- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- July 3, 1778 CE
- Location:
- Turkey
- Magnitude:
- 6.4 Mw
- Depth:
- 0 km
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 6 separate scientific catalogs, each of which may give a different magnitude (the disagreement between catalogs is itself valuable for research):
- EMEC_2021: Mw 6.4
- NOAA_SIGEQ
- AHEAD: Mw 6.06
- AHEAD: Mw 6.07
- AHEAD: Mw 6.55
- AHEAD: Mw 6.57
Other earthquake records of 1778 CE
- Iran, Kashan · 30,000 deaths
- Italy · Mw 4.86
- Italy · Mw 4.63
- Romania · Mw 6.5
- Iran, Kashan
- Turkey
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 1778 Turkey earthquake (Mw 6.4) (1778 CE) happen?
- July 3, 1778 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.