No records in the last 30 days.
419
recorded earthquakes
M7.0
largest
1904–2025
record span
2.40
mean magnitude
19
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 | 58 km |
| 6.8 | 04.04.1904 10:02 | 15 km | 50 km |
| 6.5 | 08.03.1931 01:50 | 10 km | 23 km |
| 6.3 | 29.09.1932 03:57 | 10 km | 113 km |
| 6.2 | 20.06.1978 20:03 | 3.6 km | 100 km |
| 6.1 | 08.10.1905 07:27 | 15 km | 111 km |
| 6.1 | 21.12.1990 06:57 | 12.1 km | 71 km |
| 6.0 | 07.03.1931 00:16 | 35 km | 61 km |
| 5.9 | 10.08.1921 14:10 | 15 km | 23 km |
| 5.5 | 08.04.1936 04:17 | 15 km | 58 km |
| 5.5 | 16.09.1912 21:04 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 5.4 | 23.02.1910 07:52 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 5.3 | 24.05.2009 16:17 | 11.8 km | 29 km |
| 5.3 | 17.08.1907 12:15 | 10 km | 28 km |
| 5.2 | 28.09.1985 14:50 | 4.1 km | 28 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.0 | 06.09.2025 00:12 | 15 km | 18 km |
| 2.4 | 07.07.2025 11:35 | 6 km | 24 km |
| 2.0 | 30.06.2025 07:57 | 8.1 km | 25 km |
| 3.1 | 29.06.2025 03:54 | 0 km | 24 km |
| 3.4 | 23.04.2025 10:03 | 10.2 km | 14 km |
| 1.9 | 23.03.2025 09:32 | 3 km | 13 km |
| 2.0 | 21.03.2025 04:11 | 5 km | 15 km |
| 2.6 | 19.03.2025 17:33 | 3 km | 13 km |
| 2.9 | 16.03.2025 03:13 | 2 km | 24 km |
| 2.5 | 04.03.2025 16:22 | 12 km | 17 km |
| 2.1 | 21.10.2024 16:32 | 5 km | 25 km |
| 2.9 | 11.10.2024 08:07 | 13 km | 25 km |
| 2.6 | 08.06.2024 09:59 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 2.0 | 04.02.2024 04:01 | 5 km | 18 km |
| 2.5 | 22.06.2023 07:53 | 10 km | 26 km |
| 2.3 | 06.06.2023 13:50 | 2 km | 27 km |
| 2.2 | 26.04.2023 02:55 | 2 km | 17 km |
| 2.7 | 12.01.2023 22:03 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 2.2 | 11.01.2023 21:34 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 2.9 | 04.09.2021 21:33 | 2 km | 15 km |
| 2.9 | 28.04.2021 03:40 | 2 km | 22 km |
| 2.7 | 05.03.2020 06:26 | 2 km | 15 km |
| 2.7 | 20.02.2020 07:51 | 10 km | 28 km |
| 2.9 | 14.10.2019 19:40 | 2 km | 18 km |
| 2.7 | 14.10.2019 07:48 | 5 km | 21 km |
| 3.1 | 06.02.2019 05:15 | 2 km | 23 km |
| 2.0 | 04.01.2019 08:49 | 3 km | 23 km |
| 3.1 | 30.08.2018 00:10 | 2 km | 19 km |
| 2.4 | 29.03.2018 04:21 | 3 km | 11 km |
| 4.1 | 05.02.2018 09:13 | 13.1 km | 41 km |
| 4.2 | 02.01.2018 17:36 | 14.3 km | 42 km |
| 4.9 | 02.01.2018 04:24 | 11.8 km | 34 km |
| 4.9 | 02.01.2018 04:24 | 12.4 km | 42 km |
| 4.0 | 01.01.2018 22:13 | 11.3 km | 42 km |
| 2.0 | 09.10.2017 09:03 | 19 km | 26 km |
| 2.1 | 09.10.2017 06:06 | 1 km | 27 km |
| 2.0 | 04.10.2017 13:07 | 10 km | 27 km |
| 2.2 | 04.10.2017 00:37 | 1 km | 20 km |
| 2.4 | 02.10.2017 08:48 | 1 km | 27 km |
| 2.5 | 01.10.2017 19:48 | 1 km | 27 km |
| 2.5 | 29.04.2017 00:07 | 2 km | 22 km |
| 2.1 | 15.04.2017 12:41 | 0 km | 19 km |
| 5.0 | 18.11.2016 23:22 | 10.5 km | 64 km |
| 2.7 | 01.08.2016 18:39 | 9 km | 25 km |
| 2.0 | 29.07.2016 13:24 | 2 km | 20 km |
| 2.0 | 10.06.2016 10:55 | 1 km | 22 km |
| 2.0 | 09.03.2016 07:55 | 7 km | 19 km |
| 3.1 | 28.02.2016 11:17 | 5.8 km | 23 km |
| 4.1 | 16.02.2016 11:17 | 12 km | 21 km |
| 2.2 | 02.02.2016 18:49 | 1 km | 8 km |
| 3.0 | 02.02.2016 12:10 | 2 km | 11 km |
| 2.0 | 01.02.2016 13:23 | 3 km | 22 km |
| 2.2 | 04.01.2016 17:42 | 1 km | 25 km |
| 2.4 | 21.12.2015 08:56 | 2 km | 26 km |
| 2.4 | 13.11.2015 07:14 | 2 km | 10 km |
| 2.4 | 16.08.2015 09:39 | 12 km | 23 km |
| 2.6 | 04.08.2015 22:42 | 2 km | 14 km |
| 2.0 | 02.06.2015 18:53 | 1 km | 22 km |
| 2.0 | 01.06.2015 19:43 | 2 km | 25 km |
| 2.0 | 04.04.2015 18:58 | 1 km | 17 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.