No records in the last 30 days.
229
recorded earthquakes
M6.8
largest
1919–2026
record span
4.42
mean magnitude
128
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 | 188 km |
| 6.6 | 21.04.1957 21:12 | 25 km | 126 km |
| 6.6 | 14.03.1932 22:42 | 35 km | 34 km |
| 6.5 | 19.04.1952 09:58 | 28.2 km | 108 km |
| 6.3 | 30.08.1973 18:25 | 178.6 km | 131 km |
| 6.2 | 10.03.2015 20:55 | 162 km | 182 km |
| 6.2 | 11.07.1919 00:30 | 35 km | 11 km |
| 6.0 | 04.11.1933 08:41 | 35 km | 58 km |
| 6.0 | 16.11.1956 11:53 | 15 km | 90 km |
| 6.0 | 31.05.1994 17:41 | 13.5 km | 65 km |
| 5.9 | 18.10.1981 04:31 | 33.6 km | 66 km |
| 5.7 | 27.01.1970 09:29 | 17.5 km | 64 km |
| 5.6 | 21.12.2001 20:51 | 27.6 km | 107 km |
| 5.5 | 29.06.1952 09:56 | 160 km | 109 km |
| 5.5 | 30.01.1989 07:45 | 35 km | 22 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | 01.03.2026 10:12 | 185.7 km | 96 km |
| 4.4 | 29.10.2024 21:49 | 10 km | 74 km |
| 4.4 | 03.03.2023 20:10 | 22.7 km | 34 km |
| 3.5 | 06.02.2023 00:51 | 46.6 km | 75 km |
| 4.4 | 02.12.2022 23:09 | 4.1 km | 75 km |
| 4.5 | 13.11.2022 12:13 | 2.4 km | 78 km |
| 4.3 | 13.08.2022 07:10 | 5.9 km | 82 km |
| 4.0 | 04.07.2022 13:22 | 22.7 km | 49 km |
| 4.6 | 08.06.2022 04:39 | 8.7 km | 88 km |
| 3.5 | 27.09.2021 00:59 | 4.6 km | 61 km |
| 3.9 | 24.05.2021 22:52 | 11.2 km | 66 km |
| 4.4 | 23.03.2021 02:48 | 27.9 km | 59 km |
| 4.5 | 12.12.2020 01:07 | 187.8 km | 95 km |
| 4.5 | 22.07.2019 10:00 | 17.1 km | 106 km |
| 4.1 | 17.11.2018 20:13 | 12.1 km | 54 km |
| 4.0 | 17.11.2018 20:13 | 110 km | 54 km |
| 4.7 | 08.09.2018 17:31 | 5 km | 58 km |
| 4.7 | 03.04.2018 09:41 | 5 km | 42 km |
| 3.0 | 16.03.2018 02:51 | 404 km | 13 km |
| 5.0 | 18.11.2017 05:54 | 24.3 km | 51 km |
| 3.7 | 21.10.2017 12:54 | 3 km | 86 km |
| 5.1 | 14.10.2017 08:35 | 27 km | 82 km |
| 3.7 | 27.09.2017 21:51 | 0 km | 74 km |
| 4.3 | 13.08.2017 15:21 | 29.7 km | 63 km |
| 3.4 | 12.07.2017 15:32 | 4 km | 75 km |
| 2.8 | 01.07.2017 18:55 | 0 km | 71 km |
| 3.9 | 17.06.2017 02:39 | 5 km | 11 km |
| 4.7 | 14.04.2017 22:16 | 180.5 km | 104 km |
| 4.3 | 07.03.2017 17:11 | 39.2 km | 75 km |
| 3.3 | 25.02.2017 12:35 | 3 km | 68 km |
| 2.8 | 12.12.2016 02:30 | 8 km | 38 km |
| 2.5 | 08.11.2016 07:13 | 3 km | 19 km |
| 3.8 | 21.10.2016 03:15 | 0 km | 95 km |
| 3.5 | 03.10.2016 02:23 | 5 km | 31 km |
| 4.0 | 14.09.2016 19:26 | 4 km | 102 km |
| 3.6 | 16.06.2016 00:49 | 1 km | 13 km |
| 3.7 | 31.05.2016 05:14 | 0 km | 64 km |
| 3.9 | 08.05.2016 16:31 | 4 km | 49 km |
| 4.3 | 26.04.2016 02:23 | 2.8 km | 90 km |
| 4.2 | 07.04.2016 23:55 | 5.5 km | 90 km |
| 3.3 | 05.03.2016 22:49 | 0 km | 27 km |
| 3.7 | 11.02.2016 04:11 | 0 km | 73 km |
| 3.8 | 09.12.2015 09:49 | 5.1 km | 86 km |
| 3.9 | 05.12.2015 06:04 | 10 km | 89 km |
| 4.2 | 23.11.2015 20:15 | 10 km | 86 km |
| 5.1 | 22.11.2015 20:38 | 5.2 km | 81 km |
| 4.2 | 20.11.2015 23:05 | 8.3 km | 85 km |
| 4.7 | 20.11.2015 18:00 | 4.4 km | 77 km |
| 3.9 | 20.11.2015 17:53 | 11.3 km | 82 km |
| 4.3 | 14.11.2015 14:03 | 2.6 km | 82 km |
| 4.7 | 14.11.2015 12:20 | 10.1 km | 80 km |
| 3.7 | 14.11.2015 11:24 | 11.6 km | 84 km |
| 4.0 | 13.11.2015 06:03 | 3 km | 90 km |
| 3.9 | 10.11.2015 19:23 | 9.6 km | 86 km |
| 4.2 | 10.11.2015 16:35 | 10 km | 83 km |
| 4.0 | 09.11.2015 18:57 | 10 km | 81 km |
| 3.8 | 09.11.2015 17:48 | 10.9 km | 86 km |
| 4.0 | 09.11.2015 15:51 | 15.3 km | 89 km |
| 4.1 | 09.11.2015 13:34 | 10.2 km | 86 km |
| 3.7 | 09.11.2015 03:49 | 11.6 km | 85 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.