No records in the last 30 days.
250
recorded earthquakes
M6.4
largest
1936–2025
record span
2.27
mean magnitude
75
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 | 117 km |
| 5.9 | 18.05.1980 20:02 | 10.9 km | 43 km |
| 5.5 | 07.12.1985 18:32 | 5 km | 59 km |
| 5.5 | 18.05.1980 20:26 | 9.8 km | 45 km |
| 5.3 | 29.03.1936 21:27 | 10 km | 73 km |
| 5.2 | 04.01.2018 10:46 | 12.7 km | 70 km |
| 5.1 | 07.09.1984 00:44 | 10.1 km | 52 km |
| 5.0 | 17.06.1959 12:32 | 15 km | 59 km |
| 5.0 | 10.09.1983 06:14 | 11.7 km | 46 km |
| 5.0 | 19.01.2022 16:50 | 15 km | 59 km |
| 5.0 | 18.05.1978 02:37 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 4.7 | 22.07.1983 08:02 | 10 km | 43 km |
| 4.7 | 04.10.1998 11:19 | 9.4 km | 36 km |
| 4.6 | 10.03.2010 13:38 | 15 km | 19 km |
| 4.5 | 19.05.1980 07:22 | 4.4 km | 48 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 09.05.2025 12:24 | 4 km | 18 km |
| 2.8 | 09.05.2025 08:21 | 4.6 km | 22 km |
| 2.3 | 10.05.2024 05:37 | 3 km | 23 km |
| 2.6 | 13.03.2024 12:12 | 2 km | 32 km |
| 2.2 | 12.07.2023 00:30 | 6 km | 10 km |
| 2.9 | 11.07.2022 00:51 | 10 km | 11 km |
| 5.0 | 19.01.2022 16:50 | 15 km | 59 km |
| 3.1 | 04.09.2021 19:07 | 3 km | 24 km |
| 3.8 | 15.01.2020 16:32 | 2 km | 7 km |
| 2.4 | 28.08.2019 04:50 | 1 km | 25 km |
| 2.7 | 06.07.2019 15:37 | 13 km | 27 km |
| 3.1 | 14.09.2018 07:08 | 2 km | 22 km |
| 2.7 | 31.07.2018 21:30 | 2 km | 33 km |
| 2.6 | 01.04.2018 22:11 | 13 km | 17 km |
| 5.2 | 04.01.2018 10:46 | 12.7 km | 70 km |
| 2.5 | 09.01.2017 02:19 | 2 km | 4 km |
| 2.4 | 28.08.2015 02:43 | 5 km | 25 km |
| 2.2 | 02.03.2015 04:24 | 5 km | 28 km |
| 2.0 | 26.02.2015 04:42 | 5 km | 33 km |
| 3.5 | 23.02.2015 21:04 | 2 km | 32 km |
| 2.4 | 23.02.2015 20:38 | 2 km | 28 km |
| 3.1 | 25.01.2015 20:18 | 10 km | 30 km |
| 2.4 | 21.01.2015 23:27 | 5 km | 28 km |
| 2.2 | 21.01.2015 02:38 | 2 km | 28 km |
| 2.6 | 21.01.2015 01:47 | 1 km | 26 km |
| 4.2 | 21.01.2015 01:30 | 4.8 km | 28 km |
| 4.3 | 24.12.2014 15:41 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 2.4 | 13.12.2014 23:35 | 2 km | 19 km |
| 2.2 | 22.06.2014 20:38 | 2 km | 19 km |
| 2.6 | 11.12.2013 17:09 | 2 km | 20 km |
| 4.3 | 18.11.2013 13:15 | 6.8 km | 33 km |
| 2.3 | 27.06.2013 06:57 | 10 km | 7 km |
| 2.8 | 26.06.2013 16:15 | 2 km | 9 km |
| 3.1 | 26.06.2013 16:09 | 2 km | 9 km |
| 2.2 | 23.06.2013 00:14 | 2 km | 8 km |
| 3.0 | 24.01.2012 10:52 | 5 km | 8 km |
| 1.9 | 18.12.2011 20:10 | 2 km | 15 km |
| 1.7 | 18.12.2011 01:06 | 15 km | 22 km |
| 1.5 | 09.12.2011 16:12 | 0 km | 28 km |
| 2.1 | 25.11.2011 08:34 | 0 km | 12 km |
| 1.4 | 22.11.2011 00:08 | 0 km | 28 km |
| 1.5 | 13.11.2011 03:15 | 0 km | 11 km |
| 1.6 | 13.11.2011 01:24 | 0 km | 9 km |
| 1.4 | 11.11.2011 06:17 | 0 km | 25 km |
| 2.0 | 05.11.2011 22:29 | 0 km | 26 km |
| 1.3 | 19.10.2011 08:46 | 0 km | 11 km |
| 1.5 | 16.10.2011 17:36 | 5.8 km | 19 km |
| 1.7 | 06.10.2011 19:33 | 0 km | 8 km |
| 1.3 | 04.10.2011 15:32 | 0.9 km | 24 km |
| 1.4 | 03.10.2011 02:46 | 0 km | 6 km |
| 1.3 | 01.10.2011 19:45 | 0 km | 7 km |
| 1.2 | 27.09.2011 22:57 | 0 km | 19 km |
| 1.4 | 14.09.2011 00:27 | 0 km | 22 km |
| 1.8 | 12.09.2011 10:54 | 0 km | 9 km |
| 1.3 | 08.09.2011 21:16 | 15 km | 10 km |
| 1.6 | 22.08.2011 12:15 | 0 km | 6 km |
| 1.5 | 22.08.2011 10:02 | 0 km | 9 km |
| 1.6 | 20.08.2011 16:24 | 0 km | 8 km |
| 1.3 | 20.08.2011 11:27 | 0 km | 4 km |
| 1.3 | 09.08.2011 08:12 | 20 km | 11 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.