No records in the last 30 days.
812
recorded earthquakes
M6.2
largest
1927–2026
record span
2.39
mean magnitude
516
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.2 | 11.07.1927 13:04 | 15 km | 71 km |
| 5.4 | 18.12.1956 17:53 | 15 km | 69 km |
| 5.3 | 11.02.2004 08:15 | 22.4 km | 58 km |
| 5.3 | 24.08.1984 06:02 | 23.4 km | 88 km |
| 5.1 | 23.04.1979 13:01 | 16 km | 97 km |
| 4.6 | 24.10.1999 01:23 | 9.8 km | 107 km |
| 4.6 | 25.01.1985 06:08 | 27.1 km | 59 km |
| 4.5 | 07.07.2004 14:35 | 18.6 km | 57 km |
| 4.5 | 09.02.2007 22:14 | 16.2 km | 99 km |
| 4.5 | 05.09.2004 15:09 | 0 km | 78 km |
| 4.5 | 20.11.2007 09:18 | 6 km | 72 km |
| 4.4 | 03.10.2005 04:05 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 4.4 | 09.09.2006 04:58 | 0.4 km | 60 km |
| 4.4 | 06.02.2020 04:53 | 17 km | 99 km |
| 4.3 | 15.03.2004 23:49 | 12 km | 83 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.1 | 15.01.2026 07:00 | 10 km | 88 km |
| 2.8 | 02.07.2025 00:58 | 16.3 km | 86 km |
| 2.4 | 14.05.2025 14:37 | 17.7 km | 74 km |
| 3.0 | 04.01.2025 17:25 | 2.1 km | 56 km |
| 3.8 | 21.07.2024 20:15 | 9.2 km | 66 km |
| 2.8 | 23.03.2024 18:35 | 1.6 km | 76 km |
| 3.0 | 28.08.2023 00:09 | 37.8 km | 48 km |
| 3.8 | 07.02.2023 21:14 | 10.3 km | 48 km |
| 3.6 | 29.06.2022 17:45 | 2 km | 86 km |
| 3.8 | 15.02.2022 18:54 | 0 km | 101 km |
| 3.7 | 23.01.2022 10:28 | 10 km | 103 km |
| 4.1 | 22.01.2022 21:36 | 10 km | 100 km |
| 4.4 | 06.02.2020 04:53 | 17 km | 99 km |
| 3.8 | 25.11.2019 11:48 | 12 km | 85 km |
| 3.7 | 25.11.2019 11:39 | 12 km | 87 km |
| 3.3 | 25.11.2019 08:07 | 12 km | 85 km |
| 2.7 | 07.10.2019 18:46 | 6 km | 98 km |
| 2.7 | 26.06.2019 12:18 | 5 km | 100 km |
| 4.0 | 26.06.2019 08:53 | 10 km | 100 km |
| 3.8 | 26.12.2018 03:38 | 12 km | 84 km |
| 2.5 | 28.08.2018 05:47 | 16 km | 67 km |
| 2.7 | 05.08.2018 05:52 | 15 km | 74 km |
| 4.0 | 04.07.2018 01:50 | 10 km | 114 km |
| 3.3 | 07.06.2018 23:47 | 5 km | 112 km |
| 2.8 | 28.04.2018 07:14 | 10 km | 87 km |
| 3.6 | 28.04.2018 06:50 | 10 km | 89 km |
| 3.5 | 28.04.2018 04:45 | 10 km | 90 km |
| 3.2 | 24.02.2017 15:58 | 21 km | 82 km |
| 3.5 | 06.01.2017 05:15 | 15 km | 85 km |
| 3.4 | 15.04.2016 04:15 | 20 km | 83 km |
| 3.1 | 15.08.2015 07:39 | 11 km | 88 km |
| 4.0 | 30.07.2015 02:39 | 18.2 km | 74 km |
| 3.3 | 06.01.2015 17:02 | 1 km | 88 km |
| 3.0 | 30.06.2014 09:08 | 15 km | 84 km |
| 3.4 | 28.02.2014 19:24 | 8 km | 61 km |
| 3.5 | 12.12.2013 21:02 | 6 km | 65 km |
| 3.5 | 07.12.2013 11:22 | 3 km | 52 km |
| 3.4 | 12.09.2013 01:20 | 20 km | 68 km |
| 4.3 | 10.04.2013 02:06 | 0 km | 82 km |
| 3.7 | 22.03.2012 04:17 | 24 km | 87 km |
| 2.2 | 03.12.2011 07:48 | 14 km | 83 km |
| 1.8 | 11.11.2011 16:14 | 1 km | 53 km |
| 2.5 | 11.10.2011 12:30 | 2 km | 87 km |
| 2.1 | 01.10.2011 22:04 | 17 km | 70 km |
| 2.4 | 29.09.2011 20:05 | 22.2 km | 73 km |
| 2.1 | 17.09.2011 21:35 | 2 km | 61 km |
| 2.8 | 17.09.2011 20:00 | 2 km | 58 km |
| 2.3 | 15.09.2011 02:18 | 2 km | 58 km |
| 2.5 | 15.09.2011 01:35 | 2 km | 58 km |
| 2.1 | 01.09.2011 07:06 | 13 km | 88 km |
| 4.1 | 07.08.2011 08:52 | 31 km | 87 km |
| 2.0 | 01.05.2011 06:43 | 2 km | 62 km |
| 1.8 | 28.03.2011 09:35 | 2 km | 41 km |
| 2.2 | 27.03.2011 19:11 | 21.3 km | 74 km |
| 2.2 | 19.03.2011 18:34 | 11 km | 71 km |
| 2.8 | 25.01.2011 00:10 | 12 km | 85 km |
| 2.0 | 22.01.2011 00:02 | 5 km | 73 km |
| 2.1 | 12.01.2011 17:32 | 5 km | 69 km |
| 3.4 | 01.01.2011 16:31 | 2 km | 112 km |
| 2.5 | 05.12.2010 12:37 | 5 km | 73 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.