No records in the last 30 days.
1,307
recorded earthquakes
M7.0
largest
1904–2026
record span
2.24
mean magnitude
165
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | 26.09.1932 19:20 | 10 km | 157 km |
| 7.0 | 04.04.1904 10:26 | 15 km | 91 km |
| 6.8 | 04.04.1904 10:02 | 15 km | 86 km |
| 6.5 | 08.03.1931 01:50 | 10 km | 24 km |
| 6.4 | 26.07.1963 04:17 | 15 km | 122 km |
| 6.3 | 29.09.1932 03:57 | 10 km | 102 km |
| 6.2 | 20.06.1978 20:03 | 3.6 km | 89 km |
| 6.2 | 11.05.1933 19:09 | 10 km | 121 km |
| 6.1 | 21.12.1990 06:57 | 12.1 km | 35 km |
| 6.0 | 07.03.1931 00:16 | 35 km | 29 km |
| 5.9 | 10.08.1921 14:10 | 15 km | 61 km |
| 5.6 | 22.08.1919 22:36 | 10 km | 76 km |
| 5.5 | 09.07.1955 23:53 | 15 km | 56 km |
| 5.5 | 16.09.1912 21:04 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 5.5 | 18.11.1905 00:20 | 15 km | 37 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.9 | 12.01.2026 00:14 | 2 km | 34 km |
| 2.0 | 06.09.2025 00:12 | 15 km | 30 km |
| 2.4 | 07.07.2025 11:35 | 6 km | 22 km |
| 2.0 | 30.06.2025 07:57 | 8.1 km | 29 km |
| 3.1 | 29.06.2025 03:54 | 0 km | 22 km |
| 2.5 | 23.03.2025 11:46 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 1.9 | 23.03.2025 09:32 | 3 km | 32 km |
| 2.0 | 21.03.2025 04:11 | 5 km | 31 km |
| 2.6 | 19.03.2025 17:33 | 3 km | 29 km |
| 2.9 | 16.03.2025 03:13 | 2 km | 22 km |
| 2.2 | 29.01.2025 10:08 | 5 km | 30 km |
| 2.2 | 07.01.2025 06:23 | 7 km | 26 km |
| 2.3 | 25.12.2024 05:50 | 5 km | 1 km |
| 2.2 | 16.12.2024 20:04 | 5 km | 1 km |
| 2.2 | 16.12.2024 00:14 | 10 km | 1 km |
| 3.1 | 16.12.2024 00:12 | 10 km | 1 km |
| 2.5 | 27.11.2024 14:27 | 20.4 km | 28 km |
| 3.1 | 27.11.2024 12:09 | 6 km | 31 km |
| 2.2 | 17.11.2024 12:40 | 5 km | 31 km |
| 2.0 | 17.11.2024 08:51 | 5 km | 30 km |
| 3.0 | 16.11.2024 04:31 | 2 km | 31 km |
| 2.7 | 15.11.2024 21:45 | 8.5 km | 31 km |
| 2.5 | 13.11.2024 16:07 | 6.5 km | 9 km |
| 2.3 | 08.11.2024 21:13 | 5 km | 30 km |
| 2.1 | 21.10.2024 16:32 | 5 km | 29 km |
| 2.2 | 15.10.2024 16:35 | 5 km | 30 km |
| 2.9 | 11.10.2024 08:07 | 13 km | 28 km |
| 3.3 | 02.09.2024 15:00 | 4.7 km | 29 km |
| 2.2 | 15.08.2024 01:24 | 5 km | 25 km |
| 2.1 | 12.08.2024 20:45 | 5 km | 30 km |
| 3.2 | 08.11.2023 17:16 | 4.7 km | 8 km |
| 2.2 | 24.09.2023 14:27 | 7.2 km | 22 km |
| 2.2 | 26.04.2023 02:55 | 2 km | 30 km |
| 2.4 | 19.03.2023 13:21 | 2 km | 27 km |
| 2.1 | 12.03.2023 19:52 | 11 km | 4 km |
| 3.1 | 12.03.2023 07:50 | 9 km | 8 km |
| 2.2 | 11.01.2023 21:34 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 3.1 | 07.10.2022 12:19 | 2 km | 26 km |
| 2.2 | 13.07.2022 15:38 | 2 km | 7 km |
| 3.0 | 13.12.2021 05:48 | 2 km | 25 km |
| 2.3 | 04.09.2021 22:32 | 2 km | 16 km |
| 2.6 | 28.05.2020 20:52 | 10 km | 26 km |
| 2.7 | 05.03.2020 06:26 | 2 km | 26 km |
| 2.7 | 14.10.2019 07:48 | 5 km | 27 km |
| 2.1 | 18.04.2019 11:02 | 5 km | 13 km |
| 2.0 | 04.01.2019 08:49 | 3 km | 19 km |
| 2.4 | 17.10.2018 13:24 | 2 km | 25 km |
| 3.1 | 30.08.2018 00:10 | 2 km | 31 km |
| 2.4 | 29.03.2018 04:21 | 3 km | 28 km |
| 2.0 | 16.02.2018 16:08 | 1 km | 5 km |
| 4.1 | 05.02.2018 09:13 | 13.1 km | 39 km |
| 2.7 | 28.01.2018 23:17 | 6.4 km | 19 km |
| 4.2 | 02.01.2018 17:36 | 14.3 km | 37 km |
| 4.9 | 02.01.2018 04:24 | 11.8 km | 37 km |
| 4.9 | 02.01.2018 04:24 | 12.4 km | 39 km |
| 4.0 | 01.01.2018 22:16 | 10 km | 39 km |
| 4.0 | 01.01.2018 22:13 | 11.3 km | 39 km |
| 2.2 | 04.10.2017 00:37 | 1 km | 31 km |
| 3.0 | 27.08.2017 22:12 | 10 km | 24 km |
| 2.0 | 10.08.2017 08:14 | 3 km | 25 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.