No records in the last 30 days.
309
recorded earthquakes
M5.5
largest
1936–2026
record span
1.91
mean magnitude
16
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.5 | 17.02.1960 15:32 | — | 58 km |
| 5.5 | 03.10.1936 15:48 | 10 km | 63 km |
| 5.3 | 19.05.1963 10:00 | 10 km | 56 km |
| 5.0 | 19.03.1958 16:04 | 15 km | 68 km |
| 5.0 | 02.05.1959 06:36 | — | 67 km |
| 4.0 | 02.02.2013 13:35 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 3.9 | 27.04.1991 18:44 | 10 km | 13 km |
| 3.3 | 20.08.1987 02:54 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 3.2 | 21.05.2009 08:21 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 3.2 | 30.05.1993 21:01 | 6.1 km | 18 km |
| 3.2 | 04.09.2003 00:04 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 3.2 | 27.09.2002 10:49 | 10 km | 14 km |
| 3.1 | 24.04.2002 14:08 | 10 km | 21 km |
| 3.0 | 19.11.2004 19:45 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 3.0 | 15.05.1998 15:04 | 10 km | 15 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1 | 24.02.2026 18:07 | 10.6 km | 10 km |
| 1.2 | 09.02.2025 23:59 | 3.6 km | 18 km |
| 1.3 | 30.01.2025 04:04 | 4 km | 14 km |
| 1.0 | 04.04.2024 00:05 | 14 km | 21 km |
| 1.0 | 19.09.2023 01:26 | 14.7 km | 16 km |
| 1.1 | 23.03.2023 05:18 | 1 km | 18 km |
| 2.2 | 23.07.2022 10:17 | 7 km | 12 km |
| 1.2 | 23.07.2022 06:10 | 1 km | 13 km |
| 1.0 | 31.05.2022 18:56 | 9 km | 19 km |
| 1.3 | 01.04.2022 00:31 | 16 km | 21 km |
| 1.2 | 11.06.2021 02:39 | 14 km | 21 km |
| 1.1 | 22.11.2020 19:17 | 10 km | 21 km |
| 2.3 | 25.07.2020 04:35 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 2.0 | 18.11.2019 08:00 | 2 km | 15 km |
| 1.5 | 02.10.2019 01:33 | 8 km | 5 km |
| 1.6 | 08.02.2019 06:54 | 6 km | 8 km |
| 2.1 | 01.04.2017 00:00 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 2.3 | 28.10.2015 17:07 | 5 km | 17 km |
| 2.2 | 17.10.2015 14:55 | 2 km | 16 km |
| 2.5 | 14.06.2015 00:31 | 2 km | 21 km |
| 2.0 | 30.05.2015 00:57 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 2.0 | 03.08.2014 05:34 | 8 km | 18 km |
| 2.5 | 27.07.2014 09:45 | 15 km | 19 km |
| 4.0 | 02.02.2013 13:35 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 0.5 | 28.12.2011 18:47 | 10 km | 9 km |
| 0.8 | 05.12.2011 14:37 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 1.0 | 24.11.2011 18:53 | 8 km | 10 km |
| 0.2 | 19.11.2011 20:43 | 10 km | 15 km |
| 1.1 | 27.10.2011 18:42 | 0 km | 20 km |
| 1.2 | 11.09.2011 15:43 | 5 km | 12 km |
| 1.2 | 23.08.2011 14:18 | 0 km | 23 km |
| 1.1 | 22.08.2011 20:58 | 0 km | 14 km |
| 0.9 | 11.08.2011 17:50 | 0 km | 21 km |
| 1.5 | 04.08.2011 16:12 | 0 km | 22 km |
| 1.3 | 24.06.2011 12:31 | 0 km | 19 km |
| 1.6 | 20.06.2011 17:03 | 0 km | 22 km |
| 1.2 | 13.06.2011 22:13 | 0 km | 19 km |
| 2.0 | 04.06.2011 15:31 | 8 km | 20 km |
| 1.2 | 01.06.2011 20:50 | 0 km | 21 km |
| 0.1 | 24.04.2011 17:48 | 0 km | 19 km |
| 0.7 | 24.04.2011 17:37 | 0 km | 19 km |
| 0.6 | 26.03.2011 05:51 | 0 km | 15 km |
| 0.4 | 15.03.2011 03:09 | 0 km | 15 km |
| 2.3 | 01.02.2011 15:41 | 8 km | 9 km |
| 1.8 | 09.01.2011 02:11 | 2 km | 17 km |
| 1.3 | 26.11.2010 03:04 | 8 km | 5 km |
| 1.8 | 26.11.2010 02:43 | 8 km | 5 km |
| 0.8 | 24.10.2010 00:14 | 0 km | 16 km |
| 1.8 | 23.10.2010 00:49 | 10 km | 12 km |
| 0.8 | 17.09.2010 23:55 | 2 km | 22 km |
| 2.0 | 31.07.2010 05:43 | 8 km | 6 km |
| 0.6 | 28.07.2010 22:41 | 0 km | 17 km |
| 0.6 | 07.06.2010 22:12 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 1.7 | 05.06.2010 21:55 | 5 km | 17 km |
| 1.9 | 02.06.2010 20:45 | 2 km | 17 km |
| 1.1 | 26.04.2010 19:49 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 1.2 | 26.03.2010 20:51 | 0 km | 16 km |
| 0.6 | 14.03.2010 20:33 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 1.9 | 10.03.2010 03:45 | 0 km | 5 km |
| 1.4 | 08.03.2010 23:53 | 10 km | 17 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.