What the records say
- When
- 20 Sep 1899
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 6.7
- Where
- Turkey
- Coordinates
- 37.93° N, 28.84° E
- Deaths
- 1117
- Houses destroyed
- 7126
- Intensity mmi
- 9
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1899 Aydın–Denizli earthquake
Earthquake in Turkey
The 1899 Aydın–Denizli earthquake which struck present-day Turkey on September 20 resulted in between 1,117 and 1,470 fatalities. Heavy damage was reported in the provinces of Aydın and Denizli. The shallow normal-faulting earthquake had a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Estimates of the seismic magnitude range from 6.5 to 7.1 Mw.
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2 sources record it
- 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 — Nazilli”Creative Commons Attribution 4.0Source page
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