Denizli

Earthquakes near Denizli through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 8 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Denizli, 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 7.8 on April 22, 1863 (Rhodes, Kos).

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The last 30 days · as of

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

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 7.1 on October 3, 1914 (15 km WSW of Burdur, Turkey), for which NOAA records 4,000 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 26 here, back to 228 BCE. NOAA records deaths in 12 of the events here, 10,486 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.9 on August 8, 2019 (9 km ESE of Baklan, Turkey). NOAA’s record here begins in 228 BCE with an earthquake (Dodecanese Islands). It grows thinner going back: 13 of the 26 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on.

The events

  • August 8, 2019Earthquake · M 5.99 km ESE of Baklan, TurkeyUSGS · NOAA NCEI
  • October 3, 1914Earthquake · M 7.115 km WSW of Burdur, Turkey · 4,000 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • April 22, 1863Earthquake · M 7.8 (est.)Rhodes, Kos · 300 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
  • February 23, 1653Earthquake · M 7.5 (est.)Izmir,Alasehir,Denizli,Aydin · 2,500 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • 228 BCEEarthquake · M 7.2 (est.)Dodecanese IslandsNOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Denizli 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.

How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Earthquakes, live, The world through history

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