1766 Büyük İstanbul Depremi

When

22 May 1766

Kind

Earthquake

Coordinates

40.80° N, 29.00° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 1766 İstanbul depremi.

Earthquake in Turkey

The 1766 Istanbul earthquake was a strong earthquake with epicenter in the eastern part of the Sea of Marmara, in the Çınarcık Basin which occurred in the early hours of Thursday morning, 22 May 1766. The earthquake had an estimated magnitude of 7.1 on the surface-wave magnitude scale, and caused effects in a vast area extending from Izmit to Rodosto.

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• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Durch ein schweres Erdbeben und den dadurch ausgelösten Tsunami in den frühen Morgenstunden kommen in Istanbul rund 4000 Menschen ums Leben”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Estambul (Turquía), un fuerte terremoto de 7,1 y un tsunami dejan un saldo de 4.000 muertos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page