No records in the last 30 days.
325
recorded earthquakes
M7.0
largest
1940–2026
record span
4.08
mean magnitude
216
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | 22.02.2006 22:19 | 12.4 km | 234 km |
| 6.2 | 19.05.1940 18:16 | 35 km | 76 km |
| 6.0 | 05.09.1957 07:22 | — | 298 km |
| 5.8 | 19.03.1951 09:29 | 15 km | 186 km |
| 5.7 | 23.02.2006 01:23 | 16.3 km | 213 km |
| 5.6 | 20.07.1957 09:55 | 15 km | 190 km |
| 5.6 | 15.03.2006 14:19 | 15.9 km | 251 km |
| 5.6 | 22.09.2016 20:06 | 13 km | 203 km |
| 5.3 | 22.02.2006 22:26 | 15 km | 243 km |
| 5.2 | 29.11.2007 02:59 | 16.4 km | 234 km |
| 5.2 | 22.03.2006 11:35 | 15 km | 228 km |
| 5.2 | 14.04.2006 18:41 | 26.9 km | 232 km |
| 5.1 | 03.02.2008 11:12 | 15 km | 217 km |
| 5.1 | 03.11.1990 00:31 | 15 km | 206 km |
| 5.1 | 14.01.1968 10:36 | 26 km | 45 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 14.02.2026 18:21 | 10 km | 162 km |
| 3.0 | 24.12.2025 10:57 | 10 km | 160 km |
| 3.6 | 17.04.2025 10:26 | 10 km | 19 km |
| 4.9 | 07.03.2025 22:50 | 0 km | 225 km |
| 3.2 | 27.02.2025 16:56 | 10 km | 130 km |
| 3.1 | 23.02.2025 10:24 | 10 km | 114 km |
| 4.2 | 18.11.2024 04:21 | 10 km | 197 km |
| 3.2 | 02.11.2024 22:23 | 10 km | 238 km |
| 3.0 | 06.07.2024 09:15 | 10 km | 151 km |
| 3.0 | 23.06.2024 14:55 | 10 km | 156 km |
| 3.3 | 08.06.2024 10:57 | 10 km | 130 km |
| 3.1 | 05.05.2024 22:50 | 10 km | 93 km |
| 3.4 | 05.04.2024 17:26 | 10 km | 165 km |
| 3.0 | 15.02.2024 14:49 | 10 km | 139 km |
| 3.1 | 15.06.2023 20:40 | 10 km | 183 km |
| 3.1 | 12.06.2023 17:22 | 10 km | 78 km |
| 3.7 | 09.02.2023 11:11 | 10 km | 222 km |
| 3.1 | 15.10.2022 14:52 | 10 km | 118 km |
| 4.4 | 15.10.2022 14:52 | 10 km | 201 km |
| 3.0 | 05.03.2022 14:08 | 10 km | 110 km |
| 4.0 | 16.05.2021 09:11 | 10 km | 143 km |
| 2.7 | 01.08.2020 07:48 | 10 km | 257 km |
| 2.5 | 30.07.2020 05:59 | 10 km | 158 km |
| 2.8 | 29.07.2020 22:11 | 10 km | 139 km |
| 2.7 | 27.07.2020 01:32 | 10 km | 143 km |
| 2.8 | 26.07.2020 21:37 | 10 km | 114 km |
| 4.3 | 26.07.2020 20:31 | 10 km | 188 km |
| 3.4 | 26.07.2020 19:31 | 10 km | 169 km |
| 3.4 | 26.07.2020 19:24 | 10 km | 89 km |
| 2.6 | 26.07.2020 08:05 | 10 km | 139 km |
| 2.5 | 26.07.2020 07:52 | 10 km | 139 km |
| 4.7 | 26.07.2020 03:40 | 15 km | 199 km |
| 4.4 | 10.04.2020 00:20 | 10 km | 214 km |
| 3.7 | 15.08.2018 05:39 | 13 km | 198 km |
| 4.3 | 10.08.2018 04:09 | 13 km | 211 km |
| 4.3 | 08.08.2018 20:17 | 10 km | 194 km |
| 3.7 | 28.08.2017 04:51 | 10 km | 221 km |
| 3.9 | 13.07.2017 13:02 | 10 km | 119 km |
| 4.6 | 18.06.2017 13:31 | 10 km | 233 km |
| 3.2 | 18.06.2017 13:31 | 13 km | 224 km |
| 3.1 | 07.12.2016 22:05 | 10 km | 260 km |
| 2.8 | 11.10.2016 03:15 | 10 km | 230 km |
| 3.2 | 29.09.2016 17:11 | 10 km | 234 km |
| 2.4 | 28.09.2016 00:27 | 10 km | 245 km |
| 4.3 | 25.09.2016 14:27 | 10 km | 224 km |
| 2.8 | 23.09.2016 02:49 | 10 km | 243 km |
| 5.6 | 22.09.2016 20:06 | 13 km | 203 km |
| 4.5 | 21.09.2016 03:09 | 13 km | 212 km |
| 2.5 | 21.09.2016 00:07 | 10 km | 232 km |
| 4.4 | 20.09.2016 17:56 | 10 km | 204 km |
| 2.7 | 09.04.2016 14:33 | 10 km | 179 km |
| 4.1 | 29.01.2016 02:08 | 9.2 km | 196 km |
| 4.2 | 25.01.2016 16:54 | 8 km | 218 km |
| 4.3 | 22.01.2016 08:14 | 12.9 km | 163 km |
| 4.5 | 22.01.2016 03:14 | 0 km | 166 km |
| 4.5 | 21.01.2016 17:16 | 0.1 km | 245 km |
| 4.0 | 15.01.2016 23:10 | 10 km | 225 km |
| 3.7 | 05.01.2016 11:37 | 10 km | 209 km |
| 4.1 | 04.01.2016 02:45 | 10 km | 265 km |
| 4.1 | 03.01.2016 16:40 | 7.1 km | 248 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.