What the records say
- When
- 3 Sep 1968
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 6.6
- Where
- Turkey
- Coordinates
- 41.80° N, 32.30° E
- Deaths
- 24
- Injuries
- 200
- Houses destroyed
- 2000
- Intensity mmi
- 8
- Depth km
- 38
2 sources record it
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Bartın earthquake affected the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing 24–29 deaths and 200 injuries”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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