No records in the last 30 days.
318
recorded earthquakes
M6.9
largest
1905–2025
record span
2.22
mean magnitude
63
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 | 122 km |
| 6.5 | 01.06.1905 04:42 | 15 km | 116 km |
| 6.2 | 24.05.1979 17:23 | 6 km | 120 km |
| 5.2 | 04.01.2018 10:46 | 12.7 km | 48 km |
| 5.2 | 10.07.2005 13:10 | 10.9 km | 71 km |
| 5.0 | 17.06.1959 12:32 | 15 km | 45 km |
| 4.8 | 13.02.1994 10:15 | 5.4 km | 58 km |
| 4.6 | 12.12.2011 17:04 | 8.4 km | 46 km |
| 4.5 | 26.01.2014 19:06 | 7.6 km | 23 km |
| 4.5 | 15.11.1979 19:36 | 10 km | 23 km |
| 4.5 | 13.11.1997 00:48 | 5.6 km | 57 km |
| 4.3 | 06.01.1991 03:51 | 5 km | 57 km |
| 4.3 | 24.09.1992 01:47 | 10 km | 27 km |
| 4.3 | 23.03.2004 12:38 | 7.5 km | 27 km |
| 4.2 | 22.11.1979 06:51 | 10 km | 44 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.2 | 22.09.2025 14:06 | 22 km | 31 km |
| 4.0 | 05.09.2025 12:43 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 3.2 | 02.06.2024 09:04 | 15 km | 29 km |
| 3.3 | 13.05.2023 18:54 | 8 km | 31 km |
| 2.6 | 11.05.2023 17:46 | 5 km | 29 km |
| 2.7 | 16.04.2023 15:59 | 5 km | 43 km |
| 2.2 | 04.03.2022 02:28 | 2 km | 29 km |
| 2.8 | 08.02.2022 13:00 | 2 km | 37 km |
| 2.5 | 18.08.2021 18:38 | 5 km | 10 km |
| 2.6 | 17.08.2021 14:27 | 2 km | 12 km |
| 2.4 | 01.05.2021 01:39 | 196 km | 25 km |
| 2.9 | 20.03.2021 09:21 | 186 km | 27 km |
| 3.2 | 10.02.2021 21:43 | 280 km | 19 km |
| 2.4 | 04.08.2020 01:39 | 7 km | 41 km |
| 3.3 | 18.07.2020 05:35 | 1 km | 40 km |
| 2.4 | 16.10.2019 07:23 | 2 km | 34 km |
| 2.4 | 31.07.2019 02:04 | 5 km | 41 km |
| 2.5 | 30.07.2019 01:03 | 8 km | 18 km |
| 2.4 | 26.07.2019 15:02 | 2 km | 34 km |
| 2.7 | 08.07.2019 12:07 | 5 km | 13 km |
| 2.5 | 20.02.2019 06:32 | 3 km | 20 km |
| 2.9 | 27.08.2018 14:30 | 5 km | 24 km |
| 2.6 | 23.03.2018 10:01 | 5 km | 40 km |
| 5.2 | 04.01.2018 10:46 | 12.7 km | 48 km |
| 2.7 | 27.09.2017 21:31 | 2 km | 39 km |
| 3.2 | 18.01.2017 10:40 | 57 km | 28 km |
| 2.5 | 10.10.2016 10:50 | 2 km | 24 km |
| 2.6 | 04.10.2015 11:44 | 2 km | 13 km |
| 3.0 | 17.05.2015 21:08 | 7 km | 36 km |
| 3.0 | 20.01.2015 10:38 | 336 km | 8 km |
| 2.2 | 23.12.2014 10:18 | 2 km | 13 km |
| 2.7 | 06.07.2014 22:26 | 9 km | 33 km |
| 2.1 | 05.07.2014 23:09 | 2 km | 26 km |
| 2.8 | 10.06.2014 03:13 | 2 km | 24 km |
| 3.2 | 03.06.2014 02:31 | 2 km | 25 km |
| 3.8 | 02.06.2014 21:47 | 5 km | 30 km |
| 3.9 | 08.05.2014 05:26 | 2 km | 42 km |
| 2.8 | 26.02.2014 09:28 | 12 km | 24 km |
| 2.0 | 15.02.2014 07:03 | 2 km | 30 km |
| 2.4 | 12.02.2014 19:19 | 2 km | 23 km |
| 2.5 | 08.02.2014 11:58 | 2 km | 22 km |
| 2.8 | 06.02.2014 02:42 | 2 km | 22 km |
| 2.5 | 31.01.2014 10:18 | 5 km | 26 km |
| 3.1 | 31.01.2014 09:02 | 1 km | 24 km |
| 3.1 | 28.01.2014 12:15 | 2 km | 24 km |
| 2.5 | 27.01.2014 17:02 | 2 km | 27 km |
| 2.9 | 27.01.2014 05:48 | 5 km | 24 km |
| 2.7 | 27.01.2014 05:41 | 2 km | 26 km |
| 4.5 | 26.01.2014 19:06 | 7.6 km | 23 km |
| 3.1 | 21.12.2013 09:57 | 8 km | 43 km |
| 2.5 | 14.09.2013 06:09 | 5 km | 36 km |
| 2.3 | 29.08.2013 08:44 | 6 km | 37 km |
| 2.5 | 29.08.2013 08:42 | 2 km | 3 km |
| 3.3 | 21.08.2013 13:12 | 2 km | 37 km |
| 2.2 | 11.08.2013 21:06 | 5 km | 31 km |
| 2.1 | 23.04.2013 08:26 | 7 km | 31 km |
| 1.9 | 20.12.2012 14:09 | 3 km | 20 km |
| 2.2 | 19.10.2012 10:13 | 12 km | 29 km |
| 2.4 | 08.09.2012 13:06 | 2 km | 36 km |
| 2.5 | 28.08.2012 23:44 | 1 km | 29 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.