- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- December 3, 1926 CE
- Location:
- Turkey
- Magnitude:
- 4.44 Mw
- Depth:
- 8 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 4.44
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Mw 5.9
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.5
- EMEC_2021: Mw 5.1
- EMEC_2021: Mw 5.5
- EMEC_2021: Mw 5.61
Other earthquake records of 1926 CE
- Turkey, Armenia · Mw 5.9 · 400 deaths
- Azores, Fayal Island · Mw 5.8 · 9 deaths
- Greece, Rhodes Island, Lower Egypt · Mw 7
- Italy, N
- Japan, Ryukyu Islands · M 7.5
- Indonesia, Sumatera · Mw 6.6
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 1926 Turkey earthquake (Mw 4.4) (1926 CE) happen?
- December 3, 1926 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.