No records in the last 30 days.
264
recorded earthquakes
M7.0
largest
1904–2026
record span
2.61
mean magnitude
82
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 | 108 km |
| 6.8 | 04.04.1904 10:02 | 15 km | 96 km |
| 6.5 | 08.03.1931 01:50 | 10 km | 82 km |
| 6.4 | 26.07.1963 04:17 | 15 km | 53 km |
| 6.1 | 21.12.1990 06:57 | 12.1 km | 107 km |
| 6.0 | 07.03.1931 00:16 | 35 km | 106 km |
| 6.0 | 30.03.1921 15:06 | 15 km | 68 km |
| 5.9 | 10.08.1921 14:10 | 15 km | 71 km |
| 5.8 | 30.04.1905 16:10 | 15 km | 68 km |
| 5.7 | 24.04.2002 10:51 | 7.2 km | 73 km |
| 5.5 | 16.09.1912 21:04 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 5.5 | 20.12.1929 20:19 | 15 km | 57 km |
| 5.4 | 03.04.1905 16:01 | 15 km | 51 km |
| 5.3 | 17.08.1907 12:15 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 5.2 | 28.09.1985 14:50 | 4.1 km | 41 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.7 | 16.06.2026 21:07 | 0 km | 18 km |
| 3.4 | 23.05.2026 15:41 | 10 km | 24 km |
| 4.1 | 09.04.2025 01:13 | 11.9 km | 29 km |
| 2.5 | 04.02.2025 08:18 | 5 km | 22 km |
| 2.7 | 24.09.2024 19:46 | 5 km | 24 km |
| 3.4 | 23.09.2024 00:02 | 10 km | 23 km |
| 2.0 | 14.06.2024 17:54 | 5 km | 24 km |
| 2.0 | 08.07.2023 06:24 | 5 km | 22 km |
| 2.2 | 04.05.2023 11:08 | 10 km | 25 km |
| 2.0 | 26.04.2023 04:32 | 35 km | 23 km |
| 2.3 | 19.04.2023 02:22 | 2 km | 29 km |
| 2.9 | 12.04.2023 01:24 | 5 km | 22 km |
| 3.0 | 31.03.2023 09:31 | 2 km | 21 km |
| 2.5 | 30.03.2023 14:21 | 10 km | 24 km |
| 3.0 | 29.03.2023 00:41 | 5 km | 27 km |
| 2.6 | 19.10.2022 21:06 | 1 km | 23 km |
| 3.4 | 25.04.2022 23:22 | 7.4 km | 24 km |
| 4.2 | 02.12.2020 13:09 | 10 km | 34 km |
| 3.3 | 29.03.2020 10:35 | 2 km | 26 km |
| 2.4 | 08.01.2020 07:15 | 2 km | 26 km |
| 2.7 | 28.10.2019 22:46 | 10 km | 23 km |
| 2.5 | 14.01.2019 12:31 | 2 km | 13 km |
| 2.5 | 02.09.2018 23:06 | 10 km | 5 km |
| 2.7 | 02.09.2018 00:52 | 10 km | 11 km |
| 2.4 | 08.04.2018 03:01 | 5 km | 16 km |
| 2.6 | 12.01.2018 18:07 | 1 km | 15 km |
| 2.2 | 05.10.2017 13:37 | 0 km | 14 km |
| 2.0 | 28.09.2017 08:47 | 1 km | 22 km |
| 2.2 | 18.08.2017 02:40 | 3 km | 12 km |
| 2.2 | 01.07.2017 06:41 | 10 km | 24 km |
| 2.0 | 21.05.2017 22:15 | 3 km | 15 km |
| 4.0 | 14.05.2017 02:08 | 14.1 km | 39 km |
| 2.5 | 31.12.2016 14:33 | 1 km | 26 km |
| 3.0 | 24.11.2016 01:56 | 1 km | 15 km |
| 2.7 | 25.10.2016 08:11 | 1 km | 17 km |
| 2.3 | 18.10.2016 13:51 | 1 km | 17 km |
| 2.4 | 09.10.2016 21:00 | 2 km | 12 km |
| 2.1 | 21.09.2016 10:57 | 0 km | 14 km |
| 2.6 | 20.09.2016 17:37 | 0 km | 14 km |
| 5.1 | 11.09.2016 13:10 | 11.3 km | 45 km |
| 4.0 | 11.09.2016 04:58 | 11.1 km | 42 km |
| 2.5 | 18.08.2016 22:55 | 0 km | 16 km |
| 2.4 | 12.08.2016 21:08 | 1 km | 16 km |
| 2.7 | 08.08.2016 00:39 | 2 km | 14 km |
| 2.4 | 07.08.2016 01:44 | 2 km | 17 km |
| 4.4 | 29.07.2016 22:13 | 359 km | 46 km |
| 2.0 | 28.08.2015 03:56 | 1 km | 5 km |
| 2.7 | 03.06.2015 14:20 | 5 km | 18 km |
| 2.0 | 14.05.2015 02:21 | 1 km | 14 km |
| 2.6 | 14.10.2014 13:15 | 2 km | 15 km |
| 2.0 | 27.09.2014 02:25 | 2 km | 18 km |
| 2.2 | 06.07.2014 05:58 | 1 km | 25 km |
| 2.1 | 09.03.2014 01:53 | 1 km | 25 km |
| 2.5 | 09.12.2013 00:18 | 5 km | 9 km |
| 2.1 | 11.09.2013 15:59 | 1 km | 12 km |
| 2.2 | 13.07.2013 19:26 | 4 km | 26 km |
| 2.1 | 23.05.2013 15:23 | 2 km | 22 km |
| 2.0 | 13.01.2013 23:38 | 1 km | 13 km |
| 2.9 | 13.01.2013 14:21 | 10 km | 9 km |
| 2.3 | 13.01.2013 14:09 | 1 km | 14 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.