1.3
353
recorded earthquakes
M6.4
largest
1916–2026
record span
1.84
mean magnitude
42
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 | 109 km |
| 5.9 | 12.03.1916 03:24 | 15 km | 40 km |
| 5.8 | 29.01.1917 08:22 | 15 km | 73 km |
| 5.6 | 01.01.1926 18:04 | 15 km | 43 km |
| 5.5 | 17.02.1960 15:32 | — | 64 km |
| 5.3 | 05.09.1925 07:43 | 15 km | 20 km |
| 5.2 | 11.09.1925 04:40 | 15 km | 56 km |
| 5.2 | 13.03.1998 15:14 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 5.1 | 29.05.1993 08:43 | 15.2 km | 30 km |
| 4.8 | 23.06.1963 09:33 | — | 24 km |
| 4.8 | 03.02.1956 13:42 | — | 25 km |
| 4.4 | 28.11.1993 10:29 | 5 km | 39 km |
| 4.3 | 05.06.1982 17:54 | 10 km | 24 km |
| 4.3 | 13.03.2014 17:31 | 5.7 km | 24 km |
| 4.2 | 14.09.2004 18:09 | 11 km | 33 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.3 | 25.07.2026 18:58 | 9.2 km | 27 km |
| 3.6 | 21.04.2026 00:01 | 10 km | 23 km |
| 1.6 | 18.01.2026 07:21 | 11.6 km | 19 km |
| 1.4 | 10.01.2026 07:16 | 7.1 km | 16 km |
| 1.5 | 05.01.2026 06:57 | 8.8 km | 17 km |
| 1.6 | 21.08.2025 21:23 | 9 km | 28 km |
| 2.8 | 12.08.2025 15:56 | 0.3 km | 27 km |
| 1.6 | 12.07.2025 20:31 | 12 km | 12 km |
| 1.4 | 28.06.2025 17:05 | 6.5 km | 21 km |
| 1.8 | 23.05.2025 00:30 | 1 km | 18 km |
| 1.2 | 29.12.2024 21:55 | 1.3 km | 16 km |
| 1.6 | 16.12.2024 14:58 | 0 km | 23 km |
| 1.9 | 05.12.2024 04:14 | 25 km | 19 km |
| 1.7 | 22.07.2024 08:12 | 1 km | 22 km |
| 1.3 | 13.04.2024 11:18 | 12.3 km | 23 km |
| 1.6 | 27.03.2024 16:32 | 11.5 km | 27 km |
| 4.0 | 24.03.2024 09:21 | 2 km | 29 km |
| 1.0 | 21.12.2023 21:12 | 2.3 km | 19 km |
| 1.7 | 10.12.2023 14:13 | 4 km | 18 km |
| 1.1 | 17.11.2023 18:47 | 9.9 km | 25 km |
| 1.3 | 16.11.2023 19:26 | 7.9 km | 14 km |
| 1.4 | 17.08.2023 02:10 | 0.2 km | 26 km |
| 1.9 | 09.08.2023 05:30 | 10.4 km | 26 km |
| 2.5 | 16.06.2023 08:00 | 1 km | 22 km |
| 2.6 | 26.12.2022 13:01 | 10 km | 15 km |
| 1.4 | 26.11.2022 20:12 | 37 km | 14 km |
| 1.7 | 21.10.2022 13:43 | 11 km | 17 km |
| 1.0 | 17.09.2022 00:53 | 1 km | 21 km |
| 1.3 | 02.08.2022 00:45 | 1 km | 26 km |
| 2.2 | 18.07.2022 19:05 | 2 km | 27 km |
| 2.1 | 11.06.2022 21:25 | 2 km | 19 km |
| 1.5 | 05.06.2022 17:53 | 1 km | 20 km |
| 1.8 | 03.03.2022 18:42 | 2 km | 29 km |
| 1.6 | 02.03.2022 10:12 | 1 km | 21 km |
| 1.5 | 21.09.2021 23:32 | 6 km | 7 km |
| 1.8 | 07.09.2021 07:30 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 1.3 | 06.07.2021 22:24 | 12 km | 25 km |
| 1.0 | 06.04.2021 04:22 | 1 km | 15 km |
| 2.0 | 05.04.2021 00:43 | 2 km | 23 km |
| 2.3 | 27.03.2021 19:49 | 2 km | 22 km |
| 1.1 | 19.02.2021 19:38 | 1 km | 25 km |
| 6.4 | 29.12.2020 11:19 | 10.6 km | 109 km |
| 1.1 | 24.12.2020 22:31 | 6 km | 16 km |
| 1.8 | 02.12.2020 03:16 | 4 km | 28 km |
| 1.1 | 29.10.2020 14:33 | 7 km | 24 km |
| 1.2 | 28.08.2020 21:32 | 33 km | 25 km |
| 2.8 | 30.06.2020 06:47 | 10 km | 21 km |
| 1.3 | 05.06.2020 03:06 | 1 km | 15 km |
| 1.8 | 04.06.2020 19:45 | 1 km | 24 km |
| 1.5 | 24.05.2020 20:29 | 18 km | 29 km |
| 1.1 | 04.04.2020 16:03 | 1 km | 22 km |
| 1.5 | 01.11.2019 05:27 | 10 km | 28 km |
| 2.4 | 21.09.2019 14:05 | 30 km | 18 km |
| 3.2 | 02.09.2019 23:08 | 2 km | 20 km |
| 2.1 | 29.05.2018 01:36 | 10 km | 26 km |
| 3.0 | 27.04.2018 20:00 | 10 km | 2 km |
| 2.4 | 27.04.2018 17:22 | 19 km | 1 km |
| 4.0 | 08.08.2017 09:35 | 10 km | 40 km |
| 2.3 | 16.03.2014 23:11 | 2 km | 23 km |
| 4.3 | 13.03.2014 17:31 | 5.7 km | 24 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.