No records in the last 30 days.
460
recorded earthquakes
M4.3
largest
1986–2026
record span
1.66
mean magnitude
136
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.3 | 10.08.1986 15:11 | 10 km | 81 km |
| 4.1 | 13.12.2025 00:38 | 22 km | 31 km |
| 4.0 | 31.01.1988 15:09 | 10 km | 74 km |
| 3.9 | 20.08.1986 08:22 | 10 km | 79 km |
| 3.8 | 06.06.2017 16:03 | 16 km | 61 km |
| 3.8 | 20.08.1998 00:35 | 11.1 km | 53 km |
| 3.8 | 05.09.2023 18:20 | 10 km | 32 km |
| 3.7 | 03.08.1998 09:22 | 10 km | 26 km |
| 3.6 | 11.08.1993 06:11 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 3.6 | 24.11.1993 20:37 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 3.5 | 10.02.2016 09:36 | 15 km | 23 km |
| 3.5 | 18.08.1998 11:10 | 8.3 km | 52 km |
| 3.5 | 31.12.1996 17:44 | 10 km | 61 km |
| 3.5 | 20.12.2018 12:42 | 10 km | 42 km |
| 3.4 | 07.10.1993 19:55 | 10 km | 33 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1 | 04.07.2026 20:10 | 1.4 km | 74 km |
| 1.6 | 14.05.2026 00:02 | 0 km | 25 km |
| 1.9 | 17.03.2026 16:27 | 11.4 km | 45 km |
| 2.1 | 14.01.2026 23:21 | 3.6 km | 76 km |
| 4.1 | 13.12.2025 00:38 | 22 km | 31 km |
| 1.7 | 17.09.2025 18:54 | 11.6 km | 79 km |
| 1.6 | 08.07.2025 16:45 | 11 km | 75 km |
| 2.1 | 11.04.2025 19:28 | 3.6 km | 62 km |
| 2.8 | 22.12.2024 17:23 | 20 km | 75 km |
| 1.7 | 02.11.2024 18:30 | 0.4 km | 54 km |
| 2.1 | 23.10.2024 00:01 | 9.3 km | 52 km |
| 1.7 | 04.10.2024 21:33 | 5.7 km | 50 km |
| 2.1 | 30.08.2024 11:46 | 6.8 km | 36 km |
| 1.5 | 22.06.2024 10:59 | 1.7 km | 61 km |
| 2.2 | 27.10.2023 13:39 | 2.3 km | 40 km |
| 1.8 | 08.10.2023 10:31 | 15 km | 50 km |
| 1.9 | 19.09.2023 04:14 | 3.8 km | 40 km |
| 3.8 | 05.09.2023 18:20 | 10 km | 32 km |
| 1.9 | 31.07.2023 15:08 | 1.2 km | 37 km |
| 2.3 | 26.03.2023 09:36 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 2.3 | 03.02.2023 16:46 | 4 km | 45 km |
| 2.1 | 14.08.2022 06:40 | 4 km | 62 km |
| 1.7 | 02.06.2022 12:04 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 1.8 | 19.09.2021 09:46 | 11 km | 62 km |
| 2.2 | 15.08.2021 03:47 | 17 km | 71 km |
| 2.1 | 09.08.2021 12:32 | 12 km | 36 km |
| 1.9 | 09.08.2021 12:15 | 6 km | 36 km |
| 2.1 | 16.05.2021 05:15 | 5 km | 45 km |
| 2.1 | 04.08.2020 02:46 | 4 km | 48 km |
| 2.6 | 20.11.2019 04:32 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 2.1 | 08.11.2019 08:31 | 6 km | 23 km |
| 2.0 | 31.10.2019 09:08 | 2 km | 25 km |
| 3.5 | 20.12.2018 12:42 | 10 km | 42 km |
| 2.7 | 10.11.2018 01:54 | 12 km | 71 km |
| 2.7 | 19.09.2018 23:21 | 15 km | 31 km |
| 2.0 | 23.04.2018 04:46 | 1 km | 28 km |
| 3.8 | 06.06.2017 16:03 | 16 km | 61 km |
| 2.8 | 11.09.2016 11:30 | 12 km | 65 km |
| 3.5 | 10.02.2016 09:36 | 15 km | 23 km |
| 2.4 | 10.12.2015 05:14 | 14 km | 65 km |
| 2.4 | 11.08.2015 19:55 | 6 km | 62 km |
| 2.4 | 19.07.2015 17:03 | 20 km | 30 km |
| 3.1 | 24.11.2014 06:09 | 15 km | 49 km |
| 2.5 | 27.10.2014 12:35 | 1 km | 59 km |
| 2.1 | 21.05.2014 01:25 | 11 km | 77 km |
| 2.2 | 31.07.2013 12:11 | 4 km | 73 km |
| 2.1 | 27.05.2013 14:09 | 5 km | 51 km |
| 3.2 | 13.02.2013 17:22 | 15 km | 67 km |
| 2.2 | 26.09.2012 10:59 | 14 km | 51 km |
| 2.8 | 17.07.2012 01:29 | 6 km | 41 km |
| 2.6 | 07.03.2012 07:45 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 1.6 | 25.12.2011 01:02 | 0 km | 69 km |
| 1.7 | 22.12.2011 06:37 | 0 km | 68 km |
| 1.3 | 19.12.2011 12:47 | 0 km | 61 km |
| 2.3 | 14.12.2011 09:13 | 18 km | 53 km |
| 1.3 | 25.11.2011 13:40 | 0 km | 64 km |
| 1.0 | 23.11.2011 17:48 | 0 km | 56 km |
| 1.6 | 09.11.2011 18:20 | 0 km | 57 km |
| 1.6 | 08.11.2011 15:44 | 0 km | 65 km |
| 1.1 | 04.11.2011 14:58 | 0 km | 68 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.