No records in the last 30 days.
375
recorded earthquakes
M5.6
largest
1927–2026
record span
2.40
mean magnitude
200
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.6 | 17.04.1974 01:31 | 33 km | 117 km |
| 5.6 | 14.02.2023 13:16 | 17.1 km | 91 km |
| 5.6 | 18.07.1991 11:56 | 9.8 km | 42 km |
| 5.6 | 15.05.1927 03:12 | 15 km | 139 km |
| 5.5 | 12.07.1991 10:42 | 8.1 km | 90 km |
| 5.5 | 02.12.1991 08:49 | 13.9 km | 79 km |
| 5.3 | 14.07.1949 11:09 | 15 km | 135 km |
| 5.2 | 06.09.1936 04:48 | 10 km | 105 km |
| 5.1 | 19.07.1991 01:27 | 10.4 km | 82 km |
| 5.0 | 13.02.2023 14:58 | 19.8 km | 90 km |
| 5.0 | 27.05.1959 20:38 | 15 km | 103 km |
| 4.8 | 24.03.1996 09:13 | 22.6 km | 96 km |
| 4.8 | 12.11.1994 18:50 | 0 km | 93 km |
| 4.7 | 02.08.1991 00:51 | 25.9 km | 75 km |
| 4.7 | 13.10.1994 23:31 | 10 km | 90 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 01.07.2026 19:50 | 7.8 km | 42 km |
| 2.6 | 31.03.2026 03:16 | 7.9 km | 67 km |
| 2.5 | 22.02.2026 13:17 | 8.5 km | 69 km |
| 2.4 | 04.06.2025 19:19 | 13.5 km | 54 km |
| 2.1 | 29.03.2025 23:34 | 2 km | 28 km |
| 2.6 | 18.03.2025 20:01 | 3 km | 67 km |
| 1.4 | 02.06.2024 08:31 | 10.3 km | 59 km |
| 2.8 | 18.05.2024 17:20 | 2 km | 31 km |
| 1.9 | 02.05.2024 09:50 | 10.3 km | 61 km |
| 4.2 | 30.04.2024 05:42 | 13.6 km | 60 km |
| 3.0 | 01.02.2024 22:06 | 12 km | 72 km |
| 3.8 | 13.01.2024 09:08 | 5.2 km | 67 km |
| 2.6 | 02.01.2024 18:44 | 2.3 km | 68 km |
| 2.7 | 26.10.2023 10:09 | 10.5 km | 69 km |
| 2.5 | 19.08.2023 18:01 | 14.5 km | 65 km |
| 3.7 | 19.08.2023 16:20 | 2 km | 33 km |
| 4.0 | 18.07.2023 20:30 | 12.9 km | 79 km |
| 4.3 | 19.06.2023 05:26 | 14 km | 82 km |
| 4.6 | 20.03.2023 14:02 | 17.7 km | 83 km |
| 4.0 | 22.02.2023 06:25 | 10.2 km | 81 km |
| 5.6 | 14.02.2023 13:16 | 17.1 km | 91 km |
| 5.0 | 13.02.2023 14:58 | 19.8 km | 90 km |
| 2.1 | 26.01.2023 16:31 | 10 km | 40 km |
| 2.6 | 25.01.2023 17:29 | 13 km | 62 km |
| 2.2 | 27.05.2022 20:29 | 14 km | 57 km |
| 2.5 | 24.07.2021 20:36 | 2 km | 78 km |
| 2.5 | 06.06.2021 10:48 | 3 km | 35 km |
| 2.8 | 23.05.2021 04:36 | 9 km | 44 km |
| 2.0 | 21.03.2021 04:17 | 2 km | 22 km |
| 2.2 | 08.02.2021 12:09 | 4 km | 34 km |
| 2.4 | 02.01.2021 04:07 | 5 km | 76 km |
| 2.2 | 16.12.2020 09:39 | 10 km | 66 km |
| 3.3 | 27.11.2020 06:38 | 4 km | 58 km |
| 2.5 | 23.11.2020 21:05 | 3 km | 58 km |
| 2.6 | 23.11.2020 05:55 | 3 km | 57 km |
| 2.3 | 22.11.2020 16:30 | 13 km | 57 km |
| 2.4 | 13.09.2020 21:32 | 2 km | 72 km |
| 2.9 | 26.06.2020 02:17 | 4 km | 50 km |
| 2.8 | 25.06.2020 17:36 | 17 km | 53 km |
| 3.0 | 25.06.2020 17:36 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 4.3 | 25.06.2020 17:30 | 18.7 km | 54 km |
| 3.3 | 25.06.2020 14:20 | 15 km | 51 km |
| 2.7 | 01.12.2019 13:21 | 5 km | 63 km |
| 2.6 | 29.11.2019 07:42 | 4 km | 66 km |
| 2.7 | 05.11.2019 05:26 | 2 km | 71 km |
| 2.6 | 19.11.2018 12:38 | 16 km | 37 km |
| 3.7 | 09.11.2018 01:14 | 5 km | 21 km |
| 2.4 | 25.08.2018 00:59 | 5 km | 63 km |
| 2.5 | 17.07.2018 08:45 | 5 km | 37 km |
| 2.3 | 29.08.2017 03:40 | 2 km | 48 km |
| 2.2 | 27.08.2017 14:56 | 14 km | 78 km |
| 2.7 | 04.07.2017 17:42 | 5 km | 20 km |
| 2.9 | 25.12.2016 18:41 | 11 km | 15 km |
| 2.5 | 16.08.2016 17:25 | 12 km | 32 km |
| 2.6 | 30.07.2016 16:05 | 9 km | 42 km |
| 4.4 | 09.06.2016 02:05 | 6.8 km | 80 km |
| 2.5 | 15.05.2015 22:58 | 5 km | 70 km |
| 2.8 | 09.01.2015 01:31 | 2 km | 32 km |
| 2.5 | 01.11.2014 09:40 | 31 km | 88 km |
| 3.6 | 31.10.2014 23:00 | 10.3 km | 19 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.