Turkish Homogenized Earthquake Catalogue (TURHEC)
Türkiye Homojenleştirilmiş Deprem Kataloğu

Information:
TURHEC is an extended and homogenized earthquake catalogue in an easily manageable format for all earth scientists. It is the most comprehensive catalogue for Turkey and contains approximately ~378 000 events between 1900 and October 2018.

The first version of the catalogue was published by Tan (2021, A homogeneous earthquake catalogue for Turkey, NHESS, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-2059-2021) and the data file can be downloaded from ZENDO (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5056801).

Important:

• The catalogue is not declustered. It contains aftershocks. For advanced studies, you should decluster the catalogue.

• The catalogue may contain quarry blasts reported by the institutions as earthquakes. Simply, you may filter the data for M>2.5 to remove all possible artificial events.

• There are zero magnitude evens in the extended version. The magnitudes of these events were not reported by the institutions.

•  All available magnitude values are given for the events.
  I suggest using Mw* (equal moment magnitude) at column 44. 

Update:

The updated version contains the events between 1900 - 2023 in a larger area (see the map below). 

Please send an email ( onur.tan [at] iuc.edu.tr )  for this version.

Citation: Please use the following references.

Tan, O. (2021). A homogeneous earthquake catalogue for Turkey, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 21, 2059–2073, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-2059-2021.

Tan, O. (2021). Turkish Homogenized Earthquake Catalogue (TURHEC), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5056801.