No records in the last 30 days.
1,653
recorded earthquakes
M6.0
largest
1922–2026
record span
1.99
mean magnitude
588
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 | 56 km |
| 6.0 | 24.03.1922 12:22 | 15 km | 8 km |
| 5.9 | 18.05.1980 20:02 | 10.9 km | 75 km |
| 5.6 | 15.05.1927 03:12 | 15 km | 69 km |
| 5.5 | 07.12.1985 18:32 | 5 km | 115 km |
| 5.5 | 03.11.2010 00:56 | 10.9 km | 35 km |
| 5.5 | 29.09.1998 22:14 | 18.2 km | 53 km |
| 5.5 | 18.05.1980 20:26 | 9.8 km | 74 km |
| 5.4 | 30.04.1999 03:30 | 14.8 km | 53 km |
| 5.3 | 14.07.1949 11:09 | 15 km | 74 km |
| 5.3 | 03.11.2024 17:04 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 5.2 | 01.07.1999 07:40 | 14.6 km | 63 km |
| 5.1 | 07.09.1984 00:44 | 10.1 km | 79 km |
| 5.0 | 10.09.1983 06:14 | 11.7 km | 74 km |
| 5.0 | 18.05.1978 02:37 | 10 km | 77 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 12.06.2026 16:23 | 10 km | 45 km |
| 2.3 | 01.05.2026 07:07 | 6 km | 47 km |
| 3.2 | 07.09.2025 11:39 | 4 km | 52 km |
| 4.0 | 05.09.2025 12:43 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 2.4 | 25.07.2025 23:42 | 2 km | 44 km |
| 2.4 | 21.07.2025 02:01 | 9 km | 44 km |
| 3.1 | 15.07.2025 16:13 | 4 km | 40 km |
| 2.9 | 06.06.2025 23:20 | 7 km | 45 km |
| 2.9 | 29.04.2025 20:58 | 7.4 km | 52 km |
| 2.7 | 07.03.2025 00:34 | 4 km | 43 km |
| 2.5 | 17.12.2024 18:15 | 2 km | 57 km |
| 5.3 | 03.11.2024 17:04 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 2.5 | 07.05.2024 14:03 | 9.5 km | 48 km |
| 2.6 | 18.04.2024 18:32 | 9 km | 19 km |
| 2.5 | 12.02.2024 21:04 | 12 km | 39 km |
| 2.5 | 10.02.2024 16:53 | 7 km | 61 km |
| 2.4 | 27.01.2024 03:43 | 3 km | 58 km |
| 2.3 | 06.01.2024 19:30 | 6 km | 49 km |
| 2.4 | 03.09.2023 22:34 | 9 km | 45 km |
| 2.5 | 18.08.2023 20:47 | 7 km | 45 km |
| 2.6 | 12.08.2023 04:04 | 7 km | 51 km |
| 2.8 | 09.07.2023 08:49 | 5 km | 44 km |
| 2.9 | 26.06.2023 17:41 | 1 km | 31 km |
| 3.3 | 13.05.2023 18:54 | 8 km | 56 km |
| 2.6 | 11.05.2023 17:46 | 5 km | 58 km |
| 2.8 | 03.04.2023 22:25 | 5 km | 47 km |
| 2.9 | 02.04.2023 02:26 | 3 km | 39 km |
| 2.5 | 27.03.2023 21:52 | 5 km | 39 km |
| 2.5 | 26.02.2023 14:19 | 1 km | 33 km |
| 2.4 | 12.02.2023 22:05 | 3 km | 34 km |
| 2.4 | 09.02.2023 18:46 | 4 km | 33 km |
| 3.1 | 03.12.2022 20:28 | 3 km | 47 km |
| 2.8 | 14.05.2022 00:36 | 8 km | 15 km |
| 3.1 | 12.05.2022 18:34 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 2.6 | 10.05.2022 07:20 | 8 km | 18 km |
| 2.2 | 06.03.2022 12:09 | 2 km | 29 km |
| 2.2 | 04.03.2022 02:28 | 2 km | 59 km |
| 2.8 | 08.02.2022 13:00 | 2 km | 50 km |
| 2.7 | 28.11.2021 11:21 | 230 km | 63 km |
| 2.4 | 01.05.2021 01:39 | 196 km | 64 km |
| 2.2 | 20.04.2021 03:22 | 4 km | 57 km |
| 2.9 | 20.03.2021 09:21 | 186 km | 62 km |
| 3.2 | 16.09.2020 00:28 | 3 km | 70 km |
| 3.3 | 18.07.2020 05:35 | 1 km | 61 km |
| 2.4 | 16.04.2020 18:13 | 9 km | 35 km |
| 2.5 | 13.01.2020 23:52 | 10 km | 53 km |
| 2.3 | 26.12.2019 13:12 | 8 km | 35 km |
| 2.1 | 05.10.2019 22:09 | 3 km | 53 km |
| 2.4 | 01.08.2019 22:49 | 3 km | 38 km |
| 2.7 | 06.07.2019 15:37 | 13 km | 77 km |
| 2.5 | 18.06.2019 04:21 | 4 km | 39 km |
| 2.6 | 30.04.2019 14:45 | 4 km | 61 km |
| 2.9 | 27.08.2018 14:30 | 5 km | 63 km |
| 2.7 | 20.08.2018 01:02 | 577 km | 46 km |
| 2.4 | 06.08.2018 00:27 | 6 km | 37 km |
| 2.7 | 31.07.2018 21:30 | 2 km | 69 km |
| 2.6 | 22.07.2018 07:22 | 5 km | 47 km |
| 2.3 | 02.11.2017 01:31 | 1 km | 51 km |
| 2.9 | 02.10.2017 06:12 | 2 km | 56 km |
| 2.7 | 27.09.2017 21:31 | 2 km | 56 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.