Turkey

TUR · 2024 energy mix · renewables 19.7% · fossil fuels 80.2%

Threat reading 21 of 100, classified STABLE. 106 events recorded here in the last seven days, 106 in the last thirty.

That number is computed from live feeds and moves. The live monitor is where to read it as of right now.

Where its energy comes from

Oil31.7%
Gas24.5%
Coal24.0%
Hydro8.8%
Wind4.3%
Solar3.6%
Other renewables3.1%

In 2024, renewables accounted for 19.7% and fossil fuels for 80.2%. On electricity traded with its neighbours, Turkey is close to balanced on electricity trade.

Sources under one per cent of the mix are left out of the table rather than listed as a row of zeroes. Percentages are shares of a country's primary energy, not of the power it generates.

Recorded history

NOAA's hazard records hold 350 significant earthquakes, 28 tsunamis and one significant eruption in or just off Turkey since 11.

The deadliest was the 13 December 115 magnitude 7.5 earthquake (Turkey: Antakya (Antioch)), which killed 260,000 people.

The strongest earthquake on record here was magnitude 7.8, on 26 December 1939 (Turkey: Erzincan).

The most recent entry is the 10 August 2025 magnitude 6.1 earthquake (Turkey: Balikesir), which killed one person.

Across the entries that record a death toll, 1,188,830 people died.

DateWhatWhereToll
13 December 115magnitude 7.5 earthquakeTurkey: Antakya (Antioch)260,000 dead, damage over $25 million
29 May 525magnitude 7.0 earthquakeTurkey: Antakya (Antioch), Samandag250,000 dead, damage over $25 million
September 458earthquakeTurkey: Antakya (Antioch)80,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million
May 1598tsunamiSouth Black Sea60,000 dead, damage over $25 million
May 1598earthquakeTurkey: Amasya, Corum60,000 dead, damage over $25 million
30 September 587earthquakeTurkey: Antakya (Antioch)60,000 dead, damage over $25 million
6 February 2023magnitude 7.8 earthquakeTurkey: Kahramanmaras; Syria56,697 dead, 542,461 homes destroyed, $42,900 million damage
6 February 2023tsunami (waves to 0.3 m)Gulf of Iskenderun56,697 dead, 542,461 homes destroyed, $42,900 million damage
341earthquakeTurkey: Antakya (Antioch); Cyprus (Salamis)40,000 dead, damage over $25 million
26 December 1939magnitude 7.8 earthquakeTurkey: Erzincan32,700 dead, 120,000 homes destroyed, $20 million damage
26 December 1939tsunami (waves to 0.5 m)South Black Sea32,700 dead, 120,000 homes destroyed, $20 million damage
1458earthquakeTurkey: Erzincan, Erzurum32,000 dead
1482magnitude 7.5 earthquakeTurkey: Erzincan, Erzurum30,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million
1444earthquakeTurkey: Nemrut Mtns30,000 dead
565earthquakeTurkey: Antakya (Antioch)30,000 dead
13 August 1822earthquakeTurkey: Antakya; Syria: Halab, Dimashq (Damascus);20,000 dead, damage over $25 million
1158earthquakeSyria: Malatya, Dimashq; Lebanon; Turkey: Antakya20,000 dead, damage over $25 million
10 July 1668magnitude 6.6 earthquakeTurkey17,500 dead, damage $5 to 25 million
17 August 1999magnitude 7.6 earthquakeTurkey: Istanbul, Kocaeli, Sakarya17,118 dead, $20,000 million damage
17 August 1999tsunami (waves to 2.5 m)Kocaeli, Turkey17,118 dead, $20,000 million damage
10 July 1688magnitude 7.0 earthquakeTurkey: Izmir16,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million
15 October 1883magnitude 7.3 earthquakeTurkey: Ayvalik, Izmir, Cesme15,000 dead, 3,600 homes destroyed, damage over $25 million
2 June 1859magnitude 6.1 earthquakeTurkey: Erzurum15,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million
1268earthquakeTurkey: Erzincan15,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million
25 May 1719earthquakeTurkey6,000 dead, damage over $25 million

These are the 25 deadliest and largest of 379 entries. A dash means NOAA recorded no number, not that nobody died. Older entries are fewer because fewer were written down, not because less happened.

Recorded history: NOAA NCEI hazard databases, public domain, retrieved 2026-10-22.

In the last 30 days

The most recent events our feeds placed in Turkey:

What the threat reading is made of

Conflict1
Unrest0
Security10
Spillover from neighbours28
Natural hazard10
Resilience74

Each is 0 to 100. Resilience runs the other way to the rest: a high number is a country better able to absorb a shock, not a country in more trouble.

Other countries tracked

All countries with a page.

Where the data comes from

Energy mix, 2024: Our World in Data, energy dataset (https://github.com/owid/energy-data), compiled by Pablo Rosado, Hannah Ritchie, Edouard Mathieu and Max Roser from the Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Ember and The Shift Dataportal. Licence: Our World in Data's own compilation is CC BY 4.0. The underlying figures stay under their original terms: Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, U.S. EIA, Ember and The Shift Dataportal. The percentages shown here and the wording are ours. Threat reading: computed by Rift Web from the feeds listed on the sources page.