109 Earthquake: Galatia, Turkey

Name: 109 Earthquake: Galatia, Turkey
Location: Galatia, Turkey

109

An earthquake struck Galatia, Turkey in 109.

Map

Where it struck, with the other significant earthquakes within 200 km. Circles are sized and colored by magnitude; select one for its page.

The earthquake

Date: 109
Place: Galatia, Turkey
Tsunami: None recorded
Epicenter: 40.000° N, 34.000° E
Country: Turkey

The toll

Damage: Severe (about $5 to $25 million)
Houses destroyed: Many (101 to 1,000)

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.

What the record says

NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.

109 or 110. Asia Minor, Galatia. Intensity III which corresponds to an earthquake which destroyed towns and devastated districts. (r(reference #1055)

109 or 110. Galatia. Three cities destroyed. (reference #521)

110. 36 N, 25 E, intensity VII. (reference #1149)

109-111. Galatia. Three cities in Galatia, central Anatolia, were destroyed by an earthquake. The sources do not give the names of the cities. Eusebius, in both the Greek version and the Armenian version, writes that during the 222nd Olympiad, in the twelfth year of Trajan's reign (AD 109-110) 'three Galatian cities were destroyed by an earthquake'. Saint Jerome also gives O1.222, but Trajan's thirteenth year (AD 110-111). Later chroniclers tend to copy their records of this event from Eusebius and St Jerome and consequently add no further details. (reference #9116)

Other significant earthquakes nearby

Within 200 km, the deadliest first.

Significant earthquakes of 109 The 100s Recent earthquakes near here

Sources

Significant earthquakes from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. NCEI earthquake 9970.