No records in the last 30 days.
174
recorded earthquakes
M6.2
largest
1927–2017
record span
2.13
mean magnitude
18
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 | 40 km |
| 5.3 | 11.02.2004 08:15 | 22.4 km | 67 km |
| 4.6 | 24.10.1999 01:23 | 9.8 km | 29 km |
| 4.6 | 25.01.1985 06:08 | 27.1 km | 49 km |
| 4.5 | 07.07.2004 14:35 | 18.6 km | 47 km |
| 4.4 | 09.09.2006 04:58 | 0.4 km | 41 km |
| 4.2 | 13.01.1982 18:36 | 1 km | 45 km |
| 4.2 | 03.10.2005 04:03 | 23 km | 29 km |
| 4.1 | 30.01.1988 03:00 | — | 33 km |
| 4.1 | 24.02.2002 09:56 | 2 km | 40 km |
| 3.7 | 17.06.2002 04:19 | 2 km | 25 km |
| 3.7 | 07.09.2005 08:33 | 0 km | 27 km |
| 3.6 | 16.09.1994 03:18 | 10 km | 31 km |
| 3.5 | 06.01.2017 05:15 | 15 km | 20 km |
| 3.3 | 29.07.1992 05:30 | 10 km | 33 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.5 | 06.01.2017 05:15 | 15 km | 20 km |
| 1.2 | 03.09.2011 09:40 | 5.8 km | 22 km |
| 1.9 | 23.05.2011 09:01 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 1.6 | 15.05.2011 11:41 | 5 km | 27 km |
| 1.3 | 01.05.2011 09:33 | 7 km | 28 km |
| 1.4 | 16.04.2011 08:42 | 2 km | 26 km |
| 1.4 | 09.04.2011 08:48 | 0 km | 23 km |
| 1.6 | 02.04.2011 09:31 | 3 km | 18 km |
| 1.5 | 30.03.2011 12:47 | 7 km | 21 km |
| 1.7 | 21.03.2011 13:51 | 14 km | 24 km |
| 1.5 | 12.03.2011 14:03 | 3 km | 23 km |
| 1.6 | 14.02.2011 13:32 | 1 km | 24 km |
| 1.3 | 26.01.2011 10:56 | 9 km | 21 km |
| 2.0 | 22.01.2011 00:02 | 5 km | 27 km |
| 2.1 | 12.01.2011 17:32 | 5 km | 31 km |
| 1.4 | 29.12.2010 14:34 | 0 km | 21 km |
| 1.7 | 25.12.2010 09:45 | 1 km | 22 km |
| 1.4 | 25.12.2010 09:24 | 11 km | 23 km |
| 2.5 | 05.12.2010 12:37 | 5 km | 27 km |
| 1.4 | 21.11.2010 13:41 | 5 km | 21 km |
| 1.6 | 21.11.2010 10:58 | 0 km | 24 km |
| 1.2 | 23.10.2010 14:13 | 9 km | 26 km |
| 1.5 | 18.10.2010 11:42 | 5 km | 25 km |
| 1.3 | 31.03.2010 08:39 | 0.3 km | 30 km |
| 1.3 | 23.03.2010 13:40 | 0.3 km | 18 km |
| 1.4 | 14.03.2010 14:30 | 11.1 km | 19 km |
| 1.4 | 20.02.2010 11:09 | 0 km | 21 km |
| 1.1 | 06.01.2010 11:39 | 0.5 km | 22 km |
| 1.3 | 23.12.2009 15:15 | 0.5 km | 23 km |
| 1.8 | 23.12.2009 15:02 | 0.9 km | 25 km |
| 1.4 | 22.12.2009 11:58 | 1.7 km | 20 km |
| 1.3 | 21.12.2009 10:40 | 0.1 km | 36 km |
| 1.6 | 11.10.2009 11:03 | 0 km | 28 km |
| 1.7 | 19.09.2009 08:33 | 12.1 km | 21 km |
| 1.7 | 02.09.2009 11:58 | 3.9 km | 25 km |
| 1.5 | 29.07.2009 08:13 | 0 km | 17 km |
| 1.1 | 26.07.2009 10:02 | 0.1 km | 31 km |
| 1.4 | 08.07.2009 10:59 | 0 km | 28 km |
| 1.4 | 13.06.2009 08:31 | 4 km | 23 km |
| 1.5 | 18.05.2009 13:16 | 0 km | 27 km |
| 1.9 | 21.04.2009 10:16 | 2 km | 33 km |
| 1.4 | 11.04.2009 09:43 | 0 km | 24 km |
| 1.6 | 29.03.2009 11:57 | 5.1 km | 17 km |
| 1.5 | 21.03.2009 13:33 | 2.7 km | 21 km |
| 3.0 | 10.12.2008 11:14 | 0 km | 30 km |
| 2.6 | 16.08.2008 10:02 | 0 km | 34 km |
| 2.6 | 20.03.2008 10:39 | 14.2 km | 30 km |
| 3.2 | 24.02.2008 09:28 | 4 km | 34 km |
| 1.8 | 26.01.2008 10:04 | 0 km | 24 km |
| 1.9 | 13.01.2008 10:26 | 0 km | 14 km |
| 2.0 | 12.01.2008 10:42 | 0 km | 34 km |
| 2.4 | 12.01.2008 09:56 | 0 km | 20 km |
| 2.5 | 07.01.2008 10:05 | 0 km | 34 km |
| 2.0 | 03.01.2008 10:35 | 0 km | 28 km |
| 2.2 | 01.01.2008 09:26 | 0 km | 20 km |
| 2.1 | 26.12.2007 09:48 | 0 km | 34 km |
| 2.2 | 24.12.2007 10:57 | 0 km | 34 km |
| 2.3 | 18.12.2007 10:58 | 0 km | 28 km |
| 2.1 | 12.12.2007 12:32 | 0 km | 34 km |
| 1.9 | 08.12.2007 11:00 | 0 km | 20 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.