2.0
233
recorded earthquakes
M6.0
largest
1909–2026
record span
2.31
mean magnitude
135
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | 23.04.1909 17:39 | 10 km | 32 km |
| 4.8 | 08.04.1989 03:36 | 4.1 km | 52 km |
| 4.4 | 19.02.2026 12:13 | 1 km | 6 km |
| 4.2 | 17.08.2017 06:44 | 10 km | 7 km |
| 4.0 | 05.08.1987 17:26 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 4.0 | 19.02.2026 12:16 | 1.1 km | 14 km |
| 3.8 | 20.09.1999 21:54 | 10 km | 35 km |
| 3.7 | 17.02.2025 13:24 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 3.7 | 22.05.1988 14:00 | 10 km | 23 km |
| 3.6 | 04.09.1996 04:01 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 3.6 | 12.02.2021 22:08 | 19 km | 52 km |
| 3.6 | 18.02.1990 19:03 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 3.5 | 05.10.1987 16:40 | 5 km | 24 km |
| 3.5 | 17.04.1986 19:42 | 10 km | 29 km |
| 3.4 | 18.08.2010 07:57 | 15 km | 32 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.0 | 08.07.2026 01:49 | 10 km | 9 km |
| 2.0 | 21.03.2026 17:03 | 15.5 km | 3 km |
| 2.4 | 19.02.2026 15:16 | 6 km | 10 km |
| 2.2 | 19.02.2026 15:15 | 0.4 km | 17 km |
| 4.0 | 19.02.2026 12:16 | 1.1 km | 14 km |
| 4.4 | 19.02.2026 12:13 | 1 km | 6 km |
| 2.0 | 27.10.2025 02:07 | 0.8 km | 38 km |
| 2.1 | 15.10.2025 06:09 | 1.5 km | 13 km |
| 2.4 | 28.09.2025 20:43 | 15.5 km | 55 km |
| 2.5 | 31.07.2025 22:55 | 13.2 km | 55 km |
| 2.0 | 27.06.2025 08:17 | 0.1 km | 58 km |
| 2.2 | 26.06.2025 22:01 | 2 km | 42 km |
| 2.6 | 16.06.2025 23:41 | 15.4 km | 44 km |
| 2.2 | 15.04.2025 01:16 | 10.5 km | 21 km |
| 2.3 | 22.03.2025 20:47 | 13.4 km | 35 km |
| 2.6 | 18.02.2025 10:36 | 11.1 km | 49 km |
| 3.7 | 17.02.2025 13:24 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 2.1 | 26.11.2024 00:13 | 15.3 km | 33 km |
| 2.0 | 16.05.2024 18:49 | 15.6 km | 53 km |
| 2.2 | 13.04.2024 08:12 | 13.4 km | 22 km |
| 2.6 | 10.02.2024 21:39 | 34.6 km | 61 km |
| 2.2 | 03.11.2023 10:37 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 3.0 | 14.08.2023 00:44 | 16.6 km | 56 km |
| 2.7 | 23.03.2023 15:00 | 5 km | 11 km |
| 2.2 | 20.03.2023 19:31 | 8 km | 53 km |
| 2.6 | 16.01.2023 07:40 | 5 km | 50 km |
| 3.4 | 03.01.2023 01:26 | 19 km | 26 km |
| 2.2 | 14.09.2022 17:23 | 15 km | 26 km |
| 2.6 | 27.08.2022 19:40 | 15 km | 33 km |
| 2.7 | 24.06.2022 19:27 | 15 km | 37 km |
| 2.1 | 11.03.2022 00:37 | 1 km | 26 km |
| 2.4 | 01.02.2022 04:17 | 3 km | 26 km |
| 2.4 | 04.09.2021 05:06 | 15 km | 42 km |
| 3.0 | 09.07.2021 02:45 | 19 km | 42 km |
| 3.3 | 18.03.2021 09:51 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 3.6 | 12.02.2021 22:08 | 19 km | 52 km |
| 2.7 | 31.01.2021 11:44 | 1 km | 49 km |
| 2.3 | 21.11.2020 04:05 | 15 km | 47 km |
| 2.4 | 06.01.2020 15:58 | 17 km | 27 km |
| 2.0 | 08.02.2018 10:52 | 15 km | 27 km |
| 2.0 | 10.10.2017 18:44 | 1 km | 28 km |
| 3.3 | 04.09.2017 17:58 | 15 km | 39 km |
| 2.0 | 25.08.2017 14:01 | 1 km | 50 km |
| 2.0 | 17.08.2017 09:06 | 1 km | 7 km |
| 4.2 | 17.08.2017 06:44 | 10 km | 7 km |
| 2.7 | 15.08.2017 10:22 | 15 km | 8 km |
| 3.0 | 15.08.2017 10:16 | 12 km | 11 km |
| 2.3 | 10.07.2017 10:17 | 6 km | 45 km |
| 2.3 | 30.06.2017 15:54 | 1 km | 21 km |
| 2.0 | 28.06.2017 05:22 | 1 km | 29 km |
| 2.0 | 02.05.2017 09:23 | 31 km | 43 km |
| 2.5 | 23.09.2016 06:34 | 6 km | 37 km |
| 2.4 | 21.09.2016 00:24 | 11 km | 22 km |
| 2.1 | 31.07.2016 15:41 | 3 km | 33 km |
| 2.1 | 29.05.2016 13:26 | 1 km | 39 km |
| 2.1 | 20.11.2015 09:40 | 15 km | 24 km |
| 3.2 | 18.07.2015 23:26 | 18 km | 33 km |
| 3.2 | 19.02.2015 07:58 | 15 km | 31 km |
| 2.1 | 02.01.2015 21:45 | 13 km | 11 km |
| 2.0 | 02.10.2014 06:43 | 1 km | 46 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.