August 21, 1859 Earthquake: Imbros (Imroz), Lemnos, Turkey

Ref #4408:

1859 Aug 21, 02h, 40.1 N 26 E, M=6.9. The shocks started before midnight on 20 to 21 of August, but on 21 in the morning at 4h reached their maximum and were repeated in the afternoon. It seems that there were no human victims but all villages of the island suffered much destructions. Many houses and churches collapsed. Waters in springs disappeared and new ones appeared. Fissures were observed in the ground from where mud smell of sulfur got out. The shock was preceded by a strong boom from NE. The earthquakes lasted for a long time and in January of 1860 had not yet stopped. During his visit to Troea in 1864, Schmidt found still damaged houses which were not restored. Re found minarets of which the cone shaped jags had collapsed houses in Lemnos and was felt with. different intensities in Athens, Zante, Callipole, Mytilene, Smyme, Adrianoupole, Bursa, Thessaloniki and Constantinople.

Ref #2130:

1859 Aug 21, 11:55h, 40 N 25.9 E, Ms 6.3

Ref #1071:

1859 Aug 21, 40.2 N 25.8 E, intensity IX

Ref #1198:

1859 Aug 21, 40 N 26 E, intensity IX

Ref #1099:

1859 Aug 21, 02h, or 11h 55m, 40.25 N 26 E, intensity VIII, M=6.1. A disastrous shock in the Eastern Sporades region, at Iskinit and Panayia all houses were ruined or cracked, in other villages of the island Imroz (Imbros) almost all houses were fissured (at Pyrgos walls fell down, rockslides in other parts, cracks in the ground, at Kastron some mills thrown down), felt at Enez (Enos), Edirne (Adrianople), Istanbul, Gelibolu (Gallipoli) VII, Dardanelles VII, Mitilini V, Aiwali V?, Izmir (Smyrna) IV, Bursa (Brousse), Buyukdere V?, Thessaloniki IV, Sofia, Plovdiv, Demotika (Dhidhimotikhon?), Limnos (two houses fell), Samothraki, Bozcada (Tenedos) (PAT).

Ref #9116:

There was an earthquake with an epicentre offshore of the Dardanelles. It was preceded by strong foreshocks, which were felt on Imroz the previous night at 10 h 15 m and continued with increasing violence, the largest foreshocks at 11 h 15 m and 11 h 20 m destroying a number of houses, free-standing walls, ovens and chimneys on the island. The main shock occurred at about 11 h 30 m and caused heavy damage in Imroz and probably also on the mainland in the region of Ciblak and Ezine. On Imroz, of the five villages on the island, those of Panaya and Iskinid were totally destroyed without casualties and the others, Ag. Thodoros, Pyrgos and Kastro, were heavily damaged; the windmills near the last place were not destroyed. No one was killed or injured, since the people, having been warned by the foreshocks, had abandoned their houses. [...]On the island of Lemnos the shock destroyed a number of house