1.7
489
recorded earthquakes
M5.8
largest
1917–2026
record span
1.35
mean magnitude
17
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.8 | 29.01.1917 08:22 | 15 km | 64 km |
| 5.5 | 17.02.1960 15:32 | — | 26 km |
| 5.3 | 19.05.1963 10:00 | 10 km | 32 km |
| 5.0 | 12.05.1963 11:52 | — | 46 km |
| 4.3 | 03.12.2012 04:36 | 8.5 km | 25 km |
| 4.3 | 20.06.1974 22:26 | 2.8 km | 30 km |
| 4.1 | 03.10.1996 22:41 | 10 km | 1 km |
| 4.1 | 22.09.2004 14:55 | 6 km | 24 km |
| 4.0 | 28.06.1987 09:17 | 22.9 km | 14 km |
| 3.9 | 19.04.2008 01:49 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 3.7 | 15.09.1996 08:25 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 3.5 | 03.07.1982 13:42 | 10 km | 7 km |
| 3.4 | 15.01.2006 02:41 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 3.3 | 16.06.1994 12:07 | 10 km | 19 km |
| 3.1 | 17.03.1999 22:26 | 10 km | 4 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.7 | 28.07.2026 10:21 | 12.1 km | 16 km |
| 1.7 | 19.07.2026 10:36 | 17.1 km | 11 km |
| 1.2 | 24.03.2026 10:17 | 17.9 km | 19 km |
| 1.2 | 17.02.2026 23:39 | 0 km | 7 km |
| 2.2 | 30.12.2025 13:39 | 11.4 km | 16 km |
| 1.2 | 24.10.2025 14:17 | 0 km | 19 km |
| 1.1 | 01.08.2025 17:20 | 0 km | 18 km |
| 1.3 | 25.07.2025 01:56 | 2.8 km | 19 km |
| 1.0 | 16.07.2025 17:45 | 13.6 km | 19 km |
| 1.1 | 29.05.2025 19:51 | 0 km | 18 km |
| 1.2 | 14.05.2025 10:28 | 4.3 km | 19 km |
| 1.5 | 14.04.2025 18:00 | 10.9 km | 5 km |
| 1.2 | 05.04.2025 22:50 | 0 km | 10 km |
| 1.0 | 12.03.2025 12:04 | 23.2 km | 12 km |
| 1.9 | 29.01.2025 17:09 | 7.7 km | 17 km |
| 1.2 | 22.01.2025 03:15 | 14 km | 18 km |
| 2.8 | 16.09.2024 15:20 | 10.1 km | 13 km |
| 1.2 | 06.09.2024 09:13 | 0.2 km | 19 km |
| 1.2 | 27.07.2024 06:56 | 0 km | 16 km |
| 1.1 | 26.04.2024 19:33 | 12.7 km | 11 km |
| 1.0 | 15.04.2024 14:00 | 18 km | 16 km |
| 1.3 | 28.03.2024 06:54 | 14.5 km | 5 km |
| 1.2 | 04.02.2024 03:42 | 1 km | 17 km |
| 1.3 | 03.02.2024 23:20 | 1 km | 17 km |
| 1.0 | 26.01.2024 19:02 | 9.6 km | 19 km |
| 1.2 | 24.11.2023 13:03 | 18.8 km | 19 km |
| 1.1 | 24.11.2023 13:01 | 18.8 km | 18 km |
| 2.4 | 06.05.2023 02:03 | 14 km | 14 km |
| 1.3 | 29.04.2023 21:08 | 4 km | 19 km |
| 1.3 | 28.12.2022 00:50 | 6 km | 8 km |
| 2.3 | 22.12.2022 11:06 | 11 km | 8 km |
| 2.4 | 25.07.2022 19:43 | 14 km | 18 km |
| 1.7 | 02.05.2022 19:14 | 9 km | 9 km |
| 1.4 | 13.04.2022 09:58 | 0 km | 18 km |
| 1.5 | 19.02.2022 06:14 | 10 km | 8 km |
| 1.1 | 06.02.2022 23:06 | 10 km | 3 km |
| 1.1 | 26.12.2021 05:28 | 17 km | 19 km |
| 1.1 | 10.12.2021 17:23 | 18 km | 17 km |
| 1.4 | 19.11.2021 12:45 | 16 km | 10 km |
| 1.1 | 09.11.2021 18:27 | 1 km | 20 km |
| 1.3 | 20.10.2021 15:33 | 1 km | 19 km |
| 1.2 | 15.07.2021 20:19 | 12.3 km | 19 km |
| 1.2 | 12.07.2021 21:32 | 6 km | 19 km |
| 2.0 | 30.06.2021 08:53 | 2 km | 18 km |
| 1.6 | 03.06.2021 16:03 | 11 km | 16 km |
| 1.8 | 28.05.2021 23:02 | 5 km | 14 km |
| 1.5 | 04.05.2021 03:36 | 2 km | 19 km |
| 1.6 | 25.04.2021 15:21 | 13 km | 16 km |
| 1.7 | 23.02.2021 10:36 | 14 km | 16 km |
| 1.3 | 11.01.2021 16:31 | 17 km | 19 km |
| 1.5 | 05.01.2021 23:25 | 8 km | 16 km |
| 1.2 | 01.01.2021 14:43 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 1.8 | 31.12.2020 04:50 | 5 km | 19 km |
| 1.3 | 30.12.2020 23:24 | 8 km | 20 km |
| 1.1 | 15.10.2020 20:14 | 15 km | 18 km |
| 1.0 | 10.10.2020 12:03 | 17 km | 17 km |
| 2.3 | 28.08.2020 19:44 | 2 km | 18 km |
| 1.0 | 22.06.2020 00:56 | 6 km | 16 km |
| 2.6 | 21.06.2020 19:22 | 2 km | 17 km |
| 1.7 | 21.06.2020 18:12 | 6 km | 18 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.