No records in the last 30 days.
359
recorded earthquakes
M8.1
largest
1919–2026
record span
4.47
mean magnitude
127
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 | 373 km |
| 7.3 | 08.04.1942 15:40 | 15 km | 409 km |
| 7.2 | 25.04.1972 19:30 | 42.7 km | 433 km |
| 7.2 | 20.10.1942 23:21 | 35 km | 413 km |
| 7.1 | 22.02.2026 16:57 | 607.7 km | 440 km |
| 7.1 | 14.11.1994 19:15 | 27.4 km | 478 km |
| 7.0 | 14.06.1990 07:40 | 25.2 km | 386 km |
| 7.0 | 15.06.1928 06:12 | 25 km | 418 km |
| 6.8 | 15.06.1928 17:16 | 15 km | 411 km |
| 6.8 | 05.02.1970 22:06 | 8.5 km | 453 km |
| 6.6 | 29.08.1922 17:01 | 15 km | 411 km |
| 6.6 | 27.04.1919 00:22 | 15 km | 333 km |
| 6.5 | 20.09.1933 23:33 | 100 km | 427 km |
| 6.3 | 21.10.1975 23:06 | 12.1 km | 356 km |
| 6.3 | 23.07.2010 23:10 | 0 km | 461 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 08.06.2026 00:30 | 0 km | 185 km |
| 3.2 | 04.06.2026 21:05 | 5 km | 322 km |
| 3.3 | 09.05.2026 13:37 | 8 km | 335 km |
| 7.1 | 22.02.2026 16:57 | 607.7 km | 440 km |
| 3.3 | 18.11.2025 03:55 | 21 km | 277 km |
| 3.3 | 19.09.2025 06:52 | 10 km | 381 km |
| 3.6 | 13.04.2025 07:31 | 0 km | 282 km |
| 3.1 | 02.04.2025 15:54 | 21 km | 209 km |
| 4.4 | 24.03.2025 12:38 | 10 km | 326 km |
| 4.0 | 11.02.2025 21:26 | 10 km | 361 km |
| 3.6 | 18.12.2024 15:05 | 7 km | 345 km |
| 3.6 | 08.11.2024 19:19 | 12 km | 356 km |
| 3.3 | 09.10.2024 16:20 | 10 km | 352 km |
| 3.4 | 14.09.2024 09:25 | 10 km | 311 km |
| 4.4 | 05.09.2024 15:10 | 1 km | 266 km |
| 3.6 | 03.09.2024 19:47 | 10 km | 309 km |
| 3.4 | 30.08.2024 07:40 | 15 km | 353 km |
| 4.4 | 26.07.2024 22:52 | 10 km | 94 km |
| 3.1 | 05.07.2024 09:05 | 24 km | 303 km |
| 4.2 | 13.06.2024 07:00 | 10 km | 320 km |
| 5.2 | 11.06.2024 06:58 | 24.9 km | 74 km |
| 3.3 | 05.06.2024 06:21 | 18 km | 309 km |
| 3.7 | 09.04.2024 18:48 | 20 km | 359 km |
| 3.5 | 08.04.2024 04:37 | 10 km | 368 km |
| 3.3 | 12.12.2023 04:14 | 12 km | 344 km |
| 3.2 | 11.12.2023 20:35 | 24 km | 359 km |
| 4.4 | 01.12.2023 01:10 | 0 km | 256 km |
| 3.0 | 28.11.2023 03:17 | 26 km | 357 km |
| 3.2 | 11.11.2023 06:51 | 11 km | 362 km |
| 3.4 | 11.11.2023 06:45 | 25 km | 354 km |
| 3.6 | 03.10.2023 06:38 | 67.3 km | 332 km |
| 4.0 | 14.09.2023 02:43 | 35 km | 269 km |
| 4.0 | 19.07.2023 19:39 | 35 km | 337 km |
| 4.1 | 17.06.2023 20:52 | 12.7 km | 370 km |
| 3.6 | 05.02.2023 06:05 | 22 km | 311 km |
| 3.2 | 06.10.2022 14:15 | 19 km | 354 km |
| 3.1 | 18.09.2022 15:35 | 5 km | 355 km |
| 4.3 | 18.09.2022 14:49 | 24 km | 340 km |
| 3.5 | 05.08.2022 17:00 | 10 km | 313 km |
| 3.6 | 17.07.2022 10:40 | 13.6 km | 345 km |
| 3.2 | 11.07.2022 13:55 | 7 km | 348 km |
| 3.8 | 03.07.2022 11:16 | 8.1 km | 339 km |
| 3.7 | 21.02.2022 01:17 | 11 km | 362 km |
| 3.1 | 09.01.2022 19:46 | 9 km | 354 km |
| 4.3 | 26.12.2021 16:06 | 10 km | 372 km |
| 5.7 | 01.12.2021 04:00 | 0 km | 292 km |
| 3.0 | 24.07.2021 12:18 | 30 km | 335 km |
| 4.8 | 27.04.2021 07:33 | 0 km | 259 km |
| 3.0 | 11.02.2021 15:42 | 26 km | 307 km |
| 3.4 | 09.02.2021 19:04 | 33 km | 300 km |
| 3.5 | 08.02.2021 23:50 | 19.3 km | 306 km |
| 3.2 | 08.02.2021 23:30 | 24 km | 308 km |
| 4.2 | 08.02.2021 23:27 | 15.9 km | 304 km |
| 5.1 | 08.02.2021 23:24 | 17.7 km | 314 km |
| 4.9 | 04.02.2021 23:49 | 15.5 km | 309 km |
| 3.4 | 10.01.2021 18:20 | 36 km | 343 km |
| 3.0 | 17.08.2020 15:01 | 19 km | 263 km |
| 3.1 | 03.08.2020 23:11 | 19 km | 321 km |
| 4.2 | 03.07.2020 21:17 | 10 km | 238 km |
| 4.6 | 15.06.2020 17:18 | 10 km | 227 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.