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Historic Earthquake
1916 Turkey Earthquake
24 January 1916 · Turkey
On 24 January 1916 at 06:55 UTC, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Turkey, at a depth of 15 km. It occurred on the Anatolian Plate, 49 km from its boundary with the Eurasian Plate (continental transform fault).
- Date
- 24 January 1916
- Time
- 06:55 UTC
- Magnitude
- 7.0
- Depth
- 15 km
- Maximum Intensity
- IX (Mercalli)
- Plate
- Anatolian Plate
- Country
- Turkey
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Other major earthquakes recorded within 300 km.
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Sources: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Significant Earthquake Database (doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K) · Wikidata · Bird (2003), PB2002 · Natural Earth