No records in the last 30 days.
1,009
recorded earthquakes
M6.9
largest
1905–2026
record span
2.19
mean magnitude
73
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.9 | 15.04.1979 06:19 | 9 km | 105 km |
| 6.5 | 01.06.1905 04:42 | 15 km | 99 km |
| 6.2 | 14.02.1927 03:43 | 50 km | 94 km |
| 6.2 | 24.05.1979 17:23 | 6 km | 89 km |
| 5.5 | 14.03.2024 03:06 | 11.6 km | 39 km |
| 5.2 | 06.08.1907 15:21 | 15 km | 58 km |
| 5.2 | 04.01.2018 10:46 | 12.7 km | 68 km |
| 5.2 | 10.07.2005 13:10 | 10.9 km | 79 km |
| 5.0 | 17.06.1959 12:32 | 15 km | 74 km |
| 4.9 | 16.05.1978 05:32 | 33 km | 44 km |
| 4.8 | 10.05.1978 01:37 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 4.8 | 17.05.1978 04:35 | 33 km | 42 km |
| 4.8 | 13.02.1994 10:15 | 5.4 km | 14 km |
| 4.6 | 12.12.2011 17:04 | 8.4 km | 35 km |
| 4.5 | 13.08.1993 05:03 | 10 km | 45 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.5 | 22.02.2026 03:56 | 10.3 km | 10 km |
| 1.6 | 22.02.2026 03:49 | 7.1 km | 9 km |
| 2.8 | 31.12.2025 23:24 | 12.4 km | 17 km |
| 4.1 | 29.10.2025 13:19 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 2.0 | 26.05.2025 07:39 | 11 km | 13 km |
| 2.7 | 20.04.2025 06:11 | 0 km | 30 km |
| 2.4 | 13.02.2025 19:52 | 9.2 km | 33 km |
| 1.9 | 12.10.2024 05:08 | 23 km | 31 km |
| 4.0 | 06.09.2024 17:10 | 10 km | 29 km |
| 3.0 | 03.07.2024 07:17 | 9.2 km | 32 km |
| 3.2 | 02.06.2024 09:04 | 15 km | 27 km |
| 2.7 | 01.05.2024 10:19 | 9 km | 28 km |
| 4.4 | 03.04.2024 10:40 | 17.3 km | 39 km |
| 4.0 | 02.04.2024 19:07 | 13 km | 41 km |
| 2.8 | 23.03.2024 23:41 | 2 km | 29 km |
| 2.1 | 22.03.2024 21:41 | 10 km | 29 km |
| 2.6 | 17.03.2024 16:21 | 9 km | 29 km |
| 2.5 | 17.03.2024 14:17 | 17 km | 27 km |
| 3.2 | 14.03.2024 11:48 | 9 km | 36 km |
| 1.9 | 14.03.2024 06:47 | 23 km | 33 km |
| 2.1 | 14.03.2024 06:25 | 5 km | 32 km |
| 2.4 | 14.03.2024 06:10 | 15 km | 32 km |
| 2.1 | 14.03.2024 05:29 | 11 km | 32 km |
| 2.3 | 14.03.2024 04:53 | 4 km | 32 km |
| 2.5 | 14.03.2024 04:38 | 9 km | 32 km |
| 2.3 | 14.03.2024 04:01 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 5.5 | 14.03.2024 03:06 | 11.6 km | 39 km |
| 3.2 | 27.02.2024 07:07 | 9 km | 20 km |
| 2.1 | 26.11.2023 13:28 | 7 km | 11 km |
| 2.5 | 20.11.2023 08:16 | 10.9 km | 33 km |
| 3.5 | 18.11.2023 09:21 | 9 km | 33 km |
| 2.9 | 28.03.2022 12:24 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 2.3 | 25.12.2021 08:40 | 8 km | 27 km |
| 2.6 | 28.11.2021 07:01 | 11 km | 28 km |
| 2.0 | 13.05.2021 22:09 | 5 km | 18 km |
| 2.0 | 04.03.2021 19:47 | 314 km | 34 km |
| 2.4 | 10.09.2020 09:31 | 10 km | 27 km |
| 2.8 | 17.03.2020 23:13 | 6 km | 27 km |
| 2.4 | 01.01.2020 08:08 | 2 km | 25 km |
| 2.4 | 31.07.2019 02:04 | 5 km | 30 km |
| 2.5 | 30.07.2019 01:03 | 8 km | 34 km |
| 2.6 | 10.08.2018 16:25 | 5 km | 32 km |
| 2.6 | 23.03.2018 10:01 | 5 km | 25 km |
| 5.2 | 04.01.2018 10:46 | 12.7 km | 68 km |
| 2.9 | 14.08.2017 18:10 | 14 km | 16 km |
| 2.5 | 21.06.2017 00:26 | 5 km | 19 km |
| 2.2 | 15.06.2017 21:41 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 2.3 | 13.03.2017 09:15 | 13 km | 23 km |
| 2.4 | 25.12.2016 00:24 | 10 km | 32 km |
| 2.9 | 17.12.2016 04:06 | 5 km | 36 km |
| 2.6 | 10.08.2016 01:13 | 5 km | 30 km |
| 2.7 | 29.08.2015 09:49 | 2 km | 34 km |
| 2.8 | 27.08.2015 14:48 | 5 km | 31 km |
| 2.2 | 06.06.2015 13:47 | 10 km | 25 km |
| 4.0 | 01.06.2015 00:31 | 10 km | 40 km |
| 4.1 | 15.05.2015 15:56 | 6.3 km | 29 km |
| 2.4 | 15.05.2015 10:24 | 11 km | 33 km |
| 4.0 | 15.05.2015 00:49 | 4.4 km | 32 km |
| 3.4 | 07.05.2015 01:29 | 3 km | 32 km |
| 2.9 | 29.04.2015 14:21 | 3 km | 33 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.