No records in the last 30 days.
178
recorded earthquakes
M7.0
largest
1904–2025
record span
2.42
mean magnitude
1
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 | 71 km |
| 6.8 | 04.04.1904 10:02 | 15 km | 59 km |
| 6.5 | 08.03.1931 01:50 | 10 km | 58 km |
| 6.4 | 26.07.1963 04:17 | 15 km | 90 km |
| 6.1 | 08.10.1905 07:27 | 15 km | 93 km |
| 6.1 | 21.12.1990 06:57 | 12.1 km | 99 km |
| 6.0 | 07.03.1931 00:16 | 35 km | 93 km |
| 5.9 | 10.08.1921 14:10 | 15 km | 34 km |
| 5.5 | 16.09.1912 21:04 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 5.4 | 23.02.1910 07:52 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 5.3 | 24.05.2009 16:17 | 11.8 km | 65 km |
| 5.3 | 17.08.1907 12:15 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 5.2 | 28.09.1985 14:50 | 4.1 km | 29 km |
| 4.5 | 06.07.1998 18:26 | 18 km | 26 km |
| 3.7 | 22.11.2006 18:43 | 8 km | 5 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 | 04.02.2025 08:18 | 5 km | 16 km |
| 2.0 | 14.06.2024 17:54 | 5 km | 18 km |
| 2.5 | 28.01.2024 17:38 | 10 km | 10 km |
| 2.2 | 04.05.2023 11:08 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 2.0 | 26.04.2023 04:32 | 35 km | 14 km |
| 2.3 | 19.04.2023 02:22 | 2 km | 20 km |
| 2.0 | 12.04.2023 02:11 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 2.9 | 12.04.2023 01:24 | 5 km | 18 km |
| 2.5 | 30.03.2023 14:21 | 10 km | 15 km |
| 3.0 | 29.03.2023 00:41 | 5 km | 14 km |
| 2.9 | 17.12.2021 10:49 | 8 km | 12 km |
| 2.9 | 13.09.2021 22:21 | 2 km | 12 km |
| 3.1 | 29.12.2020 11:34 | 3 km | 9 km |
| 3.3 | 29.03.2020 10:35 | 2 km | 12 km |
| 2.4 | 08.01.2020 07:15 | 2 km | 13 km |
| 2.6 | 08.01.2020 07:00 | 10 km | 12 km |
| 2.7 | 30.10.2019 15:50 | 8 km | 11 km |
| 2.7 | 28.10.2019 22:46 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 2.7 | 22.10.2019 11:19 | 10 km | 14 km |
| 2.0 | 28.09.2017 08:47 | 1 km | 16 km |
| 2.5 | 31.12.2016 14:33 | 1 km | 14 km |
| 2.4 | 28.08.2016 14:21 | 1 km | 11 km |
| 2.2 | 06.08.2016 03:11 | 0 km | 13 km |
| 2.5 | 22.03.2016 15:42 | 5 km | 11 km |
| 2.2 | 02.09.2014 08:07 | 1 km | 16 km |
| 2.1 | 09.03.2014 01:53 | 1 km | 14 km |
| 2.0 | 17.02.2014 06:54 | 1 km | 18 km |
| 2.2 | 13.07.2013 19:26 | 4 km | 19 km |
| 2.0 | 10.07.2013 14:47 | 1 km | 17 km |
| 1.9 | 13.06.2013 11:57 | 1 km | 16 km |
| 2.0 | 30.05.2013 12:19 | 0 km | 16 km |
| 2.3 | 27.05.2013 12:49 | 1 km | 19 km |
| 2.1 | 23.05.2013 15:23 | 2 km | 17 km |
| 2.4 | 06.04.2013 14:22 | 10 km | 12 km |
| 2.0 | 13.01.2013 19:48 | 1 km | 10 km |
| 1.9 | 26.10.2012 11:51 | 1 km | 19 km |
| 2.1 | 17.10.2012 11:06 | 1 km | 17 km |
| 2.0 | 15.10.2012 11:34 | 1 km | 14 km |
| 2.0 | 12.10.2012 14:32 | 1 km | 17 km |
| 2.1 | 09.10.2012 12:53 | 1 km | 17 km |
| 2.0 | 03.10.2012 12:43 | 1 km | 14 km |
| 1.9 | 30.09.2012 14:37 | 1 km | 18 km |
| 1.9 | 28.09.2012 12:31 | 1 km | 14 km |
| 2.3 | 27.09.2012 13:38 | 1 km | 17 km |
| 1.9 | 06.07.2012 11:47 | 1 km | 17 km |
| 2.0 | 15.06.2012 12:20 | 4 km | 14 km |
| 1.4 | 11.12.2011 09:52 | 2 km | 17 km |
| 1.6 | 04.10.2011 13:24 | 2 km | 17 km |
| 1.4 | 03.10.2011 01:47 | 10 km | 21 km |
| 1.6 | 15.09.2011 12:26 | 2 km | 17 km |
| 1.6 | 13.09.2011 12:51 | 2 km | 18 km |
| 1.5 | 06.09.2011 12:12 | 15 km | 19 km |
| 1.5 | 11.08.2011 12:31 | 2 km | 19 km |
| 2.2 | 30.05.2011 12:10 | 1 km | 17 km |
| 1.6 | 23.04.2011 17:11 | 2 km | 18 km |
| 1.3 | 07.04.2011 12:34 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 1.3 | 14.03.2011 04:56 | 10 km | 11 km |
| 1.5 | 26.02.2011 21:42 | 5 km | 18 km |
| 1.4 | 21.02.2011 13:19 | 2 km | 20 km |
| 1.7 | 16.02.2011 14:31 | 2 km | 19 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.