No records in the last 30 days.
1,750
recorded earthquakes
M6.9
largest
1905–2026
record span
2.23
mean magnitude
768
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 | 58 km |
| 6.5 | 01.06.1905 04:42 | 15 km | 54 km |
| 6.2 | 14.02.1927 03:43 | 50 km | 92 km |
| 6.2 | 04.08.1905 05:08 | 15 km | 119 km |
| 6.2 | 24.05.1979 17:23 | 6 km | 33 km |
| 6.0 | 05.09.1996 20:44 | 13.3 km | 86 km |
| 5.9 | 03.06.1905 05:10 | 15 km | 60 km |
| 5.8 | 15.04.1979 14:43 | 13 km | 35 km |
| 5.7 | 22.04.2022 21:07 | 17 km | 86 km |
| 5.7 | 27.08.1948 10:44 | 15 km | 69 km |
| 5.6 | 01.06.1905 21:47 | 15 km | 47 km |
| 5.5 | 14.03.2024 03:06 | 11.6 km | 58 km |
| 5.5 | 20.08.1966 12:05 | 11 km | 41 km |
| 5.4 | 09.04.1979 02:10 | 7.1 km | 63 km |
| 5.3 | 03.11.1968 04:49 | 12 km | 57 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 | 11.05.2026 17:12 | 0.8 km | 24 km |
| 3.4 | 11.05.2026 09:59 | 10.9 km | 25 km |
| 2.6 | 27.03.2026 09:11 | 18.6 km | 32 km |
| 3.3 | 08.03.2026 20:08 | 19.8 km | 11 km |
| 2.7 | 04.01.2026 00:18 | 9.1 km | 37 km |
| 4.1 | 29.10.2025 13:19 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 2.4 | 04.10.2025 10:13 | 13.5 km | 38 km |
| 2.2 | 16.09.2025 00:34 | 5 km | 26 km |
| 2.1 | 02.08.2025 13:53 | 15 km | 10 km |
| 3.3 | 02.07.2025 10:02 | 5.8 km | 25 km |
| 1.9 | 17.06.2025 11:53 | 22 km | 42 km |
| 2.1 | 01.06.2025 21:24 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 3.4 | 11.04.2025 09:52 | 12.7 km | 23 km |
| 2.5 | 22.02.2025 15:21 | 7 km | 5 km |
| 2.8 | 10.01.2025 08:18 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 2.4 | 15.12.2024 23:53 | 12 km | 17 km |
| 2.3 | 15.12.2024 03:43 | 7 km | 34 km |
| 1.9 | 12.10.2024 05:08 | 23 km | 38 km |
| 2.3 | 22.08.2024 07:19 | 8.2 km | 27 km |
| 2.4 | 15.08.2024 11:20 | 10 km | 37 km |
| 2.3 | 02.08.2024 21:57 | 20 km | 13 km |
| 2.8 | 05.05.2024 02:03 | 5 km | 29 km |
| 2.5 | 04.05.2024 08:39 | 20 km | 19 km |
| 2.3 | 25.04.2024 23:08 | 10 km | 25 km |
| 2.7 | 19.04.2024 13:12 | 10 km | 24 km |
| 2.2 | 07.04.2024 14:44 | 10.8 km | 36 km |
| 2.3 | 01.04.2024 16:54 | 18 km | 18 km |
| 2.5 | 23.03.2024 10:22 | 20 km | 23 km |
| 2.5 | 17.03.2024 14:17 | 17 km | 30 km |
| 5.5 | 14.03.2024 03:06 | 11.6 km | 58 km |
| 3.2 | 27.02.2024 07:07 | 9 km | 38 km |
| 2.4 | 17.02.2024 13:54 | 6.5 km | 20 km |
| 3.3 | 27.01.2024 18:54 | 15 km | 35 km |
| 2.6 | 25.11.2023 17:57 | 6 km | 20 km |
| 2.6 | 02.05.2023 01:41 | 15.1 km | 25 km |
| 2.9 | 28.11.2022 16:15 | 14 km | 35 km |
| 2.8 | 17.10.2022 02:44 | 16 km | 41 km |
| 2.4 | 15.10.2022 11:39 | 18 km | 13 km |
| 2.3 | 09.08.2022 04:55 | 1 km | 23 km |
| 2.4 | 03.08.2022 05:19 | 10 km | 27 km |
| 2.5 | 05.06.2022 12:20 | 20 km | 20 km |
| 5.7 | 22.04.2022 21:07 | 17 km | 86 km |
| 2.9 | 28.03.2022 12:24 | 10 km | 28 km |
| 2.7 | 13.02.2022 04:28 | 10 km | 28 km |
| 2.3 | 25.12.2021 08:40 | 8 km | 34 km |
| 2.4 | 06.12.2021 23:28 | 5 km | 26 km |
| 2.6 | 25.10.2021 20:13 | 10 km | 13 km |
| 2.6 | 25.10.2021 02:52 | 22 km | 26 km |
| 2.2 | 08.08.2021 07:47 | 20 km | 17 km |
| 2.5 | 13.07.2021 02:14 | 8 km | 38 km |
| 2.4 | 05.07.2021 12:44 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 2.9 | 02.07.2021 19:21 | 22 km | 17 km |
| 2.2 | 01.07.2021 15:13 | 18 km | 17 km |
| 2.2 | 29.06.2021 15:53 | 16 km | 18 km |
| 2.7 | 27.06.2021 19:11 | 19 km | 30 km |
| 3.2 | 27.06.2021 13:41 | 10 km | 28 km |
| 4.3 | 25.06.2021 23:18 | 13.3 km | 28 km |
| 2.0 | 15.06.2021 10:18 | 1 km | 36 km |
| 3.0 | 23.02.2021 14:37 | 7 km | 33 km |
| 2.0 | 05.02.2021 13:49 | 8 km | 36 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.