No records in the last 30 days.
556
recorded earthquakes
M8.0
largest
1919–2026
record span
4.60
mean magnitude
191
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.0 | 16.08.1976 16:11 | 12.9 km | 195 km |
| 7.7 | 31.03.1955 18:17 | 35 km | 23 km |
| 7.6 | 23.07.2010 22:51 | 585.1 km | 157 km |
| 7.5 | 23.07.2010 23:15 | 635.5 km | 119 km |
| 7.3 | 23.07.2010 22:08 | 611.6 km | 123 km |
| 7.3 | 19.12.1928 11:37 | 25 km | 151 km |
| 7.2 | 05.03.1984 03:33 | 654.8 km | 68 km |
| 7.2 | 20.10.1942 23:21 | 35 km | 96 km |
| 7.1 | 17.08.1976 04:19 | 14.4 km | 71 km |
| 7.1 | 02.03.1923 16:48 | 15 km | 172 km |
| 7.1 | 11.07.2024 02:13 | 644.1 km | 189 km |
| 7.0 | 14.06.1978 12:32 | 23 km | 106 km |
| 6.8 | 12.12.1978 11:44 | 23.1 km | 51 km |
| 6.8 | 26.05.2003 23:13 | 581.8 km | 125 km |
| 6.7 | 28.12.1928 14:19 | 15 km | 15 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 24.06.2026 03:15 | 0 km | 63 km |
| 3.9 | 14.06.2026 07:25 | 0 km | 45 km |
| 3.1 | 12.03.2026 01:07 | 10 km | 58 km |
| 3.4 | 05.02.2026 18:36 | 588.2 km | 67 km |
| 4.0 | 02.02.2026 04:39 | 10 km | 61 km |
| 3.4 | 22.01.2026 13:59 | 17 km | 63 km |
| 3.6 | 26.09.2025 15:16 | 0 km | 61 km |
| 5.0 | 31.08.2025 07:49 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 3.0 | 11.08.2025 17:18 | 3 km | 44 km |
| 3.3 | 19.06.2025 21:24 | 10 km | 56 km |
| 3.5 | 02.04.2025 20:37 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 4.6 | 29.01.2025 04:37 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 3.3 | 12.01.2025 21:43 | 13 km | 51 km |
| 4.1 | 04.01.2025 05:42 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 3.4 | 18.11.2024 14:43 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 4.2 | 26.10.2024 16:22 | 10 km | 34 km |
| 3.6 | 15.10.2024 15:08 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 4.2 | 11.09.2024 20:11 | 5 km | 47 km |
| 4.2 | 12.08.2024 20:58 | 10 km | 27 km |
| 4.1 | 11.08.2024 22:55 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 3.9 | 11.08.2024 18:47 | 10 km | 53 km |
| 3.0 | 16.07.2024 07:51 | 8 km | 31 km |
| 7.1 | 11.07.2024 02:13 | 644.1 km | 189 km |
| 3.3 | 18.06.2024 16:11 | 10 km | 37 km |
| 4.2 | 18.06.2024 13:47 | 10 km | 39 km |
| 3.0 | 18.03.2024 18:23 | 10 km | 72 km |
| 4.9 | 04.03.2024 13:59 | 43 km | 85 km |
| 4.1 | 09.02.2024 16:49 | 0 km | 63 km |
| 4.4 | 07.12.2023 18:36 | 0 km | 25 km |
| 3.2 | 27.11.2023 13:12 | 5 km | 34 km |
| 3.0 | 17.10.2023 08:28 | 22 km | 54 km |
| 3.0 | 20.09.2023 18:19 | 5 km | 53 km |
| 3.1 | 03.09.2023 01:08 | 8 km | 55 km |
| 3.1 | 03.08.2023 19:07 | 18 km | 48 km |
| 5.0 | 14.05.2023 12:44 | 27.1 km | 52 km |
| 4.0 | 24.04.2023 00:28 | 27 km | 64 km |
| 4.2 | 06.04.2023 04:04 | 10 km | 37 km |
| 3.2 | 05.04.2023 02:58 | 11 km | 38 km |
| 4.1 | 04.04.2023 20:53 | 18 km | 60 km |
| 4.8 | 04.04.2023 18:39 | 133 km | 17 km |
| 3.1 | 04.04.2023 17:58 | 7 km | 39 km |
| 3.3 | 04.04.2023 09:00 | 1 km | 33 km |
| 4.4 | 20.03.2023 21:13 | 600 km | 75 km |
| 3.0 | 21.02.2023 10:31 | 23 km | 49 km |
| 4.2 | 20.11.2022 17:32 | 14 km | 89 km |
| 3.3 | 29.10.2022 13:10 | 12 km | 35 km |
| 3.2 | 19.09.2022 01:31 | 3 km | 76 km |
| 3.4 | 29.08.2022 09:36 | 12 km | 42 km |
| 5.9 | 13.08.2022 06:25 | 26.2 km | 121 km |
| 3.2 | 08.08.2022 14:19 | 11 km | 43 km |
| 4.4 | 07.07.2022 08:26 | 35 km | 51 km |
| 4.9 | 28.06.2022 21:23 | 19 km | 69 km |
| 4.0 | 02.06.2022 20:55 | 0 km | 66 km |
| 4.0 | 22.05.2022 08:05 | 0 km | 59 km |
| 3.0 | 13.02.2022 09:16 | 18 km | 27 km |
| 4.4 | 18.11.2021 04:30 | 597 km | 35 km |
| 3.6 | 27.10.2021 16:24 | 26 km | 40 km |
| 3.6 | 16.09.2021 15:31 | 13 km | 26 km |
| 3.6 | 16.09.2021 13:20 | 14 km | 26 km |
| 4.9 | 25.08.2021 12:03 | 3.9 km | 84 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.