- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- February 1, 1944 CE
- Location:
- Turkey
- Magnitude:
- 5.4 Mw
- Depth:
- 10 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 5.4
- EMEC_2021: Mw 5.4
- EMEC_2021: Mw 5.6
- USGS_COMCAT: Mw 5.71
- USGS_COMCAT: Mw 5.67
- USGS_COMCAT: Mw 5.65
Other earthquake records of 1944 CE
- Argentina, San Juan Province · Mw 6.9 · 10,000 deaths
- Turkey · Mw 7.6 · 2,381 deaths
- Japan, Off Southeast Coast Kii Peninsula · Mw 8.1 · 1,223 deaths
- Turkey, Ayvalik · Mw 6.7 · 30 deaths
- Turkey, Usak · M 6 · 21 deaths
- Iran, Gorgan · Ms 5.2 · 20 deaths
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 1944 Turkey earthquake (Mw 5.4) (1944 CE) happen?
- February 1, 1944 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.