No records in the last 30 days.
293
recorded earthquakes
M6.5
largest
1951–2026
record span
4.22
mean magnitude
236
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.5 | 04.04.1956 21:21 | — | 117 km |
| 6.5 | 07.05.1964 05:45 | 31 km | 210 km |
| 5.7 | 01.11.1951 11:10 | 15 km | 215 km |
| 5.7 | 15.12.1977 23:20 | 10 km | 162 km |
| 5.4 | 08.08.2023 15:31 | 7 km | 123 km |
| 5.4 | 04.11.2002 03:19 | 11.8 km | 17 km |
| 5.4 | 06.03.2008 07:35 | 9 km | 45 km |
| 5.3 | 21.12.1996 08:48 | 11.7 km | 39 km |
| 5.2 | 31.10.2014 17:04 | 4 km | 53 km |
| 5.2 | 17.02.2023 09:26 | 19.9 km | 82 km |
| 5.2 | 25.10.1959 12:31 | — | 111 km |
| 5.2 | 08.11.1994 12:52 | 27.8 km | 228 km |
| 5.2 | 13.07.2016 03:01 | 7.3 km | 31 km |
| 5.2 | 22.02.1991 22:06 | 10 km | 197 km |
| 5.2 | 05.09.2023 15:42 | 10 km | 126 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.3 | 23.02.2026 20:52 | 0 km | 119 km |
| 3.9 | 19.02.2026 23:30 | 0 km | 167 km |
| 3.8 | 30.12.2025 01:31 | 0 km | 133 km |
| 4.1 | 29.12.2025 00:02 | 0 km | 110 km |
| 3.5 | 24.12.2025 13:37 | 0 km | 93 km |
| 4.3 | 17.09.2025 04:17 | 10 km | 178 km |
| 4.4 | 08.08.2025 22:58 | 10 km | 112 km |
| 5.0 | 08.08.2025 07:38 | 0 km | 128 km |
| 4.6 | 30.07.2025 15:03 | 10 km | 179 km |
| 4.9 | 09.07.2025 22:12 | 10 km | 167 km |
| 4.3 | 25.05.2025 19:52 | 10 km | 175 km |
| 4.6 | 25.05.2025 03:35 | 10 km | 177 km |
| 3.3 | 25.05.2025 03:35 | 0 km | 169 km |
| 4.6 | 17.03.2025 10:44 | 10 km | 167 km |
| 4.6 | 17.01.2025 11:10 | 10 km | 193 km |
| 4.4 | 18.12.2024 21:06 | 10 km | 42 km |
| 3.2 | 18.12.2024 21:06 | 0 km | 36 km |
| 4.2 | 10.12.2024 08:06 | 0 km | 31 km |
| 3.5 | 27.08.2024 21:48 | 0 km | 184 km |
| 3.6 | 23.08.2024 01:13 | 0 km | 186 km |
| 4.1 | 05.05.2024 20:30 | 9 km | 35 km |
| 4.0 | 17.02.2024 10:35 | 22 km | 217 km |
| 4.2 | 10.02.2024 15:28 | 10 km | 36 km |
| 4.2 | 06.11.2023 23:04 | 10 km | 131 km |
| 4.1 | 15.10.2023 22:16 | 10 km | 115 km |
| 5.2 | 05.09.2023 15:42 | 10 km | 126 km |
| 4.7 | 27.08.2023 13:53 | 10 km | 128 km |
| 4.2 | 21.08.2023 05:36 | 10 km | 183 km |
| 4.0 | 19.08.2023 22:01 | 10 km | 121 km |
| 4.2 | 14.08.2023 15:12 | 10 km | 129 km |
| 4.2 | 13.08.2023 20:13 | 10 km | 134 km |
| 4.2 | 10.08.2023 02:24 | 10 km | 125 km |
| 4.2 | 08.08.2023 22:58 | 10 km | 129 km |
| 5.1 | 08.08.2023 20:28 | 10 km | 133 km |
| 5.4 | 08.08.2023 15:31 | 7 km | 123 km |
| 3.8 | 02.08.2023 22:00 | 10 km | 187 km |
| 4.1 | 16.07.2023 06:20 | 10 km | 189 km |
| 4.0 | 22.06.2023 01:19 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 3.4 | 15.05.2023 19:23 | 10 km | 122 km |
| 4.8 | 14.04.2023 23:44 | 10 km | 127 km |
| 4.3 | 09.04.2023 23:33 | 10 km | 170 km |
| 4.0 | 22.03.2023 20:55 | 10 km | 124 km |
| 4.4 | 22.03.2023 20:47 | 10 km | 123 km |
| 4.3 | 08.03.2023 23:56 | 10 km | 125 km |
| 4.1 | 08.03.2023 02:07 | 10 km | 108 km |
| 4.1 | 02.03.2023 14:25 | 10 km | 131 km |
| 5.2 | 17.02.2023 09:26 | 19.9 km | 82 km |
| 4.8 | 16.02.2023 15:13 | 10 km | 120 km |
| 4.2 | 16.02.2023 15:03 | 10 km | 125 km |
| 4.0 | 27.01.2023 06:18 | 10 km | 142 km |
| 4.0 | 24.01.2023 21:18 | 10 km | 130 km |
| 4.7 | 05.09.2022 22:11 | 10 km | 137 km |
| 4.0 | 15.08.2022 23:17 | 10 km | 127 km |
| 3.1 | 10.05.2022 12:22 | 10 km | 131 km |
| 4.1 | 26.03.2022 17:55 | 10 km | 134 km |
| 4.0 | 19.03.2022 07:18 | 10 km | 176 km |
| 4.2 | 18.02.2022 13:24 | 10 km | 131 km |
| 4.1 | 18.02.2022 13:22 | 10 km | 125 km |
| 4.1 | 18.02.2022 11:35 | 10 km | 142 km |
| 4.3 | 18.02.2022 04:18 | 10 km | 120 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.