3.3
170
recorded earthquakes
M6.2
largest
1982–2026
record span
3.14
mean magnitude
126
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.2 | 13.12.1982 09:12 | 10.1 km | 16 km |
| 5.9 | 31.10.2001 23:00 | 15 km | 4 km |
| 5.6 | 05.08.2001 19:35 | 17 km | 25 km |
| 5.5 | 29.12.1982 23:53 | 9.4 km | 30 km |
| 5.3 | 12.10.2001 15:41 | 15.9 km | 79 km |
| 5.1 | 29.01.2001 23:21 | 15 km | 17 km |
| 4.9 | 29.01.2001 21:54 | 14 km | 18 km |
| 4.8 | 29.07.2001 00:12 | 15 km | 90 km |
| 4.7 | 23.09.1984 21:23 | 12 km | 23 km |
| 4.6 | 08.01.1983 23:51 | 12 km | 14 km |
| 4.6 | 13.12.1982 17:57 | 5 km | 24 km |
| 4.6 | 21.12.1982 10:05 | 12 km | 26 km |
| 4.6 | 22.11.1991 00:40 | 12 km | 83 km |
| 4.5 | 19.05.1992 01:26 | 12 km | 81 km |
| 4.4 | 25.06.1984 02:06 | 4.6 km | 99 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.3 | 03.08.2026 12:17 | 4.9 km | 82 km |
| 2.3 | 03.08.2026 02:57 | 4.7 km | 81 km |
| 2.6 | 03.07.2026 19:17 | 3 km | 51 km |
| 2.0 | 16.05.2026 00:12 | 8 km | 61 km |
| 2.6 | 15.05.2026 22:35 | 4 km | 63 km |
| 3.2 | 14.05.2026 07:19 | 9.2 km | 36 km |
| 2.0 | 14.05.2026 02:30 | 7.8 km | 40 km |
| 2.3 | 11.05.2026 23:39 | 2.7 km | 41 km |
| 2.4 | 11.04.2026 21:07 | 14.9 km | 84 km |
| 2.3 | 23.01.2026 07:15 | 5.3 km | 21 km |
| 2.4 | 15.01.2026 10:08 | 10 km | 30 km |
| 2.6 | 12.01.2026 16:06 | 10 km | 41 km |
| 2.3 | 21.12.2025 11:01 | 7.4 km | 31 km |
| 2.3 | 26.11.2025 14:46 | 5.4 km | 26 km |
| 2.3 | 16.10.2025 03:28 | 7.2 km | 53 km |
| 2.2 | 24.09.2025 01:09 | 2 km | 75 km |
| 3.0 | 21.07.2025 02:28 | 8.5 km | 57 km |
| 3.2 | 13.09.2016 17:08 | 10 km | 59 km |
| 3.6 | 31.05.2012 05:28 | 13 km | 9 km |
| 4.2 | 31.05.2012 05:11 | 16.3 km | 11 km |
| 4.0 | 29.05.2012 06:57 | 12.6 km | 13 km |
| 2.8 | 08.11.2011 07:03 | 4 km | 54 km |
| 3.8 | 17.02.2011 01:53 | 13 km | 39 km |
| 4.0 | 30.01.2011 05:26 | 16.7 km | 91 km |
| 2.9 | 13.10.2010 01:53 | 6 km | 66 km |
| 2.9 | 22.09.2010 12:03 | 2 km | 55 km |
| 3.5 | 18.09.2010 15:10 | 7 km | 53 km |
| 2.9 | 17.09.2010 13:37 | 19 km | 65 km |
| 2.8 | 16.09.2010 19:04 | 13 km | 49 km |
| 3.0 | 15.09.2010 21:57 | 0 km | 51 km |
| 3.5 | 14.09.2010 12:50 | 5 km | 54 km |
| 2.5 | 11.07.2010 01:15 | 0 km | 35 km |
| 3.5 | 10.07.2010 20:03 | 19 km | 68 km |
| 2.8 | 04.06.2010 05:51 | 15 km | 73 km |
| 3.1 | 23.05.2010 10:14 | 2 km | 80 km |
| 3.2 | 30.04.2010 19:50 | 12 km | 47 km |
| 3.3 | 20.04.2010 19:12 | 12 km | 71 km |
| 2.9 | 05.04.2010 19:14 | 13 km | 47 km |
| 3.0 | 19.03.2010 20:52 | 6 km | 28 km |
| 3.0 | 13.03.2010 00:48 | 4 km | 29 km |
| 2.8 | 13.03.2010 00:47 | 2 km | 29 km |
| 3.3 | 08.02.2010 12:26 | 13 km | 25 km |
| 2.9 | 08.02.2010 09:32 | 0 km | 26 km |
| 3.1 | 04.02.2010 04:20 | 6 km | 24 km |
| 3.3 | 04.02.2010 04:11 | 5 km | 25 km |
| 3.0 | 28.01.2010 12:04 | 8 km | 26 km |
| 2.5 | 26.01.2010 15:42 | 2 km | 26 km |
| 2.8 | 25.01.2010 23:37 | 2 km | 26 km |
| 3.0 | 24.01.2010 02:48 | 6 km | 25 km |
| 3.5 | 24.01.2010 02:47 | 6 km | 25 km |
| 3.1 | 20.01.2010 19:14 | 2 km | 26 km |
| 2.5 | 20.01.2010 14:25 | 5 km | 49 km |
| 3.0 | 20.01.2010 08:14 | 8 km | 24 km |
| 2.7 | 18.01.2010 06:30 | 0 km | 27 km |
| 2.9 | 17.01.2010 09:03 | 6 km | 25 km |
| 2.3 | 17.01.2010 05:28 | 4 km | 25 km |
| 2.7 | 17.01.2010 01:12 | 6 km | 25 km |
| 4.3 | 17.01.2010 01:04 | 3.8 km | 24 km |
| 2.8 | 16.01.2010 19:43 | 8 km | 26 km |
| 3.0 | 12.01.2010 00:42 | 2 km | 26 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.