No records in the last 30 days.
369
recorded earthquakes
M6.5
largest
1951–2026
record span
4.18
mean magnitude
320
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 | — | 138 km |
| 6.5 | 07.05.1964 05:45 | 31 km | 160 km |
| 5.7 | 01.11.1951 11:10 | 15 km | 129 km |
| 5.7 | 15.12.1977 23:20 | 10 km | 170 km |
| 5.5 | 15.05.1990 16:24 | 7.4 km | 172 km |
| 5.4 | 08.08.2023 15:31 | 7 km | 191 km |
| 5.4 | 04.11.2002 03:19 | 11.8 km | 113 km |
| 5.4 | 15.05.1990 15:21 | 10 km | 169 km |
| 5.4 | 09.05.1983 16:15 | 17.5 km | 150 km |
| 5.4 | 06.03.2008 07:35 | 9 km | 87 km |
| 5.3 | 21.12.1996 08:48 | 11.7 km | 95 km |
| 5.2 | 31.10.2014 17:04 | 4 km | 93 km |
| 5.2 | 17.02.2023 09:26 | 19.9 km | 170 km |
| 5.2 | 08.11.1994 12:52 | 27.8 km | 125 km |
| 5.2 | 25.10.1959 12:31 | — | 92 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.6 | 25.02.2026 03:06 | 0 km | 196 km |
| 3.3 | 23.02.2026 20:52 | 0 km | 155 km |
| 3.9 | 19.02.2026 23:30 | 0 km | 143 km |
| 3.8 | 30.12.2025 01:31 | 0 km | 156 km |
| 3.6 | 29.12.2025 09:51 | 0 km | 187 km |
| 4.1 | 29.12.2025 00:02 | 0 km | 150 km |
| 4.3 | 17.09.2025 04:17 | 10 km | 153 km |
| 4.4 | 08.08.2025 22:58 | 10 km | 155 km |
| 5.0 | 08.08.2025 07:38 | 0 km | 162 km |
| 4.6 | 30.07.2025 15:03 | 10 km | 150 km |
| 4.9 | 09.07.2025 22:12 | 10 km | 150 km |
| 4.3 | 25.05.2025 19:52 | 10 km | 161 km |
| 4.2 | 25.05.2025 19:51 | 10 km | 198 km |
| 4.6 | 25.05.2025 03:35 | 10 km | 153 km |
| 3.3 | 25.05.2025 03:35 | 0 km | 154 km |
| 4.6 | 17.03.2025 10:44 | 10 km | 148 km |
| 4.6 | 17.01.2025 11:10 | 10 km | 165 km |
| 4.4 | 18.12.2024 21:06 | 10 km | 107 km |
| 3.2 | 18.12.2024 21:06 | 0 km | 121 km |
| 4.2 | 10.12.2024 08:06 | 0 km | 114 km |
| 3.5 | 27.08.2024 21:48 | 0 km | 149 km |
| 3.6 | 23.08.2024 01:13 | 0 km | 152 km |
| 4.1 | 05.05.2024 20:30 | 9 km | 113 km |
| 4.0 | 01.03.2024 13:18 | 10 km | 198 km |
| 4.0 | 17.02.2024 10:35 | 22 km | 164 km |
| 4.2 | 10.02.2024 15:28 | 10 km | 125 km |
| 3.6 | 20.01.2024 02:04 | 10 km | 130 km |
| 4.2 | 06.11.2023 23:04 | 10 km | 200 km |
| 3.6 | 01.11.2023 05:27 | 10 km | 196 km |
| 4.1 | 15.10.2023 22:16 | 10 km | 191 km |
| 3.4 | 17.09.2023 18:09 | 10 km | 194 km |
| 5.2 | 05.09.2023 15:42 | 10 km | 197 km |
| 3.3 | 28.08.2023 13:00 | 10 km | 206 km |
| 3.4 | 27.08.2023 13:53 | 10 km | 194 km |
| 4.7 | 27.08.2023 13:53 | 10 km | 190 km |
| 3.5 | 27.08.2023 11:00 | 10 km | 193 km |
| 3.6 | 24.08.2023 14:32 | 10 km | 200 km |
| 4.2 | 21.08.2023 05:36 | 10 km | 151 km |
| 4.0 | 19.08.2023 22:01 | 10 km | 191 km |
| 4.2 | 14.08.2023 15:12 | 10 km | 190 km |
| 4.2 | 13.08.2023 20:13 | 10 km | 189 km |
| 3.3 | 13.08.2023 18:38 | 10 km | 198 km |
| 3.6 | 11.08.2023 17:22 | 10 km | 188 km |
| 4.2 | 10.08.2023 02:24 | 10 km | 189 km |
| 3.5 | 08.08.2023 23:15 | 10 km | 191 km |
| 4.2 | 08.08.2023 22:58 | 10 km | 193 km |
| 3.7 | 08.08.2023 22:32 | 10 km | 188 km |
| 5.1 | 08.08.2023 20:28 | 10 km | 192 km |
| 3.8 | 08.08.2023 17:24 | 10 km | 189 km |
| 5.4 | 08.08.2023 15:31 | 7 km | 191 km |
| 3.8 | 02.08.2023 22:00 | 10 km | 145 km |
| 4.1 | 16.07.2023 06:20 | 10 km | 151 km |
| 3.6 | 13.07.2023 23:11 | 10 km | 195 km |
| 4.0 | 22.06.2023 01:19 | 10 km | 74 km |
| 3.4 | 15.05.2023 19:23 | 10 km | 143 km |
| 4.8 | 14.04.2023 23:44 | 10 km | 186 km |
| 4.3 | 09.04.2023 23:33 | 10 km | 156 km |
| 3.4 | 05.04.2023 14:27 | 10 km | 186 km |
| 4.0 | 22.03.2023 20:55 | 10 km | 191 km |
| 4.4 | 22.03.2023 20:47 | 10 km | 188 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.