No records in the last 30 days.
1,261
recorded earthquakes
M6.4
largest
1918–2026
record span
2.69
mean magnitude
964
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 |
| 5.3 | 16.03.1956 19:32 | 15 km | 15 km |
| 5.1 | 15.02.2008 10:36 | 10.4 km | 67 km |
| 5.1 | 16.03.1956 19:43 | 15 km | 22 km |
| 5.1 | 26.03.1997 04:22 | 15.6 km | 62 km |
| 4.9 | 30.07.1970 05:00 | 33 km | 62 km |
| 4.8 | 26.03.1968 19:37 | 16 km | 24 km |
| 4.6 | 16.04.1971 21:27 | 12 km | 35 km |
| 4.5 | 26.03.1997 13:20 | 9.1 km | 26 km |
| 4.4 | 01.09.2014 20:50 | 10 km | 43 km |
| 4.3 | 02.12.2016 04:35 | 7.1 km | 54 km |
| 4.3 | 12.11.1993 20:34 | 1.1 km | 17 km |
| 4.2 | 12.06.2008 15:41 | 0 km | 66 km |
| 4.1 | 05.07.2014 21:41 | 1.7 km | 38 km |
| 4.1 | 15.04.2023 11:25 | 20 km | 9 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 03.05.2026 23:58 | 4.1 km | 19 km |
| 3.4 | 23.04.2026 00:10 | 6.5 km | 10 km |
| 3.1 | 26.01.2026 15:39 | 19.3 km | 43 km |
| 2.9 | 30.09.2025 13:06 | 2 km | 1 km |
| 3.4 | 06.05.2023 14:45 | 9 km | 18 km |
| 4.1 | 15.04.2023 11:25 | 20 km | 9 km |
| 3.0 | 25.03.2023 08:46 | 4.2 km | 45 km |
| 4.1 | 08.02.2023 18:58 | 10.8 km | 70 km |
| 3.3 | 06.02.2023 14:19 | 17 km | 5 km |
| 2.9 | 06.02.2023 03:04 | 20 km | 17 km |
| 3.3 | 23.06.2022 07:52 | 20 km | 43 km |
| 3.3 | 03.02.2022 10:03 | 30 km | 26 km |
| 3.1 | 03.02.2022 09:15 | 30 km | 29 km |
| 3.1 | 19.12.2021 08:51 | 15 km | 33 km |
| 3.1 | 04.11.2021 13:19 | 16 km | 52 km |
| 3.3 | 30.10.2021 02:02 | 31 km | 35 km |
| 3.0 | 25.10.2021 21:23 | 30 km | 31 km |
| 3.2 | 08.04.2021 04:22 | 28 km | 47 km |
| 3.3 | 04.08.2020 15:08 | 0 km | 17 km |
| 3.1 | 26.06.2020 19:51 | 5 km | 23 km |
| 3.2 | 07.05.2020 13:45 | 23 km | 31 km |
| 3.2 | 29.04.2020 16:55 | 0 km | 31 km |
| 3.2 | 13.04.2020 21:53 | 15 km | 40 km |
| 3.3 | 03.03.2020 00:44 | 33 km | 37 km |
| 3.2 | 02.03.2020 21:13 | 7 km | 20 km |
| 3.1 | 31.01.2020 03:41 | 0 km | 53 km |
| 3.3 | 31.01.2020 03:15 | 5 km | 52 km |
| 3.0 | 26.08.2019 09:13 | 4 km | 27 km |
| 3.4 | 29.04.2019 12:07 | 10 km | 56 km |
| 2.6 | 27.04.2019 05:20 | 6.9 km | 61 km |
| 3.1 | 22.04.2019 17:25 | 1 km | 42 km |
| 3.4 | 29.09.2018 01:55 | 5 km | 17 km |
| 3.0 | 03.05.2018 19:24 | 7 km | 25 km |
| 3.1 | 17.04.2018 16:47 | 5 km | 10 km |
| 1.5 | 12.04.2018 14:27 | 1 km | 24 km |
| 3.2 | 03.02.2018 22:24 | 33 km | 35 km |
| 3.1 | 29.09.2017 12:43 | 27 km | 26 km |
| 3.0 | 01.07.2017 17:56 | 2 km | 42 km |
| 3.1 | 16.05.2017 09:25 | 4 km | 22 km |
| 3.4 | 29.03.2017 18:43 | 2 km | 41 km |
| 3.2 | 02.02.2017 21:18 | 10 km | 30 km |
| 4.3 | 02.12.2016 04:35 | 7.1 km | 54 km |
| 3.1 | 22.11.2016 03:09 | 15 km | 21 km |
| 3.1 | 31.10.2016 07:54 | 11 km | 8 km |
| 3.7 | 29.06.2016 13:24 | 13.8 km | 36 km |
| 3.1 | 26.06.2016 11:46 | 15 km | 6 km |
| 3.0 | 25.06.2016 19:02 | 11 km | 22 km |
| 3.1 | 25.06.2016 14:42 | 5 km | 12 km |
| 3.1 | 19.06.2016 19:20 | 8 km | 17 km |
| 3.0 | 11.06.2016 15:42 | 17 km | 46 km |
| 3.1 | 06.06.2016 15:54 | 11 km | 39 km |
| 3.1 | 29.05.2016 12:45 | 17 km | 34 km |
| 3.0 | 24.05.2016 09:59 | 12 km | 17 km |
| 3.0 | 04.05.2016 14:17 | 3 km | 14 km |
| 3.0 | 05.04.2016 16:33 | 5 km | 18 km |
| 3.0 | 05.04.2016 03:18 | 3 km | 46 km |
| 3.1 | 13.03.2016 14:34 | 5 km | 46 km |
| 3.0 | 15.02.2016 18:02 | 0 km | 21 km |
| 3.0 | 20.12.2015 13:24 | 15 km | 51 km |
| 3.2 | 18.12.2015 01:20 | 13 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.