Earthquake — Turkey: Bingol

When

22 May 1971

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

6.7

Where

Turkey

Coordinates

38.80° N, 40.50° E

Deaths

995

Injuries

9111

Damage musd

5

Intensity mmi

8

Depth km

3

Earthquake in Turkey

The 1971 Bingöl earthquake was a Mw 6.6–6.7 earthquake that occurred at 18:44:02 local time on 22 May. It had a surface-wave magnitude of 6.9 and a maximum intensity of IX (Violent) on the Mercalli intensity scale, killing 755–1,000 people. Bingöl was largely destroyed, as well as many houses in the nearby Bingöl plain.

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• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Turquía, un terremoto de 6,6 destruye la mayor parte de la ciudad de Burdur, dejando un saldo de 1000 muertos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page