Earthquake — Turkey: Kahramanmaras; Syria

When

6 Feb 2023

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

7.8

Where

Turkey

Coordinates

37.17° N, 37.04° E

Deaths

56697

Injuries

119200

Damage musd

42900

Houses destroyed

542461

Intensity mmi

9

Depth km

17

Major earthquakes in the Turkey–Syria border region

On 6 February 2023, two earthquakes devastated southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria. The first earthquake occurred at 04:17:35 TRT (01:17:35 UTC), measuring moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.8. The epicenter was 37 km (23 mi) west–northwest of Gaziantep. This strike-slip shock achieved a Mercalli intensity of XII (Extreme) around the epicenter and in Antakya.

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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 “A 7.8 earthquake strikes southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria followed by a 7.7 aftershock on the same day”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “2023 Kahramanmaraş depremleri: TSİ 04.17'de 7.8 Mw büyüklüğünde Kahramanmaraş'ın Pazarcık ilçesinde, ardından TSİ 13.24'te”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Durch zwei schwere Erdbeben insbesondere in den türkischen Provinzen Kahramanmaraş und Gaziantep sowie im Norden Syriens stürzen zehntausende Gebäude ein”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “des séismes en Turquie et en Syrie, de magnitude 7,5, causent la mort de plus de”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Мощное землетрясение в Турции, Сирии, Ливане, сильные и слабые землетрясения в других странах в разных частях света”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Un gran y devastador terremoto de 7,8 en la escala de Richter sacude el sureste de Turquía y el norte de Siria”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “مقتل أكثر من 50000 شخص وإصابة أكثر من 24700، إثر وقوع زلزالين بلغت قوة أكبرهما 7.8 درجة بمقياس ريختر في جنوب تركيا وامتد أثرهما إلى سوريا”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Persian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “۶ فوریه زلزله با قدرت ۷٫۸ ریشتر سوریه و ترکیه لرزاند و ۵۹۲۵۹ نفر کُشته و ۱۲۱۷۰۴ نفر مجروح و ۲۹۷ نفر مفقود شدند”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “當地時間凌晨4時17分，土耳其加济安泰普省发生規模7.8地震，震源深度20公里，土耳其7省和敘利亞政府控制地區共造成175人死亡、774人受傷。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “2月にトルコ・シリアでＭ７．８の地震が発生（トルコ・シリア地震）”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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