No records in the last 30 days.
276
recorded earthquakes
M5.6
largest
1903–2026
record span
2.12
mean magnitude
232
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.6 | 20.12.1940 07:27 | 35 km | 35 km |
| 5.6 | 24.12.1940 13:43 | 35 km | 41 km |
| 5.0 | 10.04.1962 14:30 | 24 km | 115 km |
| 4.8 | 15.06.1973 01:09 | 6.9 km | 146 km |
| 4.5 | 19.01.1982 00:14 | 6 km | 57 km |
| 4.2 | 29.05.1983 05:45 | 1.8 km | 112 km |
| 4.2 | 21.08.1918 04:11 | — | 93 km |
| 4.1 | 23.01.1910 01:30 | — | 101 km |
| 4.0 | 09.10.1925 13:55 | — | 54 km |
| 4.0 | 16.10.2012 23:12 | 10 km | 91 km |
| 3.9 | 20.10.1988 13:09 | 5 km | 71 km |
| 3.9 | 25.10.1986 17:16 | 5 km | 67 km |
| 3.8 | 21.08.1996 07:54 | 10 km | 30 km |
| 3.8 | 27.01.2025 15:22 | 10.6 km | 134 km |
| 3.8 | 16.06.1995 12:13 | 5 km | 39 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2 | 26.06.2026 07:51 | 14.4 km | 144 km |
| 1.4 | 13.04.2026 06:07 | 5 km | 93 km |
| 1.7 | 02.03.2026 03:10 | 5 km | 82 km |
| 2.1 | 02.01.2026 06:45 | 8.5 km | 127 km |
| 1.3 | 27.11.2025 05:38 | 6.2 km | 84 km |
| 1.4 | 27.11.2025 05:36 | 6.2 km | 81 km |
| 1.7 | 25.11.2025 15:13 | 6.9 km | 127 km |
| 1.9 | 11.11.2025 13:55 | 6.6 km | 73 km |
| 1.9 | 08.11.2025 03:07 | 5 km | 66 km |
| 1.6 | 13.10.2025 03:54 | 6 km | 93 km |
| 1.9 | 22.09.2025 01:18 | 10.4 km | 88 km |
| 1.4 | 06.09.2025 23:28 | 5 km | 118 km |
| 1.5 | 27.08.2025 06:03 | 5 km | 81 km |
| 1.5 | 27.06.2025 17:11 | 8.8 km | 50 km |
| 1.4 | 20.06.2025 03:47 | 4.2 km | 43 km |
| 1.6 | 25.05.2025 17:46 | 7.6 km | 128 km |
| 2.0 | 14.04.2025 20:44 | 5 km | 74 km |
| 2.0 | 29.01.2025 08:15 | 9.8 km | 135 km |
| 3.8 | 27.01.2025 15:22 | 10.6 km | 134 km |
| 1.6 | 19.01.2025 10:22 | 4 km | 96 km |
| 2.1 | 09.12.2024 05:07 | 9.3 km | 97 km |
| 1.7 | 18.11.2024 18:04 | 5.9 km | 151 km |
| 1.7 | 10.11.2024 08:17 | 5 km | 143 km |
| 1.4 | 03.11.2024 03:49 | 5.4 km | 149 km |
| 2.6 | 18.06.2024 16:33 | 8.2 km | 32 km |
| 1.4 | 28.05.2024 00:25 | 5 km | 144 km |
| 1.5 | 18.05.2024 12:18 | 2.5 km | 144 km |
| 2.2 | 28.03.2024 00:56 | 4.6 km | 50 km |
| 1.9 | 04.03.2024 17:15 | 0 km | 96 km |
| 2.1 | 20.01.2024 10:50 | 8.7 km | 173 km |
| 2.0 | 03.01.2024 19:49 | 5 km | 80 km |
| 2.7 | 23.12.2023 04:15 | 5 km | 89 km |
| 1.5 | 09.09.2023 11:31 | 7.2 km | 80 km |
| 1.0 | 08.07.2023 07:17 | 6.2 km | 36 km |
| 2.2 | 31.05.2023 10:04 | 6.5 km | 65 km |
| 1.8 | 25.04.2023 13:53 | 5.3 km | 28 km |
| 2.9 | 25.04.2023 13:49 | 8.3 km | 28 km |
| 1.5 | 25.02.2023 18:29 | 3.8 km | 9 km |
| 2.1 | 24.02.2023 03:59 | 5 km | 84 km |
| 1.9 | 25.01.2023 23:53 | 8.9 km | 99 km |
| 1.9 | 20.12.2022 10:05 | 5 km | 75 km |
| 2.3 | 06.11.2022 09:23 | 6.3 km | 50 km |
| 1.1 | 06.11.2022 05:24 | 10.2 km | 87 km |
| 1.7 | 07.10.2022 11:07 | 5 km | 27 km |
| 2.4 | 16.09.2022 02:29 | 5.7 km | 83 km |
| 2.3 | 07.08.2022 00:05 | 5.1 km | 107 km |
| 1.2 | 06.08.2022 00:12 | 5 km | 76 km |
| 2.3 | 24.05.2022 03:59 | 1.3 km | 58 km |
| 2.3 | 01.04.2022 16:56 | 5.2 km | 73 km |
| 2.0 | 01.04.2022 06:11 | 5.5 km | 68 km |
| 2.2 | 04.03.2022 22:50 | 2.5 km | 170 km |
| 1.8 | 17.02.2022 06:37 | 5 km | 82 km |
| 1.9 | 16.02.2022 06:34 | 3 km | 57 km |
| 2.9 | 04.02.2022 05:39 | 8.3 km | 56 km |
| 2.0 | 17.01.2022 20:47 | 5 km | 91 km |
| 2.0 | 17.01.2022 10:46 | 5 km | 88 km |
| 2.3 | 15.01.2022 13:52 | 4.1 km | 52 km |
| 2.0 | 01.01.2022 14:02 | 10 km | 158 km |
| 1.9 | 30.11.2021 09:04 | 4.7 km | 79 km |
| 2.0 | 25.11.2021 06:35 | 3.7 km | 96 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.