No records in the last 30 days.
488
recorded earthquakes
M7.1
largest
1912–2026
record span
4.32
mean magnitude
426
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.1 | 20.05.1990 02:22 | 13.8 km | 419 km |
| 7.0 | 24.05.1990 20:00 | 25.5 km | 441 km |
| 7.0 | 06.01.1928 19:31 | 15 km | 416 km |
| 6.6 | 20.03.1966 01:42 | 27.4 km | 282 km |
| 6.4 | 30.06.1952 21:04 | 15 km | 326 km |
| 6.2 | 10.01.1928 02:25 | 10 km | 367 km |
| 6.2 | 24.10.2002 06:08 | 14.2 km | 525 km |
| 6.2 | 05.02.1994 23:34 | 12.5 km | 256 km |
| 6.0 | 18.03.1945 08:01 | 35 km | 156 km |
| 5.9 | 09.07.1912 08:18 | 10 km | 261 km |
| 5.9 | 10.09.2016 12:27 | 34.6 km | 283 km |
| 5.8 | 15.06.2007 18:49 | 14.7 km | 169 km |
| 5.7 | 04.05.1960 02:17 | — | 289 km |
| 5.7 | 03.07.2013 19:21 | 15.7 km | 155 km |
| 5.6 | 19.02.2007 02:33 | 27.5 km | 166 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.5 | 31.05.2026 18:19 | 0 km | 27 km |
| 3.7 | 07.05.2026 23:45 | 0 km | 308 km |
| 3.8 | 28.02.2026 13:49 | 0 km | 176 km |
| 3.7 | 04.05.2025 18:11 | 10 km | 379 km |
| 3.9 | 13.02.2025 11:16 | 0 km | 332 km |
| 3.7 | 03.08.2024 03:17 | 14.5 km | 229 km |
| 4.3 | 19.01.2024 05:24 | 10 km | 337 km |
| 4.9 | 13.11.2023 18:54 | 14.5 km | 299 km |
| 4.8 | 24.08.2023 22:01 | 10 km | 329 km |
| 3.4 | 08.04.2023 12:41 | 10 km | 124 km |
| 4.9 | 27.03.2023 18:20 | 10 km | 399 km |
| 4.2 | 04.03.2023 11:32 | 14 km | 262 km |
| 4.4 | 04.03.2023 08:54 | 14 km | 269 km |
| 3.5 | 04.03.2023 05:34 | 14 km | 262 km |
| 4.1 | 28.02.2023 09:30 | 14 km | 258 km |
| 4.0 | 31.12.2022 23:13 | 30.2 km | 316 km |
| 4.7 | 27.12.2022 08:18 | 6.2 km | 256 km |
| 4.8 | 24.12.2022 17:49 | 10.1 km | 269 km |
| 4.3 | 24.12.2022 11:28 | 33.4 km | 161 km |
| 4.0 | 15.12.2022 18:18 | 18.5 km | 114 km |
| 4.4 | 13.12.2022 14:04 | 15 km | 265 km |
| 4.1 | 11.12.2022 20:33 | 4.6 km | 314 km |
| 4.5 | 11.12.2022 18:18 | 8.9 km | 230 km |
| 4.4 | 09.12.2022 18:41 | 13 km | 267 km |
| 4.7 | 07.12.2022 08:18 | 27.7 km | 175 km |
| 4.1 | 02.12.2022 23:03 | 20.5 km | 316 km |
| 4.0 | 27.11.2022 02:11 | 30 km | 315 km |
| 4.9 | 25.11.2022 08:36 | 19.9 km | 116 km |
| 4.0 | 25.11.2022 02:05 | 8.7 km | 289 km |
| 4.0 | 22.11.2022 23:02 | 0 km | 297 km |
| 4.2 | 21.11.2022 22:03 | 0 km | 266 km |
| 4.1 | 19.11.2022 19:41 | 25.1 km | 250 km |
| 4.6 | 11.11.2022 04:19 | 31.3 km | 274 km |
| 4.1 | 10.11.2022 13:54 | 12.3 km | 254 km |
| 4.6 | 10.11.2022 11:20 | 0 km | 252 km |
| 4.2 | 10.11.2022 10:29 | 0 km | 251 km |
| 4.5 | 10.11.2022 07:36 | 12.6 km | 253 km |
| 4.7 | 10.11.2022 05:34 | 12.6 km | 253 km |
| 4.5 | 10.11.2022 05:29 | 12.6 km | 253 km |
| 4.2 | 10.11.2022 03:36 | 15.2 km | 253 km |
| 4.0 | 09.11.2022 16:47 | 0.1 km | 169 km |
| 4.3 | 04.11.2022 14:55 | 10.2 km | 253 km |
| 4.0 | 02.11.2022 08:12 | 9.1 km | 262 km |
| 4.4 | 25.10.2022 10:04 | 0 km | 253 km |
| 4.5 | 23.10.2022 16:30 | 13 km | 301 km |
| 4.1 | 23.10.2022 08:17 | 12.4 km | 159 km |
| 5.0 | 20.10.2022 13:27 | 22.9 km | 135 km |
| 4.1 | 19.10.2022 20:29 | 0 km | 407 km |
| 4.2 | 17.10.2022 22:26 | 29.9 km | 322 km |
| 4.2 | 16.10.2022 06:51 | 0.4 km | 245 km |
| 4.4 | 12.10.2022 21:34 | 17.7 km | 139 km |
| 4.3 | 09.10.2022 21:16 | 16.3 km | 226 km |
| 4.0 | 06.10.2022 07:07 | 2 km | 326 km |
| 4.1 | 04.10.2022 17:06 | 0 km | 48 km |
| 4.9 | 03.10.2022 22:26 | 28.5 km | 293 km |
| 4.0 | 01.10.2022 21:15 | 10 km | 380 km |
| 4.0 | 01.10.2022 03:19 | 23 km | 235 km |
| 4.0 | 27.09.2022 10:07 | 10 km | 205 km |
| 4.1 | 27.09.2022 03:50 | 0 km | 247 km |
| 4.0 | 26.09.2022 22:46 | 9.9 km | 269 km |
Regions
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.