Turkey earthquakes

M7.3 earthquake 47 km S of Do?ubayaz?t, Turkey

A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck 47 km S of Do?ubayaz?t, Turkey on Wed, Nov 24, 1976, 3:52 PM GMT+3:30 (12:22 UTC), 36 km (22 mi) below the surface.

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The earthquake

Magnitude: 7.3 (Ms, surface-wave), major
Magnitude from: USGS National Earthquake Information Center
Local time: Wed, Nov 24, 1976, 3:52 PM GMT+3:30
UTC: 1976-11-24 12:22:18 UTC
Depth: 36.0 km (22.4 mi), shallow
Epicenter: 39.121° N, 44.029° E
Region: Turkey
Strongest shaking: IX, violent shaking
Tsunami flag: No
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

Magnitude estimates

Different scales measure different things and differ by a few tenths. The USGS marks one as preferred, and it is the one this page uses.

Mag.	Scale	Computed by	Notes
7.3	Ms, surface-wave	USGS National Earthquake Information Center	Preferred · Reviewed
7.01	Mw, moment	ISC-GEM global catalog	Final · ±0.1
7.0	Mwc, centroid moment	Global CMT project	Preliminary

Deaths and damage

From NOAA NCEI’s Significant Earthquake Database (record 4752), matched to this event by time and place.

Deaths: 5,000
Injuries: Many (about 101 to 1,000)
Damage: $60 million

Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.

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From Wikipedia

The 1976 Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake occurred at 14:22 local time (12:22 UTC) on 24 November. The epicenter was located near Çaldıran, 20 km northeast of Muradiye, in the Van Province of eastern Turkey. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.3 with a maximum intensity of X (Extreme) on the Mercalli intensity scale. The area of severe damage, where over 80% of the buildings were destroyed, covered an area of 2,000 square kilometres. There were between 4,000 and 5,000 casualties.

Text from Wikipedia, “1976 Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted as written; the full article has the rest.

The article is about the earthquake NOAA’s record describes, matched to this one by date, place and magnitude.

Wikidata records: 5,000 deaths. These are counts entered by Wikidata’s editors; they may differ from the official count, and this page never adds them to another figure. Q128869, CC0.

Shaking

The USGS ShakeMap: shaking estimated from seismic stations and the quake’s size, on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale.

Strongest estimated: IX, violent shaking
Peak ground acceleration: 89.3% of gravity
Peak ground velocity: 4.3 cm/s
Map: Automatic

USGS ShakeMap: estimated shaking intensity around the epicenter — Estimated shaking intensity. Map: USGS ShakeMap.

Did you feel it?

No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.

How well it is located

Reviewed by a seismologist.

Stations used: 25

Nearest places

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Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 4.3 and up: 22 in the 60 days after this one and 0 in the 30 days before it.

After

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Sources

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp0000kf0 (also filed as gcmtc112476a, gcmt19761124122218, atlas19761124122218, iscgem706299). Read Fri, Oct 2, 2026, 12:10 AM UTC.