Balıkesir

Earthquakes near Balıkesir through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 13 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Balıkesir, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. 5 of them reached magnitude 7 or more; the strongest on either list was an estimated magnitude 7.7 on September 10, 1509 (Istanbul).

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The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Balıkesir in the last 30 days.

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: an estimated magnitude 7 on July 10, 1688 (Izmir), for which NOAA records 16,000 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 33 here, back to AD 105. NOAA records deaths in 14 of the events here, 29,108 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 6.1 on August 10, 2025 (10 km WSW of Bigadiç, Turkey). NOAA’s record here begins in AD 105 with an earthquake. It grows thinner going back: 13 of the 33 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on. NOAA lists one tsunami that began within 100 km of Balıkesir, and one from elsewhere that reached it with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 1 m, on September 18, 1963.

The events

  • August 10, 2025Earthquake · M 6.110 km WSW of Bigadiç, Turkey · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • September 18, 1963Tsunami · 1 m hereMarmara SeaNOAA NCEI
  • July 10, 1688Earthquake · M 7.0 (est.)Izmir · 16,000 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • September 10, 1509Earthquake · M 7.7 (est.)Istanbul · 5,000 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • October 18, 1343Earthquake · M 7.5 (est.)Istanbul (Constantinople)NOAA NCEI
  • AD 105EarthquakeNOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Balıkesir when it began within 100 km of its centre, or 200 km for an earthquake of magnitude 7 or more. Damage can reach further.
  • USGS counts here start at magnitude 6: the catalogue’s smaller quakes thin out going back, where few instruments listened.
  • NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
  • Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
  • A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
  • Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

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