Earthquake — Turkey: Erzincan

When

26 Dec 1939

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

7.8

Where

Turkey

Coordinates

39.91° N, 39.59° E

Deaths

32700

Injuries

100000

Damage musd

20

Houses destroyed

120000

Intensity mmi

12

Depth km

20

Earthquake in Turkey

An earthquake struck Turkey's eastern Erzincan Province at 1:57:23 a.m. on 27 December 1939 local time with a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.8 and maximum Mercalli intensity of XII (Extreme). It is tied with the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes as the most powerful earthquake in Turkey to be recorded by instruments. However, it was less powerful than estimates of the 1668 North Anatolia earthquake.

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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 “The 7.8 Erzincan earthquake shakes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XII (Extreme), causing $20 million in damage”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Ein Erdbeben der Stärke 7,8 in Erzincan in der Türkei kostet 32.958 Menschenleben, rund 100.000 Menschen werden verletzt”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “le tremblement de terre d’Erzincan de magnitude MS estimé à 8.0 fait plus de victimes à Erzincan et sa région dans l’est de la Turquie”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Turquía, un terremoto de 7,8 destruye la ciudad de Erzincan (en Anatolia oriental), y deja un saldo de 32.968 víctimas”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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