3.1
356
recorded earthquakes
M6.5
largest
1927–2026
record span
2.85
mean magnitude
40
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 | 02.08.1927 00:51 | 35 km | 86 km |
| 6.3 | 12.10.1961 13:53 | 50 km | 51 km |
| 6.1 | 08.07.1970 04:49 | 141.9 km | 58 km |
| 6.1 | 11.10.2008 10:40 | 28.3 km | 87 km |
| 5.7 | 23.06.1961 03:03 | — | 57 km |
| 5.3 | 24.03.1963 02:34 | 50 km | 61 km |
| 5.2 | 11.12.2004 19:45 | 52.1 km | 42 km |
| 5.1 | 11.06.1982 21:57 | 49.7 km | 69 km |
| 5.1 | 09.12.2023 14:27 | 38.3 km | 71 km |
| 5.0 | 09.01.1990 19:09 | 33 km | 37 km |
| 5.0 | 03.02.1990 07:30 | 62.6 km | 37 km |
| 4.9 | 14.02.1980 17:11 | 55.8 km | 37 km |
| 4.8 | 29.03.1976 06:15 | 100 km | 26 km |
| 4.8 | 13.02.1970 10:54 | 73 km | 38 km |
| 4.8 | 13.08.2014 03:05 | 78 km | 32 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 03.08.2026 00:01 | 54.9 km | 13 km |
| 3.0 | 16.07.2026 14:00 | 23.5 km | 21 km |
| 3.5 | 07.05.2026 01:18 | 101 km | 23 km |
| 3.0 | 02.05.2026 22:48 | 119.5 km | 6 km |
| 3.7 | 02.04.2026 21:35 | 130 km | 25 km |
| 3.4 | 28.03.2026 02:48 | 13.8 km | 23 km |
| 3.1 | 20.03.2026 03:02 | 113.1 km | 23 km |
| 2.5 | 18.03.2026 11:24 | 25.6 km | 22 km |
| 2.9 | 30.01.2026 10:58 | 32.6 km | 8 km |
| 3.4 | 25.01.2026 01:44 | 18.8 km | 4 km |
| 3.1 | 19.01.2026 17:23 | 19.4 km | 19 km |
| 2.7 | 13.01.2026 12:38 | 13.5 km | 25 km |
| 3.4 | 25.07.2025 21:57 | 8 km | 21 km |
| 3.3 | 08.01.2025 06:09 | 7.7 km | 22 km |
| 3.1 | 27.12.2024 01:42 | 8.3 km | 17 km |
| 3.6 | 03.10.2024 08:17 | 66 km | 13 km |
| 5.1 | 09.12.2023 14:27 | 38.3 km | 71 km |
| 4.0 | 24.10.2023 08:10 | 116 km | 22 km |
| 3.2 | 28.06.2023 08:21 | 92.9 km | 3 km |
| 4.2 | 04.05.2023 03:52 | 74 km | 31 km |
| 3.2 | 25.03.2023 19:07 | 75.8 km | 20 km |
| 3.4 | 13.01.2023 17:03 | 83.9 km | 10 km |
| 3.2 | 20.10.2022 05:05 | 100.9 km | 24 km |
| 3.1 | 03.10.2022 20:41 | 22 km | 17 km |
| 2.7 | 26.09.2022 18:15 | 21.2 km | 20 km |
| 2.8 | 16.09.2022 13:59 | 22.4 km | 22 km |
| 3.8 | 18.08.2022 07:21 | 97 km | 18 km |
| 3.1 | 13.06.2022 13:13 | 16.4 km | 20 km |
| 3.0 | 04.06.2022 22:33 | 94.1 km | 13 km |
| 3.3 | 16.05.2022 06:31 | 5.1 km | 17 km |
| 3.6 | 11.01.2022 23:53 | 104 km | 18 km |
| 3.4 | 15.09.2021 07:24 | 4 km | 8 km |
| 3.8 | 02.08.2021 15:27 | 111 km | 19 km |
| 3.5 | 25.07.2021 19:46 | 23 km | 24 km |
| 3.7 | 18.12.2020 22:48 | 142 km | 18 km |
| 3.8 | 16.12.2020 10:05 | 132 km | 11 km |
| 3.8 | 31.05.2020 19:56 | 6 km | 13 km |
| 3.3 | 24.12.2019 08:39 | 34 km | 18 km |
| 3.1 | 09.11.2019 03:38 | 29 km | 17 km |
| 2.4 | 08.11.2019 11:41 | 25 km | 20 km |
| 2.3 | 09.09.2019 04:09 | 42 km | 15 km |
| 2.3 | 29.07.2019 00:39 | 27 km | 13 km |
| 4.2 | 28.07.2019 21:41 | 13 km | 18 km |
| 2.2 | 18.06.2019 04:33 | 42 km | 18 km |
| 2.9 | 04.06.2019 06:34 | 157 km | 15 km |
| 2.5 | 01.06.2019 05:09 | 83 km | 17 km |
| 3.1 | 04.04.2019 21:58 | 106 km | 7 km |
| 3.1 | 27.03.2019 15:34 | 136 km | 26 km |
| 3.0 | 21.03.2019 11:12 | 77 km | 9 km |
| 2.3 | 29.01.2019 17:37 | 67 km | 22 km |
| 2.7 | 16.11.2018 14:51 | 29 km | 10 km |
| 2.3 | 08.11.2018 18:52 | 29 km | 20 km |
| 2.6 | 04.11.2018 07:10 | 30 km | 18 km |
| 2.2 | 24.10.2018 06:00 | 27 km | 19 km |
| 3.4 | 22.10.2018 21:23 | 144 km | 18 km |
| 2.5 | 15.10.2018 06:47 | 43 km | 19 km |
| 2.5 | 31.07.2018 05:07 | 148 km | 12 km |
| 3.2 | 28.04.2018 23:00 | 130 km | 7 km |
| 3.2 | 27.03.2018 12:36 | 96 km | 11 km |
| 3.3 | 25.03.2018 05:48 | 73 km | 13 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.