No records in the last 30 days.
279
recorded earthquakes
M4.7
largest
1988–2026
record span
1.83
mean magnitude
180
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.7 | 18.05.1998 17:49 | 8 km | 58 km |
| 4.4 | 21.05.1998 03:00 | 15 km | 60 km |
| 4.2 | 30.05.1998 15:27 | 15 km | 56 km |
| 4.1 | 28.05.1998 23:12 | 8 km | 59 km |
| 4.1 | 28.05.1998 21:42 | 9.2 km | 56 km |
| 4.1 | 16.05.1998 12:51 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 4.1 | 21.05.1998 05:04 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 4.0 | 31.01.1988 15:09 | 10 km | 25 km |
| 4.0 | 07.12.2001 23:17 | 10.5 km | 70 km |
| 3.8 | 06.06.2017 16:03 | 16 km | 38 km |
| 3.5 | 28.06.2011 02:15 | 15 km | 61 km |
| 3.3 | 02.05.2015 01:43 | 20.7 km | 12 km |
| 3.3 | 07.08.2018 06:34 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 3.2 | 11.08.2018 10:36 | 15 km | 16 km |
| 3.1 | 08.06.1996 11:49 | 10 km | 10 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1 | 04.07.2026 20:10 | 1.4 km | 37 km |
| 2.1 | 14.01.2026 23:21 | 3.6 km | 35 km |
| 2.3 | 28.12.2025 13:54 | 9 km | 33 km |
| 1.7 | 21.11.2025 18:25 | 22.3 km | 38 km |
| 1.7 | 17.09.2025 11:30 | 0 km | 19 km |
| 1.5 | 09.08.2025 14:44 | 5.6 km | 34 km |
| 2.3 | 28.07.2025 00:22 | 4 km | 26 km |
| 1.6 | 23.07.2025 04:30 | 20.5 km | 27 km |
| 2.0 | 24.06.2025 15:08 | 20.7 km | 11 km |
| 1.8 | 10.05.2025 22:12 | 3.3 km | 17 km |
| 1.5 | 28.04.2025 11:49 | 4.9 km | 23 km |
| 2.1 | 10.04.2025 12:45 | 2.5 km | 20 km |
| 1.6 | 26.03.2025 01:18 | 11.6 km | 42 km |
| 1.6 | 28.02.2025 18:12 | 11.1 km | 19 km |
| 1.8 | 26.01.2025 18:27 | 0 km | 45 km |
| 1.7 | 10.01.2025 23:10 | 0 km | 1 km |
| 1.7 | 30.12.2024 13:47 | 1.7 km | 7 km |
| 1.7 | 20.11.2024 11:52 | 0.8 km | 12 km |
| 2.2 | 04.10.2024 23:35 | 15 km | 19 km |
| 2.2 | 06.05.2024 02:19 | 11.2 km | 24 km |
| 2.1 | 13.02.2024 21:49 | 9 km | 12 km |
| 1.7 | 25.09.2023 11:00 | 29.6 km | 12 km |
| 2.4 | 07.09.2023 10:57 | 0 km | 21 km |
| 2.0 | 06.09.2023 00:32 | 8.4 km | 24 km |
| 1.6 | 30.08.2023 21:36 | 5.5 km | 30 km |
| 1.6 | 21.08.2023 00:42 | 7 km | 21 km |
| 1.9 | 24.06.2023 10:17 | 9 km | 23 km |
| 1.6 | 15.06.2023 02:01 | 24 km | 33 km |
| 1.7 | 05.05.2023 21:52 | 10 km | 21 km |
| 1.6 | 11.04.2023 18:40 | 22 km | 46 km |
| 1.8 | 06.04.2023 03:14 | 10 km | 10 km |
| 2.4 | 29.01.2023 03:53 | 15 km | 22 km |
| 2.1 | 17.01.2023 22:24 | 20 km | 18 km |
| 1.8 | 05.10.2022 21:19 | 10 km | 25 km |
| 2.0 | 14.06.2022 17:23 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 1.7 | 16.05.2022 03:28 | 17 km | 52 km |
| 2.4 | 20.03.2022 05:50 | 21 km | 56 km |
| 1.9 | 31.01.2022 23:49 | 16 km | 27 km |
| 1.9 | 27.01.2022 02:34 | 24 km | 57 km |
| 2.5 | 08.12.2021 20:33 | 20 km | 23 km |
| 2.2 | 15.08.2021 03:47 | 17 km | 41 km |
| 1.6 | 05.06.2021 20:39 | 19 km | 49 km |
| 1.6 | 19.04.2021 03:03 | 2 km | 11 km |
| 2.1 | 01.04.2021 10:04 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 1.5 | 18.03.2021 13:24 | 6 km | 59 km |
| 1.8 | 17.03.2021 13:11 | 14 km | 57 km |
| 2.0 | 12.03.2021 17:16 | 10 km | 6 km |
| 2.0 | 02.03.2021 15:27 | 9 km | 60 km |
| 1.8 | 24.12.2020 15:12 | 11 km | 36 km |
| 2.1 | 25.08.2020 01:30 | 10 km | 31 km |
| 2.1 | 04.08.2020 02:46 | 4 km | 58 km |
| 2.0 | 28.04.2020 17:49 | 21 km | 35 km |
| 2.2 | 17.04.2020 22:35 | 14 km | 27 km |
| 2.6 | 11.02.2020 07:22 | 15 km | 7 km |
| 3.0 | 13.08.2018 20:57 | 12 km | 17 km |
| 3.2 | 11.08.2018 10:36 | 15 km | 16 km |
| 3.3 | 07.08.2018 06:34 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 2.9 | 06.08.2018 06:40 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 3.1 | 06.08.2018 06:13 | 2 km | 20 km |
| 2.0 | 04.08.2018 07:26 | 1 km | 16 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.