1.1
305
recorded earthquakes
M5.5
largest
1958–2026
record span
1.68
mean magnitude
12
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 | — | 29 km |
| 5.3 | 19.05.1963 10:00 | 10 km | 24 km |
| 5.0 | 19.03.1958 16:04 | 15 km | 70 km |
| 5.0 | 02.05.1959 06:36 | — | 41 km |
| 4.6 | 16.07.1977 13:13 | 6 km | 34 km |
| 4.3 | 03.12.2012 04:36 | 8.5 km | 19 km |
| 4.2 | 01.01.2007 14:59 | 10 km | 38 km |
| 4.1 | 03.10.1996 22:41 | 10 km | 31 km |
| 4.1 | 22.09.2004 14:55 | 6 km | 24 km |
| 4.0 | 28.06.1987 09:17 | 22.9 km | 22 km |
| 4.0 | 02.02.2013 13:35 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 3.7 | 02.05.2007 12:49 | 2 km | 20 km |
| 3.6 | 29.07.2011 10:37 | 10 km | 19 km |
| 3.6 | 15.11.2001 09:52 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 3.4 | 15.01.2006 02:41 | 10 km | 17 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | 03.08.2026 02:23 | 12.6 km | 19 km |
| 2.1 | 04.12.2025 10:19 | 13.1 km | 12 km |
| 1.3 | 27.06.2025 02:40 | 7.4 km | 22 km |
| 1.1 | 19.04.2025 05:25 | 16.3 km | 20 km |
| 1.2 | 05.04.2025 22:50 | 0 km | 23 km |
| 2.2 | 25.08.2024 13:07 | 15.3 km | 20 km |
| 2.6 | 05.01.2024 02:20 | 4.2 km | 20 km |
| 1.2 | 02.12.2023 07:02 | 10 km | 24 km |
| 1.2 | 24.11.2023 13:03 | 18.8 km | 22 km |
| 1.1 | 24.11.2023 13:01 | 18.8 km | 23 km |
| 1.5 | 05.11.2023 04:22 | 13.1 km | 20 km |
| 1.3 | 05.10.2023 20:57 | 13.2 km | 23 km |
| 1.0 | 19.09.2023 01:26 | 14.7 km | 20 km |
| 1.3 | 23.06.2023 10:33 | 4 km | 20 km |
| 1.2 | 24.05.2023 11:47 | 14 km | 19 km |
| 2.2 | 07.05.2023 01:04 | 16 km | 21 km |
| 2.4 | 06.05.2023 02:03 | 14 km | 25 km |
| 2.4 | 04.05.2023 23:05 | 10 km | 9 km |
| 1.1 | 23.03.2023 05:18 | 1 km | 20 km |
| 1.0 | 02.02.2023 10:32 | 16 km | 18 km |
| 1.6 | 21.12.2022 01:54 | 14 km | 18 km |
| 1.0 | 20.10.2022 09:24 | 1 km | 18 km |
| 2.2 | 09.07.2022 20:24 | 16 km | 21 km |
| 1.0 | 31.05.2022 18:56 | 9 km | 20 km |
| 1.1 | 29.04.2022 07:54 | 16 km | 8 km |
| 1.1 | 09.10.2021 13:16 | 19 km | 11 km |
| 2.6 | 09.10.2021 13:10 | 13 km | 11 km |
| 1.8 | 28.05.2021 23:02 | 5 km | 19 km |
| 1.5 | 09.05.2021 02:01 | 17 km | 13 km |
| 1.0 | 10.10.2020 12:03 | 17 km | 19 km |
| 1.3 | 09.09.2020 03:55 | 18 km | 11 km |
| 2.3 | 25.07.2020 04:35 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 1.2 | 31.05.2020 02:45 | 14 km | 21 km |
| 2.0 | 08.04.2020 05:37 | 8 km | 24 km |
| 2.0 | 18.11.2019 08:00 | 2 km | 21 km |
| 3.1 | 20.07.2019 12:30 | 2 km | 15 km |
| 2.1 | 20.07.2019 11:53 | 1 km | 14 km |
| 1.6 | 17.09.2018 10:36 | 1 km | 24 km |
| 2.4 | 05.08.2018 03:55 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 2.2 | 17.02.2018 00:45 | 32 km | 11 km |
| 2.1 | 03.10.2017 01:50 | 4 km | 21 km |
| 2.6 | 14.01.2015 11:10 | 5 km | 11 km |
| 2.1 | 25.05.2014 03:23 | 18 km | 23 km |
| 1.7 | 05.10.2013 00:41 | 16 km | 19 km |
| 3.4 | 07.04.2013 11:23 | 10 km | 19 km |
| 4.0 | 02.02.2013 13:35 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 4.3 | 03.12.2012 04:36 | 8.5 km | 19 km |
| 2.0 | 07.01.2012 15:17 | 2 km | 17 km |
| 0.8 | 05.12.2011 14:37 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 1.9 | 29.11.2011 07:46 | 12 km | 22 km |
| 0.2 | 19.11.2011 20:43 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 1.3 | 16.11.2011 05:43 | 5 km | 20 km |
| 1.2 | 15.11.2011 06:49 | 5 km | 19 km |
| 1.6 | 28.09.2011 02:50 | 5 km | 23 km |
| 0.7 | 17.09.2011 15:35 | 0 km | 17 km |
| 1.2 | 11.09.2011 15:43 | 5 km | 24 km |
| 0.2 | 06.09.2011 16:13 | 0 km | 22 km |
| 1.4 | 27.08.2011 17:48 | 5 km | 21 km |
| 0.9 | 27.08.2011 01:16 | 0 km | 13 km |
| 0.7 | 05.08.2011 20:25 | 0 km | 9 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.