Earthquakes near Salihli, 1927–2026

The deadliest was not the strongest: a magnitude 7.2 on March 28, 1970 (22 km NE of Gediz, Turkey), for which NOAA records 1,086 deaths. 17 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 10 of the events here, 2,530 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 6.1 on August 10, 2025 (10 km WSW of Bigadiç, Turkey).

• August 10, 2025Earthquake · M 6.110 km WSW of Bigadiç, Turkey · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• March 28, 1970Earthquake · M 7.222 km NE of Gediz, Turkey · 1,086 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• March 18, 1953Earthquake · M 7.37 km N of Gönen, Turkey · 1,070 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
• July 23, 1949Earthquake · M 7.29 km NNW of Karaburun, Turkey · 7 deaths (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI

• An event counts for Salihli 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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