No records in the last 30 days.
323
recorded earthquakes
M7.7
largest
1919–2026
record span
4.69
mean magnitude
64
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 | 31.03.1955 18:17 | 35 km | 94 km |
| 7.6 | 23.07.2010 22:51 | 585.1 km | 176 km |
| 7.5 | 23.07.2010 23:15 | 635.5 km | 154 km |
| 7.3 | 23.07.2010 22:08 | 611.6 km | 148 km |
| 7.3 | 19.12.1928 11:37 | 25 km | 136 km |
| 7.2 | 05.03.1984 03:33 | 654.8 km | 32 km |
| 7.2 | 20.10.1942 23:21 | 35 km | 166 km |
| 7.1 | 02.03.1923 16:48 | 15 km | 106 km |
| 7.1 | 17.08.1976 04:19 | 14.4 km | 129 km |
| 6.8 | 12.12.1978 11:44 | 23.1 km | 90 km |
| 6.7 | 28.12.1928 14:19 | 15 km | 81 km |
| 6.6 | 08.04.1929 10:16 | 610 km | 73 km |
| 6.5 | 26.09.1919 19:39 | 35 km | 124 km |
| 6.5 | 18.03.1985 19:49 | 25 km | 43 km |
| 6.4 | 13.07.1922 04:58 | 15 km | 75 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.6 | 26.06.2026 17:14 | 1 km | 13 km |
| 3.4 | 25.06.2026 07:35 | 2 km | 9 km |
| 4.0 | 24.06.2026 03:15 | 0 km | 13 km |
| 5.0 | 31.08.2025 07:49 | 10 km | 90 km |
| 3.2 | 21.07.2025 18:32 | 6 km | 28 km |
| 4.6 | 29.01.2025 04:37 | 10 km | 70 km |
| 4.2 | 11.09.2024 20:11 | 5 km | 33 km |
| 4.2 | 18.06.2024 13:47 | 10 km | 70 km |
| 3.1 | 03.01.2024 09:18 | 5 km | 58 km |
| 3.0 | 20.09.2023 18:19 | 5 km | 21 km |
| 3.1 | 03.09.2023 01:08 | 8 km | 44 km |
| 5.0 | 14.05.2023 12:44 | 27.1 km | 75 km |
| 4.1 | 04.04.2023 20:53 | 18 km | 59 km |
| 3.4 | 23.10.2022 12:37 | 143 km | 62 km |
| 3.0 | 16.09.2022 18:29 | 3 km | 59 km |
| 3.4 | 29.08.2022 09:36 | 12 km | 55 km |
| 4.2 | 10.08.2022 16:17 | 19 km | 13 km |
| 4.0 | 02.06.2022 20:55 | 0 km | 29 km |
| 4.4 | 18.11.2021 04:30 | 597 km | 43 km |
| 3.1 | 26.07.2021 00:37 | 2 km | 57 km |
| 5.0 | 18.07.2021 04:16 | 2 km | 101 km |
| 5.2 | 14.06.2021 14:49 | 14.8 km | 100 km |
| 5.2 | 04.06.2021 14:07 | 1 km | 65 km |
| 3.2 | 30.12.2020 12:11 | 1 km | 26 km |
| 3.5 | 21.12.2020 19:31 | 1 km | 52 km |
| 4.2 | 06.10.2020 14:29 | 157 km | 54 km |
| 4.1 | 10.08.2020 15:24 | 20 km | 73 km |
| 6.4 | 01.08.2020 17:09 | 487.5 km | 86 km |
| 4.5 | 07.05.2020 16:32 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 4.8 | 07.03.2020 05:05 | 14 km | 47 km |
| 6.0 | 04.11.2018 07:55 | 607.3 km | 27 km |
| 5.3 | 01.06.2018 10:21 | 589.2 km | 80 km |
| 5.0 | 15.03.2018 07:20 | 13.7 km | 76 km |
| 4.6 | 16.11.2017 05:27 | 20 km | 58 km |
| 3.2 | 05.11.2017 16:53 | 30 km | 59 km |
| 4.5 | 05.11.2017 16:53 | 13.4 km | 64 km |
| 4.2 | 01.11.2017 09:49 | 12 km | 57 km |
| 4.0 | 30.10.2017 18:21 | 5 km | 68 km |
| 5.1 | 23.09.2017 21:20 | 10 km | 105 km |
| 4.6 | 31.08.2017 20:24 | 8 km | 44 km |
| 4.4 | 09.08.2017 16:48 | 13 km | 50 km |
| 5.1 | 05.08.2017 05:03 | 1 km | 83 km |
| 4.2 | 07.07.2017 19:42 | 1 km | 56 km |
| 4.0 | 26.06.2017 20:37 | 14 km | 40 km |
| 4.0 | 26.06.2017 09:28 | 22 km | 66 km |
| 4.0 | 25.06.2017 20:37 | 34 km | 33 km |
| 4.0 | 01.06.2017 13:43 | 23 km | 51 km |
| 4.2 | 30.05.2017 08:36 | 1 km | 45 km |
| 4.0 | 03.05.2017 17:12 | 1 km | 76 km |
| 4.6 | 01.05.2017 16:37 | 14 km | 71 km |
| 4.2 | 28.04.2017 19:31 | 1 km | 62 km |
| 4.3 | 20.04.2017 20:42 | 31 km | 31 km |
| 4.3 | 17.04.2017 14:34 | 1 km | 65 km |
| 4.4 | 16.04.2017 14:24 | 24 km | 74 km |
| 4.3 | 15.04.2017 23:11 | 2 km | 71 km |
| 5.2 | 15.04.2017 20:40 | 25.9 km | 88 km |
| 4.0 | 15.04.2017 14:54 | 1 km | 63 km |
| 4.8 | 14.04.2017 16:00 | 1 km | 68 km |
| 4.8 | 14.04.2017 15:49 | 1 km | 69 km |
| 5.5 | 12.04.2017 20:01 | 18.2 km | 96 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.