No records in the last 30 days.
212
recorded earthquakes
M6.6
largest
1919–2025
record span
4.44
mean magnitude
124
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 | 207 km |
| 6.6 | 14.03.1932 22:42 | 35 km | 64 km |
| 6.6 | 24.09.2025 22:33 | 10 km | 168 km |
| 6.5 | 19.04.1952 09:58 | 28.2 km | 185 km |
| 6.3 | 03.08.1950 22:18 | 15 km | 205 km |
| 6.3 | 25.09.2025 03:51 | 14 km | 168 km |
| 6.2 | 11.07.1919 00:30 | 35 km | 102 km |
| 6.2 | 01.05.1931 22:36 | 35 km | 167 km |
| 6.2 | 24.09.2025 22:21 | 0 km | 160 km |
| 6.0 | 04.11.1933 08:41 | 35 km | 84 km |
| 6.0 | 16.11.1956 11:53 | 15 km | 19 km |
| 6.0 | 31.05.1994 17:41 | 13.5 km | 152 km |
| 5.9 | 18.10.1981 04:31 | 33.6 km | 144 km |
| 5.7 | 27.01.1970 09:29 | 17.5 km | 152 km |
| 5.6 | 21.12.2001 20:51 | 27.6 km | 45 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.2 | 25.09.2025 06:55 | 12.2 km | 159 km |
| 6.3 | 25.09.2025 03:51 | 14 km | 168 km |
| 6.6 | 24.09.2025 22:33 | 10 km | 168 km |
| 6.2 | 24.09.2025 22:21 | 0 km | 160 km |
| 3.5 | 27.08.2025 20:10 | 14.5 km | 33 km |
| 4.2 | 05.06.2024 03:31 | 15.2 km | 43 km |
| 4.4 | 25.01.2024 09:41 | 8 km | 138 km |
| 4.4 | 03.03.2023 20:10 | 22.7 km | 103 km |
| 4.3 | 13.08.2022 07:10 | 5.9 km | 37 km |
| 4.0 | 04.07.2022 13:22 | 22.7 km | 140 km |
| 4.6 | 08.06.2022 04:39 | 8.7 km | 15 km |
| 4.5 | 01.03.2022 17:28 | 27.2 km | 54 km |
| 4.0 | 01.03.2022 07:59 | 11.7 km | 57 km |
| 4.0 | 16.07.2021 09:26 | 19.6 km | 84 km |
| 4.4 | 23.03.2021 02:48 | 27.9 km | 135 km |
| 4.5 | 19.12.2020 06:48 | 7 km | 76 km |
| 4.5 | 22.07.2019 10:00 | 17.1 km | 28 km |
| 3.7 | 26.12.2018 18:17 | 5 km | 81 km |
| 4.4 | 28.11.2018 15:00 | 13.6 km | 111 km |
| 5.2 | 24.11.2018 20:41 | 19.7 km | 112 km |
| 4.1 | 17.11.2018 20:13 | 12.1 km | 77 km |
| 4.0 | 17.11.2018 20:13 | 110 km | 58 km |
| 4.7 | 08.09.2018 17:31 | 5 km | 95 km |
| 4.7 | 03.04.2018 09:41 | 5 km | 56 km |
| 3.0 | 16.03.2018 02:51 | 404 km | 98 km |
| 5.0 | 18.11.2017 05:54 | 24.3 km | 65 km |
| 4.1 | 16.11.2017 11:26 | 4.2 km | 95 km |
| 3.7 | 21.10.2017 12:54 | 3 km | 25 km |
| 5.1 | 14.10.2017 08:35 | 27 km | 164 km |
| 4.3 | 13.08.2017 15:21 | 29.7 km | 144 km |
| 4.5 | 06.08.2017 15:43 | 35 km | 44 km |
| 3.4 | 04.08.2017 18:44 | 0 km | 52 km |
| 3.9 | 17.06.2017 02:39 | 5 km | 90 km |
| 2.8 | 12.12.2016 02:30 | 8 km | 89 km |
| 2.5 | 08.11.2016 07:13 | 3 km | 110 km |
| 3.8 | 21.10.2016 03:15 | 0 km | 38 km |
| 4.2 | 17.08.2016 22:37 | 3 km | 65 km |
| 4.1 | 15.07.2016 06:42 | 14.1 km | 109 km |
| 3.6 | 16.06.2016 00:49 | 1 km | 105 km |
| 4.4 | 06.06.2016 18:06 | 19.8 km | 55 km |
| 4.3 | 26.04.2016 02:23 | 2.8 km | 12 km |
| 4.2 | 07.04.2016 23:55 | 5.5 km | 16 km |
| 3.3 | 05.03.2016 22:49 | 0 km | 115 km |
| 4.4 | 15.02.2016 13:14 | 1.1 km | 132 km |
| 3.8 | 09.12.2015 09:49 | 5.1 km | 16 km |
| 3.9 | 05.12.2015 06:04 | 10 km | 17 km |
| 4.2 | 23.11.2015 20:15 | 10 km | 22 km |
| 5.1 | 22.11.2015 20:38 | 5.2 km | 18 km |
| 4.2 | 20.11.2015 23:05 | 8.3 km | 14 km |
| 4.7 | 20.11.2015 18:00 | 4.4 km | 20 km |
| 3.9 | 20.11.2015 17:53 | 11.3 km | 14 km |
| 4.3 | 14.11.2015 14:03 | 2.6 km | 21 km |
| 4.7 | 14.11.2015 12:20 | 10.1 km | 18 km |
| 3.7 | 14.11.2015 11:24 | 11.6 km | 14 km |
| 3.9 | 10.11.2015 19:23 | 9.6 km | 13 km |
| 4.2 | 10.11.2015 16:35 | 10 km | 18 km |
| 4.0 | 09.11.2015 18:57 | 10 km | 14 km |
| 3.8 | 09.11.2015 17:48 | 10.9 km | 16 km |
| 4.0 | 09.11.2015 15:51 | 15.3 km | 6 km |
| 4.1 | 09.11.2015 13:34 | 10.2 km | 15 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.