No records in the last 30 days.
320
recorded earthquakes
M6.2
largest
1963–2026
record span
2.05
mean magnitude
17
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.2 | 19.07.1963 05:45 | 15 km | 75 km |
| 4.6 | 26.12.1989 19:59 | 10 km | 32 km |
| 4.5 | 25.02.2001 18:34 | 16.6 km | 27 km |
| 4.3 | 02.09.2006 01:21 | 2 km | 31 km |
| 4.2 | 21.04.1995 08:02 | 13.4 km | 12 km |
| 4.0 | 24.04.1995 08:02 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 3.7 | 19.12.2000 14:20 | 11.2 km | 8 km |
| 3.6 | 01.11.1999 17:22 | 1.3 km | 8 km |
| 3.5 | 18.03.2025 17:45 | 25 km | 10 km |
| 3.4 | 27.01.2014 08:53 | 5 km | 9 km |
| 3.3 | 10.12.1997 21:36 | 10 km | 15 km |
| 3.2 | 03.02.2011 03:16 | 17.4 km | 10 km |
| 3.2 | 28.06.1991 23:48 | 20.3 km | 17 km |
| 3.2 | 20.12.2000 05:45 | 6.3 km | 8 km |
| 3.2 | 27.07.2002 15:23 | 6.2 km | 11 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.0 | 04.02.2026 09:27 | 5 km | 8 km |
| 2.0 | 26.01.2026 10:00 | 0 km | 7 km |
| 2.2 | 28.10.2025 02:12 | 5 km | 14 km |
| 2.8 | 21.04.2025 07:37 | 25.1 km | 12 km |
| 2.5 | 20.03.2025 21:25 | 10 km | 9 km |
| 3.1 | 18.03.2025 21:24 | 10 km | 10 km |
| 2.2 | 18.03.2025 21:05 | 5 km | 5 km |
| 2.1 | 18.03.2025 17:55 | 17.6 km | 9 km |
| 3.5 | 18.03.2025 17:45 | 25 km | 10 km |
| 2.7 | 01.08.2024 19:45 | 5 km | 8 km |
| 2.1 | 17.01.2024 21:50 | 5 km | 17 km |
| 2.3 | 22.11.2023 16:53 | 10.1 km | 14 km |
| 2.1 | 01.09.2023 12:26 | 11.5 km | 3 km |
| 2.4 | 12.03.2023 17:00 | 1 km | 16 km |
| 2.5 | 06.02.2023 01:10 | 10 km | 15 km |
| 2.4 | 23.12.2022 12:47 | 3 km | 10 km |
| 2.5 | 13.12.2022 09:47 | 0 km | 7 km |
| 2.6 | 27.06.2022 09:03 | 2 km | 8 km |
| 2.1 | 27.01.2014 20:13 | 9 km | 14 km |
| 3.4 | 27.01.2014 08:53 | 5 km | 9 km |
| 2.7 | 07.10.2013 14:23 | 2 km | 8 km |
| 2.4 | 13.06.2013 22:26 | 2 km | 15 km |
| 1.5 | 22.12.2011 15:41 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 1.3 | 22.12.2011 15:37 | 5 km | 16 km |
| 0.7 | 14.12.2011 09:24 | 0.5 km | 8 km |
| 2.9 | 10.11.2011 17:19 | 5 km | 12 km |
| 0.7 | 18.10.2011 09:18 | 9.3 km | 15 km |
| 0.6 | 21.09.2011 08:09 | 0.4 km | 7 km |
| 0.8 | 08.09.2011 09:47 | 1.5 km | 11 km |
| 2.2 | 04.09.2011 16:47 | 2 km | 16 km |
| 1.8 | 22.08.2011 07:28 | 2 km | 9 km |
| 0.9 | 07.07.2011 07:31 | 0.3 km | 7 km |
| 1.1 | 06.07.2011 07:27 | 0.1 km | 6 km |
| 2.3 | 23.03.2011 17:31 | 2 km | 13 km |
| 1.9 | 23.03.2011 09:40 | 10 km | 6 km |
| 1.5 | 22.02.2011 21:03 | 15 km | 16 km |
| 2.1 | 08.02.2011 15:49 | 2 km | 8 km |
| 2.6 | 08.02.2011 13:02 | 10 km | 10 km |
| 2.6 | 08.02.2011 09:32 | 15 km | 15 km |
| 0.8 | 03.02.2011 18:22 | 11.6 km | 13 km |
| 3.2 | 03.02.2011 03:16 | 17.4 km | 10 km |
| 2.2 | 23.11.2010 16:02 | 10 km | 12 km |
| 1.1 | 25.09.2010 15:41 | 2 km | 17 km |
| 1.9 | 25.09.2010 15:02 | 10 km | 14 km |
| 1.5 | 28.04.2010 14:17 | 5 km | 16 km |
| 2.1 | 20.04.2010 13:53 | 10 km | 13 km |
| 1.9 | 14.04.2010 08:23 | 10 km | 14 km |
| 1.6 | 09.02.2010 03:22 | 2 km | 6 km |
| 1.5 | 14.01.2010 00:09 | 2 km | 18 km |
| 1.7 | 13.01.2010 23:58 | 2 km | 17 km |
| 1.7 | 15.12.2009 18:27 | 2 km | 14 km |
| 1.7 | 05.12.2009 19:40 | 2 km | 7 km |
| 1.0 | 10.09.2009 20:58 | 5 km | 13 km |
| 1.3 | 23.07.2009 23:22 | 5 km | 10 km |
| 1.6 | 13.07.2009 01:34 | 2 km | 11 km |
| 2.2 | 06.07.2009 06:54 | 10 km | 6 km |
| 2.0 | 19.06.2009 07:01 | 10 km | 6 km |
| 1.4 | 16.06.2009 02:25 | 2 km | 12 km |
| 2.1 | 08.06.2009 07:55 | 3 km | 8 km |
| 1.6 | 07.04.2009 07:33 | 10 km | 7 km |
Regions
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.