Earthquakes near Elazığ through history

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 32,700 deaths for it. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 17 here, back to 1158. NOAA records deaths in 10 of the events here, 83,227 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 6 on October 16, 2024 (19 km W of Doğanyol, Turkey). NOAA’s record here begins in 1158 with an earthquake (Malatya,Dimashq; Lebanon; Turkey: Antakya). It grows thinner going back: 12 of the 17 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on.

• October 16, 2024Earthquake · M 6.019 km W of Doğanyol, TurkeyUSGS · NOAA NCEI
• February 6, 2023Earthquake · M 7.5Elbistan earthquake, Kahramanmaras earthquake sequenceUSGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• December 26, 1939Earthquake · M 7.820 km NNE of Erzincan, Turkey · 32,700 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• 1158EarthquakeMalatya,Dimashq; Lebanon; Turkey: Antakya · 20,000 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI

• An event counts for Elazığ 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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