Kırşehir

Earthquakes near Kırşehir through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 4 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Kırşehir, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. The strongest was a magnitude 7.6 on February 1, 1944 (10 km WNW of Orta, Turkey).

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The last 30 days · as of

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

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: an earthquake in 1269 (Cicilia, Ceyhan (Seyhan)), for which NOAA records 8,000 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 13 here, back to AD 109. NOAA records deaths in 6 of the events here, 19,179 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.6 on December 26, 2007 (Central: Ankara). NOAA’s record here begins in AD 109 with an earthquake (Galatia). It grows thinner going back: 7 of the 13 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on. NOAA lists 5 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Kırşehir.

The events

  • December 26, 2007Earthquake · M 5.6Central: AnkaraNOAA NCEI
  • February 1, 1944Earthquake · M 7.610 km WNW of Orta, Turkey · 2,381 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • November 26, 1943Earthquake · M 7.56 km SSE of Ilgaz, Turkey · 4,020 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • 1269EarthquakeCicilia, Ceyhan (Seyhan) · 8,000 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
  • March 12, 1036TsunamiLevantian SeaNOAA NCEI
  • AD 109EarthquakeGalatiaNOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Kırşehir 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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