Manisa

Earthquakes near Manisa through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 13 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Manisa, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. 5 of them reached magnitude 7 or more; the strongest on either list was a magnitude 7.5, three times, most recently on December 1, 1869 (Gulf Of Keramos, Mentese).

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The last 30 days · as of

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

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What the record holds

The deadliest was not the strongest: an estimated magnitude 6.6 on July 10, 1668, for which NOAA records 17,500 deaths. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 41 here, back to AD 11. NOAA records deaths in 24 of the events here, 64,040 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 6.1 on August 10, 2025 (10 km WSW of Bigadiç, Turkey). NOAA’s record here begins in AD 11 with an earthquake. It grows thinner going back: 16 of the 41 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on. NOAA lists 10 tsunamis that began within 100 km of Manisa. The highest water NOAA records here was 5.3 m, on October 30, 2020.

The events

  • August 10, 2025Earthquake · M 6.110 km WSW of Bigadiç, Turkey · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • October 30, 2020Tsunami · 5.3 m hereAegean SeaNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • December 1, 1869Earthquake · M 7.5 (est.)Gulf Of Keramos, Mentese · 3 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
  • July 12, 1688Earthquake · M 7.5 (est.)Aegean SeaNOAA NCEI
  • July 10, 1668Earthquake · M 6.6 (est.)17,500 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI
  • February 23, 1653Earthquake · M 7.5 (est.)Izmir,Alasehir,Denizli,Aydin · 2,500 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • AD 11EarthquakeNOAA NCEI

Good to know

  • An event counts for Manisa 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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