No records in the last 30 days.
203
recorded earthquakes
M7.6
largest
1910–2026
record span
4.42
mean magnitude
140
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.6 | 13.12.1910 11:37 | 15 km | 195 km |
| 6.8 | 05.12.2005 12:19 | 14.7 km | 182 km |
| 6.5 | 22.09.1960 09:05 | 13.7 km | 209 km |
| 6.3 | 22.09.1960 09:14 | 15 km | 223 km |
| 6.2 | 04.02.1956 22:12 | — | 198 km |
| 6.1 | 31.01.1952 20:55 | 20 km | 74 km |
| 6.0 | 01.10.1949 18:00 | 35 km | 302 km |
| 5.8 | 03.07.1954 00:32 | 15 km | 209 km |
| 5.8 | 28.03.2007 21:17 | 11.7 km | 171 km |
| 5.8 | 29.06.1986 21:48 | 21.6 km | 108 km |
| 5.7 | 23.02.1985 14:45 | 10 km | 249 km |
| 5.7 | 22.09.1960 05:38 | 15 km | 189 km |
| 5.5 | 08.03.1962 21:38 | 10 km | 214 km |
| 5.5 | 21.10.1995 11:05 | 15 km | 190 km |
| 5.5 | 09.12.2005 23:30 | 15.4 km | 182 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.4 | 13.04.2026 17:11 | 10 km | 103 km |
| 5.2 | 28.07.2025 13:38 | 10 km | 176 km |
| 3.4 | 04.01.2025 14:51 | 0 km | 240 km |
| 5.0 | 02.05.2024 08:27 | 10 km | 96 km |
| 4.5 | 17.12.2023 11:51 | 0 km | 37 km |
| 4.0 | 06.11.2023 01:51 | 10 km | 209 km |
| 4.0 | 23.09.2023 16:52 | 10 km | 82 km |
| 4.1 | 04.08.2023 22:06 | 10 km | 90 km |
| 4.1 | 19.10.2022 03:41 | 15 km | 176 km |
| 4.4 | 07.06.2022 06:21 | 10 km | 193 km |
| 4.2 | 07.06.2022 06:20 | 10 km | 195 km |
| 3.8 | 18.02.2022 17:11 | 10 km | 184 km |
| 3.8 | 14.02.2022 04:04 | 10 km | 137 km |
| 4.1 | 15.11.2021 01:38 | 10 km | 92 km |
| 3.5 | 24.01.2021 17:07 | 10 km | 181 km |
| 4.2 | 08.12.2020 07:28 | 10 km | 175 km |
| 4.4 | 11.09.2020 17:52 | 15 km | 140 km |
| 4.9 | 24.08.2020 14:13 | 11.8 km | 176 km |
| 3.4 | 24.08.2020 10:13 | 10 km | 174 km |
| 4.3 | 16.07.2020 01:23 | 12 km | 275 km |
| 4.0 | 01.06.2020 18:30 | 10 km | 213 km |
| 4.2 | 20.05.2020 19:56 | 10 km | 181 km |
| 4.1 | 28.04.2020 10:04 | 38.4 km | 79 km |
| 5.3 | 09.09.2019 00:38 | 19.7 km | 192 km |
| 4.2 | 10.06.2019 06:59 | 10 km | 132 km |
| 3.3 | 24.11.2018 20:05 | 10 km | 192 km |
| 4.3 | 02.09.2018 23:55 | 10 km | 229 km |
| 3.5 | 26.08.2018 20:46 | 10 km | 210 km |
| 5.2 | 22.10.2017 06:05 | 10 km | 156 km |
| 4.0 | 18.06.2017 13:54 | 10 km | 64 km |
| 4.1 | 14.05.2017 07:44 | 0 km | 169 km |
| 5.2 | 29.04.2017 10:53 | 11.9 km | 156 km |
| 4.3 | 09.11.2015 00:42 | 10 km | 77 km |
| 4.1 | 21.05.2015 13:19 | 10 km | 170 km |
| 3.4 | 20.11.2014 17:10 | 20 km | 116 km |
| 5.0 | 11.11.2014 03:20 | 10 km | 110 km |
| 4.3 | 12.07.2014 22:02 | 10 km | 178 km |
| 4.0 | 07.04.2014 01:48 | 15 km | 231 km |
| 4.4 | 01.03.2014 00:07 | 13.2 km | 79 km |
| 3.2 | 16.01.2014 11:41 | 10 km | 165 km |
| 3.9 | 08.01.2014 22:07 | 10 km | 207 km |
| 4.0 | 18.09.2013 01:12 | 10 km | 109 km |
| 3.9 | 10.03.2013 03:00 | 10 km | 128 km |
| 3.8 | 27.02.2013 09:16 | 10 km | 83 km |
| 4.4 | 25.12.2012 19:18 | 10 km | 161 km |
| 4.1 | 06.09.2012 22:12 | 10 km | 113 km |
| 3.9 | 03.04.2011 04:37 | 10 km | 154 km |
| 3.7 | 18.12.2010 00:37 | 10 km | 29 km |
| 5.0 | 16.11.2010 19:24 | 10 km | 243 km |
| 4.0 | 03.11.2010 02:24 | 10 km | 75 km |
| 4.2 | 23.10.2010 07:23 | 10 km | 51 km |
| 3.8 | 25.09.2010 06:15 | 10 km | 171 km |
| 4.6 | 07.09.2010 15:45 | 10 km | 202 km |
| 4.2 | 22.07.2010 06:33 | 10 km | 24 km |
| 4.2 | 17.11.2009 06:12 | 0 km | 230 km |
| 5.3 | 14.11.2009 04:50 | 16.2 km | 237 km |
| 5.4 | 14.11.2009 04:47 | 17.1 km | 235 km |
| 4.0 | 14.08.2009 12:06 | 31.3 km | 87 km |
| 3.9 | 20.07.2009 23:01 | 12.8 km | 198 km |
| 3.9 | 03.11.2008 21:48 | 10 km | 123 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.