- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- July 16, 1946 CE
- Location:
- Turkey
- Magnitude:
- 5.4 Mw
- Depth:
- 40 km
Cross-catalog records
This event is recorded in 5 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
- NOAA_SIGEQ: M 5.6
- EMEC_2021: Mw 5.6
- USGS_COMCAT: Mw 5.78
- USGS_COMCAT: Mw 5.48
Other earthquake records of 1946 CE
- Dominican Republic, Northeastern Coast · Mw 7.9 · 1,790 deaths
- Japan, Honshu: S Coast · Mw 8.3 · 1,362 deaths
- Turkey, Ustukran · Mw 5.9 · 840 deaths
- Peru, Jocaibamba, Cerro Angaschaj, Cerro Sillapata · M 7.3 · 800 deaths
- Turkmenistan · M 7.5 · 400 deaths
- Algeria, Hodna Mountains · Ms 5.6 · 264 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 1946 Turkey earthquake (Mw 5.4) (1946 CE) happen?
- July 16, 1946 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.
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