No records in the last 30 days.
172
recorded earthquakes
M6.6
largest
1935–2025
record span
3.54
mean magnitude
43
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.6 | 22.04.1997 09:31 | 17.8 km | 92 km |
| 6.6 | 10.03.1988 06:17 | 38.8 km | 89 km |
| 6.5 | 10.04.1935 22:32 | 100 km | 72 km |
| 6.5 | 23.12.1945 08:10 | 100 km | 88 km |
| 6.1 | 04.12.1954 18:31 | 49 km | 46 km |
| 6.1 | 29.09.2006 13:08 | 52.5 km | 55 km |
| 6.0 | 02.04.1997 06:14 | 56.3 km | 110 km |
| 5.9 | 03.05.1994 16:36 | 35.4 km | 69 km |
| 5.8 | 02.12.2004 19:16 | 41.9 km | 1 km |
| 5.7 | 22.04.1997 10:11 | 12 km | 77 km |
| 5.5 | 29.09.2006 18:23 | 55.3 km | 46 km |
| 5.5 | 04.05.1997 01:44 | 25.2 km | 76 km |
| 5.3 | 03.12.2004 03:46 | 34.4 km | 14 km |
| 5.3 | 21.09.1991 19:01 | 74.7 km | 76 km |
| 5.3 | 29.01.2022 13:40 | 47.3 km | 75 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.6 | 09.12.2025 05:30 | 34 km | 28 km |
| 4.0 | 04.05.2025 16:14 | 32.9 km | 23 km |
| 3.6 | 01.08.2024 03:23 | 30.5 km | 19 km |
| 4.0 | 03.12.2022 10:54 | 21.4 km | 44 km |
| 5.3 | 29.01.2022 13:40 | 47.3 km | 75 km |
| 4.3 | 06.03.2019 00:12 | 53.5 km | 34 km |
| 3.6 | 10.09.2018 03:34 | 10 km | 27 km |
| 5.0 | 27.12.2010 01:00 | 55.6 km | 42 km |
| 5.2 | 22.11.2009 23:34 | 49.2 km | 57 km |
| 5.2 | 22.11.2009 22:50 | 32.4 km | 58 km |
| 4.4 | 04.04.2009 09:24 | 48.9 km | 26 km |
| 4.4 | 01.04.2009 02:03 | 45.3 km | 10 km |
| 4.8 | 21.12.2008 12:55 | 59.9 km | 47 km |
| 3.0 | 13.08.2008 11:36 | 36 km | 32 km |
| 2.6 | 12.07.2008 10:39 | 29 km | 25 km |
| 3.2 | 29.12.2007 05:18 | 33 km | 29 km |
| 3.1 | 03.11.2007 00:34 | 31 km | 27 km |
| 2.6 | 05.07.2007 14:40 | 65 km | 18 km |
| 2.5 | 03.07.2007 05:52 | 32 km | 28 km |
| 2.9 | 04.06.2007 13:53 | 47 km | 24 km |
| 3.0 | 31.05.2007 08:51 | 33 km | 24 km |
| 3.1 | 23.03.2007 15:27 | 31 km | 7 km |
| 4.7 | 23.02.2007 14:48 | 54.2 km | 43 km |
| 2.5 | 04.12.2006 08:01 | 59 km | 21 km |
| 2.8 | 03.12.2006 14:52 | 32 km | 28 km |
| 2.9 | 25.10.2006 06:29 | 14 km | 36 km |
| 5.5 | 29.09.2006 18:23 | 55.3 km | 46 km |
| 6.1 | 29.09.2006 13:08 | 52.5 km | 55 km |
| 3.3 | 24.09.2006 21:40 | 23 km | 18 km |
| 3.3 | 23.09.2006 01:54 | 20 km | 34 km |
| 3.3 | 04.09.2006 04:53 | 39 km | 34 km |
| 2.9 | 01.09.2006 22:50 | 38 km | 22 km |
| 2.9 | 20.08.2006 11:24 | 30 km | 24 km |
| 2.5 | 06.08.2006 21:31 | 31 km | 9 km |
| 3.5 | 06.08.2006 21:23 | 29 km | 14 km |
| 2.6 | 05.08.2006 22:37 | 39 km | 30 km |
| 2.5 | 16.07.2006 08:01 | 32 km | 23 km |
| 2.6 | 25.06.2006 05:23 | 29 km | 26 km |
| 2.9 | 03.02.2006 18:21 | 10 km | 33 km |
| 3.4 | 30.01.2006 20:38 | 43 km | 13 km |
| 2.6 | 02.12.2005 03:49 | 22 km | 10 km |
| 2.7 | 02.12.2005 03:43 | 21 km | 12 km |
| 2.8 | 03.10.2005 12:04 | 28 km | 25 km |
| 3.0 | 06.09.2005 08:26 | 22 km | 28 km |
| 3.0 | 29.07.2005 23:25 | 30 km | 27 km |
| 3.1 | 18.07.2005 01:45 | 46.5 km | 21 km |
| 2.7 | 08.07.2005 23:11 | 23 km | 29 km |
| 3.4 | 04.07.2005 04:04 | 60.2 km | 4 km |
| 4.7 | 04.07.2005 04:04 | 23 km | 28 km |
| 2.7 | 12.06.2005 19:55 | 35 km | 26 km |
| 2.5 | 20.04.2005 09:53 | 32.1 km | 25 km |
| 2.9 | 18.03.2005 03:03 | 27.7 km | 31 km |
| 3.0 | 05.03.2005 08:24 | 31 km | 26 km |
| 2.5 | 16.02.2005 12:48 | 32 km | 25 km |
| 2.6 | 06.02.2005 06:32 | 30 km | 31 km |
| 2.8 | 07.01.2005 13:51 | 31 km | 30 km |
| 2.8 | 04.01.2005 20:20 | 29 km | 25 km |
| 3.7 | 04.01.2005 10:17 | 30 km | 22 km |
| 3.6 | 04.01.2005 08:30 | 32 km | 21 km |
| 3.8 | 02.01.2005 05:33 | 28 km | 28 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.