2.3
289
recorded earthquakes
M7.0
largest
1904–2026
record span
2.30
mean magnitude
120
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | 04.04.1904 10:26 | 15 km | 166 km |
| 6.4 | 26.07.1963 04:17 | 15 km | 114 km |
| 6.1 | 08.10.1905 07:27 | 15 km | 109 km |
| 5.9 | 18.05.1980 20:02 | 10.9 km | 96 km |
| 5.7 | 24.04.2002 10:51 | 7.2 km | 67 km |
| 5.7 | 22.05.2012 00:01 | 16 km | 91 km |
| 5.6 | 22.05.2012 00:00 | 10.8 km | 91 km |
| 5.5 | 07.12.1985 18:32 | 5 km | 54 km |
| 5.5 | 18.05.1980 20:26 | 9.8 km | 95 km |
| 5.2 | 09.06.1922 15:36 | 15 km | 28 km |
| 5.2 | 13.08.1907 02:20 | 10 km | 61 km |
| 5.1 | 07.09.1984 00:44 | 10.1 km | 88 km |
| 5.0 | 10.09.1983 06:14 | 11.7 km | 95 km |
| 5.0 | 19.01.2022 16:50 | 15 km | 77 km |
| 5.0 | 18.05.1978 02:37 | 10 km | 90 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.3 | 14.07.2026 08:48 | 5 km | 44 km |
| 2.9 | 13.07.2026 13:02 | 1 km | 45 km |
| 3.7 | 01.07.2026 07:46 | 10 km | 9 km |
| 2.7 | 28.03.2026 07:21 | 10.4 km | 38 km |
| 2.6 | 06.09.2025 15:14 | 3 km | 47 km |
| 3.2 | 29.12.2024 17:57 | 10.2 km | 58 km |
| 3.6 | 13.10.2024 18:46 | 10 km | 37 km |
| 3.0 | 13.10.2024 06:27 | 9 km | 38 km |
| 3.7 | 13.10.2024 02:48 | 11.8 km | 37 km |
| 2.4 | 03.09.2024 19:18 | 7 km | 57 km |
| 3.2 | 02.12.2023 11:03 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 2.3 | 18.10.2022 13:12 | 2 km | 9 km |
| 2.5 | 14.10.2022 11:02 | 2 km | 10 km |
| 2.2 | 13.10.2022 09:17 | 7 km | 9 km |
| 2.4 | 10.02.2022 10:04 | 5 km | 43 km |
| 5.0 | 19.01.2022 16:50 | 15 km | 77 km |
| 2.8 | 20.11.2021 11:15 | 590 km | 57 km |
| 3.2 | 17.08.2021 17:43 | 422 km | 34 km |
| 2.7 | 29.09.2020 05:09 | 2 km | 52 km |
| 2.9 | 29.04.2020 15:45 | 5 km | 63 km |
| 2.7 | 14.09.2019 20:27 | 3 km | 52 km |
| 2.9 | 07.01.2019 03:23 | 2 km | 34 km |
| 2.4 | 15.09.2018 05:15 | 2 km | 17 km |
| 2.2 | 19.08.2018 12:18 | 3 km | 17 km |
| 2.8 | 08.05.2018 04:43 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 2.6 | 09.04.2018 21:26 | 5 km | 24 km |
| 2.3 | 08.04.2017 10:43 | 1 km | 12 km |
| 2.5 | 03.10.2016 16:52 | 5 km | 57 km |
| 2.9 | 09.08.2015 07:55 | 1 km | 11 km |
| 2.5 | 09.08.2015 07:43 | 5 km | 5 km |
| 2.5 | 30.05.2015 17:37 | 393 km | 65 km |
| 3.1 | 05.05.2015 02:11 | 667 km | 61 km |
| 2.5 | 25.02.2015 06:23 | 2 km | 45 km |
| 2.5 | 25.09.2014 22:49 | 5 km | 32 km |
| 3.4 | 11.03.2014 18:50 | 5 km | 28 km |
| 4.3 | 18.11.2013 13:15 | 6.8 km | 77 km |
| 3.0 | 17.02.2013 16:05 | 2 km | 10 km |
| 5.7 | 22.05.2012 00:01 | 16 km | 91 km |
| 5.6 | 22.05.2012 00:00 | 10.8 km | 91 km |
| 3.1 | 04.05.2012 13:20 | 9 km | 27 km |
| 2.2 | 21.01.2012 21:34 | 2 km | 53 km |
| 1.3 | 20.12.2011 02:34 | 0 km | 36 km |
| 1.6 | 12.12.2011 14:09 | 7.5 km | 65 km |
| 1.3 | 10.12.2011 10:27 | 0 km | 37 km |
| 1.6 | 09.12.2011 08:23 | 0 km | 27 km |
| 1.8 | 18.11.2011 13:56 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 1.4 | 12.11.2011 14:36 | 0 km | 30 km |
| 1.5 | 04.11.2011 14:30 | 7.3 km | 58 km |
| 1.5 | 02.11.2011 22:37 | 2 km | 32 km |
| 1.5 | 02.11.2011 12:50 | 2.7 km | 49 km |
| 2.2 | 01.11.2011 17:35 | 3 km | 63 km |
| 1.3 | 19.10.2011 15:11 | 10.4 km | 39 km |
| 1.4 | 07.10.2011 18:46 | 4.1 km | 44 km |
| 1.3 | 03.10.2011 06:52 | 0 km | 46 km |
| 1.9 | 09.09.2011 17:00 | 0 km | 16 km |
| 1.3 | 09.09.2011 15:31 | 0 km | 64 km |
| 1.4 | 09.09.2011 06:52 | 0 km | 50 km |
| 1.3 | 07.09.2011 16:12 | 0 km | 43 km |
| 1.2 | 07.09.2011 12:48 | 0 km | 40 km |
| 1.3 | 22.08.2011 13:18 | 0 km | 43 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.