April 14, 1275 Earthquake: Georgia

Date

April 14, 1275

Place

Georgia

Magnitude

6.7

Focal depth

28 km (17 mi)

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

42.100° N, 44.200° E

Country

Georgia

Deaths

Many (about 101 to 1,000)

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.

• December 7, 1988, Leninakan, Spitak, Kirovakan, ArmeniaM6.8 · 25,000 deaths · $16 billion · 124 km
• May 28, 1903, Varginis,cardahli,mehkerek, TurkeyM5.8 · 1,000 deaths · 183 km
• May 1, 1935, Kigi, TurkeyM6.1 · 540 deaths · 183 km
• October 22, 1926, Turkey, ArmeniaM5.9 · 400 deaths · 134 km
• April 29, 1991, Dzhava, Chiatura, Ambrolauri, GeorgiaM7 · 270 deaths · $1.7 billion · 58 km
• December 31, 1899, TurkeyM5.6 · 247 deaths · 80 km
• January 9, 1925, Ardahan, TurkeyM5.8 · 200 deaths · 153 km
• May 7, 1940, Turkey-CisM6 · 16 deaths · 55 km
• June 15, 1991, Dzhava, Tskhinvali, Ossetia, GeorgiaM6.1 · 8 deaths · 43 km
• April 25, 2002, Tbilisi, GeorgiaM4.3 · 5 deaths · 73 km
• April 29, 1976, TurkeyM5.5 · 4 deaths · 175 km
• May 13, 1986, Akhalkalaki, Susuz, GeorgiaM5.7 · 2 deaths · 1,500 houses destroyed · 84 km
• March 25, 1976, TurkeyM4.8 · 2 deaths · 146 km
• August 3, 1989, Groznyy, Buynaksk, RussiaM5 · 1 death · 184 km
• February 20, 1920, Gori, Tiflis, Caucasus, GeorgiaM6.2 · Deaths: many · 14 km

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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 472.