No records in the last 30 days.
173
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1901–2025
record span
4.60
mean magnitude
25
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.8 | 14.12.1901 22:57 | 0 km | 101 km |
| 7.7 | 16.07.1990 07:26 | 23.9 km | 122 km |
| 7.3 | 20.08.1937 11:59 | 15 km | 42 km |
| 7.2 | 07.04.1970 05:34 | 27.9 km | 143 km |
| 7.2 | 25.04.1972 19:30 | 42.7 km | 176 km |
| 7.1 | 14.11.1994 19:15 | 27.4 km | 124 km |
| 7.0 | 12.04.1970 04:01 | 21.1 km | 97 km |
| 6.8 | 23.04.1985 16:15 | 185.3 km | 116 km |
| 6.6 | 23.07.2021 20:48 | 120.9 km | 120 km |
| 6.5 | 08.04.1970 21:23 | 26.2 km | 107 km |
| 6.5 | 06.05.1939 17:00 | 110 km | 122 km |
| 6.4 | 19.02.1974 03:30 | 24 km | 113 km |
| 6.4 | 08.10.2004 14:36 | 113.8 km | 119 km |
| 6.4 | 28.08.1968 20:42 | 26 km | 129 km |
| 6.3 | 24.12.2020 23:43 | 116.8 km | 117 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.8 | 26.09.2025 05:32 | 7 km | 42 km |
| 3.6 | 27.05.2025 04:35 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 3.7 | 27.05.2025 04:17 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 3.2 | 26.05.2025 20:57 | 5 km | 23 km |
| 3.0 | 09.02.2025 01:05 | 22 km | 45 km |
| 3.1 | 05.02.2025 10:44 | 21 km | 44 km |
| 3.0 | 18.12.2024 19:57 | 19 km | 31 km |
| 3.3 | 25.11.2024 02:34 | 10 km | 39 km |
| 4.2 | 10.11.2024 17:20 | 8 km | 23 km |
| 3.0 | 20.10.2024 17:00 | 5 km | 28 km |
| 3.5 | 24.06.2024 12:56 | 5 km | 39 km |
| 3.4 | 24.06.2024 10:09 | 7 km | 38 km |
| 3.3 | 01.12.2023 06:16 | 12 km | 38 km |
| 6.2 | 15.06.2023 02:19 | 119.5 km | 122 km |
| 4.2 | 12.02.2023 16:20 | 0 km | 40 km |
| 6.1 | 21.05.2022 21:50 | 140.3 km | 106 km |
| 3.3 | 18.02.2022 16:16 | 4 km | 31 km |
| 3.0 | 03.01.2022 11:09 | 8 km | 37 km |
| 6.6 | 23.07.2021 20:48 | 120.9 km | 120 km |
| 3.0 | 27.01.2021 18:49 | 11 km | 39 km |
| 6.3 | 24.12.2020 23:43 | 116.8 km | 117 km |
| 5.0 | 21.12.2020 18:14 | 16 km | 41 km |
| 5.0 | 31.10.2020 02:49 | 168.3 km | 79 km |
| 3.5 | 19.04.2020 03:04 | 2 km | 50 km |
| 3.7 | 14.02.2020 12:28 | 7 km | 31 km |
| 4.1 | 04.02.2020 13:56 | 144.4 km | 30 km |
| 4.0 | 15.01.2020 11:34 | 12 km | 57 km |
| 4.4 | 12.01.2020 21:19 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 4.8 | 12.01.2020 20:55 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 4.4 | 12.01.2020 17:20 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 4.2 | 12.01.2020 15:01 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 4.1 | 12.01.2020 14:06 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 4.1 | 12.01.2020 12:58 | 10 km | 61 km |
| 4.3 | 12.01.2020 12:51 | 10 km | 67 km |
| 4.1 | 12.01.2020 12:24 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 6.2 | 23.04.2019 05:38 | 59.9 km | 71 km |
| 6.1 | 22.04.2019 09:11 | 21.9 km | 94 km |
| 4.0 | 19.09.2018 11:32 | 152 km | 66 km |
| 5.5 | 22.10.2017 14:21 | 216.9 km | 96 km |
| 4.1 | 21.09.2017 08:34 | 25 km | 44 km |
| 6.3 | 11.08.2017 05:28 | 185.6 km | 96 km |
| 4.1 | 09.08.2017 14:36 | 8 km | 18 km |
| 4.0 | 09.08.2017 11:59 | 11 km | 20 km |
| 4.2 | 09.08.2017 11:52 | 9 km | 18 km |
| 4.0 | 08.08.2017 19:58 | 13 km | 30 km |
| 4.0 | 08.08.2017 19:12 | 13 km | 22 km |
| 4.1 | 08.08.2017 06:18 | 11 km | 19 km |
| 4.1 | 07.08.2017 16:33 | 19 km | 20 km |
| 4.0 | 21.06.2017 01:29 | 23 km | 47 km |
| 4.2 | 17.06.2017 15:48 | 9 km | 47 km |
| 4.1 | 07.06.2017 21:36 | 28 km | 36 km |
| 4.2 | 07.06.2017 21:02 | 28 km | 39 km |
| 4.0 | 07.06.2017 20:03 | 24 km | 49 km |
| 4.0 | 07.06.2017 18:51 | 42 km | 54 km |
| 4.1 | 07.06.2017 16:43 | 21 km | 50 km |
| 4.0 | 07.06.2017 14:53 | 19 km | 24 km |
| 4.3 | 07.06.2017 08:20 | 22 km | 52 km |
| 4.2 | 06.06.2017 17:44 | 9 km | 56 km |
| 4.1 | 05.06.2017 05:29 | 15 km | 48 km |
| 5.0 | 14.04.2017 00:28 | 8 km | 89 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.