Earthquakes near Çorlu, 1927–2026

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 17,118 deaths for it. 6 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 4 of the events here, 18,194 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 6.2 on April 23, 2025 (24 km SE of Marmara Ereğlisi, Turkey). NOAA lists 3 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Çorlu, 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.

• April 23, 2025Earthquake · M 6.224 km SE of Marmara Ereğlisi, TurkeyUSGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• August 17, 1999Earthquake · M 7.64 km ESE of Derince, Turkey · 17,118 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• September 18, 1963Tsunami · 1 m hereMarmara SeaNOAA NCEI
• March 18, 1953Earthquake · M 7.37 km N of Gönen, Turkey · 1,070 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia

• An event counts for Çorlu 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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