1.0
520
recorded earthquakes
M5.5
largest
1959–2026
record span
1.72
mean magnitude
82
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 | — | 49 km |
| 5.3 | 19.05.1963 10:00 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 5.0 | 02.05.1959 06:36 | — | 68 km |
| 5.0 | 12.05.1963 11:52 | — | 68 km |
| 4.3 | 03.12.2012 04:36 | 8.5 km | 41 km |
| 4.1 | 03.10.1996 22:41 | 10 km | 30 km |
| 4.0 | 02.02.2013 13:35 | 10 km | 37 km |
| 4.0 | 28.06.1987 09:17 | 22.9 km | 34 km |
| 3.9 | 27.04.1991 18:44 | 10 km | 13 km |
| 3.3 | 16.06.1994 12:07 | 10 km | 13 km |
| 3.3 | 20.08.1987 02:54 | 10 km | 10 km |
| 3.2 | 21.05.2009 08:21 | 10 km | 15 km |
| 3.2 | 30.05.1993 21:01 | 6.1 km | 8 km |
| 3.2 | 27.09.2002 10:49 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 3.2 | 04.09.2003 00:04 | 10 km | 18 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | 19.07.2026 17:58 | 3.5 km | 11 km |
| 1.2 | 24.03.2026 10:17 | 17.9 km | 12 km |
| 2.1 | 24.02.2026 18:07 | 10.6 km | 21 km |
| 1.2 | 24.10.2025 14:17 | 0 km | 12 km |
| 1.1 | 01.08.2025 17:20 | 0 km | 13 km |
| 1.3 | 25.07.2025 01:56 | 2.8 km | 12 km |
| 1.0 | 16.07.2025 17:45 | 13.6 km | 12 km |
| 1.2 | 06.07.2025 11:47 | 11 km | 11 km |
| 1.1 | 24.06.2025 15:35 | 0 km | 11 km |
| 1.1 | 29.05.2025 19:51 | 0 km | 13 km |
| 1.2 | 14.05.2025 10:28 | 4.3 km | 12 km |
| 1.2 | 05.05.2025 19:33 | 4.1 km | 11 km |
| 1.3 | 28.02.2025 03:53 | 13 km | 11 km |
| 1.2 | 09.02.2025 23:59 | 3.6 km | 9 km |
| 1.3 | 30.01.2025 04:04 | 4 km | 5 km |
| 1.2 | 22.01.2025 03:15 | 14 km | 13 km |
| 1.9 | 28.12.2024 17:25 | 0 km | 17 km |
| 1.2 | 06.09.2024 09:13 | 0.2 km | 12 km |
| 1.4 | 23.07.2024 13:11 | 2.8 km | 11 km |
| 1.1 | 13.07.2024 16:11 | 7.3 km | 11 km |
| 1.0 | 15.04.2024 14:00 | 18 km | 16 km |
| 1.0 | 04.04.2024 00:05 | 14 km | 10 km |
| 1.4 | 14.10.2023 12:07 | 6.5 km | 11 km |
| 1.0 | 19.09.2023 01:26 | 14.7 km | 12 km |
| 2.2 | 23.05.2023 20:33 | 15 km | 14 km |
| 1.3 | 29.04.2023 21:08 | 4 km | 12 km |
| 1.1 | 23.03.2023 05:18 | 1 km | 11 km |
| 1.6 | 21.12.2022 01:54 | 14 km | 14 km |
| 1.1 | 17.12.2022 09:00 | 17 km | 11 km |
| 2.4 | 25.07.2022 19:43 | 14 km | 13 km |
| 2.2 | 23.07.2022 10:17 | 7 km | 6 km |
| 1.2 | 23.07.2022 06:10 | 1 km | 5 km |
| 1.0 | 31.05.2022 18:56 | 9 km | 11 km |
| 1.7 | 02.05.2022 19:14 | 9 km | 23 km |
| 1.4 | 13.04.2022 09:58 | 0 km | 13 km |
| 1.1 | 09.04.2022 01:13 | 15 km | 11 km |
| 1.3 | 01.04.2022 00:31 | 16 km | 10 km |
| 1.1 | 01.02.2022 17:27 | 14 km | 11 km |
| 1.1 | 26.12.2021 05:28 | 17 km | 12 km |
| 1.4 | 19.11.2021 12:45 | 16 km | 21 km |
| 1.1 | 09.11.2021 18:27 | 1 km | 13 km |
| 1.2 | 15.07.2021 20:19 | 12.3 km | 12 km |
| 1.2 | 12.07.2021 21:32 | 6 km | 12 km |
| 1.2 | 11.06.2021 02:39 | 14 km | 10 km |
| 1.7 | 06.06.2021 08:43 | 15 km | 11 km |
| 1.5 | 04.05.2021 03:36 | 2 km | 12 km |
| 1.3 | 11.01.2021 16:31 | 17 km | 12 km |
| 1.5 | 05.01.2021 23:25 | 8 km | 20 km |
| 1.3 | 01.12.2020 15:50 | 14 km | 11 km |
| 1.1 | 22.11.2020 19:17 | 10 km | 10 km |
| 1.1 | 15.10.2020 20:14 | 15 km | 13 km |
| 0.4 | 18.04.2020 09:36 | 30 km | 14 km |
| 2.0 | 18.11.2019 08:00 | 2 km | 11 km |
| 1.5 | 02.10.2019 01:33 | 8 km | 15 km |
| 1.6 | 08.02.2019 06:54 | 6 km | 11 km |
| 1.7 | 11.10.2018 00:08 | 20 km | 11 km |
| 2.2 | 17.02.2018 00:45 | 32 km | 25 km |
| 2.1 | 01.04.2017 00:00 | 10 km | 6 km |
| 2.3 | 28.10.2015 17:07 | 5 km | 6 km |
| 2.2 | 17.10.2015 14:55 | 2 km | 5 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.