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Map of earthquakes in Turkey, 1900–2023 Map of plate boundaries affecting Turkey. Turkey has had many earthquakes. This list includes any notable historical earthquakes that have epicenters within the current boundaries of Turkey, or which caused significant effects in this area. Overall, the population in major cities like Istanbul resides ...
528 Antioch earthquake; 557 Constantinople earthquake; 1114 Marash earthquake; 1269 Cilicia earthquake; 1509 Constantinople earthquake; 1513 Marash earthquake; 1598 Amasya–Çorum earthquake; 1653 Smyrna earthquake; 1668 North Anatolia earthquake; 1688 Smyrna earthquake; 1766 Istanbul earthquake; 1766 Marmara earthquake; 1784 Erzincan ...
The earthquake lasted for 37 seconds, causing seismic damage, and is widely remembered as one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern Turkish history. The 1999 earthquake was part of a seismic sequence along the North Anatolian Fault that started in 1939, causing large earthquakes that moved progressively from east to west over a period of ...
An earthquake struck Turkey's eastern Erzincan Province at 1:57:23 a.m. on 27 December 1939 local time with a moment magnitude (M w ) of 7.8 and maximum Mercalli intensity of XII (Extreme). It is tied with the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes as the most-powerful earthquake in Turkey to be recorded by instruments.
Map of earthquakes in Turkey 1900–2023. The geology of Turkey is the product of a wide variety of tectonic processes that have shaped Anatolia over millions of years, a process which continues today as evidenced by frequent earthquakes and occasional volcanic eruptions. Topographic map of Turkey
The fault extends westward from a junction with the East Anatolian Fault at the Karliova triple junction in eastern Turkey, across northern Turkey and into the Aegean Sea for a length of 1200 [1] −1500 kilometers. [2] It runs about 20 km south of Istanbul. The North Anatolian Fault is similar in many ways to the San Andreas Fault in California.
The 1976 Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake occurred at 14:22 local time (12:22 UTC) on 24 November. The epicenter was located near Çaldıran, 20 km northeast of Muradiye, in the Van Province of eastern Turkey. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.3 with a maximum intensity of X (Extreme) on the Mercalli intensity scale.
Map of the Anatolian Plate, featuring the North Anatolian Fault.. Most of Turkey lies on the Anatolian Plate.Deformation from is accommodated through three main faults: the eastern portion of the Hellenic Trench accommodates convergence between the Aegean Sea plate and the Anatolian Plate in the south, the North Anatolian Fault in the north, along which this earthquake occurred, accommodates ...