No records in the last 30 days.
218
recorded earthquakes
M5.5
largest
1960–2025
record span
1.61
mean magnitude
0
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 | — | 56 km |
| 5.3 | 19.05.1963 10:00 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 5.0 | 12.05.1963 11:52 | — | 49 km |
| 4.4 | 20.06.1974 17:08 | 8 km | 22 km |
| 4.3 | 20.06.1974 22:26 | 2.8 km | 33 km |
| 4.1 | 03.10.1996 22:41 | 10 km | 30 km |
| 3.9 | 27.04.1991 18:44 | 10 km | 24 km |
| 3.3 | 23.02.1982 19:52 | 10 km | 23 km |
| 3.0 | 16.03.2001 06:29 | 10 km | 23 km |
| 2.9 | 11.04.1995 22:30 | 10 km | 15 km |
| 2.7 | 28.06.1992 07:37 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 2.7 | 28.07.1994 11:16 | 5 km | 16 km |
| 2.6 | 15.06.1992 04:19 | 5 km | 14 km |
| 2.6 | 29.08.1992 16:39 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 2.6 | 10.04.2006 08:35 | 9.4 km | 22 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2 | 30.06.2025 17:08 | 15.1 km | 21 km |
| 1.9 | 28.12.2024 17:25 | 0 km | 8 km |
| 1.0 | 15.04.2024 14:00 | 18 km | 17 km |
| 2.2 | 15.03.2024 23:27 | 10.9 km | 21 km |
| 2.2 | 23.05.2023 20:33 | 15 km | 14 km |
| 1.0 | 22.07.2022 20:23 | 14 km | 22 km |
| 1.3 | 19.07.2022 21:24 | 6 km | 21 km |
| 1.6 | 19.07.2022 11:34 | 4 km | 21 km |
| 2.1 | 13.02.2022 15:01 | 11 km | 21 km |
| 1.5 | 24.12.2021 01:15 | 13 km | 20 km |
| 1.5 | 05.01.2021 23:25 | 8 km | 14 km |
| 1.2 | 01.01.2021 14:43 | 10 km | 15 km |
| 1.1 | 04.11.2020 06:35 | 9 km | 13 km |
| 1.1 | 26.09.2020 21:11 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 0.4 | 18.04.2020 09:36 | 30 km | 19 km |
| 1.8 | 21.03.2019 18:36 | 10 km | 16 km |
| 1.7 | 11.10.2018 00:08 | 20 km | 18 km |
| 2.3 | 16.06.2017 22:52 | 2 km | 16 km |
| 2.3 | 28.10.2015 17:07 | 5 km | 19 km |
| 2.0 | 30.05.2015 00:57 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 2.1 | 27.12.2011 06:03 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 0.8 | 12.11.2011 21:38 | 0 km | 24 km |
| 1.1 | 27.10.2011 18:42 | 0 km | 19 km |
| 1.1 | 22.10.2011 07:21 | 0 km | 8 km |
| 1.2 | 17.10.2011 12:13 | 0 km | 24 km |
| 1.1 | 26.09.2011 02:10 | 10 km | 23 km |
| 1.1 | 06.09.2011 12:32 | 0 km | 22 km |
| 0.8 | 01.09.2011 18:10 | 0 km | 22 km |
| 1.2 | 23.08.2011 14:18 | 0 km | 17 km |
| 0.6 | 03.08.2011 09:38 | 0 km | 18 km |
| 1.4 | 01.08.2011 01:02 | 10 km | 15 km |
| 1.9 | 30.07.2011 03:58 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 1.9 | 29.07.2011 23:51 | 10 km | 15 km |
| 0.6 | 27.06.2011 18:45 | 0 km | 17 km |
| 0.7 | 21.06.2011 10:00 | 0 km | 19 km |
| 2.0 | 04.06.2011 15:31 | 8 km | 22 km |
| 1.2 | 31.05.2011 23:46 | 0 km | 22 km |
| 1.2 | 18.05.2011 09:55 | 0 km | 18 km |
| 0.6 | 21.03.2011 23:12 | 0 km | 22 km |
| 2.1 | 08.03.2011 05:56 | 10 km | 21 km |
| 1.3 | 25.02.2011 19:02 | 0 km | 22 km |
| 2.4 | 25.01.2011 09:12 | 5 km | 20 km |
| 0.2 | 14.12.2010 21:53 | 0 km | 23 km |
| 1.2 | 28.11.2010 16:24 | 0 km | 17 km |
| 1.3 | 21.11.2010 21:07 | 0 km | 21 km |
| 1.0 | 10.10.2010 18:06 | 0 km | 23 km |
| 1.5 | 30.09.2010 21:47 | 0 km | 18 km |
| 0.6 | 01.06.2010 10:20 | 0 km | 19 km |
| 1.5 | 28.05.2010 02:45 | 10 km | 10 km |
| 1.1 | 23.05.2010 07:43 | 0 km | 22 km |
| 1.2 | 08.05.2010 07:46 | 0 km | 21 km |
| 0.9 | 30.04.2010 22:48 | 0 km | 22 km |
| 0.3 | 28.04.2010 01:18 | 0 km | 21 km |
| 1.0 | 27.04.2010 13:55 | 0 km | 22 km |
| 0.6 | 14.04.2010 03:52 | 0 km | 21 km |
| 2.0 | 02.04.2010 13:22 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 0.8 | 02.04.2010 07:24 | 0 km | 21 km |
| 2.2 | 02.04.2010 07:06 | 10 km | 20 km |
| 1.7 | 15.03.2010 15:33 | 15 km | 23 km |
| 2.0 | 19.02.2010 01:52 | 10 km | 19 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.