No records in the last 30 days.
216
recorded earthquakes
M8.2
largest
1905–2026
record span
4.74
mean magnitude
129
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.2 | 09.06.1994 00:33 | 638 km | 401 km |
| 7.7 | 15.08.1963 17:25 | 550 km | 275 km |
| 7.7 | 24.11.2015 22:50 | 621.4 km | 182 km |
| 7.6 | 09.11.1963 21:15 | 590.7 km | 299 km |
| 7.6 | 19.08.1961 05:09 | 612.2 km | 104 km |
| 7.5 | 24.11.2015 22:45 | 609.3 km | 123 km |
| 7.5 | 26.07.1958 17:37 | 612.4 km | 234 km |
| 7.4 | 28.04.1911 09:52 | 560 km | 284 km |
| 7.2 | 31.08.1961 01:48 | 597.5 km | 115 km |
| 7.1 | 24.08.2018 09:04 | 625.5 km | 74 km |
| 7.0 | 01.03.2019 08:50 | 265.2 km | 341 km |
| 7.0 | 15.02.1967 16:11 | 602.7 km | 297 km |
| 6.9 | 17.10.1990 14:30 | 615.3 km | 75 km |
| 6.9 | 10.01.1994 15:53 | 607.1 km | 226 km |
| 6.8 | 06.07.1991 12:19 | 102.6 km | 260 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 06.06.2026 18:49 | 0 km | 278 km |
| 3.9 | 11.02.2026 00:51 | 39.4 km | 138 km |
| 3.5 | 27.08.2025 00:53 | 16 km | 287 km |
| 3.5 | 04.07.2025 01:22 | 8 km | 250 km |
| 3.2 | 23.06.2025 13:06 | 10 km | 123 km |
| 4.7 | 23.06.2025 13:06 | 10 km | 123 km |
| 5.6 | 11.03.2025 14:08 | 640 km | 134 km |
| 4.6 | 25.02.2025 05:41 | 10 km | 119 km |
| 3.8 | 04.08.2024 15:41 | 24 km | 186 km |
| 5.0 | 13.07.2024 21:48 | 10 km | 256 km |
| 4.8 | 05.05.2024 04:38 | 10 km | 233 km |
| 4.9 | 02.05.2024 02:16 | 10 km | 293 km |
| 3.5 | 28.04.2024 01:58 | 10 km | 251 km |
| 4.2 | 25.04.2024 07:43 | 10 km | 154 km |
| 4.0 | 02.12.2023 02:23 | 10 km | 113 km |
| 3.8 | 18.02.2023 20:35 | 14 km | 250 km |
| 4.6 | 23.06.2022 07:49 | 10 km | 154 km |
| 4.1 | 19.06.2022 01:49 | 10 km | 35 km |
| 6.5 | 08.06.2022 00:55 | 619.2 km | 297 km |
| 4.1 | 03.06.2022 04:46 | 18 km | 163 km |
| 3.7 | 29.04.2022 23:58 | 10 km | 185 km |
| 4.9 | 20.03.2022 14:39 | 10 km | 187 km |
| 3.6 | 20.03.2022 14:39 | 10 km | 184 km |
| 4.1 | 19.11.2021 03:16 | 0 km | 183 km |
| 4.0 | 31.10.2021 04:45 | 23 km | 141 km |
| 4.3 | 24.10.2021 10:28 | 10 km | 142 km |
| 4.5 | 15.10.2021 02:51 | 10 km | 139 km |
| 4.4 | 10.10.2021 15:05 | 35 km | 118 km |
| 5.6 | 10.10.2021 00:20 | 10 km | 117 km |
| 5.9 | 02.10.2021 12:52 | 606.4 km | 237 km |
| 4.0 | 12.06.2020 09:16 | 17 km | 204 km |
| 4.1 | 02.06.2020 20:09 | 35 km | 213 km |
| 3.6 | 22.08.2019 11:40 | 8 km | 255 km |
| 7.0 | 01.03.2019 08:50 | 265.2 km | 341 km |
| 4.2 | 11.11.2018 11:11 | 35 km | 246 km |
| 4.4 | 26.08.2018 19:58 | 632.4 km | 49 km |
| 7.1 | 24.08.2018 09:04 | 625.5 km | 74 km |
| 4.6 | 16.06.2018 02:51 | 10 km | 301 km |
| 4.2 | 24.05.2018 02:06 | 10 km | 139 km |
| 4.0 | 24.05.2018 01:45 | 24.5 km | 147 km |
| 4.0 | 20.04.2018 00:12 | 0 km | 246 km |
| 4.2 | 27.12.2017 12:49 | 35 km | 147 km |
| 4.0 | 02.03.2017 19:18 | 0 km | 155 km |
| 6.4 | 18.12.2016 13:30 | 628.3 km | 190 km |
| 4.1 | 08.01.2016 03:14 | 35 km | 201 km |
| 4.4 | 08.01.2016 02:17 | 35 km | 180 km |
| 4.2 | 03.01.2016 11:08 | 650 km | 93 km |
| 4.2 | 24.12.2015 22:42 | 47.4 km | 293 km |
| 4.0 | 19.12.2015 04:25 | 601.4 km | 82 km |
| 4.2 | 06.12.2015 13:49 | 650 km | 211 km |
| 4.0 | 03.12.2015 23:29 | 622.7 km | 182 km |
| 4.1 | 29.11.2015 10:41 | 650 km | 175 km |
| 4.2 | 26.11.2015 20:50 | 602 km | 138 km |
| 4.8 | 26.11.2015 13:42 | 607.4 km | 223 km |
| 6.7 | 26.11.2015 05:45 | 610.5 km | 282 km |
| 4.1 | 25.11.2015 23:49 | 602 km | 143 km |
| 4.2 | 25.11.2015 18:47 | 652 km | 148 km |
| 4.1 | 25.11.2015 16:19 | 650 km | 218 km |
| 4.3 | 25.11.2015 04:30 | 589.8 km | 187 km |
| 4.6 | 25.11.2015 00:28 | 610.9 km | 76 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.