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The 1509 Constantinople earthquake or historically Kıyamet-i Sugra ('Minor Judgment Day') occurred in the Sea of Marmara on 10 September 1509 at about 22:00. The earthquake had an estimated magnitude of 7.2 ± 0.3 on the surface-wave magnitude scale. [2] A tsunami and 45 days of aftershocks followed the earthquake. The death toll of this ...
Sea of Marmara: 1999 İzmit earthquake: Earthquake: On 17 August 1999 an earthquake caused a tsunami in the Sea of Marmara, with a maximum water height of 2.52 m. 150 people died when the city of Degirmendere was flooded and another five were washed into the sea in Ulaşlı. [48]
At least 155 deaths were associated with the tsunami. [29] Many field studies were made about the tsunami in the Gulf of İzmit. Along the northern coast of the gulf, in the basin between Hereke and Tüpraş Petroleum Refinery, the tsunami was recorded as a leading depression wave. The run-up wave heights in this area ranged from 1.5–2.6 m (4 ...
The Sea of Marmara is a pull-apart basin formed at a releasing bend in the North Anatolian Fault (NAF), a right-lateral strike-slip fault. [6] East of the Sea of Marmara the NAF splits into three major branches; while the sinuous southern branch goes inland in a southwesterly direction up to Ayvacık, where it reaches the Aegean Sea near the southern mouth of the Dardanelles, the other two ...
This implied the offshore segments east and west of the onshore Ganos Fault also ruptured. In the Marmara Sea, young fault scarps and right-lateral offsets up to 6 m (20 ft) were found. West of the Ganos Fault is the Saros Fault that lies beneath a bay; estimates of the Saros Fault rupture are between 20 km (12 mi) and 50 km (31 mi).
In a storm on 29 December 1999, the Russian oil tanker Volgoneft-248 broke in two in the Sea of Marmara, spilling more than 1,500 tonnes of oil into the water. [6] The main cities in Turkey, especially Istanbul, the largest city, are around the Marmara Sea, a small inland sea.
The 542 Sea of Marmara earthquake took place in the winter of 542 in the vicinity of the Sea of Marmara.It also affected the coasts of Thrace and the Edremit Gulf. [1] The earthquake affected the eastern Roman empire during the reign of the emperor Justinian I.
The 1766 Marmara earthquake occurred on 5 August; the second major earthquake to strike the Sea of Marmara region of present-day Turkey that same year. Estimates of the earthquake's moment magnitude (M w ) range between 7.4 and 7.6.