1115 Earthquake: Harran,kufa,samsat,el-Sun, Turkey

Date

1115

Place

Harran,kufa,samsat,el-Sun, Turkey

Intensity

10 on the Modified Mercalli scale

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

36.800° N, 39.000° E

Country

Turkey

Damage

Severe (about $5 to $25 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.

• November 29, 533, Aleppo, Syria130,000 deaths · 174 km
• 1169, Halab (Aleppo),dimashq (Damascus), Syria80,000 deaths · 174 km
• February 6, 2023, Kahramanmaras, Syria, TurkeyM7.8 · 56,697 deaths · $43 billion · 542,461 houses destroyed · 179 km
• 1158, Antakya, Malatya,dimashq, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria20,000 deaths · 187 km
• January 3, 1344, Membij, Aleppo, Dimashq (Damascus), Syria5,700 deaths · 98 km
• October 26, 1156, Halab (Aleppo), Malatich, Syria2,000 deaths · 174 km
• October 11, 1138, Aleppo, Harim, Zaranda, Athareb, Shih, Syria600 deaths · 184 km
• March 31, 1893, Malatya, TurkeyM6.7 · 400 deaths · 178 km
• November 27, 1934, Diyarbakir (Mouche Diarbekir), Kurdistan, Turkey100 deaths · 164 km
• January 24, 2020, Elazig and Malatya Provinces, TurkeyM6.7 · 41 deaths · 76 houses destroyed · 181 km
• December 15, 1934, Diyarbakir (Diarbekir), Kurdistan, Turkey20 deaths · 164 km
• May 5, 1986, Dogansehir-Golbashi, Kapidere, TurkeyM5.9 · 15 deaths · $5 million · 4,000 houses destroyed · 169 km
• June 14, 1964, Malatya,adiyaman, TurkeyM6.1 · 8 deaths · 157 km
• February 27, 2023, NW, Malatya, Syria, TurkeyM5.2 · 2 deaths · 31 houses destroyed · 171 km
• August 11, 2004, Elazig, Sivrice, TurkeyM5.7 · 1 death · 177 km

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