No records in the last 30 days.
1,624
recorded earthquakes
M4.9
largest
1954–2026
record span
1.60
mean magnitude
1,253
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.9 | 07.07.1954 00:48 | — | 62 km |
| 4.8 | 29.01.1989 16:38 | 11 km | 98 km |
| 4.8 | 08.03.1983 18:43 | 33 km | 84 km |
| 4.0 | 12.08.2000 14:27 | 22.7 km | 86 km |
| 4.0 | 07.11.2017 08:46 | 4.9 km | 92 km |
| 3.8 | 20.10.1988 21:43 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 3.7 | 14.04.1992 13:10 | 10 km | 86 km |
| 3.7 | 06.08.1992 07:32 | 33 km | 51 km |
| 3.7 | 14.06.1990 10:00 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 3.6 | 08.12.2000 00:48 | 10 km | 95 km |
| 3.6 | 29.10.1983 17:51 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 3.6 | 14.03.2012 19:22 | 6.2 km | 88 km |
| 3.5 | 17.03.2007 00:06 | 2 km | 68 km |
| 3.5 | 29.04.2015 22:46 | 10 km | 100 km |
| 3.3 | 29.04.2024 02:21 | 1.2 km | 57 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.2 | 24.02.2026 05:46 | 10 km | 123 km |
| 0.5 | 23.09.2025 11:30 | 10.1 km | 91 km |
| 0.9 | 15.09.2025 13:47 | 10.1 km | 99 km |
| 2.3 | 26.07.2025 17:58 | 17.9 km | 88 km |
| 2.9 | 23.11.2024 18:30 | 16.3 km | 45 km |
| 3.3 | 29.04.2024 02:21 | 1.2 km | 57 km |
| 2.8 | 21.12.2023 03:09 | 15 km | 54 km |
| 2.3 | 04.07.2022 03:36 | 15 km | 101 km |
| 2.5 | 24.05.2021 18:02 | 0 km | 99 km |
| 2.2 | 10.03.2021 06:27 | 15 km | 19 km |
| 2.0 | 03.12.2018 06:34 | 4 km | 64 km |
| 4.0 | 07.11.2017 08:46 | 4.9 km | 92 km |
| 2.7 | 25.06.2017 11:55 | 12 km | 89 km |
| 2.7 | 16.08.2016 23:53 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 2.7 | 23.07.2015 10:31 | 17 km | 66 km |
| 2.1 | 19.05.2015 13:55 | 15 km | 60 km |
| 3.5 | 29.04.2015 22:46 | 10 km | 100 km |
| 2.1 | 21.03.2015 10:16 | 12 km | 79 km |
| 2.5 | 20.11.2014 10:55 | 12 km | 83 km |
| 2.4 | 06.09.2014 16:56 | 0 km | 36 km |
| 2.5 | 21.01.2014 06:39 | 15 km | 131 km |
| 2.5 | 20.09.2013 01:26 | 20 km | 36 km |
| 1.7 | 06.06.2013 08:15 | 12 km | 92 km |
| 2.5 | 03.06.2013 16:37 | 12 km | 103 km |
| 2.0 | 08.04.2013 02:17 | 6 km | 98 km |
| 3.0 | 02.07.2012 07:01 | 15 km | 23 km |
| 3.2 | 24.03.2012 11:06 | 20 km | 43 km |
| 3.2 | 24.03.2012 06:05 | 30.4 km | 102 km |
| 3.6 | 14.03.2012 19:22 | 6.2 km | 88 km |
| 1.0 | 30.12.2011 12:15 | 0 km | 98 km |
| 1.1 | 27.12.2011 14:46 | 0 km | 100 km |
| 1.4 | 23.12.2011 14:18 | 0 km | 46 km |
| 1.2 | 16.12.2011 12:17 | 0 km | 99 km |
| 1.0 | 12.12.2011 14:46 | 0 km | 99 km |
| 1.1 | 12.12.2011 13:05 | 0 km | 55 km |
| 1.0 | 12.12.2011 12:22 | 0 km | 57 km |
| 1.1 | 30.11.2011 14:45 | 0 km | 98 km |
| 1.0 | 30.11.2011 11:07 | 0 km | 54 km |
| 1.2 | 25.11.2011 13:40 | 0 km | 100 km |
| 1.3 | 21.11.2011 17:02 | 8 km | 112 km |
| 1.3 | 18.11.2011 12:38 | 0 km | 113 km |
| 1.3 | 17.11.2011 14:44 | 0 km | 100 km |
| 1.2 | 16.11.2011 14:43 | 0 km | 43 km |
| 0.9 | 16.11.2011 13:16 | 0 km | 55 km |
| 1.0 | 16.11.2011 12:44 | 0 km | 53 km |
| 0.7 | 15.11.2011 15:02 | 0 km | 75 km |
| 1.2 | 15.11.2011 09:37 | 0 km | 113 km |
| 0.9 | 14.11.2011 15:28 | 0 km | 64 km |
| 0.9 | 14.11.2011 12:05 | 0 km | 65 km |
| 2.0 | 13.11.2011 02:39 | 12 km | 52 km |
| 1.0 | 11.11.2011 20:49 | 1 km | 46 km |
| 0.9 | 03.11.2011 09:31 | 0 km | 56 km |
| 1.1 | 01.11.2011 15:49 | 0 km | 48 km |
| 1.1 | 01.11.2011 14:43 | 0 km | 100 km |
| 1.3 | 26.10.2011 14:03 | 0 km | 61 km |
| 1.2 | 24.10.2011 12:46 | 0 km | 62 km |
| 1.1 | 20.10.2011 13:46 | 0 km | 101 km |
| 1.4 | 20.10.2011 10:27 | 0 km | 57 km |
| 1.1 | 14.10.2011 12:33 | 0 km | 64 km |
| 0.9 | 14.10.2011 11:15 | 0 km | 101 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.