No records in the last 30 days.
540
recorded earthquakes
M6.0
largest
1922–2026
record span
1.93
mean magnitude
267
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 | 15.05.1927 02:47 | 15 km | 77 km |
| 6.0 | 24.03.1922 12:22 | 15 km | 67 km |
| 5.6 | 15.05.1927 03:12 | 15 km | 69 km |
| 5.5 | 03.11.2010 00:56 | 10.9 km | 86 km |
| 5.5 | 29.09.1998 22:14 | 18.2 km | 16 km |
| 5.4 | 30.04.1999 03:30 | 14.8 km | 18 km |
| 5.3 | 14.07.1949 11:09 | 15 km | 85 km |
| 5.3 | 28.06.1956 17:42 | 15 km | 97 km |
| 5.1 | 16.06.1959 03:28 | 15 km | 94 km |
| 4.8 | 29.04.1991 21:38 | 19.2 km | 71 km |
| 4.8 | 22.03.2006 11:26 | 9.2 km | 30 km |
| 4.4 | 08.03.2015 20:47 | 5.5 km | 22 km |
| 4.3 | 30.04.1999 07:41 | 2.1 km | 25 km |
| 4.2 | 31.03.2006 13:18 | 11 km | 36 km |
| 4.2 | 20.10.1990 13:31 | 10 km | 61 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.3 | 01.05.2026 07:07 | 6 km | 21 km |
| 2.4 | 25.07.2025 23:42 | 2 km | 40 km |
| 2.4 | 21.07.2025 02:01 | 9 km | 60 km |
| 3.1 | 15.07.2025 16:13 | 4 km | 57 km |
| 2.8 | 30.06.2025 05:48 | 3 km | 49 km |
| 2.9 | 06.06.2025 23:20 | 7 km | 43 km |
| 2.7 | 07.03.2025 00:34 | 4 km | 25 km |
| 2.3 | 06.01.2024 19:30 | 6 km | 20 km |
| 2.5 | 18.08.2023 20:47 | 7 km | 24 km |
| 3.1 | 03.12.2022 20:28 | 3 km | 28 km |
| 2.7 | 06.10.2022 10:32 | 8 km | 23 km |
| 3.2 | 08.06.2022 22:46 | 4 km | 30 km |
| 3.1 | 12.05.2022 18:34 | 10 km | 53 km |
| 2.7 | 28.11.2021 11:21 | 230 km | 21 km |
| 2.6 | 07.11.2021 01:51 | 5 km | 51 km |
| 3.1 | 15.08.2021 16:32 | 5 km | 45 km |
| 3.0 | 10.05.2021 10:35 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 2.4 | 21.08.2020 08:36 | 2 km | 55 km |
| 2.6 | 30.04.2019 14:45 | 4 km | 16 km |
| 2.4 | 06.08.2018 00:27 | 6 km | 60 km |
| 2.3 | 02.11.2017 01:31 | 1 km | 20 km |
| 2.8 | 15.09.2017 13:12 | 2 km | 54 km |
| 3.0 | 20.05.2017 16:12 | 5 km | 27 km |
| 2.1 | 12.09.2016 15:51 | 2 km | 27 km |
| 2.6 | 23.06.2016 11:28 | 5 km | 53 km |
| 2.1 | 22.06.2016 23:28 | 4 km | 53 km |
| 2.6 | 18.03.2016 02:17 | 2 km | 16 km |
| 3.2 | 02.12.2015 20:35 | 2 km | 54 km |
| 2.0 | 05.11.2015 06:03 | 3 km | 53 km |
| 3.0 | 23.03.2015 14:05 | 5 km | 28 km |
| 2.3 | 20.03.2015 02:16 | 2 km | 30 km |
| 3.3 | 19.03.2015 20:42 | 4 km | 28 km |
| 2.7 | 09.03.2015 00:21 | 4 km | 23 km |
| 4.4 | 08.03.2015 20:47 | 5.5 km | 22 km |
| 2.7 | 05.03.2015 21:31 | 4 km | 28 km |
| 2.5 | 02.03.2015 20:22 | 1 km | 55 km |
| 3.1 | 02.03.2015 20:12 | 2 km | 29 km |
| 2.5 | 18.08.2014 07:48 | 5 km | 46 km |
| 2.8 | 05.08.2014 06:25 | 3 km | 22 km |
| 2.7 | 21.04.2014 02:36 | 1 km | 40 km |
| 2.5 | 15.03.2014 08:16 | 5 km | 46 km |
| 2.5 | 17.12.2013 13:49 | 3 km | 25 km |
| 3.0 | 04.11.2013 02:16 | 1 km | 56 km |
| 2.8 | 22.09.2013 20:27 | 2 km | 30 km |
| 2.7 | 20.09.2013 22:13 | 2 km | 35 km |
| 3.1 | 28.08.2013 05:16 | 1 km | 62 km |
| 2.6 | 18.09.2012 22:25 | 1 km | 15 km |
| 2.0 | 23.08.2012 09:43 | 2 km | 42 km |
| 1.5 | 27.12.2011 16:05 | 4.1 km | 33 km |
| 1.8 | 27.12.2011 07:04 | 2 km | 34 km |
| 1.3 | 26.12.2011 15:18 | 0 km | 22 km |
| 1.1 | 09.12.2011 02:38 | 0 km | 19 km |
| 1.2 | 05.12.2011 13:38 | 0 km | 50 km |
| 1.2 | 01.12.2011 14:10 | 0 km | 56 km |
| 1.9 | 29.11.2011 09:03 | 2 km | 50 km |
| 1.4 | 25.11.2011 22:21 | 3 km | 49 km |
| 1.5 | 25.11.2011 00:09 | 5.7 km | 24 km |
| 1.4 | 23.11.2011 16:00 | 0.2 km | 19 km |
| 1.8 | 19.11.2011 23:40 | 2 km | 26 km |
| 1.4 | 14.11.2011 13:34 | 0 km | 55 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.