Turkey earthquakes

M5.1 earthquake 25 km NE of Datça, Turkey

A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck 25 km NE of Datça, Turkey on Tue, Jan 11, 2005, 6:36 AM GMT+2 (04:36 UTC), 35 km (22 mi) below the surface.

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The earthquake

Magnitude: 5.1 (Mwc, centroid moment), moderate
Magnitude from: USGS National Earthquake Information Center
Local time: Tue, Jan 11, 2005, 6:36 AM GMT+2
UTC: 2005-01-11 04:36:00 UTC
Depth: 34.9 km (21.7 mi), shallow
Epicenter: 36.917° N, 27.867° E
Region: Turkey
Felt reports: 2
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
5.1	Mwc, centroid moment	USGS National Earthquake Information Center	Preferred · Reviewed
5.03	Mw, moment	ISC-GEM global catalog	Final · ±0.1
5.0	Mwc, centroid moment	Global CMT project	Preliminary

What happened

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

no people dead or missing; no people injured; no buildings damaged or destroyed

From the USGS event page for usp000dd1a. U.S. Geological Survey text and figures are in the public domain.

Did you feel it?

2 people reported to the USGS what they felt; the strongest reported shaking was III, weak shaking.

Fault motion and ground failure

How the rock slipped, from the moment tensor, and the USGS estimate of landslides and liquefaction.

Faulting: Normal
Nodal plane 1: Strike 100°, dip 33°, rake -69°
Nodal plane 2: Strike 255°, dip 60°, rake -103°

How well it is located

Reviewed by a seismologist.

Station coverage gap: 25°
Stations used: 467

Nearest places

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

Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 2.1 and up: 79 in the 60 days after this one and 41 in the 30 days before it.

After

The first 60 of 79.

Before

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Sources

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp000dd1a (also filed as us2005tdai, gcmtc200501110436a, gcmt20050111043601, iscgem7460648). Read Thu, Oct 1, 2026, 7:13 AM UTC.