No records in the last 30 days.
864
recorded earthquakes
M8.0
largest
1934–2026
record span
4.22
mean magnitude
600
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.0 | 15.01.1934 08:43 | 15 km | 162 km |
| 7.9 | 25.04.2015 06:11 | 13.4 km | 70 km |
| 7.2 | 12.05.2015 07:05 | 12.3 km | 77 km |
| 7.1 | 07.01.2025 01:05 | 10 km | 217 km |
| 6.8 | 20.08.1988 23:09 | 58.1 km | 178 km |
| 6.7 | 26.04.2015 07:09 | 13.4 km | 63 km |
| 6.7 | 25.04.2015 06:45 | 14.7 km | 61 km |
| 6.1 | 12.05.2015 07:36 | 13.8 km | 86 km |
| 6.1 | 25.04.2015 06:15 | 10 km | 27 km |
| 6.0 | 03.09.1998 18:15 | 8.6 km | 159 km |
| 5.7 | 27.09.1974 05:26 | 47 km | 83 km |
| 5.7 | 07.09.1936 02:30 | 15 km | 90 km |
| 5.5 | 25.04.2015 06:56 | 8.4 km | 36 km |
| 5.5 | 21.02.2016 06:09 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 5.4 | 12.05.2015 07:17 | 12.6 km | 86 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.7 | 07.05.2026 05:29 | 45 km | 52 km |
| 3.7 | 18.04.2026 11:12 | 0 km | 54 km |
| 4.1 | 28.03.2026 17:50 | 10 km | 35 km |
| 4.4 | 12.03.2026 16:17 | 10 km | 85 km |
| 3.4 | 11.02.2026 14:14 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 2.8 | 30.11.2025 04:58 | 89.3 km | 59 km |
| 3.9 | 26.09.2025 08:29 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 3.2 | 21.05.2025 20:13 | 10 km | 56 km |
| 3.9 | 25.04.2025 06:08 | 14 km | 46 km |
| 5.3 | 27.02.2025 21:06 | 17.4 km | 47 km |
| 3.5 | 16.02.2025 08:16 | 0 km | 17 km |
| 3.4 | 26.01.2025 01:11 | 0 km | 81 km |
| 7.1 | 07.01.2025 01:05 | 10 km | 217 km |
| 3.9 | 02.01.2025 07:17 | 10 km | 71 km |
| 4.1 | 25.11.2024 01:30 | 60 km | 117 km |
| 2.6 | 21.11.2024 17:01 | 11 km | 20 km |
| 4.6 | 07.11.2024 14:11 | 6 km | 83 km |
| 3.6 | 26.10.2024 17:45 | 2 km | 80 km |
| 4.0 | 16.10.2024 05:07 | 0 km | 109 km |
| 4.2 | 03.09.2024 00:26 | 10 km | 23 km |
| 4.1 | 17.03.2024 03:59 | 2 km | 27 km |
| 3.4 | 09.03.2024 01:45 | 9 km | 63 km |
| 4.2 | 04.01.2024 04:32 | 25 km | 25 km |
| 4.6 | 31.12.2023 16:36 | 22.3 km | 46 km |
| 3.3 | 31.12.2023 16:36 | 12.4 km | 49 km |
| 3.6 | 22.11.2023 19:34 | 10.8 km | 26 km |
| 4.7 | 22.10.2023 11:48 | 5 km | 63 km |
| 4.0 | 22.10.2023 11:46 | 26.7 km | 69 km |
| 4.1 | 22.10.2023 10:18 | 5 km | 59 km |
| 4.0 | 22.10.2023 02:43 | 10 km | 96 km |
| 4.2 | 22.10.2023 02:23 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 4.9 | 22.10.2023 01:54 | 16.8 km | 61 km |
| 4.2 | 25.07.2023 16:23 | 2 km | 98 km |
| 3.4 | 11.04.2023 13:05 | 10 km | 46 km |
| 3.5 | 31.03.2023 21:34 | 25 km | 12 km |
| 3.9 | 05.03.2023 02:18 | 10 km | 40 km |
| 3.6 | 21.01.2023 22:53 | 10 km | 39 km |
| 4.3 | 18.12.2022 17:08 | 51.8 km | 50 km |
| 4.2 | 19.10.2022 10:08 | 22.2 km | 68 km |
| 4.2 | 19.10.2022 09:22 | 17.9 km | 67 km |
| 4.2 | 18.08.2022 16:58 | 10 km | 23 km |
| 3.1 | 05.08.2022 23:41 | 7 km | 26 km |
| 4.4 | 05.08.2022 23:41 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 3.0 | 25.07.2022 00:22 | 16.9 km | 15 km |
| 4.1 | 02.07.2022 09:48 | 10 km | 86 km |
| 3.3 | 02.07.2022 09:47 | 10 km | 85 km |
| 4.1 | 02.07.2022 09:37 | 10 km | 86 km |
| 4.1 | 23.06.2022 01:37 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 3.6 | 10.06.2022 20:51 | 15 km | 16 km |
| 4.2 | 21.05.2022 02:45 | 70.8 km | 101 km |
| 4.1 | 26.01.2022 11:09 | 10 km | 77 km |
| 4.1 | 21.01.2022 00:58 | 10 km | 27 km |
| 4.2 | 09.11.2021 08:43 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 4.1 | 25.10.2021 14:45 | 10 km | 109 km |
| 4.0 | 18.10.2021 09:38 | 10 km | 46 km |
| 4.1 | 18.10.2021 09:35 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 4.1 | 18.10.2021 08:11 | 15.5 km | 42 km |
| 4.7 | 18.10.2021 08:11 | 10 km | 46 km |
| 4.3 | 18.10.2021 08:01 | 12 km | 44 km |
| 4.3 | 16.10.2021 22:24 | 10 km | 56 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.