- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- July 26, 1840 CE
- Location:
- Turkey
- Magnitude:
- 5.15 Mw
- Depth:
- 14 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 5.15
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Ms 6.7
- EMEC_2021: Mw 6.7
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.96
- EMEC_2021: Mw 5.02
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.96
Other earthquake records of 1840 CE
- Turkey, Mt Ararat, Aguri, Aralikh, Iran: Maku · Ms 6.7 · 1,049 deaths
- Philippines, Sorsogon, Masbate Is, Casiguran, Albay · Ms 6.5 · 52 deaths
- Fiji, Kadavu · 40 deaths
- Greece, Zakinthos (Zante) · 12 deaths
- Pennsylvania, Philadelphia · ML 5.2
- Balkans Nw, Slovenia: Ljubljana · M 4.9
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 1840 Turkey earthquake (Mw 5.2) (1840 CE) happen?
- July 26, 1840 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.