No records in the last 30 days.
202
recorded earthquakes
M6.6
largest
1935–2026
record span
3.50
mean magnitude
27
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 | 10.03.1988 06:17 | 38.8 km | 94 km |
| 6.6 | 22.04.1997 09:31 | 17.8 km | 67 km |
| 6.5 | 10.04.1935 22:32 | 100 km | 80 km |
| 6.5 | 23.12.1945 08:10 | 100 km | 109 km |
| 6.1 | 04.12.1954 18:31 | 49 km | 22 km |
| 6.1 | 29.09.2006 13:08 | 52.5 km | 42 km |
| 6.0 | 02.04.1997 06:14 | 56.3 km | 84 km |
| 5.9 | 06.12.2016 21:42 | 32.2 km | 69 km |
| 5.9 | 03.05.1994 16:36 | 35.4 km | 79 km |
| 5.8 | 02.12.2004 19:16 | 41.9 km | 26 km |
| 5.7 | 22.04.1997 10:11 | 12 km | 52 km |
| 5.5 | 29.09.2006 18:23 | 55.3 km | 38 km |
| 5.5 | 04.05.1997 01:44 | 25.2 km | 51 km |
| 5.4 | 08.04.1997 17:11 | 15.5 km | 69 km |
| 5.3 | 03.12.2004 03:46 | 34.4 km | 13 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.4 | 01.06.2026 15:18 | 10 km | 30 km |
| 4.0 | 04.05.2025 16:14 | 32.9 km | 42 km |
| 4.3 | 07.09.2024 19:06 | 52.2 km | 42 km |
| 5.3 | 29.01.2022 13:40 | 47.3 km | 48 km |
| 4.9 | 04.10.2020 19:12 | 58.3 km | 45 km |
| 4.3 | 06.03.2019 00:12 | 53.5 km | 14 km |
| 4.1 | 16.01.2019 01:02 | 5 km | 33 km |
| 3.9 | 09.11.2017 03:54 | 10 km | 28 km |
| 5.9 | 06.12.2016 21:42 | 32.2 km | 69 km |
| 3.5 | 02.05.2013 04:29 | 35 km | 17 km |
| 5.0 | 27.12.2010 01:00 | 55.6 km | 34 km |
| 5.2 | 22.11.2009 22:50 | 32.4 km | 77 km |
| 4.4 | 01.04.2009 02:03 | 45.3 km | 22 km |
| 4.8 | 21.12.2008 12:55 | 59.9 km | 33 km |
| 2.6 | 16.08.2008 23:00 | 30 km | 20 km |
| 3.0 | 13.08.2008 11:36 | 36 km | 22 km |
| 2.6 | 12.07.2008 10:39 | 29 km | 27 km |
| 2.9 | 24.02.2008 08:32 | 33 km | 25 km |
| 2.7 | 31.01.2008 13:22 | 31 km | 25 km |
| 2.7 | 24.01.2008 10:44 | 32 km | 18 km |
| 3.1 | 20.01.2008 18:32 | 27 km | 27 km |
| 3.2 | 29.12.2007 05:18 | 33 km | 31 km |
| 2.9 | 14.11.2007 05:46 | 31 km | 18 km |
| 3.0 | 16.09.2007 22:02 | 33 km | 15 km |
| 2.8 | 08.08.2007 08:13 | 14.7 km | 6 km |
| 2.6 | 05.07.2007 19:33 | 34 km | 24 km |
| 2.5 | 03.07.2007 05:52 | 32 km | 32 km |
| 2.9 | 04.06.2007 13:53 | 47 km | 12 km |
| 3.0 | 31.05.2007 08:51 | 33 km | 32 km |
| 2.5 | 13.05.2007 07:56 | 34 km | 20 km |
| 3.1 | 23.03.2007 15:27 | 31 km | 27 km |
| 3.4 | 27.02.2007 02:46 | 33 km | 24 km |
| 2.5 | 23.02.2007 19:53 | 33 km | 27 km |
| 4.7 | 23.02.2007 14:48 | 54.2 km | 28 km |
| 2.7 | 09.02.2007 08:38 | 31 km | 21 km |
| 2.5 | 26.01.2007 03:46 | 34.5 km | 23 km |
| 2.6 | 24.12.2006 18:39 | 34 km | 20 km |
| 3.0 | 08.12.2006 06:21 | 33 km | 23 km |
| 2.5 | 07.12.2006 18:55 | 30.9 km | 24 km |
| 2.8 | 03.12.2006 14:52 | 32 km | 25 km |
| 2.7 | 18.11.2006 12:23 | 27 km | 15 km |
| 3.2 | 29.10.2006 16:03 | 37 km | 19 km |
| 2.5 | 21.10.2006 16:10 | 25 km | 26 km |
| 2.7 | 18.10.2006 15:40 | 42 km | 21 km |
| 2.5 | 15.10.2006 00:23 | 42 km | 19 km |
| 2.6 | 13.10.2006 08:04 | 30 km | 23 km |
| 2.6 | 12.10.2006 04:24 | 38 km | 15 km |
| 2.9 | 08.10.2006 22:26 | 41 km | 19 km |
| 2.7 | 08.10.2006 08:52 | 34 km | 16 km |
| 2.6 | 06.10.2006 10:45 | 45 km | 17 km |
| 2.7 | 04.10.2006 09:53 | 31 km | 22 km |
| 3.0 | 02.10.2006 13:41 | 37 km | 21 km |
| 2.8 | 01.10.2006 23:54 | 37 km | 20 km |
| 2.5 | 01.10.2006 11:07 | 26 km | 24 km |
| 3.2 | 01.10.2006 03:00 | 35 km | 23 km |
| 5.5 | 29.09.2006 18:23 | 55.3 km | 38 km |
| 6.1 | 29.09.2006 13:08 | 52.5 km | 42 km |
| 3.3 | 24.09.2006 21:40 | 23 km | 30 km |
| 2.9 | 01.09.2006 22:50 | 38 km | 28 km |
| 2.9 | 20.08.2006 11:24 | 30 km | 20 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.