Earthquake
Open on the mapA 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes the city of Balıkesir in the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey) and kills around 500 people
29 Jan 1898 · 39.40° N, 27.53° E
What the records say
- When
- 29 Jan 1898
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Coordinates
- 39.40° N, 27.53° E
- Description
- A 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes the city of Balıkesir in the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey) and kills around 500 people.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 1898 Balıkesir earthquake.
2 sources record it
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Osmanlı Devleti'nin Balıkesir kentinde deprem yaşandı”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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