No records in the last 30 days.
174
recorded earthquakes
M6.4
largest
1929–2024
record span
1.99
mean magnitude
49
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.4 | 26.07.1963 04:17 | 15 km | 78 km |
| 5.9 | 18.05.1980 20:02 | 10.9 km | 71 km |
| 5.7 | 24.04.2002 10:51 | 7.2 km | 55 km |
| 5.6 | 27.08.1942 06:14 | 35 km | 68 km |
| 5.5 | 07.12.1985 18:32 | 5 km | 62 km |
| 5.5 | 20.12.1929 20:19 | 15 km | 73 km |
| 5.3 | 29.03.1936 21:27 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 5.2 | 26.09.1945 13:42 | 15 km | 72 km |
| 5.0 | 19.01.2022 16:50 | 15 km | 25 km |
| 4.6 | 10.03.2010 13:38 | 15 km | 27 km |
| 4.3 | 18.11.2013 13:15 | 6.8 km | 32 km |
| 4.3 | 07.03.1981 06:53 | 10 km | 42 km |
| 4.0 | 03.11.1977 09:05 | 33 km | 18 km |
| 4.0 | 29.04.1993 22:12 | 12.2 km | 19 km |
| 3.9 | 11.11.1992 10:10 | 10 km | 19 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.8 | 13.05.2024 16:04 | 15 km | 3 km |
| 5.0 | 19.01.2022 16:50 | 15 km | 25 km |
| 2.1 | 09.10.2020 14:05 | 5 km | 15 km |
| 3.0 | 16.03.2020 21:13 | 10 km | 26 km |
| 2.6 | 06.08.2014 05:05 | 5 km | 26 km |
| 2.3 | 11.03.2014 08:43 | 2 km | 25 km |
| 2.5 | 20.11.2013 09:24 | 2 km | 26 km |
| 4.3 | 18.11.2013 13:15 | 6.8 km | 32 km |
| 1.8 | 29.12.2011 13:57 | 12.2 km | 6 km |
| 1.6 | 20.12.2011 13:44 | 0 km | 6 km |
| 1.9 | 18.12.2011 20:10 | 2 km | 25 km |
| 1.7 | 14.12.2011 13:23 | 0 km | 24 km |
| 1.4 | 09.12.2011 13:15 | 0 km | 20 km |
| 1.5 | 24.11.2011 16:00 | 22.8 km | 12 km |
| 1.5 | 03.11.2011 00:08 | 0 km | 14 km |
| 1.9 | 17.10.2011 15:40 | 0 km | 28 km |
| 1.5 | 03.10.2011 15:30 | 3.5 km | 10 km |
| 1.3 | 29.09.2011 15:55 | 0 km | 11 km |
| 1.5 | 22.08.2011 14:06 | 5.4 km | 8 km |
| 1.5 | 16.08.2011 14:23 | 0 km | 19 km |
| 1.5 | 15.08.2011 14:18 | 7.5 km | 13 km |
| 1.3 | 09.08.2011 08:12 | 20 km | 28 km |
| 1.8 | 08.08.2011 14:23 | 16.4 km | 22 km |
| 1.4 | 27.07.2011 15:58 | 0 km | 8 km |
| 1.5 | 19.07.2011 15:52 | 0 km | 9 km |
| 1.4 | 08.07.2011 14:25 | 16.2 km | 22 km |
| 1.6 | 06.07.2011 14:48 | 9.1 km | 3 km |
| 1.3 | 05.07.2011 13:56 | 0 km | 21 km |
| 1.3 | 04.07.2011 15:41 | 3.1 km | 10 km |
| 1.4 | 30.06.2011 14:55 | 4.1 km | 25 km |
| 1.7 | 14.06.2011 15:50 | 10.4 km | 8 km |
| 1.4 | 08.06.2011 14:44 | 0 km | 19 km |
| 1.4 | 07.06.2011 14:17 | 0 km | 10 km |
| 1.4 | 26.05.2011 16:00 | 4.2 km | 20 km |
| 1.6 | 05.05.2011 13:16 | 0 km | 11 km |
| 1.4 | 21.04.2011 17:05 | 0 km | 8 km |
| 1.6 | 14.04.2011 14:51 | 0 km | 21 km |
| 1.6 | 29.03.2011 13:00 | 7.5 km | 16 km |
| 1.4 | 18.03.2011 14:02 | 0 km | 13 km |
| 2.1 | 30.01.2011 12:33 | 10 km | 27 km |
| 1.6 | 21.01.2011 12:19 | 0 km | 26 km |
| 1.5 | 21.01.2011 04:55 | 0 km | 26 km |
| 1.8 | 10.01.2011 04:55 | 2 km | 7 km |
| 1.5 | 22.12.2010 04:51 | 19.4 km | 7 km |
| 1.3 | 01.12.2010 13:33 | 0 km | 5 km |
| 1.8 | 26.11.2010 15:14 | 2 km | 24 km |
| 1.6 | 09.11.2010 15:10 | 18.4 km | 6 km |
| 1.6 | 27.10.2010 13:41 | 0 km | 16 km |
| 1.6 | 14.10.2010 14:34 | 0 km | 26 km |
| 1.9 | 29.09.2010 16:03 | 2 km | 25 km |
| 1.5 | 22.09.2010 14:18 | 5 km | 24 km |
| 2.4 | 08.09.2010 20:44 | 2 km | 30 km |
| 1.8 | 03.09.2010 14:24 | 2 km | 23 km |
| 1.4 | 26.08.2010 16:08 | 2.3 km | 10 km |
| 2.8 | 22.08.2010 04:14 | 2 km | 29 km |
| 1.6 | 16.08.2010 15:34 | 2 km | 23 km |
| 1.3 | 13.08.2010 14:41 | 0 km | 13 km |
| 1.4 | 12.08.2010 15:49 | 2 km | 19 km |
| 2.9 | 12.08.2010 03:58 | 2 km | 28 km |
| 0.9 | 11.08.2010 15:57 | 15 km | 6 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.