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Türkiye Earthquakes Today
The latest earthquakes in and around Türkiye on one live map, from EMSC and USGS, with Turkish place names, depths, times in Türkiye and links to AFAD and Kandilli.
New-earthquake alerts
For new events in Türkiye at M1.0+ (your current filters). Alerts only work while this page is open in a tab; nothing runs in the background and nothing is sent to us.
This is not an earthquake early-warning system: reports arrive minutes after shaking.
Felt an earthquake?
Report it to the official agencies. This page does not collect reports.
- Magnitudes and locations are revised; the first automatic values often change.
- In an emergency, follow your local authorities (AFAD, emergency number 112).
Data: USGS Earthquake Hazards Program (public domain) · Credit: EMSC/CSEM, https://www.emsc-csem.org (CC BY 4.0) · Plate boundaries: Bird (2003), via Hugo Ahlenius (ODC-BY 1.0) · Place names: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) · Base map: OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles, data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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Frequently asked questions
Where does this Türkiye earthquake data come from?
The map shows data from EMSC (European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre) and USGS. EMSC relays the solutions of Turkish agencies, mostly AFAD and sometimes Kandilli, together with its own, under the CC BY 4.0 licence; USGS adds its global solutions for larger events. The official Turkish sources are AFAD, the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority, which runs the national seismic network (deprem.afad.gov.tr), and the Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute of Boğaziçi University (koeri.boun.edu.tr).
Why do AFAD, Kandilli, EMSC and USGS give different magnitudes?
Each agency uses its own stations and methods and may report a different magnitude type, such as local magnitude (ML) or moment magnitude (Mw). Differences of 0.1 to 0.3 are normal, and the first automatic values are revised. For the 6 February 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes, AFAD reported Mw 7.7 and 7.6 while USGS reported Mw 7.8 and 7.5. This page shows each agency’s value side by side when both reported the event.
What is the difference between magnitude and intensity?
Magnitude is the size of the earthquake at its source: one number per event, where each whole step means about 32 times more energy. Intensity is how strongly the ground shook at one place, on a scale such as Modified Mercalli (I to XII), and it depends on distance, depth and local soil. A moderate earthquake right under a town can shake it harder than a larger one far away.
How quickly do new earthquakes appear?
EMSC pushes new and revised events to the page through a live connection as soon as they are published, and the USGS feeds are checked every minute. An agency first needs a few minutes to detect and locate an earthquake, and small events can arrive later. AFAD publishes on its own website first, so for the very latest official figure check deprem.afad.gov.tr.
Why are most earthquakes in Türkiye shallow?
Most of Türkiye’s earthquakes happen in the upper crust, on faults such as the North and East Anatolian faults and the normal faults of western Anatolia, typically within the top 20 to 30 km. Shallow earthquakes shake the surface more strongly than deep ones of the same magnitude. Deeper events occur mainly beneath the southern Aegean and the Antalya area, where the African plate descends along the Hellenic and Cyprus arcs.
Is this an earthquake early-warning system?
No. Earthquakes appear here only after an agency has detected and published them, usually minutes after the shaking, and alerts only work while the page is open. In an emergency follow AFAD and local authorities and call 112.
About this tool
Türkiye is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world because the Anatolian plate is squeezed westward between the Arabian and Eurasian plates. The North Anatolian Fault runs across the north of the country and produced the 17 August 1999 İzmit (Kocaeli) earthquake of Mw 7.6; the East Anatolian Fault in the southeast ruptured in the 6 February 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes; and western Anatolia and the Aegean are being pulled apart, as in the 30 October 2020 Samos earthquake that damaged İzmir. The plate boundary layer on the map shows these structures.
This map follows earthquakes in the Türkiye region live. It loads recent events from EMSC, whose catalogue includes the automatic and reviewed solutions of AFAD and, for some events, Kandilli Observatory (KOERI), and adds USGS solutions for larger earthquakes. Reports of the same earthquake from different agencies are merged into one entry that lists every agency, and place names come from GeoNames in their Turkish spelling, for example İzmir, Kahramanmaraş and Elazığ, with the province after the town.
Times are shown in Türkiye time (UTC+3, which the country keeps all year), in your own time zone and in UTC, so a report can be compared with AFAD or Kandilli bulletins directly. The statistics strip counts the earthquakes by magnitude band, names the largest and plots how many occurred per hour, and the time-lapse replays a day, a week or 30 days to show aftershock sequences.
The figures here are not official. AFAD is the authority for earthquake information and emergency response in Türkiye, and Kandilli Observatory publishes its own independent catalogue; their magnitudes can differ slightly from EMSC and USGS. If you felt an earthquake, use the official channels linked on this page, and in an emergency call 112. Data: EMSC/CSEM (CC BY 4.0) and USGS (public domain); place names: GeoNames; base map: OpenFreeMap and OpenStreetMap contributors.