Earthquakes near Erzurum through history

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 32,700 deaths for it. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 26 here, back to 1085. NOAA records deaths in 18 of the events here, 114,926 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.9 on June 14, 2020 (14 km E of Yedisu, Turkey). NOAA’s record here begins on April 29, 1085 with an earthquake (Erzurum). It grows thinner going back: 18 of the 26 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on.

• June 14, 2020Earthquake · M 5.914 km E of Yedisu, Turkey · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• December 26, 1939Earthquake · M 7.820 km NNE of Erzincan, Turkey · 32,700 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• 1482Earthquake · M 7.5 (est.)Erzincan,Erzurum · 30,000 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
• April 29, 1085EarthquakeErzurumNOAA NCEI

• An event counts for Erzurum 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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