No records in the last 30 days.
659
recorded earthquakes
M5.9
largest
1958–2026
record span
2.19
mean magnitude
300
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.9 | 18.05.1980 20:02 | 10.9 km | 16 km |
| 5.5 | 07.12.1985 18:32 | 5 km | 43 km |
| 5.5 | 03.11.2010 00:56 | 10.9 km | 73 km |
| 5.5 | 18.05.1980 20:26 | 9.8 km | 18 km |
| 5.3 | 03.11.2024 17:04 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 5.2 | 01.07.1999 07:40 | 14.6 km | 64 km |
| 5.1 | 07.09.1984 00:44 | 10.1 km | 24 km |
| 5.0 | 10.09.1983 06:14 | 11.7 km | 19 km |
| 5.0 | 19.01.2022 16:50 | 15 km | 69 km |
| 5.0 | 18.05.1978 02:37 | 10 km | 24 km |
| 4.8 | 18.05.1985 01:13 | 5.1 km | 26 km |
| 4.8 | 18.05.1980 20:41 | 9 km | 24 km |
| 4.8 | 30.07.1985 10:11 | 26.4 km | 26 km |
| 4.8 | 08.03.1977 19:18 | 34 km | 28 km |
| 4.8 | 10.06.1980 21:24 | 10 km | 28 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.6 | 04.01.2026 19:35 | 1 km | 16 km |
| 4.0 | 05.09.2025 12:43 | 10 km | 42 km |
| 2.1 | 30.07.2025 01:13 | 1 km | 26 km |
| 3.0 | 09.05.2025 12:24 | 4 km | 11 km |
| 2.8 | 09.05.2025 08:21 | 4.6 km | 8 km |
| 2.6 | 17.01.2025 16:23 | 3 km | 26 km |
| 2.5 | 17.12.2024 18:15 | 2 km | 31 km |
| 5.3 | 03.11.2024 17:04 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 2.6 | 10.05.2024 22:43 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 2.3 | 10.05.2024 05:37 | 3 km | 14 km |
| 2.5 | 10.02.2024 16:53 | 7 km | 28 km |
| 2.4 | 27.01.2024 03:43 | 3 km | 24 km |
| 2.6 | 12.08.2023 04:04 | 7 km | 32 km |
| 2.2 | 12.07.2023 00:30 | 6 km | 17 km |
| 2.3 | 16.02.2022 19:18 | 1 km | 16 km |
| 5.0 | 19.01.2022 16:50 | 15 km | 69 km |
| 2.6 | 03.01.2022 15:19 | 5 km | 14 km |
| 2.6 | 03.01.2022 12:58 | 7 km | 19 km |
| 3.1 | 04.09.2021 19:07 | 3 km | 31 km |
| 2.9 | 17.08.2021 17:13 | 3 km | 25 km |
| 2.2 | 20.04.2021 03:22 | 4 km | 26 km |
| 2.5 | 27.12.2020 12:24 | 5 km | 15 km |
| 3.2 | 16.09.2020 00:28 | 3 km | 15 km |
| 2.6 | 26.03.2020 02:55 | 10 km | 23 km |
| 3.8 | 15.01.2020 16:32 | 2 km | 22 km |
| 2.5 | 13.01.2020 23:52 | 10 km | 32 km |
| 2.4 | 28.08.2019 04:50 | 1 km | 24 km |
| 2.7 | 06.07.2019 15:37 | 13 km | 8 km |
| 2.6 | 01.04.2018 22:11 | 13 km | 16 km |
| 2.9 | 02.10.2017 06:12 | 2 km | 33 km |
| 2.7 | 23.04.2017 07:30 | 5 km | 31 km |
| 2.3 | 27.01.2017 01:02 | 11 km | 16 km |
| 2.5 | 09.01.2017 02:19 | 2 km | 26 km |
| 2.7 | 02.12.2016 15:05 | 2 km | 18 km |
| 3.3 | 12.01.2016 22:11 | 2 km | 28 km |
| 3.2 | 29.10.2015 11:23 | 2 km | 22 km |
| 2.4 | 28.08.2015 02:43 | 5 km | 4 km |
| 2.4 | 08.08.2015 06:35 | 10 km | 14 km |
| 2.7 | 28.07.2015 14:31 | 5 km | 17 km |
| 2.7 | 19.05.2015 02:56 | 2 km | 29 km |
| 2.7 | 07.03.2015 02:23 | 10 km | 14 km |
| 2.7 | 28.02.2015 12:34 | 19 km | 24 km |
| 3.8 | 05.02.2015 21:49 | 8.2 km | 17 km |
| 2.7 | 28.01.2015 23:25 | 2 km | 33 km |
| 4.3 | 24.12.2014 15:41 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 2.4 | 13.12.2014 23:35 | 2 km | 31 km |
| 2.7 | 24.11.2014 14:20 | 5 km | 7 km |
| 2.3 | 15.11.2014 20:19 | 2 km | 15 km |
| 2.4 | 19.09.2014 23:01 | 2 km | 16 km |
| 3.4 | 29.06.2014 07:16 | 2 km | 31 km |
| 3.3 | 29.06.2014 07:14 | 2 km | 31 km |
| 2.9 | 24.04.2014 02:46 | 2 km | 31 km |
| 3.2 | 14.04.2014 20:41 | 6 km | 14 km |
| 2.8 | 25.01.2014 03:37 | 2 km | 29 km |
| 3.0 | 19.12.2013 13:10 | 2 km | 28 km |
| 2.5 | 09.12.2013 16:02 | 1 km | 36 km |
| 2.4 | 26.11.2013 00:24 | 5 km | 33 km |
| 2.9 | 25.11.2013 20:45 | 1 km | 36 km |
| 2.8 | 20.11.2013 04:31 | 5 km | 28 km |
| 2.5 | 19.11.2013 03:39 | 5 km | 33 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.