No records in the last 30 days.
392
recorded earthquakes
M7.7
largest
1919–2026
record span
4.64
mean magnitude
41
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.7 | 16.07.1990 07:26 | 23.9 km | 139 km |
| 7.3 | 20.08.1937 11:59 | 15 km | 136 km |
| 7.2 | 11.12.1999 18:03 | 52.1 km | 147 km |
| 7.2 | 25.04.1972 19:30 | 42.7 km | 147 km |
| 7.1 | 14.11.1994 19:15 | 27.4 km | 144 km |
| 6.8 | 23.04.1985 16:15 | 185.3 km | 86 km |
| 6.7 | 21.03.1919 01:02 | 35 km | 56 km |
| 6.6 | 23.07.2021 20:48 | 120.9 km | 114 km |
| 6.5 | 03.03.1933 02:19 | 120 km | 102 km |
| 6.4 | 08.10.2004 14:36 | 113.8 km | 95 km |
| 6.3 | 24.12.2020 23:43 | 116.8 km | 102 km |
| 6.3 | 11.08.2017 05:28 | 185.6 km | 85 km |
| 6.2 | 06.06.1933 02:28 | 35 km | 88 km |
| 6.2 | 26.11.1934 12:09 | 35 km | 88 km |
| 6.2 | 15.06.2023 02:19 | 119.5 km | 101 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.2 | 15.05.2026 21:30 | 72 km | 41 km |
| 3.2 | 15.01.2026 16:48 | 175 km | 35 km |
| 5.2 | 11.10.2025 09:32 | 125.5 km | 62 km |
| 4.5 | 11.09.2025 06:09 | 76.6 km | 62 km |
| 3.1 | 06.09.2025 09:15 | 99 km | 44 km |
| 4.5 | 17.08.2025 18:19 | 147.7 km | 43 km |
| 4.4 | 10.07.2025 01:32 | 10 km | 37 km |
| 4.3 | 18.04.2025 23:33 | 79.8 km | 42 km |
| 5.5 | 20.01.2025 10:43 | 119.1 km | 84 km |
| 3.5 | 11.11.2024 15:25 | 140 km | 21 km |
| 4.6 | 15.10.2024 10:54 | 69.8 km | 52 km |
| 3.3 | 09.10.2024 14:10 | 176 km | 30 km |
| 3.6 | 03.10.2024 17:37 | 48 km | 47 km |
| 3.7 | 02.09.2024 13:45 | 78 km | 43 km |
| 3.1 | 28.07.2024 18:08 | 148 km | 43 km |
| 4.6 | 05.05.2024 19:08 | 37.9 km | 61 km |
| 6.2 | 15.06.2023 02:19 | 119.5 km | 101 km |
| 5.1 | 16.02.2023 10:33 | 49.3 km | 80 km |
| 3.0 | 29.01.2023 17:45 | 101 km | 38 km |
| 3.0 | 27.01.2023 06:28 | 119 km | 44 km |
| 4.0 | 16.01.2023 03:20 | 150 km | 65 km |
| 4.3 | 01.12.2022 15:54 | 137.4 km | 56 km |
| 5.3 | 08.11.2022 14:30 | 176 km | 87 km |
| 5.0 | 14.07.2022 22:41 | 15 km | 82 km |
| 6.1 | 21.05.2022 21:50 | 140.3 km | 89 km |
| 3.0 | 12.05.2022 19:25 | 65 km | 34 km |
| 3.3 | 19.02.2022 06:09 | 99 km | 30 km |
| 3.1 | 17.02.2022 09:58 | 100 km | 31 km |
| 4.0 | 14.10.2021 06:45 | 114.3 km | 14 km |
| 5.4 | 07.10.2021 18:14 | 157 km | 88 km |
| 4.0 | 26.09.2021 21:04 | 35 km | 16 km |
| 4.3 | 08.09.2021 03:40 | 100 km | 21 km |
| 6.6 | 23.07.2021 20:48 | 120.9 km | 114 km |
| 3.1 | 01.03.2021 00:20 | 118 km | 32 km |
| 6.3 | 24.12.2020 23:43 | 116.8 km | 102 km |
| 4.2 | 18.12.2020 09:26 | 150 km | 44 km |
| 3.2 | 18.12.2020 09:26 | 128 km | 44 km |
| 5.0 | 31.10.2020 02:49 | 168.3 km | 60 km |
| 3.2 | 03.10.2020 16:02 | 141 km | 36 km |
| 4.3 | 26.09.2020 03:26 | 10 km | 13 km |
| 3.4 | 27.08.2020 08:25 | 75 km | 47 km |
| 4.3 | 12.08.2020 02:47 | 9 km | 33 km |
| 3.2 | 11.08.2020 02:33 | 6 km | 30 km |
| 4.4 | 11.08.2020 02:31 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 4.1 | 12.07.2020 06:45 | 216.3 km | 54 km |
| 4.8 | 08.07.2020 00:28 | 100.5 km | 54 km |
| 5.3 | 09.05.2020 19:18 | 102.9 km | 76 km |
| 4.5 | 19.03.2020 06:49 | 72.5 km | 50 km |
| 4.2 | 28.11.2019 23:36 | 10 km | 32 km |
| 4.0 | 10.06.2019 23:03 | 185 km | 55 km |
| 3.6 | 23.04.2019 18:02 | 43 km | 32 km |
| 4.2 | 22.04.2019 09:26 | 35 km | 50 km |
| 6.1 | 22.04.2019 09:11 | 21.9 km | 26 km |
| 4.0 | 21.04.2019 06:19 | 0 km | 34 km |
| 4.8 | 23.02.2019 04:14 | 72.2 km | 38 km |
| 4.2 | 03.07.2018 22:10 | 100 km | 60 km |
| 5.2 | 03.07.2018 04:25 | 141 km | 85 km |
| 5.5 | 17.06.2018 09:46 | 33.1 km | 78 km |
| 4.0 | 30.12.2017 08:19 | 112 km | 58 km |
| 5.5 | 22.10.2017 14:21 | 216.9 km | 87 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.