2.0
688
recorded earthquakes
M6.0
largest
1909–2026
record span
2.01
mean magnitude
373
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 | 55 km |
| 5.6 | 02.09.2024 08:24 | 406.5 km | 90 km |
| 5.6 | 12.11.1934 08:31 | 35 km | 37 km |
| 5.4 | 18.05.1927 01:42 | 35 km | 126 km |
| 5.3 | 26.08.2024 04:11 | 28.3 km | 72 km |
| 5.2 | 28.02.1926 22:12 | 10 km | 122 km |
| 4.7 | 26.08.1966 05:56 | 10 km | 37 km |
| 4.7 | 16.10.1977 07:45 | 33 km | 92 km |
| 4.5 | 13.01.1964 04:43 | 0 km | 54 km |
| 4.4 | 19.02.2026 12:13 | 1 km | 92 km |
| 4.4 | 29.12.2005 04:25 | 4 km | 71 km |
| 4.3 | 04.06.1987 03:28 | 10 km | 86 km |
| 4.2 | 17.02.2009 16:00 | 12 km | 27 km |
| 4.2 | 17.08.2017 06:44 | 10 km | 89 km |
| 4.1 | 04.12.1998 18:34 | 0 km | 85 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.0 | 08.07.2026 01:49 | 10 km | 79 km |
| 2.3 | 31.05.2026 18:53 | 2 km | 41 km |
| 2.1 | 16.05.2026 08:11 | 0 km | 58 km |
| 2.0 | 24.02.2026 02:38 | 1 km | 66 km |
| 2.1 | 22.02.2026 21:32 | 0.7 km | 52 km |
| 4.0 | 19.02.2026 12:16 | 1.1 km | 95 km |
| 4.4 | 19.02.2026 12:13 | 1 km | 92 km |
| 2.3 | 07.02.2026 03:08 | 30.7 km | 71 km |
| 2.3 | 13.01.2026 07:01 | 10 km | 46 km |
| 2.5 | 31.10.2025 15:13 | 3 km | 59 km |
| 2.0 | 27.10.2025 02:07 | 0.8 km | 71 km |
| 3.6 | 04.10.2025 08:03 | 71.6 km | 65 km |
| 2.0 | 27.06.2025 08:17 | 0.1 km | 32 km |
| 2.4 | 21.05.2025 02:11 | 0.4 km | 76 km |
| 2.9 | 16.04.2025 02:44 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 2.6 | 18.02.2025 10:36 | 11.1 km | 51 km |
| 3.7 | 17.02.2025 13:24 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 3.8 | 27.12.2024 13:29 | 29.4 km | 60 km |
| 2.4 | 18.12.2024 08:19 | 0 km | 56 km |
| 2.2 | 12.11.2024 20:06 | 6.9 km | 68 km |
| 2.2 | 06.11.2024 01:08 | 12.3 km | 47 km |
| 2.8 | 02.10.2024 14:26 | 15.7 km | 60 km |
| 3.4 | 20.09.2024 22:33 | 10 km | 43 km |
| 2.1 | 14.09.2024 08:04 | 15 km | 69 km |
| 3.2 | 05.09.2024 02:26 | 17 km | 38 km |
| 5.6 | 02.09.2024 08:24 | 406.5 km | 90 km |
| 5.3 | 26.08.2024 04:11 | 28.3 km | 72 km |
| 2.0 | 22.08.2024 03:45 | 16 km | 72 km |
| 2.3 | 02.07.2024 04:40 | 1 km | 28 km |
| 3.0 | 18.06.2024 16:02 | 16.8 km | 23 km |
| 2.1 | 17.06.2024 11:58 | 8.5 km | 51 km |
| 2.1 | 09.06.2024 17:51 | 8 km | 90 km |
| 2.2 | 15.03.2024 14:52 | 7.8 km | 66 km |
| 2.4 | 09.03.2024 13:35 | 9.5 km | 55 km |
| 3.2 | 17.01.2024 09:59 | 0.5 km | 42 km |
| 3.4 | 29.12.2023 12:08 | 12.5 km | 60 km |
| 4.0 | 25.12.2023 21:02 | 3.1 km | 65 km |
| 3.8 | 15.09.2023 23:49 | 10 km | 26 km |
| 2.6 | 05.09.2023 14:47 | 13.7 km | 67 km |
| 3.0 | 13.08.2023 21:24 | 0.1 km | 57 km |
| 2.8 | 13.08.2023 21:16 | 0 km | 57 km |
| 2.4 | 06.08.2023 11:30 | 2.1 km | 75 km |
| 2.2 | 04.08.2023 01:15 | 11 km | 83 km |
| 2.5 | 30.06.2023 02:30 | 5.7 km | 37 km |
| 1.9 | 27.05.2023 05:13 | 1 km | 68 km |
| 1.9 | 20.05.2023 23:56 | 3 km | 40 km |
| 1.6 | 11.04.2023 00:47 | 12 km | 82 km |
| 1.9 | 10.04.2023 21:47 | 12 km | 57 km |
| 1.6 | 07.04.2023 18:03 | 11 km | 69 km |
| 1.9 | 06.04.2023 09:31 | 4 km | 69 km |
| 1.6 | 26.03.2023 02:09 | 14 km | 64 km |
| 1.6 | 13.03.2023 02:47 | 22 km | 65 km |
| 1.8 | 10.03.2023 17:48 | 7 km | 83 km |
| 2.3 | 09.03.2023 23:54 | 9 km | 50 km |
| 1.9 | 28.02.2023 23:56 | 18 km | 81 km |
| 2.5 | 23.02.2023 10:29 | 10 km | 56 km |
| 2.3 | 11.02.2023 13:07 | 2 km | 75 km |
| 1.6 | 28.01.2023 19:02 | 10 km | 66 km |
| 2.9 | 07.01.2023 18:41 | 20 km | 67 km |
| 2.2 | 21.12.2022 14:50 | 2 km | 54 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.