No records in the last 30 days.
170
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1927–2026
record span
3.88
mean magnitude
112
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.2 | 27.09.2003 11:33 | 10.3 km | 404 km |
| 5.6 | 10.05.1927 19:59 | 35 km | 178 km |
| 5.6 | 24.08.1971 16:33 | 5.5 km | 173 km |
| 5.5 | 04.11.1986 16:19 | 10.4 km | 282 km |
| 5.5 | 10.02.2011 05:35 | 14 km | 179 km |
| 5.0 | 22.10.2021 23:03 | 14.2 km | 249 km |
| 4.9 | 21.10.1971 23:07 | 10 km | 157 km |
| 4.8 | 29.02.1964 04:31 | 35 km | 85 km |
| 4.7 | 30.04.1973 07:29 | 39 km | 253 km |
| 4.6 | 02.11.2008 16:00 | 35 km | 248 km |
| 4.5 | 31.12.2006 04:34 | 1 km | 192 km |
| 4.5 | 21.03.1989 05:29 | 35 km | 140 km |
| 4.4 | 13.05.1990 15:36 | 10 km | 210 km |
| 4.4 | 09.06.1988 23:32 | 35 km | 170 km |
| 4.4 | 28.02.2021 19:37 | 2 km | 225 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.7 | 25.04.2026 09:40 | 10 km | 234 km |
| 4.1 | 20.10.2025 17:13 | 10 km | 108 km |
| 4.3 | 25.09.2025 01:56 | 10 km | 277 km |
| 3.7 | 12.06.2025 11:23 | 0 km | 168 km |
| 4.0 | 03.03.2025 14:46 | 10 km | 128 km |
| 4.2 | 12.02.2025 01:39 | 10 km | 78 km |
| 4.4 | 19.09.2024 17:01 | 10.4 km | 120 km |
| 3.3 | 24.07.2024 13:47 | 2.7 km | 141 km |
| 4.2 | 18.12.2023 01:02 | 0.3 km | 135 km |
| 4.3 | 05.10.2023 08:55 | 1.3 km | 213 km |
| 4.1 | 13.06.2023 01:22 | 10 km | 131 km |
| 4.0 | 13.02.2023 14:22 | 12 km | 147 km |
| 3.5 | 03.12.2022 00:39 | 7.4 km | 242 km |
| 4.2 | 01.11.2022 23:29 | 0.6 km | 135 km |
| 4.0 | 24.09.2022 10:58 | 0 km | 121 km |
| 3.8 | 10.09.2022 07:49 | 10 km | 119 km |
| 4.0 | 10.07.2022 18:01 | 10 km | 195 km |
| 4.3 | 05.07.2022 08:47 | 5.6 km | 125 km |
| 4.1 | 05.07.2022 08:17 | 10 km | 140 km |
| 4.0 | 25.04.2022 08:04 | 0 km | 110 km |
| 4.0 | 26.10.2021 19:16 | 0 km | 122 km |
| 5.0 | 22.10.2021 23:03 | 14.2 km | 249 km |
| 3.4 | 15.10.2021 15:54 | 10 km | 241 km |
| 4.0 | 19.09.2021 08:19 | 0 km | 123 km |
| 4.2 | 05.09.2021 07:44 | 10 km | 220 km |
| 4.1 | 05.09.2021 07:10 | 10 km | 271 km |
| 4.4 | 28.02.2021 19:37 | 2 km | 225 km |
| 4.3 | 06.02.2021 17:43 | 10 km | 242 km |
| 4.2 | 22.10.2020 09:40 | 0 km | 56 km |
| 4.3 | 15.10.2020 20:12 | 4.3 km | 132 km |
| 4.1 | 16.09.2020 09:17 | 0 km | 107 km |
| 4.3 | 14.04.2020 10:12 | 10 km | 249 km |
| 4.1 | 21.11.2019 00:27 | 0 km | 120 km |
| 3.8 | 08.10.2019 22:22 | 1 km | 259 km |
| 4.2 | 26.11.2018 09:57 | 0 km | 121 km |
| 4.0 | 24.12.2017 05:00 | 0 km | 167 km |
| 4.0 | 10.11.2017 06:58 | 0 km | 40 km |
| 4.1 | 29.10.2017 05:00 | 0 km | 166 km |
| 4.0 | 29.09.2017 07:31 | 0 km | 36 km |
| 4.2 | 06.09.2017 07:41 | 13.2 km | 73 km |
| 3.7 | 12.01.2017 23:37 | 10 km | 145 km |
| 4.3 | 09.12.2016 08:25 | 0 km | 160 km |
| 3.8 | 24.11.2016 08:23 | 5 km | 82 km |
| 4.0 | 08.11.2016 21:38 | 0 km | 160 km |
| 4.2 | 24.10.2016 16:13 | 0 km | 163 km |
| 3.5 | 25.08.2016 22:11 | 15 km | 117 km |
| 4.1 | 03.07.2016 03:17 | 0 km | 250 km |
| 4.3 | 03.07.2016 01:00 | 0 km | 179 km |
| 4.3 | 20.06.2016 13:20 | 6.3 km | 219 km |
| 4.1 | 15.04.2016 15:21 | 9 km | 232 km |
| 4.0 | 20.01.2016 08:16 | 0 km | 65 km |
| 4.0 | 18.12.2015 06:59 | 5.8 km | 68 km |
| 4.0 | 04.12.2015 07:46 | 0 km | 41 km |
| 4.0 | 12.10.2015 08:07 | 0 km | 96 km |
| 4.0 | 30.09.2015 07:58 | 0 km | 130 km |
| 3.3 | 03.09.2015 15:30 | 0 km | 107 km |
| 4.0 | 20.02.2015 08:02 | 0 km | 33 km |
| 4.3 | 27.12.2014 09:31 | 0 km | 71 km |
| 4.0 | 26.11.2014 08:19 | 0 km | 44 km |
| 4.0 | 12.10.2014 05:00 | 0 km | 157 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.