January 14, 1668 Earthquake: Shemakha (Semacha), Azerbaijan

Reference #223 states that “data on earthquake of 14 January 1668 pertain apparently to 1667 or 1669. During year many strong aftershocks. Data in 1667-69 are possibly inaccurate.”

1668 January 14. […] places this event in 1668, a date accepted by Nikonov in his comprehensive review of the source materials for this earthquake, more specifically he estimates, on the 14th January (Nikonov, 1982). In his chronological table of events, he notes a number of aftershocks ranging from later in 1668, until early 1671. Specific impacts listed by Nikonov based on his assessment of all sources available to him include: destruction of the entire city, between 6,000–8,000 deceased, large numbers of collapsed individual buildings including the city walls and fortress, and landslides causing loss of life (Nikonov, 1982). Sources collated in this work detailing other settlements in the region mention impacts as far away as Baku (a collapsed wall of a palace), detection but no damage in Derbent, and the event was apparently not felt in the more distant heavily populated regions of Tbilisi or Yerevan. (reference #14165)

Note: it is possible, if not likely, that the impacts for this event are combined with event in NCEI/WDS database for 1667 November.