Earthquake — Turkey: Istanbul

When

10 Sep 1509

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

7.7

Where

Turkey

Coordinates

40.80° N, 28.10° E

Deaths

5000

Injuries

10000

Houses destroyed

1700

Intensity mmi

10

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Earthquake in the Sea of Marmara

The 1509 Constantinople earthquake, or historically Kıyamet-i Suğra, occurred in the Sea of Marmara on 10 September 1509 at about 22:00. The earthquake had an estimated magnitude of 7.2 ± 0.3 on the surface-wave magnitude scale. A tsunami and 45 days of aftershocks followed the earthquake. The exact death toll of this earthquake is unknown; estimates range between 1,000 and 13,000.

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• 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 — Istanbul”Creative Commons Attribution 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Constantinople earthquake destroys 109 mosques and kills an estimated 10,000 people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “"Küçük Kıyamet" olarak da adlandırılan 1509 Büyük İstanbul Depremi gerçekleşti”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “sobre la costa del Mar de Mármara, cerca de Estambul (Turquía) se registra un terremoto de 7,2 y un tsunami, que dejan unas 13.000 víctimas fatales”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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