No records in the last 30 days.
216
recorded earthquakes
M6.7
largest
1905–2025
record span
3.28
mean magnitude
7
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.7 | 30.11.1967 07:23 | 16.9 km | 56 km |
| 6.6 | 18.02.1911 21:35 | 15 km | 70 km |
| 6.4 | 26.07.1963 04:17 | 15 km | 74 km |
| 6.2 | 26.05.1960 05:10 | 20 km | 95 km |
| 6.1 | 21.12.1990 06:57 | 12.1 km | 102 km |
| 6.0 | 30.03.1921 15:06 | 15 km | 51 km |
| 6.0 | 13.02.1912 08:03 | 15 km | 50 km |
| 6.0 | 18.12.1920 02:01 | 15 km | 47 km |
| 5.9 | 07.12.1922 16:22 | 15 km | 43 km |
| 5.8 | 30.04.1905 16:10 | 15 km | 22 km |
| 5.8 | 12.03.1960 11:54 | 10 km | 56 km |
| 5.8 | 01.09.1994 16:12 | 13.5 km | 18 km |
| 5.6 | 27.08.1942 06:14 | 35 km | 76 km |
| 5.6 | 24.06.1941 15:16 | 35 km | 72 km |
| 5.5 | 09.01.2022 21:43 | 21.4 km | 64 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.8 | 06.09.2025 18:39 | 5 km | 15 km |
| 2.1 | 22.11.2024 00:18 | 5 km | 21 km |
| 2.1 | 11.11.2024 02:55 | 5 km | 29 km |
| 2.4 | 09.11.2024 20:34 | 5 km | 18 km |
| 2.7 | 09.11.2024 04:56 | 12.2 km | 18 km |
| 2.7 | 22.02.2023 00:27 | 2 km | 27 km |
| 2.7 | 31.01.2022 22:05 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 5.5 | 09.01.2022 21:43 | 21.4 km | 64 km |
| 2.7 | 27.09.2021 19:17 | 10 km | 19 km |
| 5.1 | 11.11.2020 03:54 | 13.7 km | 49 km |
| 2.5 | 26.05.2018 18:40 | 5 km | 18 km |
| 4.2 | 05.01.2018 03:05 | 6.9 km | 40 km |
| 2.3 | 07.10.2017 02:26 | 2 km | 22 km |
| 2.9 | 31.08.2017 18:01 | 1 km | 27 km |
| 4.2 | 12.07.2017 22:19 | 10 km | 35 km |
| 2.2 | 08.07.2017 23:23 | 2 km | 24 km |
| 4.0 | 08.07.2017 20:52 | 10 km | 35 km |
| 4.1 | 08.07.2017 19:31 | 4.5 km | 34 km |
| 4.1 | 07.07.2017 22:54 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 4.1 | 07.07.2017 22:04 | 5.5 km | 36 km |
| 2.6 | 07.07.2017 04:54 | 1 km | 27 km |
| 4.0 | 06.07.2017 09:12 | 1 km | 37 km |
| 4.1 | 04.07.2017 22:05 | 2.9 km | 35 km |
| 2.4 | 04.07.2017 09:59 | 1 km | 28 km |
| 4.0 | 03.07.2017 18:30 | 7 km | 36 km |
| 4.2 | 03.07.2017 18:03 | 10 km | 35 km |
| 5.0 | 03.07.2017 11:18 | 6.9 km | 34 km |
| 3.4 | 03.07.2017 01:54 | 10 km | 28 km |
| 4.2 | 02.07.2017 09:39 | 2.5 km | 34 km |
| 2.4 | 26.06.2017 16:28 | 2 km | 31 km |
| 4.2 | 20.06.2017 13:10 | 5.2 km | 32 km |
| 2.4 | 18.06.2017 09:20 | 1 km | 28 km |
| 2.2 | 05.06.2017 17:48 | 2 km | 23 km |
| 2.0 | 24.05.2016 21:36 | 0 km | 22 km |
| 2.1 | 22.05.2016 04:28 | 2 km | 17 km |
| 2.2 | 21.05.2016 22:33 | 2 km | 20 km |
| 2.2 | 21.05.2016 21:52 | 2 km | 17 km |
| 2.9 | 21.05.2016 19:15 | 8 km | 26 km |
| 2.1 | 21.05.2016 18:40 | 2 km | 20 km |
| 3.1 | 21.05.2016 17:37 | 13 km | 29 km |
| 4.2 | 21.05.2016 17:16 | 19.5 km | 26 km |
| 2.2 | 21.05.2016 17:12 | 2 km | 20 km |
| 4.9 | 21.05.2016 16:41 | 18.6 km | 24 km |
| 4.6 | 21.05.2016 16:33 | 19.7 km | 21 km |
| 2.1 | 21.05.2016 02:32 | 4 km | 15 km |
| 4.0 | 29.04.2015 14:47 | 11.7 km | 36 km |
| 2.0 | 31.10.2014 19:00 | 2 km | 22 km |
| 2.5 | 01.07.2014 13:08 | 2 km | 17 km |
| 2.0 | 16.05.2014 16:59 | 4 km | 7 km |
| 2.4 | 22.10.2013 09:41 | 3 km | 16 km |
| 2.4 | 08.06.2013 01:51 | 6 km | 26 km |
| 3.1 | 26.05.2013 02:33 | 2 km | 28 km |
| 2.5 | 01.12.2012 09:50 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 3.2 | 30.11.2012 10:14 | 6 km | 22 km |
| 1.9 | 26.10.2012 14:05 | 1 km | 20 km |
| 2.6 | 09.07.2012 08:29 | 1 km | 21 km |
| 2.7 | 08.07.2012 01:41 | 5 km | 28 km |
| 4.1 | 07.07.2012 12:59 | 11.2 km | 26 km |
| 2.9 | 08.06.2012 05:04 | 10 km | 23 km |
| 4.2 | 08.06.2012 03:44 | 9.2 km | 28 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.