No records in the last 30 days.
230
recorded earthquakes
M8.1
largest
1915–2026
record span
4.54
mean magnitude
59
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.1 | 24.01.1948 17:46 | 15 km | 75 km |
| 7.4 | 30.09.2025 14:12 | 10 km | 162 km |
| 7.1 | 29.08.1938 15:22 | 15 km | 177 km |
| 7.0 | 14.06.1990 07:40 | 25.2 km | 72 km |
| 7.0 | 05.11.1941 17:38 | 15 km | 186 km |
| 7.0 | 12.03.1915 14:48 | 40 km | 164 km |
| 6.8 | 26.01.1948 14:10 | 35 km | 90 km |
| 6.8 | 07.03.1950 02:07 | 25 km | 89 km |
| 6.6 | 29.08.1922 17:01 | 15 km | 138 km |
| 6.5 | 13.11.1970 14:16 | 13.7 km | 152 km |
| 6.3 | 21.10.1975 23:06 | 12.1 km | 115 km |
| 6.3 | 22.04.2019 09:10 | 20 km | 51 km |
| 6.2 | 25.05.1925 03:43 | 35 km | 125 km |
| 6.2 | 18.08.1973 08:25 | 37.7 km | 142 km |
| 6.2 | 23.04.1922 21:30 | 35 km | 115 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.4 | 16.05.2026 22:48 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 3.4 | 20.01.2026 05:02 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 3.1 | 08.01.2026 20:38 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 4.0 | 30.09.2025 20:17 | 0 km | 29 km |
| 7.4 | 30.09.2025 14:12 | 10 km | 162 km |
| 3.9 | 03.09.2025 15:25 | 10 km | 37 km |
| 4.0 | 28.06.2025 09:58 | 0 km | 63 km |
| 3.0 | 24.06.2025 15:39 | 8 km | 46 km |
| 3.9 | 12.02.2025 09:15 | 0 km | 36 km |
| 3.3 | 04.01.2025 17:48 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 3.2 | 09.12.2024 12:05 | 7 km | 33 km |
| 3.0 | 15.11.2024 06:51 | 1 km | 44 km |
| 3.1 | 15.10.2024 19:47 | 8 km | 48 km |
| 4.0 | 26.08.2024 15:30 | 10 km | 67 km |
| 3.0 | 28.06.2024 21:34 | 3 km | 63 km |
| 4.9 | 28.06.2024 21:21 | 10 km | 72 km |
| 3.4 | 16.10.2023 09:02 | 1 km | 61 km |
| 3.0 | 27.08.2023 15:52 | 17 km | 53 km |
| 4.0 | 20.05.2023 22:27 | 3 km | 79 km |
| 3.3 | 10.05.2023 17:30 | 1 km | 66 km |
| 3.7 | 28.12.2022 07:47 | 12 km | 57 km |
| 3.3 | 16.11.2022 09:59 | 1 km | 31 km |
| 4.8 | 15.11.2022 01:53 | 0 km | 65 km |
| 5.0 | 29.06.2022 21:12 | 19 km | 92 km |
| 3.6 | 24.06.2022 20:41 | 8 km | 40 km |
| 4.4 | 25.01.2022 05:17 | 24 km | 34 km |
| 3.1 | 22.11.2021 12:49 | 22.5 km | 50 km |
| 4.4 | 22.11.2021 12:49 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 5.2 | 20.09.2021 19:10 | 15 km | 69 km |
| 4.7 | 19.09.2021 20:49 | 1 km | 75 km |
| 4.1 | 08.07.2021 23:52 | 35 km | 25 km |
| 3.0 | 22.05.2021 04:33 | 1 km | 54 km |
| 3.2 | 12.10.2020 13:13 | 11 km | 56 km |
| 5.1 | 26.12.2019 12:19 | 44.2 km | 25 km |
| 4.1 | 04.09.2019 21:14 | 39 km | 42 km |
| 6.3 | 22.04.2019 09:10 | 20 km | 51 km |
| 5.1 | 05.11.2018 02:54 | 24.8 km | 88 km |
| 4.2 | 10.10.2018 18:34 | 3 km | 77 km |
| 4.0 | 20.09.2018 14:08 | 3 km | 63 km |
| 4.0 | 09.10.2017 19:51 | 70 km | 50 km |
| 4.2 | 08.10.2017 13:29 | 3 km | 51 km |
| 4.5 | 08.10.2017 12:42 | 39 km | 25 km |
| 4.0 | 03.10.2017 23:43 | 18 km | 69 km |
| 4.2 | 29.08.2017 13:46 | 1 km | 73 km |
| 4.2 | 22.08.2017 17:59 | 8 km | 30 km |
| 4.0 | 22.08.2017 17:51 | 9 km | 28 km |
| 4.0 | 22.08.2017 13:38 | 1 km | 39 km |
| 4.4 | 21.08.2017 15:23 | 2 km | 29 km |
| 4.1 | 05.06.2017 14:17 | 1 km | 61 km |
| 4.3 | 04.06.2017 14:17 | 33 km | 65 km |
| 4.1 | 30.05.2017 19:38 | 3 km | 67 km |
| 4.1 | 29.05.2017 10:21 | 1 km | 72 km |
| 4.6 | 27.05.2017 01:27 | 27 km | 56 km |
| 4.2 | 26.05.2017 16:45 | 17 km | 56 km |
| 4.7 | 26.05.2017 10:52 | 20 km | 58 km |
| 4.7 | 24.05.2017 21:24 | 8 km | 73 km |
| 4.4 | 24.05.2017 15:42 | 13 km | 49 km |
| 4.0 | 19.05.2017 01:05 | 13 km | 57 km |
| 4.1 | 26.04.2017 21:56 | 34 km | 21 km |
| 4.0 | 22.01.2017 19:53 | 45 km | 60 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.