No records in the last 30 days.
210
recorded earthquakes
M8.1
largest
1903–2026
record span
4.35
mean magnitude
181
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.1 | 04.12.1957 03:37 | 30 km | 281 km |
| 7.4 | 04.08.1914 22:41 | 15 km | 401 km |
| 7.1 | 01.02.1903 09:34 | 0 km | 352 km |
| 6.9 | 07.04.1958 19:13 | 30 km | 219 km |
| 6.6 | 17.12.1938 16:35 | 10 km | 370 km |
| 6.4 | 04.07.1974 19:30 | 11.6 km | 146 km |
| 6.2 | 14.09.1923 12:57 | 35 km | 307 km |
| 6.1 | 25.02.1950 05:47 | 15 km | 259 km |
| 6.1 | 24.02.1958 12:27 | 15 km | 309 km |
| 6.0 | 20.09.1920 23:35 | 10 km | 191 km |
| 5.9 | 01.11.1949 13:04 | 25 km | 232 km |
| 5.8 | 15.06.2006 06:49 | 11.2 km | 127 km |
| 5.7 | 07.01.1938 18:27 | 15 km | 91 km |
| 5.6 | 20.10.1949 02:21 | 35 km | 187 km |
| 5.6 | 12.07.1935 01:41 | 35 km | 290 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.7 | 17.05.2026 13:45 | 0 km | 287 km |
| 3.6 | 08.05.2026 11:38 | 10 km | 279 km |
| 4.0 | 26.04.2026 04:30 | 10 km | 283 km |
| 4.3 | 26.04.2026 04:27 | 10 km | 279 km |
| 5.5 | 26.04.2026 04:23 | 13 km | 274 km |
| 3.9 | 22.04.2026 11:11 | 10 km | 272 km |
| 4.2 | 07.04.2026 16:07 | 10 km | 163 km |
| 3.7 | 23.12.2025 11:39 | 0 km | 209 km |
| 4.3 | 24.11.2025 01:27 | 0 km | 125 km |
| 3.7 | 04.11.2025 16:35 | 10 km | 96 km |
| 3.6 | 17.09.2025 16:23 | 10 km | 253 km |
| 3.7 | 11.09.2025 00:20 | 10 km | 120 km |
| 4.1 | 27.08.2025 09:57 | 0 km | 162 km |
| 3.5 | 16.04.2025 09:24 | 10 km | 275 km |
| 4.3 | 05.04.2025 10:27 | 10 km | 69 km |
| 4.2 | 10.01.2025 19:33 | 10 km | 263 km |
| 3.8 | 05.01.2025 07:26 | 0 km | 132 km |
| 5.0 | 09.11.2024 20:37 | 10 km | 247 km |
| 3.5 | 25.07.2024 01:45 | 10 km | 208 km |
| 4.3 | 08.07.2024 01:00 | 0 km | 206 km |
| 3.8 | 12.05.2024 20:35 | 0 km | 168 km |
| 3.9 | 09.05.2024 07:20 | 10 km | 136 km |
| 3.8 | 27.04.2024 17:48 | 10 km | 250 km |
| 4.0 | 20.02.2024 10:58 | 9.1 km | 290 km |
| 4.1 | 05.02.2024 03:07 | 10 km | 318 km |
| 4.0 | 01.02.2024 20:03 | 9 km | 100 km |
| 4.0 | 04.12.2023 16:59 | 8 km | 247 km |
| 3.4 | 25.11.2023 12:06 | 10 km | 275 km |
| 3.3 | 20.08.2023 16:14 | 5.4 km | 198 km |
| 4.4 | 25.07.2023 09:58 | 10 km | 265 km |
| 4.3 | 01.06.2023 06:06 | 9 km | 299 km |
| 4.2 | 26.12.2022 09:03 | 10 km | 157 km |
| 4.0 | 05.06.2022 10:01 | 9 km | 237 km |
| 3.3 | 11.04.2022 16:34 | 10 km | 198 km |
| 4.0 | 23.02.2022 21:09 | 9 km | 233 km |
| 5.0 | 17.01.2022 15:04 | 11.5 km | 79 km |
| 3.9 | 24.12.2021 00:48 | 12.3 km | 276 km |
| 3.5 | 22.12.2021 21:17 | 10 km | 86 km |
| 4.7 | 22.12.2021 21:17 | 10 km | 89 km |
| 4.1 | 21.01.2021 09:34 | 10 km | 295 km |
| 4.0 | 06.07.2020 21:23 | 10 km | 218 km |
| 4.4 | 26.03.2020 20:46 | 10 km | 86 km |
| 3.3 | 23.03.2020 22:47 | 10 km | 197 km |
| 4.1 | 20.03.2020 03:55 | 10 km | 170 km |
| 5.5 | 20.03.2020 03:03 | 15 km | 161 km |
| 4.2 | 17.02.2020 03:14 | 10 km | 222 km |
| 3.9 | 11.02.2020 18:02 | 10 km | 126 km |
| 4.8 | 25.11.2019 02:22 | 35 km | 159 km |
| 4.4 | 20.11.2019 21:27 | 10 km | 31 km |
| 4.3 | 18.01.2019 18:11 | 10 km | 225 km |
| 3.8 | 14.11.2018 18:47 | 10 km | 197 km |
| 4.3 | 30.07.2018 04:59 | 10 km | 140 km |
| 3.4 | 08.05.2018 20:17 | 10 km | 284 km |
| 3.4 | 30.03.2018 16:05 | 10 km | 146 km |
| 4.2 | 29.10.2017 10:05 | 10 km | 162 km |
| 4.0 | 14.05.2017 14:56 | 9 km | 219 km |
| 4.3 | 16.10.2016 19:10 | 30 km | 349 km |
| 4.4 | 14.09.2016 09:32 | 10 km | 181 km |
| 4.1 | 28.08.2016 20:04 | 10 km | 159 km |
| 4.4 | 14.07.2015 10:59 | 4 km | 200 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.