4.8
341
recorded earthquakes
M6.5
largest
1926–2026
record span
4.55
mean magnitude
114
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.5 | 20.08.1989 11:16 | 19 km | 465 km |
| 6.4 | 21.08.1989 01:09 | 19.5 km | 490 km |
| 6.2 | 05.03.1992 08:55 | 9.8 km | 379 km |
| 6.1 | 19.07.2001 18:15 | 13 km | 309 km |
| 6.1 | 11.03.1961 08:41 | 15 km | 366 km |
| 6.1 | 20.08.1989 19:25 | 11.3 km | 493 km |
| 6.1 | 20.08.1989 11:46 | 27.3 km | 486 km |
| 6.1 | 21.08.1989 05:03 | 9.6 km | 487 km |
| 6.0 | 01.04.1973 07:12 | 9.7 km | 367 km |
| 6.0 | 31.10.1926 11:43 | 15 km | 290 km |
| 6.0 | 22.01.1929 14:43 | 35 km | 318 km |
| 6.0 | 27.10.1930 23:28 | 15 km | 273 km |
| 6.0 | 04.01.1960 06:16 | 15 km | 393 km |
| 5.9 | 28.03.1973 13:42 | 10 km | 368 km |
| 5.9 | 11.04.1994 11:20 | 12.9 km | 375 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.8 | 25.07.2026 00:50 | 10 km | 385 km |
| 5.2 | 25.01.2024 17:00 | 6.4 km | 351 km |
| 4.6 | 25.10.2023 22:51 | 10 km | 365 km |
| 4.9 | 28.09.2023 05:53 | 19 km | 369 km |
| 4.9 | 28.09.2023 01:22 | 10 km | 372 km |
| 5.2 | 26.01.2023 13:05 | 4 km | 311 km |
| 4.5 | 18.01.2023 19:28 | 9.5 km | 342 km |
| 3.6 | 18.01.2023 19:28 | 14 km | 341 km |
| 4.6 | 16.06.2022 00:35 | 0.1 km | 143 km |
| 4.3 | 07.01.2022 18:02 | 15 km | 164 km |
| 3.3 | 03.08.2021 00:33 | 3 km | 377 km |
| 4.5 | 25.02.2021 21:09 | 10 km | 406 km |
| 4.3 | 31.08.2020 21:39 | 10 km | 309 km |
| 4.0 | 13.05.2020 03:55 | 0 km | 176 km |
| 4.1 | 29.04.2020 16:25 | 0 km | 260 km |
| 4.8 | 17.05.2019 11:24 | 10 km | 220 km |
| 4.4 | 17.05.2019 11:23 | 10 km | 327 km |
| 5.0 | 17.05.2019 11:23 | 13 km | 248 km |
| 4.8 | 09.01.2018 11:26 | 10 km | 188 km |
| 5.0 | 07.09.2017 03:50 | 13 km | 250 km |
| 5.0 | 14.04.2017 10:44 | 10 km | 374 km |
| 5.0 | 14.04.2017 05:53 | 10 km | 361 km |
| 4.3 | 03.04.2017 04:47 | 1 km | 396 km |
| 3.5 | 14.05.2016 17:25 | 11.6 km | 376 km |
| 4.0 | 14.05.2016 17:20 | 10 km | 374 km |
| 4.1 | 11.04.2016 22:30 | 0 km | 367 km |
| 4.1 | 11.04.2016 17:39 | 6 km | 367 km |
| 4.8 | 29.09.2015 05:31 | 10 km | 347 km |
| 5.3 | 13.07.2015 11:14 | 10 km | 258 km |
| 5.0 | 30.05.2015 06:48 | 19 km | 373 km |
| 4.6 | 30.11.2014 07:05 | 10 km | 243 km |
| 4.1 | 04.11.2014 19:15 | 9.5 km | 283 km |
| 4.1 | 07.07.2014 00:47 | 0 km | 188 km |
| 3.5 | 12.05.2013 16:44 | 3 km | 392 km |
| 3.9 | 16.09.2012 09:06 | 3 km | 372 km |
| 3.1 | 15.09.2012 16:01 | 3 km | 372 km |
| 3.1 | 14.09.2012 04:22 | 3 km | 373 km |
| 3.0 | 14.09.2012 02:29 | 2 km | 373 km |
| 4.3 | 14.08.2012 05:52 | 15 km | 293 km |
| 3.8 | 13.03.2012 17:12 | 10 km | 388 km |
| 4.2 | 25.02.2012 08:17 | 15 km | 285 km |
| 4.7 | 10.01.2012 04:11 | 15 km | 369 km |
| 3.4 | 05.12.2011 09:09 | 15 km | 223 km |
| 4.4 | 22.10.2011 00:58 | 10 km | 253 km |
| 4.1 | 22.10.2011 00:13 | 10 km | 282 km |
| 4.4 | 21.10.2011 22:02 | 10 km | 281 km |
| 5.0 | 02.08.2011 23:24 | 10 km | 298 km |
| 3.0 | 01.06.2011 20:35 | 15 km | 293 km |
| 3.0 | 30.05.2011 23:56 | 7 km | 385 km |
| 3.0 | 30.05.2011 22:34 | 7 km | 385 km |
| 4.0 | 22.05.2011 14:37 | 15 km | 269 km |
| 3.6 | 26.04.2011 01:34 | 5 km | 382 km |
| 3.6 | 26.04.2011 01:21 | 4 km | 382 km |
| 4.6 | 21.04.2011 19:07 | 4 km | 383 km |
| 3.4 | 21.04.2011 15:24 | 5 km | 382 km |
| 4.1 | 13.03.2011 20:18 | 4 km | 286 km |
| 3.6 | 08.03.2011 20:57 | 2 km | 394 km |
| 3.6 | 08.03.2011 20:46 | 3 km | 393 km |
| 3.2 | 08.03.2011 08:20 | 2 km | 393 km |
| 3.4 | 02.03.2011 22:51 | 3 km | 367 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.