No records in the last 30 days.
460
recorded earthquakes
M8.0
largest
1934–2026
record span
4.22
mean magnitude
147
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 | 191 km |
| 7.9 | 25.04.2015 06:11 | 13.4 km | 91 km |
| 7.2 | 12.05.2015 07:05 | 12.3 km | 149 km |
| 6.8 | 27.05.1936 06:19 | 15 km | 184 km |
| 6.7 | 26.04.2015 07:09 | 13.4 km | 133 km |
| 6.7 | 25.04.2015 06:45 | 14.7 km | 95 km |
| 6.1 | 12.05.2015 07:36 | 13.8 km | 143 km |
| 6.1 | 25.04.2015 06:15 | 10 km | 83 km |
| 5.7 | 04.09.1954 06:43 | 15 km | 130 km |
| 5.5 | 25.04.2015 06:56 | 8.4 km | 116 km |
| 5.5 | 21.02.2016 06:09 | 10 km | 86 km |
| 5.4 | 24.03.1974 14:16 | 24 km | 143 km |
| 5.3 | 16.05.2015 11:34 | 20.1 km | 140 km |
| 5.3 | 25.04.2015 06:20 | 10 km | 100 km |
| 5.3 | 25.04.2015 06:17 | 10 km | 125 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.7 | 07.05.2026 05:29 | 45 km | 78 km |
| 4.1 | 28.03.2026 17:50 | 10 km | 121 km |
| 4.4 | 12.03.2026 16:17 | 10 km | 46 km |
| 3.3 | 26.02.2026 20:35 | 5 km | 47 km |
| 3.4 | 11.02.2026 14:14 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 3.4 | 25.07.2025 22:29 | 10 km | 24 km |
| 3.2 | 21.05.2025 20:13 | 10 km | 56 km |
| 4.4 | 10.03.2025 22:26 | 17.3 km | 121 km |
| 5.3 | 27.02.2025 21:06 | 17.4 km | 127 km |
| 3.5 | 16.02.2025 08:16 | 0 km | 77 km |
| 2.6 | 21.11.2024 17:01 | 11 km | 69 km |
| 4.2 | 03.09.2024 00:26 | 10 km | 105 km |
| 4.1 | 17.03.2024 03:59 | 2 km | 101 km |
| 3.4 | 09.03.2024 01:45 | 9 km | 77 km |
| 4.2 | 04.01.2024 04:32 | 25 km | 108 km |
| 4.6 | 31.12.2023 16:36 | 22.3 km | 116 km |
| 3.6 | 22.11.2023 19:34 | 10.8 km | 60 km |
| 4.4 | 07.11.2023 19:42 | 295.2 km | 32 km |
| 3.5 | 24.10.2023 16:22 | 10 km | 61 km |
| 4.7 | 22.10.2023 11:48 | 5 km | 80 km |
| 4.0 | 22.10.2023 11:46 | 26.7 km | 61 km |
| 4.1 | 22.10.2023 10:18 | 5 km | 31 km |
| 4.0 | 22.10.2023 02:43 | 10 km | 24 km |
| 4.2 | 22.10.2023 02:23 | 10 km | 76 km |
| 4.9 | 22.10.2023 01:54 | 16.8 km | 61 km |
| 3.6 | 19.07.2023 04:08 | 10 km | 93 km |
| 3.4 | 11.04.2023 13:05 | 10 km | 77 km |
| 3.5 | 31.03.2023 21:34 | 25 km | 74 km |
| 3.9 | 05.03.2023 02:18 | 10 km | 82 km |
| 4.2 | 18.08.2022 16:58 | 10 km | 109 km |
| 3.1 | 05.08.2022 23:41 | 7 km | 66 km |
| 4.4 | 05.08.2022 23:41 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 3.0 | 25.07.2022 00:22 | 16.9 km | 101 km |
| 4.1 | 23.06.2022 01:37 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 3.6 | 10.06.2022 20:51 | 15 km | 83 km |
| 4.1 | 26.01.2022 11:09 | 10 km | 67 km |
| 4.1 | 21.01.2022 00:58 | 10 km | 113 km |
| 4.0 | 18.10.2021 09:38 | 10 km | 125 km |
| 4.1 | 18.10.2021 09:35 | 10 km | 123 km |
| 4.1 | 18.10.2021 08:11 | 15.5 km | 122 km |
| 4.7 | 18.10.2021 08:11 | 10 km | 127 km |
| 4.3 | 18.10.2021 08:01 | 12 km | 124 km |
| 4.1 | 02.10.2021 14:28 | 10 km | 127 km |
| 4.0 | 02.10.2021 14:13 | 13.8 km | 121 km |
| 4.5 | 25.09.2021 06:27 | 10 km | 126 km |
| 4.1 | 18.03.2021 04:20 | 10 km | 92 km |
| 5.1 | 15.09.2020 23:34 | 11.8 km | 124 km |
| 4.0 | 09.09.2020 10:03 | 10 km | 71 km |
| 4.1 | 30.05.2020 15:51 | 4.5 km | 71 km |
| 4.1 | 25.03.2020 12:51 | 10 km | 87 km |
| 4.0 | 12.12.2019 13:26 | 13.6 km | 107 km |
| 4.0 | 21.09.2019 00:34 | 10 km | 94 km |
| 4.6 | 09.08.2019 12:40 | 39 km | 24 km |
| 4.6 | 06.07.2019 10:30 | 10 km | 80 km |
| 4.0 | 27.06.2019 16:36 | 2 km | 67 km |
| 4.5 | 17.05.2019 08:23 | 12.8 km | 61 km |
| 4.0 | 04.05.2019 02:52 | 10 km | 121 km |
| 4.3 | 24.04.2019 00:55 | 10 km | 60 km |
| 4.5 | 24.04.2019 00:44 | 17.6 km | 62 km |
| 4.5 | 16.04.2019 06:50 | 10 km | 77 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.