No records in the last 30 days.
225
recorded earthquakes
M6.8
largest
1919–2026
record span
4.33
mean magnitude
211
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.8 | 09.10.1942 15:46 | 60 km | 264 km |
| 6.7 | 01.05.1919 05:05 | 15 km | 241 km |
| 6.3 | 18.12.1940 03:39 | 15 km | 281 km |
| 6.3 | 10.03.1989 21:49 | 30.7 km | 50 km |
| 6.0 | 18.12.1940 03:39 | 35 km | 249 km |
| 6.0 | 19.12.2009 23:19 | 9.4 km | 364 km |
| 5.9 | 08.12.2009 03:08 | 9.6 km | 368 km |
| 5.9 | 20.12.1961 12:01 | — | 346 km |
| 5.7 | 06.12.2009 17:36 | 14.3 km | 356 km |
| 5.7 | 17.01.1954 17:39 | 15 km | 444 km |
| 5.6 | 09.03.1989 02:37 | 29.4 km | 60 km |
| 5.6 | 19.09.1976 14:59 | 22.1 km | 288 km |
| 5.6 | 08.03.2018 08:49 | 13.2 km | 410 km |
| 5.5 | 12.05.1999 08:45 | 13.1 km | 245 km |
| 5.5 | 12.12.2009 02:27 | 15.5 km | 377 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.5 | 23.01.2026 19:20 | 0 km | 172 km |
| 4.6 | 06.07.2025 11:12 | 10 km | 81 km |
| 3.7 | 15.06.2025 06:06 | 0 km | 288 km |
| 3.5 | 30.01.2025 10:23 | 33 km | 131 km |
| 4.9 | 24.11.2024 07:58 | 14.6 km | 222 km |
| 3.8 | 04.05.2024 18:05 | 10 km | 300 km |
| 4.0 | 31.03.2023 12:06 | 0 km | 430 km |
| 4.0 | 28.12.2022 04:28 | 10 km | 423 km |
| 4.0 | 22.07.2022 08:44 | 10 km | 199 km |
| 3.9 | 05.05.2022 04:06 | 10 km | 183 km |
| 5.0 | 07.04.2022 10:43 | 10 km | 436 km |
| 4.4 | 14.01.2022 09:08 | 10 km | 381 km |
| 4.2 | 07.01.2022 16:45 | 29 km | 120 km |
| 4.1 | 16.12.2021 14:03 | 10 km | 186 km |
| 4.3 | 01.02.2021 01:29 | 10 km | 173 km |
| 4.0 | 29.10.2020 17:26 | 28 km | 88 km |
| 4.3 | 24.08.2020 08:32 | 10 km | 236 km |
| 4.9 | 24.08.2020 07:03 | 10 km | 240 km |
| 4.2 | 11.03.2020 06:19 | 10 km | 155 km |
| 4.2 | 27.01.2020 01:45 | 10 km | 473 km |
| 4.2 | 26.12.2019 22:07 | 10 km | 431 km |
| 4.2 | 18.12.2019 16:04 | 10 km | 254 km |
| 4.0 | 20.06.2019 09:50 | 10 km | 38 km |
| 4.1 | 16.01.2019 22:31 | 10 km | 433 km |
| 4.3 | 23.04.2018 16:17 | 10 km | 92 km |
| 4.2 | 07.04.2018 08:55 | 10 km | 311 km |
| 4.1 | 06.04.2018 12:43 | 10 km | 413 km |
| 4.1 | 18.03.2018 02:01 | 10 km | 434 km |
| 3.9 | 17.03.2018 15:12 | 10 km | 416 km |
| 5.1 | 08.03.2018 09:52 | 10 km | 412 km |
| 5.6 | 08.03.2018 08:49 | 13.2 km | 410 km |
| 3.2 | 14.09.2017 13:32 | 10 km | 294 km |
| 4.1 | 04.09.2017 08:57 | 10 km | 229 km |
| 4.1 | 21.07.2017 14:31 | 10 km | 127 km |
| 5.2 | 24.06.2017 02:38 | 391 km | 213 km |
| 3.2 | 08.10.2016 14:07 | 18 km | 50 km |
| 3.6 | 07.09.2016 04:24 | 10 km | 189 km |
| 3.6 | 25.08.2015 17:40 | 10 km | 416 km |
| 4.3 | 15.08.2015 07:33 | 31.6 km | 40 km |
| 4.1 | 17.06.2015 08:32 | 10 km | 428 km |
| 4.0 | 09.04.2015 01:10 | 10 km | 415 km |
| 5.2 | 31.12.2014 19:47 | 7.1 km | 370 km |
| 4.1 | 25.02.2014 06:45 | 0 km | 247 km |
| 4.3 | 27.06.2012 03:35 | 10 km | 200 km |
| 4.1 | 14.06.2012 02:46 | 17.3 km | 260 km |
| 4.5 | 13.05.2012 00:09 | 10 km | 358 km |
| 4.1 | 25.09.2011 05:50 | 10 km | 433 km |
| 3.8 | 08.03.2011 20:31 | 10 km | 213 km |
| 4.2 | 28.11.2010 21:44 | 10 km | 351 km |
| 3.3 | 29.10.2010 22:55 | 23.6 km | 423 km |
| 3.6 | 05.09.2010 02:07 | 10 km | 356 km |
| 4.3 | 19.03.2010 11:09 | 10 km | 230 km |
| 4.1 | 02.03.2010 06:36 | 10 km | 357 km |
| 4.0 | 01.03.2010 08:40 | 10 km | 348 km |
| 4.1 | 28.02.2010 20:29 | 10 km | 352 km |
| 3.5 | 13.02.2010 15:20 | 10 km | 353 km |
| 4.9 | 12.01.2010 23:14 | 28.6 km | 55 km |
| 6.0 | 19.12.2009 23:19 | 9.4 km | 364 km |
| 5.5 | 12.12.2009 02:27 | 15.5 km | 377 km |
| 4.1 | 11.12.2009 20:06 | 10 km | 362 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.