No records in the last 30 days.
856
recorded earthquakes
M7.2
largest
1917–2026
record span
3.79
mean magnitude
760
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.2 | 05.10.1948 20:12 | 15 km | 64 km |
| 7.1 | 31.08.1968 10:47 | 14.1 km | 408 km |
| 7.1 | 01.05.1929 15:37 | 10 km | 121 km |
| 6.7 | 30.07.1970 00:52 | 12.4 km | 284 km |
| 6.5 | 04.02.1997 10:37 | 20.4 km | 161 km |
| 6.4 | 17.09.1923 07:09 | 15 km | 228 km |
| 6.3 | 04.05.1940 21:01 | 15 km | 227 km |
| 6.2 | 24.03.1918 23:15 | 15 km | 319 km |
| 6.0 | 05.04.2017 06:09 | 12.2 km | 259 km |
| 6.0 | 05.10.1933 13:29 | 35 km | 341 km |
| 6.0 | 13.05.1929 13:27 | 15 km | 138 km |
| 5.9 | 09.05.1950 11:16 | 15 km | 91 km |
| 5.9 | 13.07.1929 07:36 | 15 km | 60 km |
| 5.8 | 28.11.1917 14:42 | 15 km | 121 km |
| 5.8 | 19.09.1939 03:24 | 15 km | 175 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.9 | 25.06.2026 06:28 | 0 km | 211 km |
| 4.4 | 07.12.2025 11:02 | 10 km | 262 km |
| 3.9 | 06.12.2025 16:46 | 0 km | 118 km |
| 4.0 | 04.12.2025 07:15 | 0 km | 233 km |
| 4.1 | 03.12.2025 21:51 | 10 km | 233 km |
| 4.1 | 20.11.2025 20:56 | 10 km | 250 km |
| 4.1 | 10.08.2025 13:16 | 10 km | 243 km |
| 4.2 | 07.08.2025 17:15 | 12 km | 318 km |
| 4.0 | 25.07.2025 08:52 | 0 km | 279 km |
| 3.4 | 01.07.2025 19:16 | 10 km | 181 km |
| 3.6 | 14.06.2025 18:47 | 10 km | 252 km |
| 3.1 | 30.05.2025 20:11 | 12 km | 135 km |
| 3.3 | 28.05.2025 10:06 | 8 km | 221 km |
| 3.0 | 17.05.2025 14:10 | 9 km | 112 km |
| 3.1 | 03.05.2025 07:35 | 10 km | 233 km |
| 3.1 | 26.04.2025 15:33 | 10 km | 139 km |
| 3.3 | 22.04.2025 04:47 | 9 km | 114 km |
| 3.2 | 18.04.2025 07:20 | 8 km | 233 km |
| 3.2 | 26.03.2025 09:30 | 12 km | 166 km |
| 3.0 | 25.03.2025 03:07 | 5 km | 143 km |
| 3.8 | 21.03.2025 06:56 | 8 km | 162 km |
| 3.2 | 14.03.2025 04:58 | 10 km | 105 km |
| 3.0 | 19.02.2025 18:03 | 9 km | 240 km |
| 3.1 | 06.02.2025 01:38 | 10 km | 227 km |
| 3.1 | 03.02.2025 18:45 | 10 km | 332 km |
| 3.4 | 25.01.2025 01:28 | 12 km | 275 km |
| 3.1 | 30.11.2024 08:53 | 6 km | 313 km |
| 4.2 | 15.11.2024 05:31 | 9 km | 289 km |
| 3.3 | 14.11.2024 01:55 | 0 km | 224 km |
| 4.0 | 08.11.2024 04:19 | 12 km | 275 km |
| 5.0 | 22.09.2024 12:43 | 0 km | 164 km |
| 4.8 | 21.09.2024 23:58 | 0 km | 172 km |
| 4.3 | 21.09.2024 23:51 | 7.3 km | 165 km |
| 3.8 | 10.09.2024 22:16 | 0 km | 209 km |
| 5.0 | 18.06.2024 09:54 | 9.7 km | 292 km |
| 3.6 | 03.05.2024 12:07 | 11.2 km | 97 km |
| 3.5 | 18.04.2024 23:09 | 10 km | 269 km |
| 4.0 | 05.03.2024 11:23 | 2 km | 277 km |
| 3.4 | 06.11.2023 12:43 | 10 km | 236 km |
| 3.5 | 16.10.2023 12:46 | 12 km | 174 km |
| 3.7 | 16.10.2023 08:36 | 8 km | 173 km |
| 3.6 | 29.09.2023 12:25 | 10 km | 207 km |
| 3.8 | 18.09.2023 16:32 | 10 km | 179 km |
| 3.3 | 08.09.2023 23:53 | 10 km | 145 km |
| 3.2 | 22.08.2023 06:16 | 7 km | 286 km |
| 4.4 | 15.08.2023 13:05 | 10 km | 169 km |
| 4.1 | 03.06.2023 09:23 | 10 km | 218 km |
| 4.5 | 03.06.2023 07:48 | 10 km | 256 km |
| 3.5 | 21.05.2023 21:45 | 3 km | 255 km |
| 4.8 | 27.04.2023 22:39 | 14.5 km | 211 km |
| 3.2 | 29.03.2023 14:08 | 10 km | 105 km |
| 4.0 | 12.03.2023 11:43 | 7 km | 144 km |
| 4.0 | 01.03.2023 04:47 | 12 km | 156 km |
| 3.8 | 01.02.2023 05:41 | 10 km | 115 km |
| 3.8 | 16.01.2023 02:29 | 2 km | 166 km |
| 3.6 | 23.12.2022 09:49 | 10 km | 207 km |
| 4.0 | 27.07.2022 15:02 | 10 km | 221 km |
| 3.6 | 19.07.2022 13:07 | 11.4 km | 262 km |
| 3.7 | 14.06.2022 12:03 | 5.4 km | 249 km |
| 4.1 | 25.05.2022 04:52 | 7.1 km | 132 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.