No records in the last 30 days.
424
recorded earthquakes
M7.0
largest
1904–2026
record span
2.44
mean magnitude
233
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 | 132 km |
| 6.8 | 04.04.1904 10:02 | 15 km | 120 km |
| 6.4 | 26.07.1963 04:17 | 15 km | 81 km |
| 6.1 | 08.10.1905 07:27 | 15 km | 92 km |
| 6.0 | 30.03.1921 15:06 | 15 km | 109 km |
| 5.7 | 24.04.2002 10:51 | 7.2 km | 45 km |
| 5.7 | 22.05.2012 00:01 | 16 km | 83 km |
| 5.6 | 22.05.2012 00:00 | 10.8 km | 81 km |
| 5.6 | 27.08.1942 06:14 | 35 km | 103 km |
| 5.5 | 07.12.1985 18:32 | 5 km | 82 km |
| 5.5 | 20.12.1929 20:19 | 15 km | 82 km |
| 5.4 | 23.02.1910 07:52 | 10 km | 109 km |
| 5.2 | 09.06.1922 15:36 | 15 km | 72 km |
| 5.2 | 13.08.1907 02:20 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 5.1 | 11.09.2016 13:10 | 11.3 km | 73 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.7 | 28.03.2026 07:21 | 10.4 km | 11 km |
| 3.2 | 15.12.2025 06:20 | 3.9 km | 51 km |
| 2.7 | 16.07.2025 20:43 | 5.3 km | 55 km |
| 2.6 | 14.04.2025 01:21 | 15 km | 44 km |
| 4.1 | 09.04.2025 01:13 | 11.9 km | 47 km |
| 2.8 | 17.12.2024 10:41 | 12 km | 54 km |
| 3.6 | 13.10.2024 18:46 | 10 km | 7 km |
| 3.0 | 13.10.2024 06:27 | 9 km | 5 km |
| 3.7 | 13.10.2024 02:48 | 11.8 km | 7 km |
| 2.8 | 13.08.2024 21:47 | 2 km | 41 km |
| 2.6 | 26.03.2024 16:45 | 11.7 km | 45 km |
| 2.0 | 11.03.2024 22:37 | 0 km | 25 km |
| 3.2 | 02.12.2023 11:03 | 10 km | 46 km |
| 2.2 | 03.06.2022 22:06 | 10 km | 46 km |
| 5.0 | 19.01.2022 16:50 | 15 km | 71 km |
| 2.5 | 20.02.2021 15:46 | 2 km | 40 km |
| 2.7 | 29.09.2020 05:09 | 2 km | 65 km |
| 3.0 | 01.09.2020 11:29 | 5 km | 34 km |
| 4.1 | 29.12.2019 17:36 | 15 km | 50 km |
| 2.4 | 25.12.2019 11:57 | 9 km | 26 km |
| 2.8 | 22.11.2018 16:48 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 2.4 | 15.09.2018 05:15 | 2 km | 37 km |
| 2.2 | 19.08.2018 12:18 | 3 km | 29 km |
| 2.6 | 09.04.2018 21:26 | 5 km | 20 km |
| 2.3 | 08.04.2017 10:43 | 1 km | 40 km |
| 2.5 | 07.03.2017 05:06 | 2 km | 46 km |
| 2.1 | 08.02.2017 20:29 | 2 km | 44 km |
| 5.1 | 11.09.2016 13:10 | 11.3 km | 73 km |
| 4.0 | 11.09.2016 04:58 | 11.1 km | 72 km |
| 4.4 | 29.07.2016 22:13 | 359 km | 67 km |
| 2.4 | 06.04.2016 09:05 | 5 km | 47 km |
| 2.9 | 09.08.2015 07:55 | 1 km | 33 km |
| 2.5 | 09.08.2015 07:43 | 5 km | 38 km |
| 2.5 | 05.05.2015 20:18 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 3.1 | 05.05.2015 02:11 | 667 km | 52 km |
| 2.9 | 06.04.2015 20:23 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 3.5 | 06.04.2015 08:50 | 1 km | 48 km |
| 2.4 | 07.01.2015 14:12 | 2 km | 25 km |
| 2.4 | 24.07.2014 16:24 | 1 km | 47 km |
| 3.4 | 05.03.2014 19:04 | 6 km | 29 km |
| 3.5 | 02.03.2014 19:17 | 15 km | 35 km |
| 2.4 | 26.02.2014 04:07 | 2 km | 25 km |
| 2.2 | 23.03.2013 16:42 | 8 km | 46 km |
| 3.0 | 17.02.2013 16:05 | 2 km | 34 km |
| 2.9 | 06.02.2013 04:08 | 493 km | 51 km |
| 2.7 | 28.11.2012 03:41 | 5 km | 33 km |
| 2.2 | 01.10.2012 17:58 | 2 km | 46 km |
| 2.8 | 19.08.2012 06:36 | 5 km | 28 km |
| 2.2 | 26.05.2012 13:18 | 2 km | 41 km |
| 5.7 | 22.05.2012 00:01 | 16 km | 83 km |
| 5.6 | 22.05.2012 00:00 | 10.8 km | 81 km |
| 2.2 | 21.01.2012 21:34 | 2 km | 41 km |
| 1.6 | 18.12.2011 13:53 | 14.9 km | 44 km |
| 1.2 | 02.12.2011 16:55 | 0 km | 42 km |
| 1.6 | 30.11.2011 14:20 | 0 km | 51 km |
| 1.7 | 30.11.2011 13:35 | 15 km | 17 km |
| 1.3 | 29.11.2011 13:50 | 4.7 km | 42 km |
| 1.3 | 22.11.2011 08:38 | 0 km | 49 km |
| 1.5 | 04.11.2011 14:30 | 7.3 km | 48 km |
| 1.5 | 02.11.2011 22:37 | 2 km | 23 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.