No records in the last 30 days.
163
recorded earthquakes
M7.7
largest
1901–2026
record span
3.24
mean magnitude
79
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.7 | 10.11.1940 01:39 | 150 km | 204 km |
| 7.5 | 04.03.1977 19:21 | 85.3 km | 194 km |
| 7.2 | 31.03.1901 07:10 | 14 km | 186 km |
| 7.2 | 30.08.1986 21:28 | 137.4 km | 201 km |
| 6.0 | 25.05.1912 18:01 | 100 km | 147 km |
| 5.3 | 13.11.1981 09:07 | 27.1 km | 24 km |
| 4.8 | 23.04.2016 23:23 | 13.4 km | 37 km |
| 4.8 | 19.07.1987 02:18 | 14 km | 106 km |
| 4.8 | 03.10.2004 09:02 | 14.6 km | 18 km |
| 4.8 | 11.09.1980 23:24 | 12.3 km | 78 km |
| 4.4 | 18.03.2005 15:43 | 11.5 km | 99 km |
| 4.2 | 12.08.1990 12:22 | 0 km | 9 km |
| 4.2 | 16.08.2017 15:16 | 14.6 km | 84 km |
| 4.1 | 30.09.2013 05:01 | 10.8 km | 95 km |
| 4.1 | 23.01.1994 03:57 | 0 km | 15 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 | 18.06.2026 18:21 | 8.2 km | 48 km |
| 3.4 | 26.02.2026 18:52 | 3 km | 39 km |
| 3.2 | 20.10.2025 00:35 | 7.9 km | 71 km |
| 3.0 | 22.04.2025 07:33 | 6.6 km | 43 km |
| 2.1 | 23.01.2025 04:42 | 6 km | 85 km |
| 2.6 | 22.01.2025 16:57 | 6 km | 79 km |
| 3.0 | 29.09.2024 15:35 | 8.4 km | 72 km |
| 2.7 | 20.09.2024 16:55 | 7.8 km | 88 km |
| 2.4 | 15.08.2024 11:21 | 5 km | 93 km |
| 4.1 | 12.07.2024 17:39 | 17.5 km | 56 km |
| 2.1 | 05.05.2024 16:07 | 10.1 km | 72 km |
| 2.4 | 12.04.2024 17:20 | 7.9 km | 73 km |
| 2.3 | 10.04.2024 17:42 | 7.3 km | 72 km |
| 2.9 | 07.04.2024 14:47 | 10.2 km | 73 km |
| 3.3 | 06.04.2024 16:51 | 9.3 km | 74 km |
| 2.4 | 04.10.2023 20:54 | 1 km | 65 km |
| 2.7 | 20.06.2023 02:34 | 2 km | 45 km |
| 3.1 | 26.02.2023 13:11 | 10 km | 79 km |
| 2.6 | 07.10.2022 09:00 | 5 km | 45 km |
| 2.9 | 24.07.2022 22:04 | 5 km | 48 km |
| 2.6 | 28.07.2021 04:01 | 13 km | 64 km |
| 2.7 | 22.04.2021 13:46 | 26 km | 14 km |
| 2.7 | 29.03.2018 11:49 | 9 km | 90 km |
| 2.5 | 03.03.2018 20:16 | 7 km | 89 km |
| 2.1 | 09.01.2018 15:05 | 9 km | 90 km |
| 4.2 | 16.08.2017 15:16 | 14.6 km | 84 km |
| 2.7 | 20.07.2017 20:25 | 6 km | 90 km |
| 2.3 | 24.05.2017 15:17 | 10 km | 94 km |
| 2.1 | 06.12.2016 14:41 | 15 km | 82 km |
| 3.2 | 17.09.2016 12:43 | 5 km | 70 km |
| 2.3 | 24.07.2016 09:42 | 2 km | 58 km |
| 2.9 | 23.04.2016 23:23 | 7 km | 54 km |
| 4.8 | 23.04.2016 23:23 | 13.4 km | 37 km |
| 2.9 | 27.10.2015 11:08 | 5 km | 94 km |
| 2.5 | 27.08.2015 07:59 | 11 km | 27 km |
| 2.8 | 08.07.2015 14:08 | 20 km | 87 km |
| 2.5 | 13.06.2015 11:55 | 23 km | 65 km |
| 3.0 | 17.05.2015 11:08 | 5 km | 69 km |
| 3.0 | 13.03.2015 18:38 | 6 km | 90 km |
| 3.0 | 08.03.2015 06:03 | 8 km | 62 km |
| 2.5 | 01.03.2015 02:45 | 30 km | 42 km |
| 3.6 | 03.01.2015 03:39 | 7 km | 71 km |
| 3.0 | 02.10.2014 09:19 | 5 km | 75 km |
| 3.0 | 09.08.2014 01:39 | 4.2 km | 64 km |
| 2.5 | 31.10.2013 05:17 | 1 km | 91 km |
| 2.6 | 31.10.2013 00:28 | 6 km | 91 km |
| 2.5 | 30.10.2013 22:47 | 1 km | 91 km |
| 2.6 | 26.10.2013 02:49 | 5 km | 87 km |
| 2.8 | 15.10.2013 20:41 | 4 km | 90 km |
| 2.7 | 12.10.2013 12:33 | 1 km | 88 km |
| 2.8 | 06.10.2013 02:35 | 3 km | 90 km |
| 3.5 | 05.10.2013 15:19 | 5 km | 91 km |
| 2.6 | 04.10.2013 21:10 | 6 km | 91 km |
| 3.4 | 04.10.2013 21:08 | 10 km | 89 km |
| 2.9 | 04.10.2013 17:25 | 2 km | 90 km |
| 2.5 | 04.10.2013 15:11 | 7 km | 89 km |
| 2.9 | 04.10.2013 14:38 | 6 km | 89 km |
| 3.8 | 04.10.2013 14:29 | 5 km | 87 km |
| 3.8 | 03.10.2013 09:27 | 4 km | 92 km |
| 3.1 | 03.10.2013 06:41 | 4 km | 90 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.