Earthquake — Turkey: Gediz

When

28 Mar 1970

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

7.2

Where

Turkey

Coordinates

39.10° N, 29.57° E

Deaths

1086

Injuries

1174

Damage musd

55.6

Houses destroyed

8229

Intensity mmi

10

Depth km

25

7.2 magnitude earthquake in western Turkey

The 1970 Gediz earthquake, also known as the 1970 Kütahya-Gediz earthquake struck western Turkey on 28 March at about 23:02 local time with an estimated magnitude of 7.2 on the Mw scale.

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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 “Gediz earthquake”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Erdbeben von Gediz, West-Türkei, etwa 1.100 Tote”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Turquía, un terremoto de 7,2 deja un saldo de más de 1000 muertos y 1200 heridos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page