1.7
391
recorded earthquakes
M6.4
largest
1917–2026
record span
1.20
mean magnitude
2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.4 | 29.12.2020 11:19 | 10.6 km | 99 km |
| 5.8 | 29.01.1917 08:22 | 15 km | 42 km |
| 5.5 | 17.02.1960 15:32 | — | 47 km |
| 5.3 | 22.03.2020 05:24 | 10.7 km | 53 km |
| 5.3 | 19.05.1963 10:00 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 5.0 | 12.05.1963 11:52 | — | 21 km |
| 4.6 | 11.03.1984 11:55 | 10 km | 30 km |
| 4.4 | 20.06.1974 17:08 | 8 km | 17 km |
| 4.3 | 01.11.2015 07:52 | 6 km | 31 km |
| 4.3 | 20.06.1974 22:26 | 2.8 km | 4 km |
| 4.1 | 03.10.1996 22:41 | 10 km | 27 km |
| 3.9 | 13.04.1988 15:34 | 20.5 km | 9 km |
| 3.9 | 30.06.1985 14:44 | 14.1 km | 18 km |
| 3.7 | 13.05.2003 09:30 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 3.6 | 28.12.1989 20:50 | 10.2 km | 14 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.7 | 28.07.2026 10:21 | 12.1 km | 17 km |
| 1.1 | 03.04.2026 23:15 | 8 km | 3 km |
| 3.0 | 03.10.2025 18:30 | 4.2 km | 14 km |
| 1.2 | 27.07.2025 15:22 | 11.3 km | 16 km |
| 1.2 | 30.06.2025 17:08 | 15.1 km | 16 km |
| 1.2 | 23.04.2025 09:10 | 11.1 km | 15 km |
| 1.4 | 31.05.2024 03:07 | 10.7 km | 14 km |
| 1.1 | 26.04.2024 19:33 | 12.7 km | 17 km |
| 2.2 | 15.03.2024 23:27 | 10.9 km | 12 km |
| 1.2 | 04.02.2024 03:42 | 1 km | 17 km |
| 1.3 | 03.02.2024 23:20 | 1 km | 16 km |
| 1.0 | 10.01.2024 02:39 | 10.7 km | 15 km |
| 1.3 | 01.05.2023 19:54 | 1 km | 15 km |
| 1.0 | 22.07.2022 20:23 | 14 km | 11 km |
| 1.3 | 19.07.2022 21:24 | 6 km | 10 km |
| 1.6 | 19.07.2022 11:34 | 4 km | 10 km |
| 1.1 | 26.03.2022 05:00 | 8 km | 12 km |
| 2.1 | 13.02.2022 15:01 | 11 km | 11 km |
| 1.3 | 20.10.2021 15:33 | 1 km | 7 km |
| 1.3 | 25.07.2021 16:17 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 1.1 | 08.02.2021 20:14 | 12 km | 10 km |
| 6.4 | 29.12.2020 11:19 | 10.6 km | 99 km |
| 2.3 | 28.08.2020 19:44 | 2 km | 14 km |
| 1.4 | 01.06.2020 01:20 | 8 km | 15 km |
| 5.3 | 22.03.2020 05:24 | 10.7 km | 53 km |
| 1.5 | 07.11.2019 22:52 | 30 km | 13 km |
| 1.8 | 21.03.2019 18:36 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 2.7 | 04.02.2019 11:01 | 2 km | 18 km |
| 1.6 | 24.10.2018 10:45 | 12 km | 18 km |
| 2.3 | 03.03.2018 04:54 | 2 km | 9 km |
| 2.3 | 16.06.2017 22:52 | 2 km | 16 km |
| 2.0 | 08.03.2017 01:23 | 2 km | 16 km |
| 4.3 | 01.11.2015 07:52 | 6 km | 31 km |
| 0.7 | 27.12.2011 22:34 | 0 km | 17 km |
| 0.6 | 27.12.2011 19:59 | 0 km | 15 km |
| 0.1 | 22.12.2011 02:14 | 0 km | 17 km |
| 0.2 | 15.12.2011 01:31 | 0 km | 11 km |
| 1.1 | 09.12.2011 09:10 | 0 km | 16 km |
| 0.7 | 04.12.2011 13:57 | 0 km | 18 km |
| 0.8 | 12.11.2011 21:38 | 0 km | 13 km |
| 0.1 | 21.10.2011 08:00 | 0 km | 15 km |
| 1.2 | 17.10.2011 12:13 | 0 km | 13 km |
| 0.1 | 14.10.2011 09:08 | 0 km | 18 km |
| 0.6 | 13.10.2011 22:33 | 0 km | 18 km |
| 0.6 | 12.10.2011 00:20 | 0 km | 10 km |
| 0.7 | 06.10.2011 22:51 | 0 km | 14 km |
| 0.5 | 29.09.2011 12:48 | 0 km | 18 km |
| 1.1 | 26.09.2011 02:10 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 1.1 | 06.09.2011 12:32 | 0 km | 16 km |
| 0.8 | 01.09.2011 18:10 | 0 km | 15 km |
| 0.4 | 18.07.2011 18:43 | 0 km | 15 km |
| 0.4 | 22.06.2011 22:23 | 0 km | 9 km |
| 1.2 | 31.05.2011 23:46 | 0 km | 17 km |
| 0.6 | 31.05.2011 02:33 | 0 km | 13 km |
| 1.7 | 25.05.2011 01:31 | 10 km | 9 km |
| 1.6 | 21.05.2011 12:35 | 10 km | 9 km |
| 0.8 | 19.05.2011 16:15 | 0 km | 16 km |
| 0.7 | 18.05.2011 23:54 | 0 km | 16 km |
| 1.2 | 18.05.2011 09:55 | 0 km | 17 km |
| -0.1 | 18.05.2011 04:24 | 0 km | 15 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.