No records in the last 30 days.
875
recorded earthquakes
M6.9
largest
1905–2026
record span
2.46
mean magnitude
204
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 | 66 km |
| 6.5 | 01.06.1905 04:42 | 15 km | 63 km |
| 6.2 | 14.02.1927 03:43 | 50 km | 81 km |
| 6.2 | 24.05.1979 17:23 | 6 km | 32 km |
| 6.0 | 05.09.1996 20:44 | 13.3 km | 70 km |
| 5.9 | 03.06.1905 05:10 | 15 km | 72 km |
| 5.8 | 15.04.1979 14:43 | 13 km | 24 km |
| 5.7 | 22.04.2022 21:07 | 17 km | 78 km |
| 5.7 | 27.08.1948 10:44 | 15 km | 76 km |
| 5.6 | 01.06.1905 21:47 | 15 km | 57 km |
| 5.5 | 14.03.2024 03:06 | 11.6 km | 61 km |
| 5.5 | 20.08.1966 12:05 | 11 km | 28 km |
| 5.4 | 17.09.1996 13:45 | 10.3 km | 77 km |
| 5.4 | 09.04.1979 02:10 | 7.1 km | 66 km |
| 5.3 | 03.11.1968 04:49 | 12 km | 68 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 | 11.05.2026 17:12 | 0.8 km | 15 km |
| 3.4 | 11.05.2026 09:59 | 10.9 km | 13 km |
| 2.7 | 04.01.2026 00:18 | 9.1 km | 35 km |
| 2.1 | 02.08.2025 13:53 | 15 km | 29 km |
| 3.3 | 02.07.2025 10:02 | 5.8 km | 18 km |
| 2.9 | 10.06.2025 20:35 | 10 km | 26 km |
| 2.1 | 01.06.2025 21:24 | 10 km | 5 km |
| 2.7 | 31.05.2025 12:49 | 2.8 km | 27 km |
| 3.7 | 22.05.2025 22:52 | 10 km | 25 km |
| 3.4 | 11.04.2025 09:52 | 12.7 km | 28 km |
| 2.5 | 22.02.2025 15:21 | 7 km | 25 km |
| 2.8 | 10.01.2025 08:18 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 2.3 | 15.12.2024 03:43 | 7 km | 13 km |
| 2.3 | 22.08.2024 07:19 | 8.2 km | 14 km |
| 2.4 | 15.08.2024 11:20 | 10 km | 34 km |
| 2.3 | 02.08.2024 21:57 | 20 km | 29 km |
| 2.8 | 05.05.2024 02:03 | 5 km | 8 km |
| 2.5 | 04.05.2024 08:39 | 20 km | 35 km |
| 5.5 | 14.03.2024 03:06 | 11.6 km | 61 km |
| 2.4 | 15.10.2022 11:39 | 18 km | 30 km |
| 2.3 | 09.08.2022 04:55 | 1 km | 2 km |
| 2.4 | 03.08.2022 05:19 | 10 km | 6 km |
| 5.7 | 22.04.2022 21:07 | 17 km | 78 km |
| 2.9 | 28.03.2022 12:24 | 10 km | 37 km |
| 2.7 | 13.02.2022 04:28 | 10 km | 12 km |
| 2.4 | 06.12.2021 23:28 | 5 km | 34 km |
| 2.6 | 25.10.2021 20:13 | 10 km | 31 km |
| 2.4 | 05.07.2021 12:44 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 3.2 | 27.06.2021 13:41 | 10 km | 11 km |
| 4.3 | 25.06.2021 23:18 | 13.3 km | 14 km |
| 2.4 | 15.04.2021 04:28 | 5 km | 21 km |
| 2.0 | 05.02.2021 13:49 | 8 km | 30 km |
| 2.3 | 23.01.2021 03:12 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 2.3 | 18.01.2021 06:48 | 19 km | 32 km |
| 2.2 | 17.12.2020 05:00 | 9 km | 19 km |
| 2.4 | 16.11.2020 17:50 | 2 km | 12 km |
| 2.3 | 23.10.2020 03:42 | 5 km | 9 km |
| 2.8 | 20.10.2020 20:33 | 10 km | 11 km |
| 2.3 | 24.09.2020 22:02 | 4 km | 15 km |
| 2.9 | 12.10.2019 01:39 | 3 km | 26 km |
| 3.0 | 25.03.2019 16:37 | 8 km | 35 km |
| 2.7 | 24.01.2019 20:20 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 2.3 | 07.01.2019 09:38 | 2 km | 8 km |
| 2.3 | 14.12.2018 09:59 | 2 km | 20 km |
| 4.3 | 26.11.2018 14:17 | 8.9 km | 13 km |
| 2.8 | 25.10.2018 17:00 | 10 km | 2 km |
| 2.5 | 10.07.2018 18:32 | 10 km | 29 km |
| 2.4 | 10.07.2018 02:46 | 10 km | 26 km |
| 3.2 | 10.07.2018 02:17 | 10 km | 27 km |
| 3.6 | 05.07.2018 01:39 | 18 km | 27 km |
| 3.1 | 06.05.2018 13:36 | 2 km | 28 km |
| 2.2 | 23.03.2018 21:20 | 5 km | 25 km |
| 2.1 | 19.03.2018 09:30 | 5 km | 29 km |
| 2.9 | 08.03.2018 11:23 | 2 km | 25 km |
| 2.8 | 11.09.2017 14:32 | 10 km | 6 km |
| 2.4 | 11.09.2017 06:55 | 2 km | 20 km |
| 3.1 | 28.06.2017 21:22 | 17 km | 32 km |
| 2.4 | 27.06.2017 11:37 | 16 km | 34 km |
| 2.8 | 27.06.2017 10:10 | 6 km | 33 km |
| 3.5 | 27.06.2017 08:53 | 7 km | 34 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.