No records in the last 30 days.
156
recorded earthquakes
M7.7
largest
1908–2026
record span
3.51
mean magnitude
65
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 | 131 km |
| 7.5 | 04.03.1977 19:21 | 85.3 km | 106 km |
| 7.2 | 30.08.1986 21:28 | 137.4 km | 144 km |
| 6.9 | 30.05.1990 10:40 | 92.5 km | 109 km |
| 6.6 | 06.10.1908 21:39 | 150 km | 144 km |
| 6.5 | 22.10.1940 06:37 | 150 km | 125 km |
| 6.5 | 07.09.1945 15:48 | 100 km | 92 km |
| 6.3 | 31.05.1990 00:17 | 91.1 km | 108 km |
| 6.2 | 29.03.1934 20:06 | 150 km | 125 km |
| 6.0 | 25.05.1912 18:01 | 100 km | 90 km |
| 5.8 | 27.10.2004 20:34 | 96.7 km | 112 km |
| 5.8 | 29.05.1948 04:48 | 150 km | 92 km |
| 5.8 | 01.11.1929 06:57 | 160 km | 114 km |
| 5.7 | 23.09.2016 23:11 | 95 km | 120 km |
| 5.7 | 22.11.2014 19:14 | 35 km | 83 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.2 | 22.04.2026 14:18 | 9 km | 28 km |
| 1.9 | 12.04.2026 23:38 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 1.4 | 11.04.2026 17:09 | 10 km | 68 km |
| 2.4 | 14.03.2026 14:59 | 5 km | 11 km |
| 2.4 | 05.12.2025 18:00 | 4 km | 28 km |
| 2.3 | 03.08.2025 12:04 | 18 km | 68 km |
| 2.5 | 29.07.2025 15:02 | 10.7 km | 19 km |
| 2.5 | 20.05.2025 18:45 | 4 km | 29 km |
| 2.8 | 17.05.2025 18:25 | 10 km | 21 km |
| 2.8 | 09.08.2024 23:31 | 60 km | 76 km |
| 3.3 | 10.03.2024 20:42 | 7 km | 28 km |
| 2.5 | 02.03.2024 12:36 | 10.3 km | 25 km |
| 2.4 | 02.03.2024 12:33 | 5.7 km | 23 km |
| 2.5 | 08.02.2024 04:26 | 6.7 km | 23 km |
| 3.2 | 18.06.2023 15:26 | 3 km | 41 km |
| 2.2 | 30.05.2023 20:17 | 15 km | 57 km |
| 2.8 | 28.02.2023 16:42 | 14 km | 37 km |
| 2.1 | 01.08.2021 18:23 | 5 km | 39 km |
| 2.7 | 01.08.2021 18:09 | 6 km | 42 km |
| 4.3 | 01.08.2021 17:57 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 2.4 | 02.04.2021 19:28 | 8 km | 45 km |
| 2.3 | 15.03.2021 08:39 | 5 km | 48 km |
| 2.7 | 20.01.2021 03:44 | 9 km | 39 km |
| 3.5 | 19.12.2020 10:41 | 7 km | 40 km |
| 2.8 | 17.11.2020 19:53 | 6 km | 39 km |
| 2.4 | 02.11.2020 01:32 | 5 km | 39 km |
| 2.6 | 31.10.2020 19:36 | 7 km | 39 km |
| 2.6 | 31.10.2020 18:03 | 4 km | 40 km |
| 2.9 | 31.10.2020 10:00 | 9 km | 40 km |
| 2.6 | 29.10.2020 22:43 | 5 km | 39 km |
| 4.1 | 29.10.2020 22:39 | 15.6 km | 40 km |
| 2.9 | 29.10.2020 20:00 | 6 km | 41 km |
| 3.1 | 21.10.2020 05:55 | 7 km | 40 km |
| 2.5 | 04.08.2020 22:40 | 8 km | 26 km |
| 4.7 | 24.04.2020 22:04 | 22.1 km | 70 km |
| 3.4 | 13.02.2020 16:30 | 6 km | 40 km |
| 2.3 | 13.02.2020 07:15 | 7 km | 32 km |
| 2.5 | 13.02.2020 07:00 | 9 km | 40 km |
| 2.5 | 25.12.2019 07:05 | 3 km | 39 km |
| 2.2 | 25.12.2019 05:56 | 3 km | 42 km |
| 3.2 | 25.12.2019 05:05 | 2 km | 43 km |
| 2.6 | 11.07.2019 11:32 | 15 km | 31 km |
| 2.5 | 01.11.2018 02:33 | 5 km | 31 km |
| 2.9 | 15.10.2018 04:23 | 5 km | 57 km |
| 2.1 | 14.10.2018 12:12 | 4 km | 68 km |
| 5.7 | 23.09.2016 23:11 | 95 km | 120 km |
| 2.9 | 07.07.2016 03:43 | 8 km | 60 km |
| 2.0 | 20.06.2016 02:38 | 31 km | 78 km |
| 2.3 | 10.06.2016 13:26 | 15 km | 56 km |
| 4.3 | 01.03.2016 11:06 | 66.5 km | 93 km |
| 2.7 | 19.09.2015 22:54 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 3.0 | 16.09.2015 23:12 | 262 km | 32 km |
| 3.4 | 01.07.2015 04:34 | 17 km | 66 km |
| 4.2 | 29.06.2015 22:20 | 23.1 km | 67 km |
| 2.1 | 01.03.2015 09:44 | 30 km | 80 km |
| 4.0 | 19.01.2015 23:53 | 40 km | 81 km |
| 4.4 | 07.12.2014 21:04 | 35 km | 78 km |
| 2.5 | 02.12.2014 04:19 | 30 km | 80 km |
| 2.1 | 24.11.2014 23:20 | 30 km | 81 km |
| 2.4 | 24.11.2014 00:45 | 35 km | 81 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.