No records in the last 30 days.
252
recorded earthquakes
M6.6
largest
1919–2025
record span
4.41
mean magnitude
130
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.6 | 21.04.1957 21:12 | 25 km | 302 km |
| 6.6 | 24.09.2025 22:33 | 10 km | 225 km |
| 6.6 | 14.03.1932 22:42 | 35 km | 228 km |
| 6.5 | 19.04.1952 09:58 | 28.2 km | 280 km |
| 6.3 | 03.08.1950 22:18 | 15 km | 174 km |
| 6.2 | 11.07.1919 00:30 | 35 km | 256 km |
| 6.2 | 01.05.1931 22:36 | 35 km | 13 km |
| 6.2 | 24.09.2025 22:21 | 0 km | 232 km |
| 6.0 | 22.07.1993 04:57 | 16.5 km | 251 km |
| 6.0 | 04.11.1933 08:41 | 35 km | 258 km |
| 6.0 | 16.11.1956 11:53 | 15 km | 167 km |
| 6.0 | 31.05.1994 17:41 | 13.5 km | 274 km |
| 5.7 | 27.01.1970 09:29 | 17.5 km | 276 km |
| 5.6 | 21.12.2001 20:51 | 27.6 km | 141 km |
| 5.5 | 17.01.2000 12:20 | 16.9 km | 289 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.6 | 24.09.2025 22:33 | 10 km | 225 km |
| 6.2 | 24.09.2025 22:21 | 0 km | 232 km |
| 3.5 | 27.08.2025 20:10 | 14.5 km | 191 km |
| 4.4 | 29.10.2024 21:49 | 10 km | 258 km |
| 4.2 | 05.06.2024 03:31 | 15.2 km | 189 km |
| 4.4 | 03.03.2023 20:10 | 22.7 km | 268 km |
| 3.5 | 06.02.2023 00:51 | 46.6 km | 266 km |
| 4.5 | 13.11.2022 12:13 | 2.4 km | 265 km |
| 4.1 | 18.09.2022 02:11 | 1.3 km | 117 km |
| 4.3 | 13.08.2022 07:10 | 5.9 km | 214 km |
| 4.0 | 04.07.2022 13:22 | 22.7 km | 273 km |
| 4.6 | 08.06.2022 04:39 | 8.7 km | 192 km |
| 4.5 | 01.03.2022 17:28 | 27.2 km | 175 km |
| 4.0 | 01.03.2022 07:59 | 11.7 km | 178 km |
| 4.0 | 16.07.2021 09:26 | 19.6 km | 128 km |
| 3.9 | 24.05.2021 22:52 | 11.2 km | 260 km |
| 4.4 | 23.03.2021 02:48 | 27.9 km | 249 km |
| 4.5 | 19.12.2020 06:48 | 7 km | 107 km |
| 4.3 | 26.07.2020 09:20 | 10 km | 214 km |
| 4.3 | 13.07.2020 08:42 | 7 km | 126 km |
| 5.1 | 12.07.2020 15:08 | 7 km | 143 km |
| 4.5 | 22.07.2019 10:00 | 17.1 km | 194 km |
| 3.7 | 26.12.2018 18:17 | 5 km | 118 km |
| 3.2 | 24.12.2018 19:09 | 80 km | 119 km |
| 5.2 | 24.11.2018 20:41 | 19.7 km | 166 km |
| 4.1 | 17.11.2018 20:13 | 12.1 km | 251 km |
| 4.0 | 17.11.2018 20:13 | 110 km | 231 km |
| 4.7 | 08.09.2018 17:31 | 5 km | 203 km |
| 4.7 | 03.04.2018 09:41 | 5 km | 222 km |
| 3.0 | 16.03.2018 02:51 | 404 km | 241 km |
| 5.0 | 18.11.2017 05:54 | 24.3 km | 238 km |
| 4.1 | 16.11.2017 11:26 | 4.2 km | 168 km |
| 3.7 | 21.10.2017 12:54 | 3 km | 201 km |
| 5.1 | 14.10.2017 08:35 | 27 km | 274 km |
| 3.7 | 27.09.2017 21:51 | 0 km | 269 km |
| 4.3 | 13.08.2017 15:21 | 29.7 km | 262 km |
| 4.5 | 06.08.2017 15:43 | 35 km | 180 km |
| 3.4 | 04.08.2017 18:44 | 0 km | 212 km |
| 3.9 | 17.06.2017 02:39 | 5 km | 248 km |
| 4.3 | 07.03.2017 17:11 | 39.2 km | 272 km |
| 3.5 | 12.01.2017 14:44 | 6 km | 254 km |
| 4.2 | 26.10.2016 23:31 | 7.6 km | 129 km |
| 3.8 | 21.10.2016 03:15 | 0 km | 211 km |
| 4.2 | 17.08.2016 22:37 | 3 km | 118 km |
| 4.4 | 06.06.2016 18:06 | 19.8 km | 137 km |
| 4.3 | 26.04.2016 02:23 | 2.8 km | 188 km |
| 4.2 | 07.04.2016 23:55 | 5.5 km | 191 km |
| 3.3 | 05.03.2016 22:49 | 0 km | 252 km |
| 4.4 | 15.02.2016 13:14 | 1.1 km | 144 km |
| 3.8 | 09.12.2015 09:49 | 5.1 km | 193 km |
| 3.9 | 05.12.2015 06:04 | 10 km | 192 km |
| 4.2 | 23.11.2015 20:15 | 10 km | 198 km |
| 5.1 | 22.11.2015 20:38 | 5.2 km | 194 km |
| 4.2 | 20.11.2015 23:05 | 8.3 km | 191 km |
| 4.7 | 20.11.2015 18:00 | 4.4 km | 195 km |
| 3.9 | 20.11.2015 17:53 | 11.3 km | 190 km |
| 4.3 | 14.11.2015 14:03 | 2.6 km | 198 km |
| 4.7 | 14.11.2015 12:20 | 10.1 km | 193 km |
| 3.7 | 14.11.2015 11:24 | 11.6 km | 190 km |
| 4.0 | 13.11.2015 06:03 | 3 km | 278 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.