No records in the last 30 days.
3,122
recorded earthquakes
M6.4
largest
1918–2026
record span
2.45
mean magnitude
2,453
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 | 29.09.1918 12:07 | 15 km | 135 km |
| 5.6 | 02.04.1922 00:46 | 30 km | 133 km |
| 5.3 | 16.03.1956 19:32 | 15 km | 28 km |
| 5.3 | 24.08.1984 06:02 | 23.4 km | 154 km |
| 5.1 | 15.02.2008 10:36 | 10.4 km | 76 km |
| 5.1 | 16.03.1956 19:43 | 15 km | 21 km |
| 5.1 | 26.03.1997 04:22 | 15.6 km | 71 km |
| 4.9 | 30.07.1970 05:00 | 33 km | 66 km |
| 4.8 | 18.10.1991 16:48 | 11 km | 82 km |
| 4.8 | 26.03.1968 19:37 | 16 km | 34 km |
| 4.8 | 04.07.2018 19:45 | 7.4 km | 119 km |
| 4.6 | 16.04.1971 21:27 | 12 km | 43 km |
| 4.6 | 09.11.1981 01:11 | 8 km | 78 km |
| 4.5 | 12.06.1974 10:19 | 10 km | 99 km |
| 4.5 | 26.03.1997 13:20 | 9.1 km | 37 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.7 | 28.06.2026 19:48 | 6.2 km | 93 km |
| 3.0 | 03.05.2026 23:58 | 4.1 km | 4 km |
| 3.4 | 23.04.2026 00:10 | 6.5 km | 25 km |
| 2.5 | 07.04.2026 00:12 | 5.6 km | 77 km |
| 3.1 | 26.01.2026 15:39 | 19.3 km | 30 km |
| 3.8 | 18.01.2026 11:01 | 9.8 km | 63 km |
| 4.1 | 10.01.2026 21:50 | 10 km | 100 km |
| 2.9 | 30.09.2025 13:06 | 2 km | 13 km |
| 3.2 | 29.03.2025 14:47 | 7.2 km | 77 km |
| 3.0 | 13.01.2025 10:39 | 0 km | 121 km |
| 3.0 | 15.12.2024 21:48 | 5 km | 103 km |
| 3.5 | 26.10.2024 04:02 | 0 km | 92 km |
| 3.2 | 13.03.2024 10:50 | 16 km | 72 km |
| 2.9 | 06.07.2023 23:42 | 17.8 km | 75 km |
| 2.5 | 15.06.2023 03:18 | 6.7 km | 105 km |
| 2.6 | 19.05.2023 22:16 | 6.7 km | 57 km |
| 3.4 | 06.05.2023 14:45 | 9 km | 19 km |
| 4.1 | 15.04.2023 11:25 | 20 km | 17 km |
| 3.0 | 02.04.2023 15:45 | 15.9 km | 109 km |
| 3.0 | 25.03.2023 08:46 | 4.2 km | 34 km |
| 4.1 | 08.02.2023 18:58 | 10.8 km | 60 km |
| 3.3 | 06.02.2023 14:19 | 17 km | 10 km |
| 2.9 | 06.02.2023 03:04 | 20 km | 24 km |
| 4.1 | 21.01.2023 14:27 | 18.1 km | 118 km |
| 4.4 | 21.01.2023 13:31 | 6.3 km | 117 km |
| 3.4 | 13.07.2022 08:43 | 0 km | 95 km |
| 3.3 | 23.06.2022 07:52 | 20 km | 57 km |
| 3.4 | 20.05.2022 18:51 | 0 km | 76 km |
| 3.3 | 03.02.2022 10:03 | 30 km | 25 km |
| 3.1 | 03.02.2022 09:15 | 30 km | 30 km |
| 3.1 | 19.12.2021 08:51 | 15 km | 45 km |
| 3.2 | 16.11.2021 23:50 | 16 km | 66 km |
| 3.1 | 04.11.2021 13:19 | 16 km | 40 km |
| 3.3 | 30.10.2021 02:02 | 31 km | 36 km |
| 3.0 | 25.10.2021 21:23 | 30 km | 44 km |
| 3.2 | 11.06.2021 19:22 | 4 km | 87 km |
| 3.6 | 24.04.2021 13:47 | 27 km | 67 km |
| 3.2 | 08.04.2021 04:22 | 28 km | 61 km |
| 3.2 | 21.02.2021 14:54 | 12 km | 60 km |
| 2.3 | 23.12.2020 20:07 | 40 km | 84 km |
| 4.1 | 26.11.2020 22:08 | 10 km | 86 km |
| 3.6 | 11.08.2020 08:40 | 6.5 km | 71 km |
| 4.4 | 09.08.2020 09:18 | 10 km | 119 km |
| 3.3 | 04.08.2020 15:08 | 0 km | 30 km |
| 4.0 | 23.07.2020 23:20 | 22.2 km | 63 km |
| 3.1 | 26.06.2020 19:51 | 5 km | 14 km |
| 2.6 | 05.06.2020 05:57 | 4 km | 109 km |
| 3.0 | 05.06.2020 05:22 | 10 km | 111 km |
| 3.2 | 26.05.2020 23:32 | 8 km | 63 km |
| 3.2 | 07.05.2020 13:45 | 23 km | 45 km |
| 3.2 | 04.05.2020 23:45 | 24 km | 92 km |
| 3.2 | 29.04.2020 16:55 | 0 km | 21 km |
| 3.2 | 13.04.2020 21:53 | 15 km | 51 km |
| 3.3 | 03.03.2020 00:44 | 33 km | 38 km |
| 3.2 | 02.03.2020 21:13 | 7 km | 21 km |
| 3.4 | 22.02.2020 08:51 | 1 km | 58 km |
| 3.1 | 04.02.2020 02:46 | 17 km | 61 km |
| 3.1 | 31.01.2020 03:41 | 0 km | 64 km |
| 3.3 | 31.01.2020 03:15 | 5 km | 63 km |
| 3.0 | 26.08.2019 09:13 | 4 km | 33 km |
Regions
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.