No records in the last 30 days.
446
recorded earthquakes
M6.2
largest
1927–2025
record span
2.09
mean magnitude
184
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 | 199 km |
| 5.4 | 18.12.1956 17:53 | 15 km | 230 km |
| 5.3 | 16.03.1956 19:32 | 15 km | 237 km |
| 5.3 | 11.02.2004 08:15 | 22.4 km | 221 km |
| 5.1 | 15.02.2008 10:36 | 10.4 km | 230 km |
| 5.1 | 26.03.1997 04:22 | 15.6 km | 230 km |
| 5.1 | 16.03.1956 19:43 | 15 km | 213 km |
| 5.1 | 23.02.2020 05:57 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 4.9 | 30.10.1999 07:10 | 5 km | 93 km |
| 4.6 | 24.10.1999 01:23 | 9.8 km | 174 km |
| 4.5 | 05.11.2020 10:45 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 4.4 | 31.03.1989 00:44 | 31.6 km | 72 km |
| 4.3 | 24.11.1981 09:37 | 8 km | 193 km |
| 4.2 | 03.10.2005 04:03 | 23 km | 194 km |
| 4.2 | 13.07.2005 11:19 | 30 km | 184 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.2 | 29.03.2025 14:47 | 7.2 km | 180 km |
| 4.5 | 05.11.2020 10:45 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 5.1 | 23.02.2020 05:57 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 2.9 | 27.05.2014 08:23 | 5 km | 191 km |
| 2.0 | 24.11.2013 18:10 | 10 km | 130 km |
| 2.7 | 12.12.2011 05:48 | 5 km | 177 km |
| 2.6 | 11.12.2011 14:53 | 4 km | 193 km |
| 2.5 | 11.12.2011 14:49 | 3 km | 189 km |
| 2.8 | 05.12.2011 14:16 | 2 km | 187 km |
| 2.5 | 04.12.2011 20:26 | 0 km | 191 km |
| 1.9 | 26.09.2011 12:05 | 31.1 km | 114 km |
| 1.2 | 03.09.2011 09:40 | 5.8 km | 158 km |
| 1.4 | 26.08.2011 16:06 | 2.6 km | 181 km |
| 2.7 | 20.08.2011 17:12 | 10 km | 187 km |
| 1.5 | 17.08.2011 15:08 | 0.1 km | 163 km |
| 2.8 | 25.06.2011 11:06 | 0 km | 190 km |
| 2.6 | 18.06.2011 19:45 | 0 km | 164 km |
| 2.9 | 08.06.2011 21:26 | 10 km | 196 km |
| 2.8 | 29.05.2011 21:20 | 2 km | 163 km |
| 1.3 | 29.05.2011 19:49 | 2 km | 162 km |
| 2.8 | 29.05.2011 19:19 | 8 km | 168 km |
| 3.4 | 29.05.2011 19:17 | 8 km | 161 km |
| 1.6 | 15.05.2011 11:41 | 5 km | 151 km |
| 1.6 | 03.05.2011 07:14 | 0 km | 138 km |
| 1.3 | 01.05.2011 09:33 | 7 km | 170 km |
| 1.3 | 26.04.2011 12:54 | 19 km | 140 km |
| 2.2 | 25.04.2011 09:38 | 26 km | 106 km |
| 1.2 | 24.04.2011 09:13 | 0 km | 165 km |
| 1.4 | 16.04.2011 08:42 | 2 km | 167 km |
| 2.8 | 10.04.2011 10:31 | 10 km | 177 km |
| 1.4 | 09.04.2011 08:48 | 0 km | 165 km |
| 1.9 | 07.04.2011 11:27 | 20 km | 157 km |
| 1.0 | 06.04.2011 10:02 | 15 km | 121 km |
| 1.6 | 02.04.2011 09:31 | 3 km | 168 km |
| 1.5 | 30.03.2011 12:47 | 7 km | 170 km |
| 1.7 | 21.03.2011 13:51 | 14 km | 166 km |
| 1.4 | 16.03.2011 09:15 | 5 km | 153 km |
| 1.5 | 12.03.2011 14:03 | 3 km | 170 km |
| 1.6 | 12.03.2011 13:05 | 135 km | 109 km |
| 1.0 | 27.02.2011 08:04 | 0 km | 105 km |
| 2.2 | 20.02.2011 12:33 | 1 km | 114 km |
| 1.6 | 14.02.2011 13:32 | 1 km | 164 km |
| 1.7 | 02.02.2011 08:42 | 9 km | 176 km |
| 1.2 | 01.02.2011 13:47 | 29 km | 113 km |
| 1.3 | 26.01.2011 10:56 | 9 km | 171 km |
| 2.0 | 20.01.2011 14:57 | 2 km | 180 km |
| 1.2 | 18.01.2011 09:49 | 1 km | 179 km |
| 1.8 | 12.01.2011 19:19 | 4 km | 170 km |
| 1.6 | 10.01.2011 19:25 | 11 km | 191 km |
| 1.4 | 29.12.2010 14:34 | 0 km | 168 km |
| 1.7 | 25.12.2010 09:45 | 1 km | 170 km |
| 1.4 | 25.12.2010 09:24 | 11 km | 147 km |
| 1.2 | 06.12.2010 10:39 | 15 km | 131 km |
| 1.2 | 05.12.2010 12:56 | 2 km | 64 km |
| 1.0 | 01.12.2010 15:22 | 8 km | 111 km |
| 1.9 | 27.11.2010 10:46 | 0 km | 133 km |
| 1.1 | 23.11.2010 14:54 | 10 km | 115 km |
| 1.0 | 21.11.2010 13:52 | 3 km | 118 km |
| 1.4 | 21.11.2010 13:41 | 5 km | 167 km |
| 1.3 | 21.11.2010 13:34 | 20 km | 100 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.