April 9, 1407 Earthquake: Antakya (Antioch), Turkey
An earthquake struck Antakya (Antioch), Turkey on April 9, 1407.
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
- April 9, 1407
- Place
- Antakya (Antioch), Turkey
- Tsunami
- None recorded
- Epicenter
- 36.000° N, 36.000° E
- Country
- Turkey
- Region
- Middle East
The toll
- Deaths
- Many (about 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.
Sources NCEI cites
The publications NCEI lists for this record. The numbers match the “reference #” notes in its account above.
- #1098 Ambraseys, N.N. (1961). On the seismicity of South-west Asia; Data from a XV Century Arabic Manuscript. Revue por l'Etude des Calamities, no. 37, Union Internacionale de Secures, Geneva, Switzerland, p. 18-30.
Other significant earthquakes nearby
Within 200 km, the deadliest first.
- December 13, 115, Antakya (Antioch), Turkey
- May 29, 525, Antakya (Antioch), Samandag, Turkey
- November 29, 533, Aleppo, Syria
- September 458, Antakya (Antioch), Turkey
- February 13, 1157, Halab (Aleppo), Syria
- 1169, Halab (Aleppo),dimashq (Damascus), Syria
- September 30, 587, Antakya (Antioch), Turkey
- February 6, 2023, Kahramanmaras, Syria, Turkey
- 341, Antakya (Antioch), Cyprus (Salamis), Turkey
- 565, Antakya (Antioch), Turkey
- August 13, 1822, Halab,dimashq (Damascus),, Antakya, Syria, Turkey
- 1183, Tripoli, Antakya, Lebanon, Dimashq, Turkey, Syria
- January 3, 1344, Membij, Aleppo, Dimashq (Damascus), Syria
- November 29, 528, Antakya (Antioch), Turkey
- October 26, 1156, Halab (Aleppo), Malatich, Syria
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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 2026-10-01. NCEI earthquake 584.