- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- October 18, 1343 CE
- Location:
- Turkey
- Magnitude:
- 7.06 Mw
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 4 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):
- EMEC_2021: Mw 7.06
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Ms 7.5
- EMEC_2021: Mw 6.96
- AHEAD: Mw 6.62
Other earthquake records of 1343 CE
- Balkans Nw, Croatia
- China, Hunan Province: Nan Pi Tsin Nan
- Turkey, Istanbul (Constantinople) · Ms 7.5
- SE Mediterranean area · Mw 6.52
- Croatia · Mw 6.48
- Turkey · Mw 6.96
Source: Lammers, S., Weatherill, G., Grünthal, G. & Cotton, F. (2023): EMEC-2021 — The European-Mediterranean Earthquake Catalogue, Version 2021. GFZ, doi:10.5880/GFZ.EMEC.2021.001 · License: CC BY 4.0 · institutional record ↗
Frequently asked questions
- When did 1343 Turkey earthquake (Mw 7.1) (1343 CE) happen?
- October 18, 1343 CE.
- Where does this information come from?
- This record comes from Lammers, S., Weatherill, G., Grünthal, G. & Cotton, F. (2023): EMEC-2021 — The European-Mediterranean Earthquake Catalogue, Version 2021. GFZ, doi:10.5880/GFZ.EMEC.2021.001; it was not hand-authored and is stored together with its source.