1.8
440
recorded earthquakes
M4.5
largest
1973–2026
record span
1.61
mean magnitude
152
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.5 | 23.01.2003 10:13 | 6.2 km | 85 km |
| 4.3 | 10.08.1986 15:11 | 10 km | 103 km |
| 4.3 | 12.01.2003 15:56 | 3.1 km | 84 km |
| 4.1 | 25.10.1992 23:15 | 33 km | 109 km |
| 4.0 | 03.05.1973 20:55 | 33 km | 41 km |
| 3.8 | 10.08.1986 13:38 | 12.3 km | 103 km |
| 3.6 | 08.06.2001 18:38 | 8 km | 81 km |
| 3.5 | 25.04.1986 21:04 | 10 km | 103 km |
| 3.5 | 14.06.2004 21:46 | 0 km | 44 km |
| 3.4 | 19.06.2012 22:05 | 15 km | 74 km |
| 3.4 | 10.08.1986 13:57 | 10 km | 97 km |
| 3.3 | 28.02.2017 20:57 | 10 km | 98 km |
| 3.3 | 10.08.2011 07:21 | 10 km | 61 km |
| 3.3 | 23.11.2003 10:34 | 0 km | 109 km |
| 3.2 | 11.03.2001 06:29 | 0 km | 68 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8 | 09.07.2026 21:22 | 1.2 km | 19 km |
| 1.6 | 26.06.2026 03:49 | 9.2 km | 94 km |
| 2.3 | 05.02.2026 07:16 | 1.3 km | 89 km |
| 2.1 | 13.01.2026 14:15 | 0 km | 60 km |
| 2.0 | 28.09.2025 10:43 | 0 km | 55 km |
| 2.2 | 18.08.2025 02:56 | 10.2 km | 101 km |
| 1.8 | 05.04.2025 18:01 | 1.2 km | 49 km |
| 1.8 | 26.02.2025 14:03 | 1 km | 57 km |
| 1.8 | 20.01.2025 13:32 | 0 km | 80 km |
| 1.7 | 12.01.2025 21:27 | 9.7 km | 74 km |
| 2.5 | 04.01.2025 00:32 | 0 km | 80 km |
| 2.1 | 03.01.2025 22:33 | 0 km | 81 km |
| 1.8 | 28.12.2024 12:39 | 4.8 km | 82 km |
| 2.4 | 24.12.2024 06:35 | 5.5 km | 80 km |
| 1.7 | 06.11.2024 10:06 | 7.4 km | 97 km |
| 2.1 | 21.10.2024 13:21 | 2.7 km | 68 km |
| 1.8 | 04.10.2024 13:07 | 0 km | 60 km |
| 1.7 | 05.05.2024 11:09 | 9.6 km | 99 km |
| 2.0 | 05.05.2024 09:04 | 11.5 km | 98 km |
| 2.2 | 14.04.2024 23:52 | 1 km | 81 km |
| 2.2 | 14.04.2024 22:11 | 1 km | 81 km |
| 1.9 | 11.04.2024 01:13 | 0 km | 81 km |
| 1.8 | 06.04.2024 12:44 | 0 km | 94 km |
| 2.2 | 31.03.2024 13:30 | 0 km | 81 km |
| 2.0 | 26.01.2024 10:20 | 12 km | 74 km |
| 2.2 | 21.01.2024 01:56 | 0 km | 88 km |
| 1.9 | 21.01.2024 01:29 | 0 km | 93 km |
| 1.9 | 14.01.2024 10:37 | 0.6 km | 71 km |
| 1.8 | 15.12.2023 12:31 | 0 km | 57 km |
| 2.1 | 13.11.2023 17:06 | 1 km | 92 km |
| 2.2 | 04.08.2023 04:41 | 1 km | 46 km |
| 1.8 | 01.06.2023 13:02 | 24 km | 73 km |
| 1.9 | 29.05.2023 02:29 | 10 km | 84 km |
| 2.1 | 25.02.2023 22:26 | 10 km | 62 km |
| 2.1 | 18.01.2023 11:38 | 4 km | 92 km |
| 1.5 | 20.09.2022 06:16 | 12 km | 92 km |
| 2.0 | 14.04.2022 19:41 | 6 km | 18 km |
| 2.0 | 13.04.2022 13:09 | 26 km | 78 km |
| 1.8 | 19.03.2022 11:56 | 11 km | 93 km |
| 3.1 | 07.03.2022 10:59 | 4 km | 63 km |
| 1.8 | 25.01.2022 14:17 | 4 km | 35 km |
| 2.2 | 26.11.2021 13:49 | 1 km | 85 km |
| 2.3 | 20.09.2021 08:17 | 12 km | 65 km |
| 2.5 | 06.09.2021 22:40 | 10 km | 67 km |
| 2.1 | 31.07.2021 14:02 | 11 km | 103 km |
| 2.0 | 29.07.2021 09:54 | 2 km | 87 km |
| 1.5 | 23.07.2021 03:23 | 31 km | 101 km |
| 2.1 | 13.07.2021 02:32 | 8 km | 49 km |
| 1.6 | 10.07.2021 07:08 | 6 km | 73 km |
| 1.9 | 19.05.2021 16:33 | 10 km | 86 km |
| 1.8 | 24.04.2021 01:11 | 9 km | 94 km |
| 2.0 | 08.04.2021 08:55 | 8 km | 92 km |
| 2.4 | 03.04.2021 01:17 | 8 km | 75 km |
| 1.9 | 21.03.2021 04:12 | 10 km | 85 km |
| 1.8 | 15.03.2021 02:48 | 1 km | 85 km |
| 1.8 | 15.03.2021 01:53 | 11 km | 83 km |
| 2.0 | 17.02.2021 14:10 | 8 km | 85 km |
| 2.0 | 27.01.2021 00:44 | 10 km | 82 km |
| 2.3 | 01.01.2021 14:55 | 20 km | 81 km |
| 3.1 | 01.01.2021 07:10 | 5 km | 82 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.