No records in the last 30 days.
157
recorded earthquakes
M7.0
largest
1904–2025
record span
2.95
mean magnitude
13
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 | 123 km |
| 6.8 | 04.04.1904 10:02 | 15 km | 111 km |
| 6.5 | 08.03.1931 01:50 | 10 km | 116 km |
| 6.4 | 26.07.1963 04:17 | 15 km | 51 km |
| 6.1 | 08.10.1905 07:27 | 15 km | 107 km |
| 6.0 | 30.03.1921 15:06 | 15 km | 77 km |
| 5.7 | 24.04.2002 10:51 | 7.2 km | 40 km |
| 5.5 | 20.12.1929 20:19 | 15 km | 53 km |
| 5.4 | 03.04.1905 16:01 | 15 km | 71 km |
| 5.2 | 13.08.1907 02:20 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 5.1 | 11.09.2016 13:10 | 11.3 km | 41 km |
| 5.0 | 19.01.2022 16:50 | 15 km | 71 km |
| 4.8 | 05.01.1985 13:06 | 11.7 km | 40 km |
| 4.7 | 25.02.1983 18:22 | 24.4 km | 40 km |
| 4.5 | 11.10.2010 00:34 | 6.9 km | 34 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.1 | 09.04.2025 01:13 | 11.9 km | 11 km |
| 2.8 | 13.08.2024 21:47 | 2 km | 33 km |
| 2.7 | 06.01.2023 15:51 | 2 km | 31 km |
| 5.0 | 19.01.2022 16:50 | 15 km | 71 km |
| 2.5 | 20.02.2021 15:46 | 2 km | 33 km |
| 4.2 | 02.12.2020 13:09 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 2.4 | 25.12.2019 11:57 | 9 km | 17 km |
| 2.8 | 22.11.2018 16:48 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 4.0 | 14.05.2017 02:08 | 14.1 km | 43 km |
| 5.1 | 11.09.2016 13:10 | 11.3 km | 41 km |
| 4.0 | 11.09.2016 04:58 | 11.1 km | 40 km |
| 2.4 | 27.08.2016 16:26 | 7 km | 31 km |
| 4.4 | 29.07.2016 22:13 | 359 km | 37 km |
| 2.5 | 05.05.2015 20:18 | 10 km | 24 km |
| 2.4 | 07.01.2015 14:12 | 2 km | 26 km |
| 3.4 | 05.03.2014 19:04 | 6 km | 24 km |
| 2.4 | 26.02.2014 04:07 | 2 km | 22 km |
| 3.1 | 07.11.2013 17:01 | 1 km | 32 km |
| 2.7 | 28.11.2012 03:41 | 5 km | 31 km |
| 2.2 | 01.10.2012 17:58 | 2 km | 28 km |
| 2.8 | 19.08.2012 06:36 | 5 km | 25 km |
| 2.1 | 10.03.2012 17:53 | 1 km | 34 km |
| 1.4 | 20.08.2011 03:03 | 0 km | 25 km |
| 1.8 | 19.08.2011 03:09 | 2 km | 18 km |
| 2.0 | 18.08.2011 22:25 | 10 km | 11 km |
| 1.3 | 21.07.2011 00:31 | 0 km | 14 km |
| 1.4 | 18.07.2011 20:47 | 0 km | 14 km |
| 1.6 | 27.06.2011 06:34 | 0 km | 20 km |
| 1.9 | 24.05.2011 12:03 | 1.9 km | 24 km |
| 2.3 | 24.05.2011 11:54 | 5 km | 28 km |
| 2.1 | 27.01.2011 12:10 | 2 km | 33 km |
| 1.5 | 14.11.2010 22:50 | 19.4 km | 1 km |
| 1.6 | 05.11.2010 15:48 | 2 km | 31 km |
| 1.3 | 13.10.2010 17:56 | 15 km | 30 km |
| 2.0 | 11.10.2010 17:48 | 0 km | 34 km |
| 1.5 | 11.10.2010 12:05 | 0 km | 31 km |
| 1.2 | 11.10.2010 04:58 | 0 km | 34 km |
| 4.5 | 11.10.2010 00:34 | 6.9 km | 34 km |
| 1.7 | 09.10.2010 20:23 | 0 km | 29 km |
| 3.5 | 09.10.2010 07:40 | 2 km | 34 km |
| 2.0 | 08.10.2010 11:47 | 2 km | 33 km |
| 2.1 | 08.10.2010 05:22 | 2 km | 33 km |
| 2.3 | 07.10.2010 21:42 | 0 km | 33 km |
| 2.9 | 07.10.2010 20:27 | 2 km | 33 km |
| 4.2 | 07.10.2010 20:23 | 9.9 km | 34 km |
| 1.2 | 20.06.2010 10:12 | 0 km | 31 km |
| 1.3 | 25.08.2009 03:12 | 0 km | 14 km |
| 2.0 | 25.08.2009 02:39 | 2 km | 12 km |
| 1.3 | 22.08.2009 12:00 | 2 km | 30 km |
| 1.9 | 16.07.2009 15:43 | 1.1 km | 26 km |
| 1.4 | 25.04.2009 14:42 | 0 km | 28 km |
| 1.5 | 19.03.2009 11:07 | 0 km | 24 km |
| 1.5 | 06.02.2009 14:25 | 0 km | 30 km |
| 1.4 | 02.01.2009 22:03 | 0 km | 33 km |
| 1.8 | 13.12.2008 19:49 | 10 km | 32 km |
| 2.0 | 13.09.2008 05:49 | 2 km | 34 km |
| 1.5 | 01.09.2008 02:53 | 0 km | 27 km |
| 1.9 | 02.08.2008 09:23 | 0 km | 31 km |
| 3.1 | 10.07.2008 14:45 | 2 km | 33 km |
| 1.6 | 16.04.2008 16:11 | 20 km | 32 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.