3.3
280
recorded earthquakes
M6.4
largest
1930–2026
record span
3.35
mean magnitude
184
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.4 | 31.08.2001 16:05 | 15 km | 196 km |
| 6.2 | 13.12.1982 09:12 | 10.1 km | 152 km |
| 6.1 | 19.07.2001 18:15 | 13 km | 128 km |
| 5.7 | 24.02.2001 16:26 | 36 km | 125 km |
| 5.6 | 27.10.1930 23:28 | 35 km | 139 km |
| 5.6 | 30.11.2001 06:46 | 11 km | 172 km |
| 5.6 | 02.11.2001 20:21 | 21 km | 135 km |
| 5.6 | 08.06.2001 07:46 | 2 km | 130 km |
| 5.6 | 02.01.2004 22:02 | 18 km | 131 km |
| 5.5 | 15.10.2001 03:21 | 8.2 km | 157 km |
| 5.5 | 29.12.1982 23:53 | 9.4 km | 119 km |
| 5.4 | 21.09.2001 12:47 | 2 km | 149 km |
| 5.4 | 11.03.2001 11:05 | 24.7 km | 175 km |
| 5.3 | 30.10.2001 06:59 | 13 km | 130 km |
| 5.3 | 15.06.2022 06:01 | 0 km | 146 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.3 | 03.08.2026 12:17 | 4.9 km | 111 km |
| 2.3 | 03.08.2026 02:57 | 4.7 km | 118 km |
| 2.4 | 02.08.2026 23:39 | 14.6 km | 79 km |
| 3.0 | 21.07.2026 03:42 | 8 km | 51 km |
| 3.4 | 13.07.2026 02:16 | 2.8 km | 45 km |
| 2.9 | 13.07.2026 00:02 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 3.0 | 12.07.2026 08:10 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 3.2 | 12.07.2026 05:14 | 10 km | 52 km |
| 4.2 | 11.07.2026 05:19 | 15.1 km | 58 km |
| 3.2 | 11.07.2026 03:13 | 10 km | 55 km |
| 3.1 | 10.07.2026 22:12 | 10 km | 56 km |
| 3.0 | 10.07.2026 20:14 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 3.5 | 10.07.2026 19:18 | 10 km | 57 km |
| 3.4 | 10.07.2026 15:14 | 8 km | 60 km |
| 2.7 | 09.07.2026 18:03 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 3.0 | 03.07.2026 02:50 | 13.1 km | 48 km |
| 3.0 | 03.07.2026 01:41 | 5 km | 52 km |
| 2.6 | 02.07.2026 22:54 | 3.3 km | 50 km |
| 2.9 | 02.07.2026 19:16 | 5 km | 58 km |
| 2.8 | 22.06.2026 23:01 | 10 km | 49 km |
| 2.7 | 18.02.2026 03:28 | 10 km | 101 km |
| 3.1 | 30.01.2026 20:20 | 11 km | 116 km |
| 2.9 | 30.01.2026 02:54 | 11 km | 97 km |
| 3.1 | 16.01.2026 11:31 | 11 km | 87 km |
| 2.6 | 12.01.2026 19:00 | 10 km | 54 km |
| 2.5 | 17.11.2025 16:19 | 10 km | 128 km |
| 2.7 | 16.11.2025 16:13 | 7.6 km | 71 km |
| 2.4 | 11.09.2025 23:51 | 21.5 km | 95 km |
| 5.3 | 15.06.2022 06:01 | 0 km | 146 km |
| 4.2 | 19.07.2016 22:33 | 11 km | 123 km |
| 4.8 | 24.05.2016 17:43 | 10 km | 129 km |
| 3.5 | 27.07.2012 18:54 | 2 km | 91 km |
| 4.6 | 19.05.2012 22:28 | 18 km | 57 km |
| 2.8 | 08.11.2011 07:03 | 4 km | 91 km |
| 2.7 | 03.11.2011 09:14 | 2 km | 66 km |
| 2.7 | 13.10.2011 08:50 | 12 km | 30 km |
| 3.8 | 26.06.2011 10:55 | 23 km | 81 km |
| 3.5 | 19.12.2010 13:52 | 5 km | 111 km |
| 5.1 | 14.11.2010 23:25 | 10.5 km | 143 km |
| 2.5 | 26.10.2010 15:42 | 2 km | 66 km |
| 3.1 | 26.10.2010 02:49 | 12 km | 67 km |
| 2.9 | 13.10.2010 01:53 | 6 km | 81 km |
| 2.6 | 08.10.2010 02:01 | 12 km | 128 km |
| 2.9 | 22.09.2010 12:03 | 2 km | 86 km |
| 3.5 | 18.09.2010 15:10 | 7 km | 88 km |
| 2.9 | 17.09.2010 13:37 | 19 km | 77 km |
| 2.8 | 16.09.2010 19:04 | 13 km | 101 km |
| 3.0 | 15.09.2010 21:57 | 0 km | 90 km |
| 3.5 | 14.09.2010 12:50 | 5 km | 87 km |
| 3.0 | 09.09.2010 19:47 | 26 km | 77 km |
| 3.5 | 04.09.2010 18:44 | 3 km | 122 km |
| 3.3 | 30.08.2010 06:26 | 2 km | 58 km |
| 2.8 | 23.08.2010 01:39 | 11 km | 103 km |
| 3.5 | 08.08.2010 14:15 | 54 km | 124 km |
| 3.4 | 07.06.2010 03:19 | 11 km | 126 km |
| 4.2 | 27.05.2010 00:55 | 15.1 km | 133 km |
| 3.1 | 23.05.2010 10:14 | 2 km | 74 km |
| 3.2 | 03.05.2010 21:57 | 4 km | 119 km |
| 3.0 | 22.04.2010 22:06 | 9 km | 123 km |
| 3.3 | 20.04.2010 19:12 | 12 km | 89 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.