What the records say
- When
- 15 Oct 1883
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.3
- Where
- Turkey
- Coordinates
- 38.30° N, 26.20° E
- Deaths
- 15000
- Houses destroyed
- 3600
- Intensity mmi
- 10
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
2 sources record it
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- EPICA v1.1, European preinstrumental earthquakes 1000–1899 (Rovida & Antonucci 2021)INGV · names it “Earthquake — Cesme”Creative Commons Attribution 4.0Source page
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