No records in the last 30 days.
325
recorded earthquakes
M6.2
largest
1927–2026
record span
2.18
mean magnitude
169
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 | 63 km |
| 5.3 | 11.02.2004 08:15 | 22.4 km | 90 km |
| 5.3 | 24.08.1984 06:02 | 23.4 km | 72 km |
| 4.8 | 04.07.2018 19:45 | 7.4 km | 49 km |
| 4.6 | 24.10.1999 01:23 | 9.8 km | 5 km |
| 4.5 | 07.07.2004 14:35 | 18.6 km | 66 km |
| 4.4 | 09.08.2020 09:18 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 4.4 | 09.09.2006 04:58 | 0.4 km | 58 km |
| 4.3 | 24.11.1981 09:37 | 8 km | 61 km |
| 4.2 | 13.01.1982 18:36 | 1 km | 23 km |
| 4.2 | 03.10.2005 04:03 | 23 km | 50 km |
| 4.2 | 05.11.1984 01:44 | 4 km | 59 km |
| 4.1 | 30.01.1988 03:00 | — | 42 km |
| 4.1 | 22.01.2022 21:36 | 10 km | 34 km |
| 4.1 | 24.02.2002 09:56 | 2 km | 55 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 24.05.2026 17:42 | 18.5 km | 47 km |
| 3.2 | 19.01.2026 13:39 | 14.2 km | 46 km |
| 2.2 | 24.08.2025 14:08 | 1.9 km | 51 km |
| 3.6 | 29.06.2022 17:45 | 2 km | 27 km |
| 3.8 | 15.02.2022 18:54 | 0 km | 33 km |
| 3.7 | 23.01.2022 10:28 | 10 km | 40 km |
| 4.1 | 22.01.2022 21:36 | 10 km | 34 km |
| 4.4 | 09.08.2020 09:18 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 2.9 | 11.05.2020 02:38 | 6.9 km | 52 km |
| 2.6 | 31.01.2019 11:43 | 5 km | 45 km |
| 2.9 | 27.07.2018 08:51 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 2.9 | 22.07.2018 06:41 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 3.0 | 09.07.2018 15:16 | 1 km | 46 km |
| 3.5 | 08.07.2018 21:42 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 3.0 | 08.07.2018 20:04 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 2.9 | 08.07.2018 19:00 | 5 km | 49 km |
| 3.9 | 08.07.2018 13:30 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 3.3 | 07.07.2018 02:07 | 5 km | 44 km |
| 3.5 | 04.07.2018 21:49 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 4.8 | 04.07.2018 19:45 | 7.4 km | 49 km |
| 3.0 | 04.07.2018 04:19 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 2.1 | 04.07.2018 03:41 | 3 km | 47 km |
| 3.3 | 04.07.2018 01:58 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 4.0 | 04.07.2018 01:50 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 2.1 | 02.07.2018 05:59 | 5 km | 49 km |
| 3.3 | 07.06.2018 23:47 | 5 km | 22 km |
| 3.5 | 06.01.2017 05:15 | 15 km | 26 km |
| 3.0 | 30.06.2014 09:08 | 15 km | 40 km |
| 2.6 | 03.12.2013 08:46 | 5 km | 49 km |
| 2.0 | 24.11.2013 18:10 | 10 km | 43 km |
| 3.3 | 22.10.2013 05:40 | 2 km | 49 km |
| 3.5 | 20.10.2013 12:54 | 5 km | 49 km |
| 3.6 | 20.10.2013 08:50 | 4 km | 50 km |
| 3.0 | 18.10.2013 23:30 | 2 km | 49 km |
| 3.5 | 17.10.2013 18:17 | 1 km | 50 km |
| 3.2 | 09.02.2012 11:11 | 2 km | 45 km |
| 1.2 | 03.09.2011 09:40 | 5.8 km | 14 km |
| 1.1 | 01.09.2011 02:24 | 16.4 km | 38 km |
| 1.9 | 23.05.2011 09:01 | 10 km | 15 km |
| 1.6 | 15.05.2011 11:41 | 5 km | 19 km |
| 1.6 | 03.05.2011 07:14 | 0 km | 31 km |
| 1.3 | 01.05.2011 09:33 | 7 km | 1 km |
| 1.3 | 26.04.2011 12:54 | 19 km | 29 km |
| 1.2 | 24.04.2011 09:13 | 0 km | 8 km |
| 1.1 | 24.04.2011 09:03 | 6 km | 8 km |
| 1.4 | 16.04.2011 08:42 | 2 km | 2 km |
| 1.4 | 09.04.2011 08:48 | 0 km | 6 km |
| 1.9 | 07.04.2011 11:27 | 20 km | 22 km |
| 1.6 | 02.04.2011 09:31 | 3 km | 9 km |
| 1.5 | 30.03.2011 12:47 | 7 km | 6 km |
| 1.4 | 29.03.2011 00:44 | 0 km | 49 km |
| 1.7 | 21.03.2011 13:51 | 14 km | 4 km |
| 1.4 | 16.03.2011 09:15 | 5 km | 30 km |
| 1.5 | 12.03.2011 14:03 | 3 km | 4 km |
| 1.6 | 14.02.2011 13:32 | 1 km | 6 km |
| 1.3 | 26.01.2011 10:56 | 9 km | 7 km |
| 2.0 | 22.01.2011 00:02 | 5 km | 40 km |
| 2.1 | 12.01.2011 17:32 | 5 km | 43 km |
| 3.4 | 01.01.2011 16:31 | 2 km | 30 km |
| 1.4 | 29.12.2010 14:34 | 0 km | 7 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.