- Type:
- Earthquake
- Date:
- March 13, 1992 CE
- Location:
- Turkey
- Magnitude:
- 6.68 Mw
- Depth:
- 28 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 6.68
- NOAA_SIGEQ: Ms 6.9
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.8
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.9
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.6
- EMEC_2021: Mw 4.8
Other earthquake records of 1992 CE
- Indonesia, Flores Region, Maumere, Babi · Mw 7.8 · 2,500 deaths
- Turkey, Erzincan · Ms 6.9 · 653 deaths
- Egypt, Cairo · Ms 5.3 · 545 deaths
- Nicaragua, Masachapa, Costa Rica · Mw 7.6 · 170 deaths
- Kyrgyzstan, Toluk · Ms 7.5 · 75 deaths
- Colombia, Murindo, Apartado, Medellin · Ms 7.4 · 11 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 1992 Turkey earthquake (Mw 6.7) (1992 CE) happen?
- March 13, 1992 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.