2.4
151
recorded earthquakes
M5.2
largest
1930–2026
record span
2.53
mean magnitude
90
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.2 | 04.05.1977 02:00 | 10 km | 183 km |
| 4.9 | 22.10.1964 16:00 | 0 km | 149 km |
| 4.6 | 17.12.1931 03:36 | — | 136 km |
| 4.5 | 24.06.1975 11:11 | 10 km | 228 km |
| 4.4 | 04.06.1967 16:14 | 10 km | 136 km |
| 4.3 | 07.11.2004 11:20 | 10 km | 181 km |
| 4.2 | 19.10.1930 12:17 | — | 307 km |
| 3.8 | 20.11.2014 10:25 | 0 km | 181 km |
| 3.7 | 16.07.1993 10:54 | 5 km | 172 km |
| 3.7 | 08.01.2019 22:26 | 16.4 km | 120 km |
| 3.6 | 04.05.1977 02:00 | 5 km | 152 km |
| 3.5 | 25.03.1996 14:15 | 5 km | 124 km |
| 3.5 | 30.06.2015 06:44 | 0.1 km | 177 km |
| 3.5 | 18.02.2011 23:15 | 5 km | 330 km |
| 3.5 | 08.01.1973 09:11 | 7 km | 150 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.4 | 11.07.2026 19:37 | 0 km | 176 km |
| 2.0 | 26.10.2025 13:13 | 10.1 km | 226 km |
| 2.0 | 30.06.2025 02:13 | 10.7 km | 308 km |
| 3.0 | 15.03.2025 18:49 | 10 km | 77 km |
| 2.5 | 28.11.2024 07:48 | 5 km | 10 km |
| 2.1 | 27.09.2024 00:56 | 16 km | 318 km |
| 1.9 | 16.05.2024 05:30 | 12.8 km | 307 km |
| 1.7 | 10.07.2023 07:33 | 0.7 km | 282 km |
| 2.1 | 27.02.2023 08:18 | 8.3 km | 281 km |
| 2.5 | 24.12.2022 22:49 | 11.8 km | 264 km |
| 2.4 | 07.11.2021 06:12 | 0.5 km | 176 km |
| 2.1 | 20.01.2021 07:33 | 0 km | 111 km |
| 2.0 | 07.12.2020 11:27 | 6.8 km | 196 km |
| 1.9 | 03.12.2020 03:43 | 2.7 km | 188 km |
| 2.0 | 19.11.2020 02:06 | 10.4 km | 173 km |
| 2.5 | 15.10.2020 07:51 | 0.1 km | 215 km |
| 2.2 | 20.07.2020 12:45 | 16.2 km | 236 km |
| 2.1 | 29.02.2020 23:04 | 14.8 km | 268 km |
| 2.3 | 21.11.2019 00:43 | 13.1 km | 266 km |
| 2.1 | 05.11.2019 06:27 | 0 km | 179 km |
| 2.8 | 09.08.2019 07:33 | 5 km | 16 km |
| 2.6 | 23.04.2019 09:03 | 0.5 km | 177 km |
| 2.3 | 12.01.2019 20:52 | 0.2 km | 251 km |
| 3.7 | 08.01.2019 22:26 | 16.4 km | 120 km |
| 2.3 | 17.08.2018 23:27 | 24 km | 109 km |
| 2.3 | 21.04.2018 11:42 | 4.8 km | 265 km |
| 2.0 | 24.08.2017 07:29 | 0 km | 154 km |
| 1.7 | 24.12.2016 10:25 | 5.1 km | 282 km |
| 2.6 | 05.09.2016 08:28 | 0 km | 173 km |
| 2.3 | 04.02.2016 01:33 | 0 km | 179 km |
| 2.6 | 17.08.2015 18:00 | 5 km | 23 km |
| 2.7 | 13.08.2015 19:37 | 0.6 km | 179 km |
| 1.7 | 04.07.2015 10:28 | 9.7 km | 170 km |
| 3.5 | 30.06.2015 06:44 | 0.1 km | 177 km |
| 2.1 | 30.06.2015 03:02 | 0.3 km | 177 km |
| 3.2 | 29.06.2015 13:23 | 5 km | 19 km |
| 2.4 | 17.06.2015 05:19 | 0 km | 175 km |
| 2.7 | 06.06.2015 18:09 | 0.6 km | 180 km |
| 1.8 | 02.06.2015 01:44 | 0 km | 224 km |
| 1.8 | 31.05.2015 01:33 | 0.2 km | 178 km |
| 1.9 | 30.05.2015 16:48 | 0.1 km | 170 km |
| 2.1 | 23.05.2015 07:12 | 0.8 km | 180 km |
| 2.4 | 21.05.2015 22:25 | 1.5 km | 179 km |
| 3.0 | 03.05.2015 01:08 | 5 km | 23 km |
| 3.2 | 03.05.2015 00:39 | 5 km | 19 km |
| 2.4 | 03.05.2015 00:33 | 0 km | 20 km |
| 3.1 | 12.03.2015 01:19 | 0 km | 175 km |
| 3.1 | 27.02.2015 22:40 | 0.3 km | 177 km |
| 2.4 | 22.02.2015 00:08 | 0 km | 173 km |
| 2.7 | 19.02.2015 21:29 | 0 km | 177 km |
| 2.3 | 19.02.2015 21:22 | 0 km | 177 km |
| 2.8 | 19.02.2015 18:19 | 0 km | 175 km |
| 2.6 | 22.01.2015 10:01 | 0 km | 177 km |
| 2.7 | 17.12.2014 19:38 | 9 km | 181 km |
| 3.8 | 20.11.2014 10:25 | 0 km | 181 km |
| 2.1 | 09.08.2014 02:52 | 5.7 km | 288 km |
| 2.0 | 30.08.2013 12:08 | 6.4 km | 298 km |
| 2.3 | 20.07.2013 05:52 | 12.9 km | 262 km |
| 2.6 | 10.11.2012 04:24 | 11 km | 322 km |
| 2.3 | 10.10.2012 00:31 | 17 km | 203 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.