No records in the last 30 days.
1,995
recorded earthquakes
M6.4
largest
1918–2026
record span
2.25
mean magnitude
1,124
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.4 | 29.09.1918 12:07 | 15 km | 226 km |
| 6.2 | 11.07.1927 13:04 | 15 km | 217 km |
| 5.5 | 24.12.1996 22:16 | 29.7 km | 171 km |
| 5.3 | 16.03.1956 19:32 | 15 km | 144 km |
| 5.1 | 15.02.2008 10:36 | 10.4 km | 160 km |
| 5.1 | 16.03.1956 19:43 | 15 km | 120 km |
| 5.1 | 26.03.1997 04:22 | 15.6 km | 157 km |
| 5.1 | 23.02.2020 05:57 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 4.8 | 18.10.1991 16:48 | 11 km | 45 km |
| 4.8 | 26.03.1968 19:37 | 16 km | 156 km |
| 4.8 | 04.07.2018 19:45 | 7.4 km | 157 km |
| 4.6 | 16.04.1971 21:27 | 12 km | 142 km |
| 4.6 | 24.10.1999 01:23 | 9.8 km | 164 km |
| 4.5 | 12.06.1974 10:19 | 10 km | 101 km |
| 4.5 | 05.11.2020 10:45 | 10 km | 71 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 03.05.2026 23:58 | 4.1 km | 119 km |
| 3.1 | 26.01.2026 15:39 | 19.3 km | 93 km |
| 3.8 | 18.01.2026 11:01 | 9.8 km | 108 km |
| 3.9 | 01.11.2025 22:27 | 5.6 km | 29 km |
| 2.7 | 01.10.2025 01:43 | 7.4 km | 92 km |
| 2.9 | 30.09.2025 13:06 | 2 km | 135 km |
| 4.2 | 28.07.2025 02:31 | 5.2 km | 105 km |
| 3.6 | 24.07.2025 03:07 | 5 km | 98 km |
| 3.1 | 19.04.2025 21:49 | 7.4 km | 82 km |
| 3.2 | 29.03.2025 14:47 | 7.2 km | 117 km |
| 2.6 | 19.05.2023 22:16 | 6.7 km | 123 km |
| 3.4 | 06.05.2023 14:45 | 9 km | 139 km |
| 4.1 | 15.04.2023 11:25 | 20 km | 132 km |
| 3.0 | 25.03.2023 08:46 | 4.2 km | 91 km |
| 3.7 | 03.03.2023 17:07 | 7.2 km | 65 km |
| 4.1 | 08.02.2023 18:58 | 10.8 km | 122 km |
| 3.3 | 06.02.2023 14:19 | 17 km | 133 km |
| 2.9 | 06.02.2023 03:04 | 20 km | 131 km |
| 3.3 | 03.02.2022 10:03 | 30 km | 140 km |
| 3.1 | 03.02.2022 09:15 | 30 km | 147 km |
| 3.1 | 04.11.2021 13:19 | 16 km | 112 km |
| 3.3 | 30.10.2021 02:02 | 31 km | 151 km |
| 3.6 | 24.04.2021 13:47 | 27 km | 56 km |
| 3.9 | 04.03.2021 23:24 | 2 km | 101 km |
| 3.2 | 21.02.2021 14:54 | 12 km | 123 km |
| 4.1 | 26.11.2020 22:08 | 10 km | 39 km |
| 4.5 | 05.11.2020 10:45 | 10 km | 71 km |
| 4.0 | 23.07.2020 23:20 | 22.2 km | 110 km |
| 4.3 | 14.07.2020 11:34 | 10 km | 67 km |
| 3.1 | 26.06.2020 19:51 | 5 km | 126 km |
| 3.2 | 29.04.2020 16:55 | 0 km | 122 km |
| 3.3 | 03.03.2020 00:44 | 33 km | 152 km |
| 3.2 | 02.03.2020 21:13 | 7 km | 124 km |
| 5.1 | 23.02.2020 05:57 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 3.4 | 22.02.2020 08:51 | 1 km | 131 km |
| 3.0 | 26.08.2019 09:13 | 4 km | 132 km |
| 3.4 | 29.04.2019 12:07 | 10 km | 116 km |
| 2.6 | 27.04.2019 05:20 | 6.9 km | 121 km |
| 3.0 | 27.04.2019 05:09 | 6 km | 115 km |
| 3.1 | 22.04.2019 17:25 | 1 km | 130 km |
| 3.2 | 10.02.2019 15:16 | 0 km | 117 km |
| 3.0 | 29.09.2018 06:42 | 15 km | 114 km |
| 3.4 | 29.09.2018 01:55 | 5 km | 119 km |
| 4.8 | 04.07.2018 19:45 | 7.4 km | 157 km |
| 3.0 | 03.05.2018 19:24 | 7 km | 117 km |
| 3.1 | 17.04.2018 16:47 | 5 km | 127 km |
| 3.8 | 17.04.2018 15:45 | 7 km | 68 km |
| 2.0 | 12.04.2018 21:41 | 1 km | 102 km |
| 1.5 | 12.04.2018 14:27 | 1 km | 132 km |
| 3.2 | 21.03.2018 21:40 | 10 km | 103 km |
| 3.2 | 03.02.2018 22:24 | 33 km | 145 km |
| 3.0 | 01.07.2017 17:56 | 2 km | 123 km |
| 3.1 | 16.05.2017 09:25 | 4 km | 119 km |
| 3.8 | 21.03.2017 03:56 | 3 km | 117 km |
| 3.2 | 02.02.2017 21:18 | 10 km | 150 km |
| 3.1 | 22.11.2016 03:09 | 15 km | 142 km |
| 3.1 | 31.10.2016 07:54 | 11 km | 129 km |
| 3.6 | 24.07.2016 20:29 | 7.3 km | 107 km |
| 3.0 | 25.06.2016 19:02 | 11 km | 120 km |
| 3.1 | 25.06.2016 14:42 | 5 km | 125 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.