Earthquake — Azerbaijan: Gyzndzha

When

1139

Kind

Earthquake

Where

Azerbaijan

Coordinates

40.30° N, 46.30° E

Deaths

230000

Intensity mmi

11

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Natural disaster in Azerbaijan and Georgia

The 1139 Ganja earthquake was one of the worst seismic events in history. It affected the Seljuk Empire and the Kingdom of Georgia, in modern-day Azerbaijan and Georgia. The earthquake had an estimated magnitude of 7.0–7.3 Mw, 7.5 Ms, and 7.7 MLH. A disputed death toll of 230,000–300,000 resulted from this event, making it one of the deadliest earthquakes ever recorded.

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• NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes the Caucasus mountains in the Seljuk Empire, causing great devastation and killing 300,000 people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “землетрясение в Гяндже силой 11 баллов в Сельджукской империи (ныне территория Азербайджана) — 230 000 человек погибло”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Un terremoto de 7,3 golpea las montañas del Cáucaso en el Imperio selyúcida, causando una gran devastación y matando a 300.000 personas”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page