3.3
211
recorded earthquakes
M6.2
largest
1930–2026
record span
3.35
mean magnitude
137
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 | 162 km |
| 6.1 | 19.07.2001 18:15 | 13 km | 136 km |
| 5.7 | 24.02.2001 16:26 | 36 km | 61 km |
| 5.6 | 27.10.1930 23:28 | 35 km | 95 km |
| 5.6 | 02.01.2004 22:02 | 18 km | 146 km |
| 5.6 | 30.11.2001 06:46 | 11 km | 133 km |
| 5.6 | 02.11.2001 20:21 | 21 km | 132 km |
| 5.6 | 08.06.2001 07:46 | 2 km | 141 km |
| 5.5 | 29.12.1982 23:53 | 9.4 km | 137 km |
| 5.4 | 11.03.2001 11:05 | 24.7 km | 136 km |
| 5.3 | 30.10.2001 06:59 | 13 km | 137 km |
| 5.3 | 13.10.2001 22:10 | 18.5 km | 130 km |
| 5.3 | 12.10.2001 15:41 | 15.9 km | 69 km |
| 5.3 | 21.04.2006 15:26 | 8 km | 121 km |
| 5.3 | 15.06.2022 06:01 | 0 km | 117 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 | 88 km |
| 2.4 | 02.08.2026 23:39 | 14.6 km | 40 km |
| 2.7 | 18.02.2026 03:28 | 10 km | 47 km |
| 2.9 | 11.02.2026 04:08 | 6.7 km | 65 km |
| 2.6 | 12.01.2026 19:00 | 10 km | 48 km |
| 2.5 | 17.11.2025 16:19 | 10 km | 82 km |
| 2.7 | 16.11.2025 16:13 | 7.6 km | 7 km |
| 2.5 | 24.09.2025 00:35 | 5.7 km | 108 km |
| 3.0 | 23.09.2025 20:15 | 4 km | 104 km |
| 2.5 | 23.09.2025 18:08 | 0.8 km | 107 km |
| 2.4 | 11.09.2025 23:51 | 21.5 km | 31 km |
| 3.0 | 24.07.2025 02:26 | 10 km | 84 km |
| 5.3 | 15.06.2022 06:01 | 0 km | 117 km |
| 4.6 | 19.05.2012 22:28 | 18 km | 23 km |
| 3.8 | 26.06.2011 10:55 | 23 km | 76 km |
| 3.5 | 19.12.2010 13:52 | 5 km | 50 km |
| 5.1 | 14.11.2010 23:25 | 10.5 km | 126 km |
| 2.9 | 13.10.2010 01:53 | 6 km | 81 km |
| 2.9 | 17.09.2010 13:37 | 19 km | 86 km |
| 3.3 | 30.08.2010 06:26 | 2 km | 44 km |
| 2.8 | 23.08.2010 01:39 | 11 km | 54 km |
| 3.5 | 08.08.2010 14:15 | 54 km | 64 km |
| 3.1 | 23.05.2010 10:14 | 2 km | 111 km |
| 3.3 | 20.04.2010 19:12 | 12 km | 77 km |
| 5.0 | 09.04.2010 13:45 | 2 km | 113 km |
| 2.9 | 18.02.2010 10:50 | 4 km | 92 km |
| 3.1 | 28.01.2010 11:31 | 13 km | 100 km |
| 3.0 | 21.01.2010 13:43 | 9 km | 48 km |
| 2.9 | 04.12.2009 01:41 | 39 km | 52 km |
| 2.5 | 14.11.2009 11:10 | 5 km | 66 km |
| 4.0 | 22.08.2009 22:39 | 8.2 km | 83 km |
| 3.0 | 30.07.2009 20:11 | 4 km | 97 km |
| 2.8 | 08.05.2009 07:29 | 13 km | 10 km |
| 2.6 | 20.04.2009 19:31 | 12 km | 28 km |
| 3.1 | 18.04.2009 21:34 | 16 km | 48 km |
| 2.5 | 18.04.2009 20:40 | 14 km | 48 km |
| 2.4 | 13.04.2009 18:33 | 8 km | 83 km |
| 2.5 | 12.02.2009 20:46 | 11 km | 92 km |
| 2.9 | 03.01.2009 07:41 | 19 km | 29 km |
| 3.2 | 01.01.2009 20:25 | 10 km | 87 km |
| 2.7 | 27.12.2008 08:20 | 20 km | 64 km |
| 3.2 | 13.12.2008 16:10 | 10 km | 101 km |
| 2.4 | 10.09.2008 04:24 | 4 km | 28 km |
| 2.8 | 24.08.2008 21:55 | 11 km | 96 km |
| 3.4 | 20.08.2008 05:29 | 28 km | 113 km |
| 4.1 | 19.08.2008 12:19 | 20.6 km | 112 km |
| 3.3 | 10.08.2008 18:18 | 13 km | 106 km |
| 3.0 | 07.08.2008 03:42 | 8 km | 104 km |
| 3.0 | 24.06.2008 15:13 | 7 km | 79 km |
| 2.6 | 02.06.2008 17:05 | 15 km | 73 km |
| 2.7 | 29.05.2008 20:02 | 15 km | 86 km |
| 3.0 | 27.05.2008 13:24 | 16 km | 66 km |
| 2.8 | 30.04.2008 14:15 | 19 km | 88 km |
| 4.0 | 30.04.2008 12:54 | 25.9 km | 93 km |
| 3.0 | 16.02.2008 03:16 | 22 km | 109 km |
| 2.6 | 15.02.2008 20:28 | 7 km | 104 km |
| 2.6 | 15.02.2008 18:54 | 11 km | 105 km |
| 2.5 | 15.02.2008 13:02 | 11 km | 105 km |
| 3.6 | 15.02.2008 12:34 | 22 km | 110 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.