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M4.5 earthquake 8 km NE of Buldan, Turkey

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck 8 km NE of Buldan, Turkey on Sat, Jul 26, 2003, 4:00 AM GMT+3 (01:00 UTC), 10 km (6 mi) below the surface.

A larger quake followed: M5.4 8 km ESE of Buldan, Turkey. This one was a foreshock.

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The earthquake

Magnitude: 4.5 (mb, body-wave), light
Magnitude from: USGS National Earthquake Information Center
Local time: Sat, Jul 26, 2003, 4:00 AM GMT+3
UTC: 2003-07-26 01:00:57 UTC
Depth: 10.0 km (6.2 mi), shallow
Epicenter: 38.111° N, 28.887° E
Region: Turkey
Strongest shaking: V, moderate shaking
Tsunami flag: No
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

Deaths and damage

From NOAA NCEI’s Significant Earthquake Database (record 5709), matched to this event by time and place.

Injuries: Some (about 51 to 100)
Damage: Limited (under about $1 million)
Houses damaged: 48 with its tsunami and other effects

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.

NOAA’s full record of this earthquake

What happened

The USGS’s account of the effects of this earthquake.

Several people injured and at least 48 houses damaged at Buldan.

From the USGS event page for usp000c3c6. U.S. Geological Survey text and figures are in the public domain.

Shaking

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

Strongest estimated: V, moderate shaking
Peak ground acceleration: 11.7% of gravity
Peak ground velocity: 1.4 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.

Depth from: OPERATOR_ASSIGNED
Station coverage gap: 24°
Stations used: 245

Nearest places

Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.

Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 7 in the 60 days after this one and 2 in the 30 days before it.

After

Before

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Sources

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp000c3c6 (also filed as atlas20030726010057). Read Thu, Oct 1, 2026, 10:32 AM UTC.