No records in the last 30 days.
615
recorded earthquakes
M7.0
largest
1904–2026
record span
2.37
mean magnitude
154
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 | 04.04.1904 10:26 | 15 km | 113 km |
| 6.8 | 04.04.1904 10:02 | 15 km | 105 km |
| 6.6 | 18.02.1911 21:35 | 15 km | 113 km |
| 6.5 | 08.03.1931 01:50 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 6.4 | 26.07.1963 04:17 | 15 km | 96 km |
| 6.2 | 20.06.1978 20:03 | 3.6 km | 119 km |
| 6.1 | 21.12.1990 06:57 | 12.1 km | 48 km |
| 6.0 | 07.03.1931 00:16 | 35 km | 52 km |
| 6.0 | 13.02.1912 08:03 | 15 km | 90 km |
| 5.9 | 10.08.1921 14:10 | 15 km | 77 km |
| 5.8 | 30.04.1905 16:10 | 15 km | 70 km |
| 5.8 | 01.09.1994 16:12 | 13.5 km | 71 km |
| 5.5 | 09.01.2022 21:43 | 21.4 km | 79 km |
| 5.5 | 09.07.1955 23:53 | 15 km | 67 km |
| 5.5 | 14.09.1920 02:08 | 15 km | 76 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.9 | 12.01.2026 00:14 | 2 km | 26 km |
| 3.1 | 15.12.2025 16:22 | 14.2 km | 31 km |
| 2.3 | 25.12.2024 05:50 | 5 km | 30 km |
| 2.0 | 20.12.2024 12:25 | 10 km | 37 km |
| 2.2 | 16.12.2024 20:04 | 5 km | 29 km |
| 2.2 | 16.12.2024 00:14 | 10 km | 29 km |
| 3.1 | 16.12.2024 00:12 | 10 km | 31 km |
| 2.5 | 06.12.2024 14:25 | 10 km | 29 km |
| 2.5 | 13.11.2024 16:07 | 6.5 km | 28 km |
| 2.1 | 21.10.2024 16:32 | 5 km | 32 km |
| 2.2 | 15.10.2024 16:35 | 5 km | 32 km |
| 2.9 | 11.10.2024 08:07 | 13 km | 31 km |
| 3.3 | 02.09.2024 15:00 | 4.7 km | 31 km |
| 2.1 | 12.08.2024 20:45 | 5 km | 32 km |
| 3.2 | 08.11.2023 17:16 | 4.7 km | 27 km |
| 2.2 | 24.09.2023 14:27 | 7.2 km | 42 km |
| 2.1 | 12.03.2023 19:52 | 11 km | 35 km |
| 2.7 | 12.01.2023 22:03 | 10 km | 40 km |
| 3.3 | 17.07.2022 13:40 | 4 km | 22 km |
| 2.2 | 13.07.2022 15:38 | 2 km | 33 km |
| 5.5 | 09.01.2022 21:43 | 21.4 km | 79 km |
| 2.1 | 18.04.2019 11:02 | 5 km | 41 km |
| 2.0 | 16.02.2018 16:08 | 1 km | 31 km |
| 2.7 | 28.01.2018 23:17 | 6.4 km | 12 km |
| 4.2 | 05.01.2018 03:05 | 6.9 km | 36 km |
| 2.2 | 15.05.2017 06:06 | 15 km | 29 km |
| 2.0 | 13.05.2017 01:43 | 90 km | 25 km |
| 4.0 | 09.04.2017 05:40 | 24.9 km | 26 km |
| 2.4 | 07.04.2017 10:11 | 1 km | 24 km |
| 2.3 | 10.03.2017 21:39 | 6 km | 25 km |
| 2.2 | 18.12.2016 13:11 | 4 km | 33 km |
| 5.0 | 18.11.2016 23:22 | 10.5 km | 69 km |
| 3.0 | 13.09.2016 15:11 | 0 km | 36 km |
| 2.5 | 13.09.2016 04:51 | 2 km | 38 km |
| 2.0 | 17.03.2016 06:03 | 9 km | 14 km |
| 2.7 | 26.05.2015 18:20 | 2 km | 37 km |
| 2.0 | 05.05.2015 12:40 | 1 km | 38 km |
| 2.1 | 18.04.2015 22:21 | 3 km | 41 km |
| 3.2 | 04.04.2015 01:47 | 20 km | 46 km |
| 2.5 | 15.02.2015 17:14 | 2 km | 35 km |
| 2.8 | 06.01.2015 07:48 | 6 km | 33 km |
| 2.5 | 02.01.2015 21:56 | 2 km | 40 km |
| 2.0 | 05.11.2014 19:19 | 15 km | 44 km |
| 2.2 | 14.04.2014 07:44 | 1 km | 30 km |
| 2.4 | 31.03.2014 13:59 | 370 km | 14 km |
| 2.2 | 05.02.2014 02:36 | 2 km | 4 km |
| 2.2 | 10.12.2013 20:56 | 3 km | 32 km |
| 2.0 | 10.12.2013 17:48 | 18 km | 35 km |
| 2.5 | 04.12.2013 21:13 | 3 km | 33 km |
| 2.1 | 02.10.2013 08:18 | 1 km | 31 km |
| 2.0 | 29.05.2013 00:11 | 2 km | 44 km |
| 1.8 | 28.05.2013 19:50 | 2 km | 44 km |
| 2.0 | 28.05.2013 18:44 | 2 km | 44 km |
| 2.2 | 28.05.2013 17:53 | 2 km | 45 km |
| 2.3 | 28.05.2013 11:44 | 2 km | 45 km |
| 2.3 | 28.05.2013 11:03 | 2 km | 44 km |
| 2.0 | 28.02.2013 10:44 | 16 km | 36 km |
| 2.0 | 06.12.2012 07:28 | 0 km | 30 km |
| 1.9 | 04.12.2012 18:36 | 2 km | 31 km |
| 3.5 | 28.11.2012 15:32 | 3 km | 30 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.