No records in the last 30 days.
420
recorded earthquakes
M7.0
largest
1904–2025
record span
2.29
mean magnitude
54
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 | 97 km |
| 6.8 | 04.04.1904 10:02 | 15 km | 87 km |
| 6.5 | 08.03.1931 01:50 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 6.4 | 26.07.1963 04:17 | 15 km | 86 km |
| 6.1 | 21.12.1990 06:57 | 12.1 km | 64 km |
| 6.0 | 07.03.1931 00:16 | 35 km | 63 km |
| 5.9 | 10.08.1921 14:10 | 15 km | 58 km |
| 5.8 | 30.04.1905 16:10 | 15 km | 73 km |
| 5.5 | 18.11.1905 00:20 | 15 km | 64 km |
| 5.5 | 16.09.1912 21:04 | 10 km | 24 km |
| 5.4 | 03.04.1905 16:01 | 15 km | 68 km |
| 5.3 | 24.05.2009 16:17 | 11.8 km | 53 km |
| 5.3 | 17.08.1907 12:15 | 10 km | 19 km |
| 5.2 | 28.09.1985 14:50 | 4.1 km | 15 km |
| 5.1 | 11.09.2016 13:10 | 11.3 km | 81 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 | 04.03.2025 16:22 | 12 km | 29 km |
| 2.3 | 25.12.2024 05:50 | 5 km | 35 km |
| 2.0 | 20.12.2024 12:25 | 10 km | 15 km |
| 2.2 | 16.12.2024 20:04 | 5 km | 34 km |
| 2.2 | 16.12.2024 00:14 | 10 km | 34 km |
| 3.1 | 16.12.2024 00:12 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 2.5 | 13.11.2024 16:07 | 6.5 km | 27 km |
| 2.1 | 21.10.2024 16:32 | 5 km | 15 km |
| 2.2 | 15.10.2024 16:35 | 5 km | 14 km |
| 2.9 | 11.10.2024 08:07 | 13 km | 15 km |
| 3.3 | 02.09.2024 15:00 | 4.7 km | 14 km |
| 2.1 | 12.08.2024 20:45 | 5 km | 14 km |
| 2.0 | 14.06.2024 17:54 | 5 km | 29 km |
| 2.5 | 28.01.2024 17:38 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 3.2 | 08.11.2023 17:16 | 4.7 km | 28 km |
| 2.0 | 08.07.2023 06:24 | 5 km | 27 km |
| 2.2 | 04.05.2023 11:08 | 10 km | 27 km |
| 2.3 | 19.04.2023 02:22 | 2 km | 24 km |
| 2.0 | 12.04.2023 02:11 | 10 km | 25 km |
| 2.9 | 12.04.2023 01:24 | 5 km | 31 km |
| 3.0 | 31.03.2023 09:31 | 2 km | 28 km |
| 3.0 | 29.03.2023 00:41 | 5 km | 31 km |
| 2.7 | 12.01.2023 22:03 | 10 km | 21 km |
| 3.1 | 29.12.2020 11:34 | 3 km | 34 km |
| 2.6 | 08.01.2020 07:00 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 2.7 | 22.10.2019 11:19 | 10 km | 28 km |
| 2.4 | 08.04.2018 03:01 | 5 km | 32 km |
| 2.0 | 16.02.2018 16:08 | 1 km | 33 km |
| 2.7 | 28.01.2018 23:17 | 6.4 km | 27 km |
| 2.2 | 18.08.2017 02:40 | 3 km | 36 km |
| 2.2 | 01.07.2017 06:41 | 10 km | 25 km |
| 2.0 | 13.05.2017 01:43 | 90 km | 9 km |
| 4.0 | 09.04.2017 05:40 | 24.9 km | 43 km |
| 2.2 | 18.12.2016 13:11 | 4 km | 34 km |
| 5.0 | 18.11.2016 23:22 | 10.5 km | 77 km |
| 5.1 | 11.09.2016 13:10 | 11.3 km | 81 km |
| 2.4 | 28.08.2016 14:21 | 1 km | 32 km |
| 2.2 | 06.08.2016 03:11 | 0 km | 30 km |
| 2.5 | 22.03.2016 15:42 | 5 km | 32 km |
| 2.0 | 17.03.2016 06:03 | 9 km | 29 km |
| 2.2 | 04.01.2016 17:42 | 1 km | 24 km |
| 2.0 | 14.05.2015 02:21 | 1 km | 36 km |
| 3.2 | 04.04.2015 01:47 | 20 km | 26 km |
| 2.0 | 05.11.2014 19:19 | 15 km | 22 km |
| 2.2 | 02.09.2014 08:07 | 1 km | 27 km |
| 2.2 | 14.04.2014 07:44 | 1 km | 31 km |
| 2.4 | 31.03.2014 13:59 | 370 km | 36 km |
| 2.0 | 17.02.2014 06:54 | 1 km | 30 km |
| 2.2 | 05.02.2014 02:36 | 2 km | 27 km |
| 2.5 | 04.12.2013 21:13 | 3 km | 15 km |
| 2.1 | 02.10.2013 08:18 | 1 km | 35 km |
| 2.2 | 13.07.2013 19:26 | 4 km | 26 km |
| 2.0 | 10.07.2013 14:47 | 1 km | 25 km |
| 1.9 | 13.06.2013 11:57 | 1 km | 27 km |
| 2.0 | 30.05.2013 12:19 | 0 km | 28 km |
| 2.3 | 27.05.2013 12:49 | 1 km | 25 km |
| 2.0 | 13.01.2013 19:48 | 1 km | 32 km |
| 2.9 | 13.01.2013 14:21 | 10 km | 34 km |
| 2.0 | 06.12.2012 07:28 | 0 km | 29 km |
| 1.9 | 04.12.2012 18:36 | 2 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.