No records in the last 30 days.
179
recorded earthquakes
M5.0
largest
1986–2024
record span
1.94
mean magnitude
118
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | 23.01.1989 14:06 | 30 km | 190 km |
| 4.9 | 05.02.1986 17:53 | 24.4 km | 129 km |
| 4.2 | 18.05.1987 18:56 | 7.5 km | 47 km |
| 4.0 | 07.09.2023 19:49 | 5.2 km | 139 km |
| 3.7 | 21.01.2007 13:45 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 3.5 | 04.05.2007 09:11 | 10 km | 53 km |
| 3.3 | 16.01.2005 12:53 | 15 km | 69 km |
| 3.2 | 19.04.2018 18:01 | 10 km | 89 km |
| 3.1 | 13.01.1989 04:18 | 10 km | 70 km |
| 3.0 | 25.07.2008 00:04 | 15 km | 78 km |
| 3.0 | 30.10.2012 07:24 | 20 km | 134 km |
| 2.9 | 02.02.1991 18:40 | 10 km | 113 km |
| 2.9 | 27.10.1988 17:57 | 10 km | 31 km |
| 2.9 | 29.03.1990 04:11 | 10 km | 102 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2021 13:59 | 12 km | 97 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.3 | 29.07.2024 17:15 | 18 km | 31 km |
| 4.0 | 07.09.2023 19:49 | 5.2 km | 139 km |
| 2.2 | 18.08.2023 13:49 | 15.4 km | 88 km |
| 2.3 | 17.08.2022 23:31 | 12 km | 34 km |
| 2.0 | 17.08.2022 22:46 | 12 km | 33 km |
| 2.0 | 15.12.2021 02:29 | 12 km | 82 km |
| 2.8 | 02.08.2021 13:59 | 12 km | 97 km |
| 2.5 | 17.02.2021 03:10 | 19 km | 92 km |
| 2.0 | 03.08.2020 20:27 | 12 km | 97 km |
| 2.5 | 10.12.2018 17:05 | 3 km | 75 km |
| 2.5 | 28.09.2018 14:06 | 13 km | 61 km |
| 2.1 | 04.08.2018 07:21 | 12 km | 120 km |
| 3.2 | 19.04.2018 18:01 | 10 km | 89 km |
| 2.0 | 04.02.2017 08:06 | 5 km | 48 km |
| 2.0 | 10.05.2016 15:57 | 15 km | 140 km |
| 2.2 | 06.05.2016 21:09 | 20 km | 96 km |
| 2.6 | 22.04.2016 18:05 | 23 km | 81 km |
| 2.2 | 10.04.2016 04:31 | 2 km | 103 km |
| 2.2 | 11.01.2016 03:46 | 12 km | 30 km |
| 2.6 | 05.05.2014 13:34 | 1 km | 88 km |
| 3.0 | 30.10.2012 07:24 | 20 km | 134 km |
| 1.5 | 24.12.2011 10:41 | 0 km | 92 km |
| 1.2 | 16.11.2011 14:12 | 0 km | 116 km |
| 1.0 | 14.11.2011 16:02 | 0 km | 125 km |
| 1.1 | 10.11.2011 08:02 | 15 km | 115 km |
| 1.4 | 28.10.2011 04:22 | 13.8 km | 145 km |
| 1.7 | 22.10.2011 11:10 | 0 km | 111 km |
| 1.3 | 21.10.2011 11:51 | 0 km | 117 km |
| 1.3 | 15.10.2011 11:41 | 0 km | 118 km |
| 1.2 | 29.09.2011 14:34 | 0 km | 60 km |
| 1.2 | 27.09.2011 07:25 | 0.2 km | 117 km |
| 1.2 | 21.09.2011 14:21 | 0 km | 61 km |
| 1.4 | 25.08.2011 13:22 | 0 km | 47 km |
| 1.0 | 17.08.2011 16:32 | 0 km | 116 km |
| 1.2 | 09.08.2011 17:39 | 0 km | 125 km |
| 1.6 | 24.07.2011 03:40 | 2 km | 118 km |
| 0.9 | 13.07.2011 13:58 | 0 km | 15 km |
| 1.7 | 30.06.2011 07:50 | 4.8 km | 117 km |
| 1.5 | 30.06.2011 06:26 | 0 km | 119 km |
| 1.5 | 28.06.2011 14:02 | 0 km | 60 km |
| 1.2 | 24.06.2011 08:43 | 0.1 km | 51 km |
| 1.3 | 14.06.2011 22:37 | 14.5 km | 131 km |
| 1.5 | 06.06.2011 10:52 | 1.1 km | 129 km |
| 1.1 | 01.06.2011 14:05 | 0 km | 59 km |
| 1.4 | 25.05.2011 07:24 | 11.4 km | 135 km |
| 1.1 | 11.05.2011 00:46 | 15 km | 100 km |
| 1.0 | 06.05.2011 10:51 | 0 km | 92 km |
| 1.0 | 14.04.2011 10:44 | 0 km | 92 km |
| 1.1 | 30.03.2011 12:57 | 0 km | 48 km |
| 1.0 | 18.02.2011 10:31 | 0 km | 59 km |
| 1.4 | 31.01.2011 10:23 | 2.1 km | 148 km |
| 0.8 | 01.12.2010 14:30 | 0 km | 102 km |
| 0.9 | 26.11.2010 10:01 | 0 km | 122 km |
| 1.1 | 24.11.2010 11:57 | 15 km | 96 km |
| 1.7 | 06.11.2010 16:14 | 0 km | 114 km |
| 1.1 | 19.10.2010 15:00 | 0 km | 59 km |
| 2.4 | 16.09.2010 07:12 | 10 km | 80 km |
| 0.9 | 02.09.2010 14:42 | 0 km | 138 km |
| 1.0 | 25.08.2010 15:03 | 0 km | 41 km |
| 0.7 | 17.08.2010 14:06 | 0 km | 106 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.