No records in the last 30 days.
291
recorded earthquakes
M7.0
largest
1904–2026
record span
2.78
mean magnitude
29
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 | 145 km |
| 6.7 | 30.11.1967 07:23 | 16.9 km | 91 km |
| 6.6 | 18.02.1911 21:35 | 15 km | 84 km |
| 6.5 | 08.03.1931 01:50 | 10 km | 85 km |
| 6.4 | 26.07.1963 04:17 | 15 km | 85 km |
| 6.2 | 26.05.1960 05:10 | 20 km | 112 km |
| 6.1 | 21.12.1990 06:57 | 12.1 km | 68 km |
| 6.0 | 07.03.1931 00:16 | 35 km | 78 km |
| 6.0 | 30.03.1921 15:06 | 15 km | 72 km |
| 6.0 | 13.02.1912 08:03 | 15 km | 60 km |
| 6.0 | 18.12.1920 02:01 | 15 km | 79 km |
| 5.9 | 07.12.1922 16:22 | 15 km | 58 km |
| 5.8 | 30.04.1905 16:10 | 15 km | 44 km |
| 5.8 | 12.03.1960 11:54 | 10 km | 82 km |
| 5.8 | 01.09.1994 16:12 | 13.5 km | 38 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.9 | 12.01.2026 00:14 | 2 km | 42 km |
| 3.1 | 15.12.2025 16:22 | 14.2 km | 44 km |
| 2.5 | 06.12.2024 14:25 | 10 km | 42 km |
| 2.0 | 29.07.2024 07:16 | 16 km | 45 km |
| 2.2 | 24.11.2023 14:50 | 5 km | 41 km |
| 2.2 | 22.11.2023 17:20 | 7 km | 46 km |
| 2.5 | 13.09.2023 16:18 | 9.6 km | 41 km |
| 2.1 | 03.01.2023 16:48 | 10 km | 39 km |
| 2.4 | 16.12.2022 14:42 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 3.3 | 17.07.2022 13:40 | 4 km | 20 km |
| 2.2 | 26.03.2022 02:34 | 15 km | 41 km |
| 2.3 | 24.03.2022 10:36 | 8 km | 45 km |
| 2.6 | 24.03.2022 05:15 | 13 km | 41 km |
| 4.3 | 11.01.2022 17:44 | 12.6 km | 50 km |
| 4.6 | 11.01.2022 15:14 | 12.2 km | 53 km |
| 4.4 | 11.01.2022 00:52 | 10 km | 43 km |
| 4.3 | 09.01.2022 23:38 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 4.0 | 09.01.2022 22:21 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 4.5 | 09.01.2022 21:53 | 10.8 km | 48 km |
| 5.5 | 09.01.2022 21:43 | 21.4 km | 58 km |
| 5.1 | 11.11.2020 03:54 | 13.7 km | 81 km |
| 2.3 | 08.11.2019 03:39 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 4.2 | 05.01.2018 03:05 | 6.9 km | 12 km |
| 4.4 | 14.10.2017 09:55 | 14.2 km | 58 km |
| 5.0 | 03.07.2017 11:18 | 6.9 km | 65 km |
| 2.2 | 15.05.2017 06:06 | 15 km | 36 km |
| 4.0 | 09.04.2017 05:40 | 24.9 km | 8 km |
| 2.4 | 07.04.2017 10:11 | 1 km | 32 km |
| 2.3 | 10.03.2017 21:39 | 6 km | 40 km |
| 4.6 | 21.05.2016 16:33 | 19.7 km | 52 km |
| 2.7 | 26.05.2015 18:20 | 2 km | 16 km |
| 2.4 | 24.03.2015 12:17 | 3 km | 12 km |
| 2.1 | 20.03.2015 01:09 | 12 km | 42 km |
| 2.5 | 27.09.2014 20:01 | 2 km | 38 km |
| 2.5 | 27.09.2014 18:36 | 5 km | 33 km |
| 2.1 | 27.09.2014 18:32 | 1 km | 32 km |
| 2.0 | 16.05.2014 16:59 | 4 km | 31 km |
| 2.4 | 31.03.2014 13:59 | 370 km | 22 km |
| 2.2 | 05.02.2014 02:36 | 2 km | 33 km |
| 2.0 | 26.12.2013 10:16 | 2 km | 34 km |
| 2.7 | 26.05.2013 22:13 | 2 km | 46 km |
| 3.1 | 26.05.2013 02:33 | 2 km | 43 km |
| 2.0 | 12.02.2013 17:51 | 12 km | 46 km |
| 2.1 | 31.12.2012 11:26 | 5 km | 40 km |
| 2.3 | 07.09.2012 16:47 | 2 km | 29 km |
| 2.2 | 01.12.2011 23:20 | 2 km | 26 km |
| 2.2 | 25.10.2011 09:57 | 12 km | 46 km |
| 2.4 | 24.10.2011 07:03 | 19.8 km | 46 km |
| 2.4 | 24.10.2011 06:53 | 20 km | 46 km |
| 3.2 | 24.10.2011 06:49 | 2 km | 40 km |
| 1.3 | 21.09.2011 00:44 | 15 km | 47 km |
| 1.8 | 22.06.2011 01:37 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 2.5 | 22.06.2011 00:57 | 2 km | 42 km |
| 1.7 | 11.05.2011 17:14 | 15 km | 43 km |
| 1.7 | 03.03.2011 21:37 | 5 km | 38 km |
| 3.4 | 18.01.2011 22:39 | 36 km | 28 km |
| 3.0 | 01.01.2011 22:43 | 10 km | 43 km |
| 1.5 | 02.12.2010 13:58 | 10 km | 28 km |
| 2.7 | 18.11.2010 14:26 | 26 km | 36 km |
| 2.8 | 11.09.2010 15:23 | 8 km | 16 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.