:35 | 18.6 km | 97 km |
| 4.5 | 09.02.2007 22:14 | 16.2 km | 113 km |
| 4.5 | 20.11.2007 09:18 | 6 km | 80 km |
| 4.4 | 03.10.2005 04:05 | 10 km | 90 km |
| 4.4 | 09.09.2006 04:58 | 0.4 km | 99 km |
| 4.4 | 31.03.1989 00:44 | 31.6 km | 106 km |
| 4.3 | 15.03.2004 23:49 | 12 km | 91 km |
| 4.2 | 27.04.1987 20:41 | — | 102 km |
| 4.2 | 03.10.2005 04:03 | 23 km | 88 km |
| 4.1 | 24.02.2002 09:56 | 2 km | 103 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.8 | 25.11.2019 11:48 | 12 km | 94 km |
| 3.7 | 25.11.2019 11:39 | 12 km | 92 km |
| 3.3 | 25.11.2019 08:07 | 12 km | 93 km |
| 4.0 | 26.06.2019 08:53 | 10 km | 102 km |
| 3.8 | 26.12.2018 03:38 | 12 km | 91 km |
| 2.5 | 28.08.2018 05:47 | 16 km | 82 km |
| 2.7 | 05.08.2018 05:52 | 15 km | 90 km |
| 2.8 | 28.04.2018 07:14 | 10 km | 92 km |
| 3.6 | 28.04.2018 06:50 | 10 km | 92 km |
| 3.5 | 28.04.2018 04:45 | 10 km | 89 km |
| 3.1 | 15.08.2015 07:39 | 11 km | 97 km |
| 4.0 | 30.07.2015 02:39 | 18.2 km | 99 km |
| 3.3 | 06.01.2015 17:02 | 1 km | 95 km |
| 3.4 | 12.09.2013 01:20 | 20 km | 81 km |
| 2.2 | 03.12.2011 07:48 | 14 km | 95 km |
| 2.1 | 01.10.2011 22:04 | 17 km | 88 km |
| 2.4 | 29.09.2011 20:05 | 22.2 km | 78 km |
| 2.1 | 17.09.2011 21:35 | 2 km | 98 km |
| 2.0 | 01.05.2011 06:43 | 2 km | 97 km |
| 1.0 | 06.04.2011 10:02 | 15 km | 58 km |
| 2.5 | 05.12.2010 12:37 | 5 km | 97 km |
| 1.1 | 23.11.2010 14:54 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 2.0 | 17.10.2010 04:12 | 6 km | 82 km |
| 2.7 | 06.03.2010 11:30 | 2 km | 49 km |
| 1.3 | 09.02.2010 13:48 | 15 km | 46 km |
| 1.1 | 31.01.2010 10:20 | 30.2 km | 57 km |
| 2.6 | 25.01.2010 18:58 | 20 km | 88 km |
| 2.3 | 25.12.2009 21:42 | 20 km | 90 km |
| 3.1 | 25.09.2009 10:09 | 20 km | 95 km |
| 1.5 | 20.09.2009 02:29 | 18.5 km | 86 km |
| 2.8 | 16.09.2009 11:01 | 1.3 km | 31 km |
| 1.4 | 06.09.2009 08:32 | 2 km | 47 km |
| 2.4 | 21.07.2009 22:23 | 20 km | 88 km |
| 2.5 | 18.05.2009 02:02 | 25.2 km | 77 km |
| 2.5 | 08.05.2009 02:11 | 23.5 km | 70 km |
| 2.9 | 08.05.2009 01:23 | 12 km | 86 km |
| 2.6 | 08.05.2009 01:11 | 20 km | 82 km |
| 2.6 | 26.04.2009 01:06 | 21.4 km | 85 km |
| 2.0 | 25.04.2009 22:58 | 20 km | 89 km |
| 3.5 | 21.04.2009 13:18 | 19.8 km | 89 km |
| 1.9 | 21.04.2009 10:16 | 2 km | 53 km |
| 2.6 | 21.04.2009 08:21 | 20 km | 88 km |
| 3.4 | 21.04.2009 01:37 | 10 km | 84 km |
| 3.0 | 10.12.2008 11:14 | 0 km | 96 km |
| 2.3 | 02.10.2008 03:03 | 20 km | 84 km |
| 2.2 | 28.08.2008 10:41 | 0 km | 46 km |
| 3.0 | 17.08.2008 01:11 | 10.1 km | 82 km |
| 2.6 | 16.08.2008 10:02 | 0 km | 51 km |
| 2.0 | 13.08.2008 21:22 | 18.8 km | 85 km |
| 2.4 | 03.06.2008 00:02 | 10 km | 80 km |
| 3.1 | 14.04.2008 14:36 | 5 km | 90 km |
| 2.8 | 13.04.2008 16:33 | 5.3 km | 82 km |
| 2.6 | 13.04.2008 11:25 | 5.6 km | 87 km |
| 2.7 | 13.04.2008 08:24 | 4.1 km | 89 km |
| 3.3 | 13.04.2008 08:17 | 10 km | 90 km |
| 2.6 | 13.04.2008 08:10 | 11.4 km | 84 km |
| 2.6 | 27.03.2008 23:22 | 19.3 km | 75 km |
| 3.7 | 23.03.2008 20:26 | 15 km | 76 km |
| 2.6 | 20.03.2008 10:39 | 14.2 km | 59 km |
| 3.0 | 26.02.2008 14:27 | 4.9 km | 50 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.