No records in the last 30 days.
204
recorded earthquakes
M5.6
largest
1905–2026
record span
2.05
mean magnitude
143
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 | 80 km |
| 5.6 | 24.12.1940 13:43 | 35 km | 99 km |
| 5.1 | 20.04.2002 10:50 | 8.7 km | 121 km |
| 5.0 | 10.04.1962 14:30 | 24 km | 56 km |
| 4.7 | 20.04.1931 19:54 | 5 km | 114 km |
| 4.5 | 19.01.1982 00:14 | 6 km | 80 km |
| 4.5 | 15.04.1934 02:58 | — | 141 km |
| 4.2 | 09.06.1975 18:39 | 10 km | 144 km |
| 3.9 | 25.10.1986 17:16 | 5 km | 88 km |
| 3.8 | 21.08.1996 07:54 | 10 km | 96 km |
| 3.8 | 16.06.1995 12:13 | 5 km | 64 km |
| 3.4 | 06.10.1992 15:38 | 5 km | 94 km |
| 3.3 | 22.10.1905 00:00 | — | 117 km |
| 3.2 | 26.06.1964 11:04 | 1 km | 82 km |
| 3.2 | 25.12.1977 15:35 | 0 km | 98 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.2 | 26.06.2026 07:51 | 14.4 km | 137 km |
| 1.4 | 13.04.2026 06:07 | 5 km | 88 km |
| 1.7 | 02.03.2026 03:10 | 5 km | 105 km |
| 2.0 | 16.02.2026 00:50 | 7.4 km | 110 km |
| 2.1 | 02.01.2026 06:45 | 8.5 km | 130 km |
| 1.9 | 11.11.2025 13:55 | 6.6 km | 84 km |
| 1.9 | 08.11.2025 03:07 | 5 km | 91 km |
| 2.7 | 14.10.2025 03:39 | 10 km | 141 km |
| 1.4 | 06.09.2025 23:28 | 5 km | 126 km |
| 1.5 | 27.08.2025 06:03 | 5 km | 97 km |
| 1.2 | 30.06.2025 00:27 | 10.1 km | 110 km |
| 1.5 | 27.06.2025 17:11 | 8.8 km | 78 km |
| 1.4 | 20.06.2025 03:47 | 4.2 km | 86 km |
| 2.0 | 08.06.2025 12:58 | 9.8 km | 141 km |
| 1.6 | 19.01.2025 10:22 | 4 km | 95 km |
| 1.7 | 18.11.2024 18:04 | 5.9 km | 148 km |
| 1.4 | 03.11.2024 03:49 | 5.4 km | 154 km |
| 2.6 | 18.06.2024 16:33 | 8.2 km | 39 km |
| 1.4 | 28.05.2024 00:25 | 5 km | 111 km |
| 1.5 | 18.05.2024 12:18 | 2.5 km | 111 km |
| 2.2 | 28.03.2024 00:56 | 4.6 km | 89 km |
| 2.0 | 03.01.2024 19:49 | 5 km | 101 km |
| 2.7 | 23.12.2023 04:15 | 5 km | 110 km |
| 1.8 | 09.10.2023 00:56 | 5 km | 142 km |
| 2.2 | 31.05.2023 10:04 | 6.5 km | 70 km |
| 1.8 | 25.04.2023 13:53 | 5.3 km | 81 km |
| 2.9 | 25.04.2023 13:49 | 8.3 km | 80 km |
| 1.5 | 25.02.2023 18:29 | 3.8 km | 61 km |
| 2.1 | 24.02.2023 03:59 | 5 km | 89 km |
| 1.9 | 25.01.2023 23:53 | 8.9 km | 114 km |
| 1.8 | 28.11.2022 08:25 | 9.2 km | 121 km |
| 2.3 | 06.11.2022 09:23 | 6.3 km | 84 km |
| 1.7 | 07.10.2022 11:07 | 5 km | 58 km |
| 2.3 | 07.08.2022 00:05 | 5.1 km | 100 km |
| 1.2 | 06.08.2022 00:12 | 5 km | 84 km |
| 2.3 | 01.04.2022 16:56 | 5.2 km | 22 km |
| 2.0 | 01.04.2022 06:11 | 5.5 km | 106 km |
| 1.8 | 17.02.2022 06:37 | 5 km | 89 km |
| 2.3 | 15.01.2022 13:52 | 4.1 km | 80 km |
| 1.9 | 30.11.2021 09:04 | 4.7 km | 98 km |
| 1.5 | 22.11.2021 00:43 | 5 km | 30 km |
| 1.8 | 11.08.2021 05:53 | 2.8 km | 97 km |
| 2.0 | 25.04.2021 06:52 | 5 km | 88 km |
| 1.7 | 06.03.2021 18:01 | 5 km | 94 km |
| 1.6 | 15.02.2021 04:04 | 5 km | 94 km |
| 2.0 | 15.11.2020 01:04 | 7.3 km | 26 km |
| 1.6 | 27.06.2020 03:44 | 5 km | 85 km |
| 1.5 | 23.05.2020 09:40 | 5 km | 91 km |
| 3.1 | 06.05.2020 15:03 | 14.1 km | 136 km |
| 1.8 | 18.03.2020 06:11 | 5.2 km | 113 km |
| 2.1 | 15.03.2020 03:07 | 4.5 km | 85 km |
| 1.9 | 08.03.2020 07:19 | 5 km | 109 km |
| 1.8 | 12.02.2020 07:31 | 5 km | 103 km |
| 2.1 | 06.01.2020 01:46 | 5 km | 86 km |
| 1.5 | 22.12.2019 07:23 | 6.6 km | 12 km |
| 0.8 | 28.09.2019 08:42 | 5.2 km | 96 km |
| 1.4 | 27.09.2019 09:32 | 6.5 km | 140 km |
| 1.6 | 21.09.2019 00:04 | 4.6 km | 47 km |
| 0.8 | 10.09.2019 09:50 | 6.8 km | 91 km |
| 2.3 | 10.09.2019 09:47 | 5 km | 90 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.