No records in the last 30 days.
150
recorded earthquakes
M5.5
largest
1960–2024
record span
2.10
mean magnitude
4
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 | — | 66 km |
| 5.3 | 19.05.1963 10:00 | 10 km | 68 km |
| 5.0 | 12.05.1963 11:52 | — | 61 km |
| 4.4 | 20.06.1974 17:08 | 8 km | 34 km |
| 3.9 | 27.04.1991 18:44 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 3.7 | 24.07.2010 16:46 | 2 km | 17 km |
| 3.2 | 27.09.2002 10:49 | 10 km | 19 km |
| 3.0 | 24.07.2001 15:30 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 2.9 | 11.04.1995 22:30 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 2.8 | 11.11.2002 15:54 | 10 km | 21 km |
| 2.8 | 21.05.2003 15:11 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 2.8 | 18.07.2001 15:04 | 10 km | 21 km |
| 2.8 | 28.06.2002 11:51 | 10 km | 19 km |
| 2.7 | 28.06.1992 07:37 | 10 km | 4 km |
| 2.7 | 29.08.2001 15:10 | 10 km | 17 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.9 | 28.12.2024 17:25 | 0 km | 16 km |
| 2.1 | 24.06.2024 20:31 | 2 km | 17 km |
| 2.2 | 23.05.2023 20:33 | 15 km | 21 km |
| 1.5 | 24.12.2021 01:15 | 13 km | 18 km |
| 1.6 | 08.02.2019 06:54 | 6 km | 21 km |
| 2.1 | 01.04.2017 00:00 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 2.3 | 28.10.2015 17:07 | 5 km | 21 km |
| 2.0 | 30.05.2015 00:57 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 2.0 | 03.08.2014 05:34 | 8 km | 22 km |
| 2.1 | 27.12.2011 06:03 | 10 km | 13 km |
| 1.0 | 24.11.2011 18:53 | 8 km | 20 km |
| 1.1 | 27.10.2011 18:42 | 0 km | 23 km |
| 1.1 | 22.10.2011 07:21 | 0 km | 19 km |
| 1.2 | 23.08.2011 14:18 | 0 km | 23 km |
| 1.4 | 01.08.2011 01:02 | 10 km | 21 km |
| 1.9 | 30.07.2011 03:58 | 10 km | 21 km |
| 1.9 | 29.07.2011 23:51 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 2.0 | 04.06.2011 15:31 | 8 km | 11 km |
| 1.2 | 25.10.2010 16:13 | 0 km | 19 km |
| 1.5 | 30.09.2010 21:47 | 0 km | 9 km |
| 1.0 | 28.07.2010 00:12 | 2 km | 16 km |
| 3.7 | 24.07.2010 16:46 | 2 km | 17 km |
| 1.5 | 28.05.2010 02:45 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 2.1 | 27.01.2010 10:46 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 1.7 | 01.10.2009 01:58 | 10 km | 14 km |
| 2.2 | 14.09.2009 21:23 | 15 km | 19 km |
| 1.1 | 12.04.2009 06:15 | 0 km | 18 km |
| 1.1 | 04.04.2009 01:10 | 0 km | 18 km |
| 1.8 | 28.11.2008 01:44 | 5 km | 21 km |
| 2.0 | 23.11.2008 13:37 | 0 km | 21 km |
| 1.4 | 17.11.2008 01:49 | 5 km | 7 km |
| 1.3 | 17.09.2008 13:58 | 0 km | 8 km |
| 1.3 | 31.07.2008 10:10 | 0 km | 19 km |
| 1.8 | 16.07.2008 20:04 | 2 km | 23 km |
| 1.5 | 25.04.2008 13:15 | 0 km | 22 km |
| 1.5 | 15.01.2008 14:35 | 0 km | 21 km |
| 1.8 | 24.11.2007 10:35 | 10 km | 10 km |
| 2.1 | 18.11.2007 14:11 | 0 km | 13 km |
| 1.6 | 13.09.2007 03:18 | 0 km | 14 km |
| 2.0 | 09.03.2007 00:24 | 10 km | 8 km |
| 1.3 | 26.01.2007 13:14 | 0 km | 17 km |
| 1.2 | 27.02.2006 13:19 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 0.8 | 12.09.2005 07:43 | 20 km | 15 km |
| 2.2 | 18.08.2004 13:28 | 5 km | 11 km |
| 2.5 | 17.05.2004 03:09 | 11.1 km | 10 km |
| 0.9 | 09.04.2004 00:29 | 10 km | 8 km |
| 1.4 | 04.04.2004 20:29 | 10 km | 6 km |
| 2.1 | 10.03.2004 11:42 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 2.0 | 12.11.2003 15:36 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 2.3 | 17.10.2003 12:06 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 1.8 | 30.05.2003 10:20 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 2.8 | 21.05.2003 15:11 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 1.9 | 26.03.2003 02:44 | 10 km | 19 km |
| 1.4 | 21.03.2003 02:01 | 10 km | 19 km |
| 2.3 | 06.03.2003 12:10 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 1.3 | 03.03.2003 10:23 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 1.2 | 21.02.2003 10:55 | 10 km | 13 km |
| 2.8 | 11.11.2002 15:54 | 10 km | 21 km |
| 2.1 | 25.10.2002 13:23 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 2.5 | 10.10.2002 15:25 | 10 km | 20 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.