No records in the last 30 days.
299
recorded earthquakes
M6.8
largest
1919–2026
record span
4.23
mean magnitude
208
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.8 | 29.07.1967 10:24 | 158.9 km | 410 km |
| 6.6 | 21.04.1957 21:12 | 25 km | 303 km |
| 6.6 | 14.03.1932 22:42 | 35 km | 295 km |
| 6.5 | 19.04.1952 09:58 | 28.2 km | 285 km |
| 6.3 | 30.08.1973 18:25 | 178.6 km | 374 km |
| 6.2 | 11.07.1919 00:30 | 35 km | 309 km |
| 6.2 | 01.05.1931 22:36 | 35 km | 137 km |
| 6.2 | 10.03.2015 20:55 | 162 km | 407 km |
| 6.0 | 22.07.1993 04:57 | 16.5 km | 210 km |
| 6.0 | 04.11.1933 08:41 | 35 km | 332 km |
| 6.0 | 16.11.1956 11:53 | 15 km | 246 km |
| 6.0 | 31.05.1994 17:41 | 13.5 km | 300 km |
| 5.9 | 18.10.1981 04:31 | 33.6 km | 364 km |
| 5.7 | 27.01.1970 09:29 | 17.5 km | 303 km |
| 5.6 | 21.12.2001 20:51 | 27.6 km | 218 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.2 | 13.04.2026 01:39 | 13.8 km | 356 km |
| 4.4 | 13.04.2026 01:38 | 22.3 km | 320 km |
| 4.2 | 12.04.2026 21:00 | 10 km | 341 km |
| 5.0 | 01.03.2026 10:12 | 185.7 km | 373 km |
| 4.1 | 12.09.2025 15:03 | 180.2 km | 317 km |
| 3.2 | 02.03.2025 10:45 | 0 km | 287 km |
| 4.4 | 29.10.2024 21:49 | 10 km | 278 km |
| 3.7 | 01.04.2024 01:09 | 16.3 km | 313 km |
| 3.9 | 18.09.2023 10:02 | 7.7 km | 301 km |
| 3.8 | 13.09.2023 11:03 | 11.9 km | 269 km |
| 4.0 | 17.06.2023 04:36 | 47 km | 325 km |
| 4.0 | 19.04.2023 15:10 | 42.8 km | 302 km |
| 4.4 | 03.03.2023 20:10 | 22.7 km | 330 km |
| 3.5 | 06.02.2023 00:51 | 46.6 km | 287 km |
| 4.4 | 02.12.2022 23:09 | 4.1 km | 374 km |
| 2.4 | 16.11.2022 00:56 | 25 km | 310 km |
| 4.5 | 13.11.2022 12:13 | 2.4 km | 284 km |
| 4.0 | 04.07.2022 13:22 | 22.7 km | 308 km |
| 4.1 | 15.11.2021 07:23 | 28.2 km | 245 km |
| 3.5 | 27.09.2021 00:59 | 4.6 km | 323 km |
| 4.0 | 27.07.2021 17:51 | 10 km | 297 km |
| 3.9 | 24.05.2021 22:52 | 11.2 km | 284 km |
| 4.4 | 23.03.2021 02:48 | 27.9 km | 277 km |
| 4.4 | 29.01.2021 19:23 | 19.5 km | 302 km |
| 4.3 | 26.07.2020 09:20 | 10 km | 196 km |
| 4.5 | 22.02.2020 10:14 | 0.9 km | 320 km |
| 2.6 | 22.11.2019 22:18 | 64 km | 303 km |
| 3.6 | 20.05.2019 17:32 | 106 km | 275 km |
| 4.4 | 06.05.2019 14:32 | 6.5 km | 309 km |
| 3.7 | 06.05.2019 14:32 | 5 km | 321 km |
| 3.7 | 06.03.2019 02:54 | 3 km | 361 km |
| 2.4 | 23.01.2019 21:00 | 3 km | 310 km |
| 4.4 | 02.10.2018 10:37 | 10 km | 322 km |
| 3.5 | 02.10.2018 10:37 | 5 km | 307 km |
| 4.7 | 08.09.2018 17:31 | 5 km | 243 km |
| 4.2 | 25.05.2018 17:36 | 4.7 km | 311 km |
| 4.7 | 03.04.2018 09:41 | 5 km | 291 km |
| 3.0 | 16.03.2018 02:51 | 404 km | 289 km |
| 3.5 | 16.02.2018 03:13 | 0 km | 316 km |
| 2.6 | 26.01.2018 01:53 | 16 km | 321 km |
| 2.7 | 07.01.2018 02:41 | 4 km | 356 km |
| 5.0 | 18.11.2017 05:54 | 24.3 km | 311 km |
| 5.1 | 14.10.2017 08:35 | 27 km | 292 km |
| 3.7 | 27.09.2017 21:51 | 0 km | 291 km |
| 2.9 | 25.08.2017 05:36 | 0 km | 340 km |
| 4.3 | 13.08.2017 15:21 | 29.7 km | 288 km |
| 2.4 | 12.08.2017 16:10 | 1 km | 319 km |
| 2.3 | 09.08.2017 12:13 | 4 km | 322 km |
| 4.8 | 08.08.2017 20:43 | 25.2 km | 316 km |
| 3.6 | 25.07.2017 00:31 | 0 km | 359 km |
| 3.5 | 25.07.2017 00:17 | 0 km | 361 km |
| 4.1 | 19.07.2017 18:56 | 10 km | 248 km |
| 2.8 | 01.07.2017 18:55 | 0 km | 343 km |
| 3.7 | 29.06.2017 11:21 | 77 km | 286 km |
| 3.9 | 17.06.2017 02:39 | 5 km | 305 km |
| 2.5 | 14.03.2017 06:45 | 0 km | 317 km |
| 4.3 | 07.03.2017 17:11 | 39.2 km | 293 km |
| 3.3 | 25.02.2017 12:35 | 3 km | 359 km |
| 3.5 | 03.02.2017 01:36 | 16 km | 264 km |
| 3.5 | 12.01.2017 14:44 | 6 km | 268 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.