No records in the last 30 days.
158
recorded earthquakes
M5.2
largest
1938–2026
record span
1.85
mean magnitude
85
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.2 | 16.10.1938 02:19 | 35 km | 145 km |
| 4.3 | 01.08.1975 02:49 | 33 km | 68 km |
| 4.0 | 20.04.2018 08:34 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 3.7 | 15.08.2007 22:47 | 3 km | 42 km |
| 3.7 | 14.11.1990 20:30 | 10 km | 77 km |
| 3.5 | 19.05.2018 18:35 | 2 km | 55 km |
| 3.5 | 16.08.2009 06:58 | 5 km | 89 km |
| 3.5 | 28.06.1993 03:25 | 10 km | 74 km |
| 3.3 | 20.04.2018 10:22 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 3.2 | 19.05.2018 05:12 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 3.2 | 19.04.2008 05:35 | 11.5 km | 79 km |
| 3.1 | 25.12.2012 12:22 | 10 km | 71 km |
| 3.0 | 27.01.2014 02:22 | 10 km | 72 km |
| 3.0 | 13.08.2002 22:10 | 20.7 km | 61 km |
| 2.9 | 20.11.2012 08:19 | 10 km | 65 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.9 | 25.05.2026 13:44 | 2.4 km | 79 km |
| 1.8 | 20.01.2026 13:07 | 0 km | 42 km |
| 2.1 | 08.11.2025 00:56 | 8.1 km | 93 km |
| 2.0 | 11.04.2025 21:28 | 1.4 km | 80 km |
| 2.7 | 12.01.2025 21:42 | 0.2 km | 42 km |
| 2.4 | 04.01.2025 19:15 | 4 km | 43 km |
| 1.8 | 17.12.2024 05:52 | 0 km | 87 km |
| 2.5 | 30.10.2024 13:02 | 1 km | 52 km |
| 1.7 | 26.08.2024 23:37 | 5.5 km | 69 km |
| 1.8 | 22.08.2024 21:16 | 0 km | 68 km |
| 2.1 | 27.04.2024 04:25 | 8.9 km | 67 km |
| 1.8 | 30.03.2024 01:44 | 11.8 km | 95 km |
| 2.0 | 25.03.2024 04:31 | 4.4 km | 72 km |
| 2.0 | 29.09.2023 01:44 | 1 km | 60 km |
| 2.0 | 05.06.2023 03:47 | 10 km | 79 km |
| 2.1 | 18.02.2023 04:21 | 5 km | 64 km |
| 1.7 | 10.02.2023 21:17 | 5 km | 89 km |
| 2.3 | 23.04.2022 23:47 | 6 km | 62 km |
| 1.8 | 27.02.2022 03:34 | 5 km | 74 km |
| 2.3 | 13.05.2021 18:15 | 2 km | 70 km |
| 1.5 | 04.03.2021 20:56 | 18 km | 89 km |
| 2.3 | 26.08.2020 18:36 | 10 km | 74 km |
| 2.1 | 26.08.2020 17:12 | 4 km | 74 km |
| 3.5 | 19.05.2018 18:35 | 2 km | 55 km |
| 3.2 | 19.05.2018 05:12 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 3.3 | 20.04.2018 10:22 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 4.0 | 20.04.2018 08:34 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 2.8 | 21.12.2015 09:48 | 2 km | 65 km |
| 3.0 | 27.01.2014 02:22 | 10 km | 72 km |
| 3.1 | 25.12.2012 12:22 | 10 km | 71 km |
| 2.9 | 20.11.2012 08:19 | 10 km | 65 km |
| 0.6 | 14.09.2011 09:45 | 0 km | 56 km |
| 2.7 | 19.08.2011 14:48 | 5 km | 73 km |
| 1.8 | 12.08.2011 19:46 | 0 km | 88 km |
| 1.2 | 21.07.2011 11:30 | 0 km | 69 km |
| 1.2 | 18.07.2011 11:03 | 0 km | 49 km |
| 1.5 | 15.07.2011 12:16 | 0 km | 54 km |
| 1.5 | 01.07.2011 13:35 | 0 km | 76 km |
| 1.4 | 01.07.2011 08:42 | 0 km | 64 km |
| 1.6 | 09.06.2011 10:21 | 0 km | 72 km |
| 1.6 | 27.04.2011 13:09 | 0 km | 78 km |
| 1.2 | 04.04.2011 11:20 | 0 km | 51 km |
| 1.5 | 04.02.2011 06:10 | 0 km | 90 km |
| 1.5 | 01.10.2010 01:14 | 7.4 km | 74 km |
| 2.7 | 18.09.2010 00:26 | 10 km | 74 km |
| 2.7 | 04.09.2010 16:00 | 5 km | 88 km |
| 2.0 | 22.08.2010 06:42 | 15 km | 70 km |
| 2.2 | 15.08.2010 10:20 | 5 km | 80 km |
| 1.5 | 04.06.2010 12:06 | 0 km | 56 km |
| 1.8 | 14.05.2010 10:14 | 0 km | 82 km |
| 1.8 | 19.04.2010 21:09 | 10.8 km | 84 km |
| 2.2 | 14.04.2010 01:52 | 5 km | 62 km |
| 2.0 | 01.04.2010 10:57 | 5 km | 75 km |
| 1.7 | 01.04.2010 02:28 | 0 km | 55 km |
| 0.7 | 04.03.2010 08:49 | 0 km | 64 km |
| 1.7 | 15.02.2010 02:44 | 10.9 km | 59 km |
| 1.1 | 13.02.2010 12:03 | 0 km | 57 km |
| 1.3 | 11.02.2010 12:29 | 0 km | 77 km |
| 1.9 | 05.02.2010 10:43 | 0 km | 45 km |
| 1.5 | 29.10.2009 12:15 | 0 km | 62 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.