No records in the last 30 days.
378
recorded earthquakes
M6.3
largest
1964–2024
record span
4.39
mean magnitude
170
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.3 | 14.09.1980 02:42 | 0 km | 656 km |
| 6.2 | 23.06.1979 02:56 | 0 km | 653 km |
| 6.2 | 27.12.1981 03:43 | 0 km | 655 km |
| 6.2 | 14.07.1984 01:09 | 0 km | 661 km |
| 6.2 | 27.10.1984 01:50 | 0 km | 653 km |
| 6.2 | 02.11.1972 01:26 | 0 km | 653 km |
| 6.2 | 03.04.1987 01:17 | 0 km | 653 km |
| 6.2 | 23.07.1973 01:22 | 0 km | 660 km |
| 6.2 | 23.12.1979 04:56 | 0 km | 645 km |
| 6.1 | 04.07.1982 01:17 | 0 km | 651 km |
| 6.1 | 25.04.1982 03:23 | 0 km | 659 km |
| 6.1 | 12.06.1983 02:36 | 0 km | 663 km |
| 6.1 | 26.10.1983 01:55 | 0 km | 658 km |
| 6.1 | 16.12.1984 03:55 | 0 km | 656 km |
| 6.1 | 05.12.1982 03:37 | 0 km | 655 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 30.10.2024 05:58 | 2 km | 426 km |
| 2.0 | 03.09.2024 08:16 | 2 km | 179 km |
| 2.1 | 14.06.2024 09:02 | 2 km | 179 km |
| 4.0 | 14.02.2024 05:09 | 10 km | 212 km |
| 4.0 | 14.02.2024 04:41 | 5.4 km | 219 km |
| 3.8 | 06.01.2024 08:26 | 1.2 km | 384 km |
| 4.0 | 27.10.2023 06:56 | 0 km | 104 km |
| 4.1 | 17.07.2023 07:35 | 0 km | 368 km |
| 4.6 | 27.05.2023 00:15 | 0 km | 117 km |
| 4.0 | 04.04.2023 17:05 | 18.6 km | 219 km |
| 4.0 | 18.06.2022 08:50 | 0 km | 364 km |
| 3.6 | 21.08.2021 07:35 | 1 km | 357 km |
| 3.5 | 08.08.2021 08:26 | 6 km | 211 km |
| 4.0 | 29.07.2021 07:06 | 0 km | 582 km |
| 4.1 | 04.09.2020 09:03 | 0 km | 344 km |
| 4.0 | 21.02.2020 07:42 | 0 km | 358 km |
| 4.0 | 24.01.2020 22:14 | 7 km | 208 km |
| 4.4 | 23.08.2019 14:27 | 10 km | 503 km |
| 4.3 | 18.02.2019 07:14 | 0 km | 626 km |
| 4.0 | 29.01.2019 12:30 | 1 km | 348 km |
| 2.9 | 14.12.2018 10:41 | 1 km | 319 km |
| 3.9 | 20.06.2018 20:18 | 1 km | 223 km |
| 4.0 | 20.06.2018 19:54 | 1 km | 220 km |
| 4.0 | 16.05.2018 09:36 | 29 km | 574 km |
| 4.0 | 24.03.2018 20:06 | 13.4 km | 218 km |
| 3.8 | 18.03.2018 02:44 | 1 km | 215 km |
| 3.3 | 22.02.2018 02:08 | 4 km | 437 km |
| 4.6 | 18.02.2018 09:47 | 2 km | 538 km |
| 3.6 | 21.01.2018 08:29 | 22 km | 509 km |
| 4.0 | 29.12.2017 10:56 | 0 km | 379 km |
| 3.8 | 20.09.2017 02:44 | 14 km | 442 km |
| 4.0 | 25.07.2017 10:37 | 0 km | 362 km |
| 3.7 | 30.09.2016 14:21 | 1 km | 313 km |
| 4.2 | 04.07.2015 08:53 | 0 km | 375 km |
| 4.8 | 21.06.2014 06:30 | 14.9 km | 229 km |
| 3.5 | 21.06.2014 06:30 | 10.9 km | 226 km |
| 4.0 | 03.07.2013 07:32 | 0 km | 381 km |
| 3.9 | 17.06.2013 00:37 | 14 km | 449 km |
| 4.1 | 25.04.2013 11:10 | 0 km | 57 km |
| 3.9 | 31.10.2012 11:10 | 10 km | 348 km |
| 4.0 | 01.01.2012 08:07 | 10 km | 572 km |
| 3.5 | 17.04.2011 17:46 | 10 km | 83 km |
| 4.0 | 12.04.2011 22:19 | 5 km | 538 km |
| 3.2 | 12.04.2011 21:53 | 8 km | 536 km |
| 3.5 | 30.12.2010 10:58 | 1 km | 596 km |
| 3.9 | 15.09.2010 07:19 | 1 km | 350 km |
| 3.3 | 29.12.2009 10:34 | 1 km | 370 km |
| 4.2 | 26.10.2009 10:57 | 0 km | 443 km |
| 3.0 | 05.10.2009 08:59 | 1 km | 442 km |
| 3.3 | 02.10.2009 10:51 | 1 km | 202 km |
| 3.0 | 24.09.2009 18:05 | 1 km | 262 km |
| 3.0 | 15.09.2009 07:56 | 1 km | 187 km |
| 3.0 | 20.08.2009 06:45 | 1 km | 130 km |
| 3.0 | 17.07.2009 08:32 | 1 km | 216 km |
| 3.4 | 13.07.2009 13:47 | 1 km | 135 km |
| 3.6 | 21.06.2009 18:47 | 1 km | 291 km |
| 3.8 | 19.06.2009 07:27 | 1 km | 499 km |
| 3.3 | 11.05.2009 09:31 | 1 km | 582 km |
| 3.1 | 28.04.2009 03:48 | 1 km | 278 km |
| 3.1 | 17.04.2009 21:59 | 1 km | 293 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.