No records in the last 30 days.
186
recorded earthquakes
M8.1
largest
1906–2026
record span
4.48
mean magnitude
24
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 | 42 km |
| 7.0 | 14.06.1990 07:40 | 25.2 km | 129 km |
| 6.8 | 26.01.1948 14:10 | 35 km | 46 km |
| 6.8 | 05.05.1925 10:06 | 15 km | 103 km |
| 6.8 | 07.03.1950 02:07 | 25 km | 16 km |
| 6.7 | 06.02.2012 03:49 | 17.5 km | 100 km |
| 6.5 | 08.07.1951 05:44 | 25 km | 74 km |
| 6.5 | 11.10.1906 05:10 | 15 km | 119 km |
| 6.3 | 22.04.2019 09:10 | 20 km | 109 km |
| 6.3 | 06.03.1955 13:33 | 15 km | 105 km |
| 6.0 | 06.02.2012 10:10 | 12.6 km | 99 km |
| 5.7 | 14.11.2012 05:21 | 44.8 km | 74 km |
| 5.6 | 12.04.1979 15:38 | 46.4 km | 15 km |
| 5.5 | 09.06.2014 21:45 | 22.3 km | 79 km |
| 5.4 | 12.12.2006 20:28 | 25 km | 8 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 02.07.2026 08:33 | 8 km | 18 km |
| 3.0 | 17.04.2026 00:40 | 14 km | 9 km |
| 3.5 | 15.04.2026 01:21 | 0 km | 22 km |
| 4.9 | 02.03.2026 10:13 | 10 km | 14 km |
| 5.1 | 07.10.2025 00:03 | 10 km | 78 km |
| 4.0 | 28.06.2025 09:58 | 0 km | 52 km |
| 3.0 | 19.01.2025 18:38 | 69 km | 28 km |
| 3.4 | 06.09.2024 11:55 | 10 km | 31 km |
| 4.0 | 25.06.2024 01:50 | 20 km | 41 km |
| 3.5 | 08.04.2024 16:54 | 22 km | 21 km |
| 4.3 | 10.03.2023 10:18 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 5.1 | 13.08.2022 04:25 | 13.6 km | 81 km |
| 5.0 | 29.06.2022 21:12 | 19 km | 68 km |
| 3.0 | 15.02.2022 15:01 | 3 km | 13 km |
| 3.0 | 23.01.2022 14:10 | 13 km | 27 km |
| 5.2 | 20.09.2021 19:10 | 15 km | 74 km |
| 3.3 | 07.02.2021 00:35 | 19 km | 30 km |
| 3.0 | 16.10.2020 20:15 | 23 km | 28 km |
| 5.1 | 26.12.2019 12:19 | 44.2 km | 65 km |
| 4.1 | 04.09.2019 21:14 | 39 km | 49 km |
| 4.8 | 19.05.2019 12:00 | 0 km | 41 km |
| 6.3 | 22.04.2019 09:10 | 20 km | 109 km |
| 5.1 | 05.11.2018 02:54 | 24.8 km | 27 km |
| 4.1 | 30.12.2017 21:37 | 1 km | 36 km |
| 4.1 | 26.11.2017 05:52 | 11 km | 40 km |
| 4.1 | 09.11.2017 00:07 | 2 km | 31 km |
| 4.2 | 05.11.2017 21:15 | 1 km | 41 km |
| 4.0 | 09.10.2017 19:51 | 70 km | 41 km |
| 4.9 | 06.08.2017 17:14 | 23 km | 28 km |
| 4.4 | 26.06.2017 03:55 | 22 km | 38 km |
| 4.0 | 12.01.2017 03:41 | 25 km | 37 km |
| 4.0 | 08.12.2016 19:32 | 18 km | 24 km |
| 4.0 | 15.11.2016 15:13 | 9 km | 46 km |
| 4.5 | 22.09.2016 18:23 | 2 km | 41 km |
| 4.0 | 22.09.2016 14:57 | 1 km | 52 km |
| 4.3 | 22.09.2016 13:13 | 33 km | 27 km |
| 4.5 | 07.09.2016 12:43 | 12 km | 37 km |
| 4.4 | 05.09.2016 15:37 | 17 km | 48 km |
| 5.4 | 15.08.2016 11:32 | 36.3 km | 57 km |
| 4.4 | 16.06.2016 20:35 | 11 km | 28 km |
| 4.0 | 17.05.2016 15:21 | 7 km | 10 km |
| 4.4 | 23.04.2016 07:20 | 33 km | 24 km |
| 4.2 | 24.03.2016 13:29 | 33 km | 45 km |
| 4.2 | 18.03.2016 15:46 | 10 km | 37 km |
| 4.3 | 12.03.2016 11:56 | 18 km | 41 km |
| 4.0 | 07.01.2016 00:44 | 7 km | 41 km |
| 4.3 | 20.09.2015 22:57 | 1 km | 46 km |
| 4.5 | 20.09.2015 05:47 | 26 km | 22 km |
| 4.6 | 18.09.2015 20:33 | 42 km | 24 km |
| 4.2 | 20.08.2015 00:27 | 34 km | 42 km |
| 4.1 | 30.03.2015 08:50 | 4 km | 11 km |
| 4.3 | 31.10.2014 14:41 | 18 km | 30 km |
| 5.5 | 09.06.2014 21:45 | 22.3 km | 79 km |
| 4.5 | 27.05.2014 21:23 | 80 km | 25 km |
| 4.1 | 24.04.2014 23:01 | 33 km | 16 km |
| 5.2 | 23.02.2014 18:13 | 51 km | 73 km |
| 4.4 | 07.02.2014 16:25 | 32 km | 45 km |
| 4.5 | 20.12.2013 04:48 | 44.5 km | 38 km |
| 4.3 | 11.11.2013 23:28 | 34 km | 41 km |
| 4.1 | 01.11.2013 10:56 | 33 km | 50 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.