January 19, 1909 Earthquake: Foca,menemen,guzelhisar, Turkey

Date

January 19, 1909

Time

04:56:00 UTC

Place

Foca,menemen,guzelhisar, Turkey

Magnitude

5.8

Intensity

9 on the Modified Mercalli scale

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

38.600° N, 26.900° E

Country

Turkey

Deaths

8

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.

• July 10, 1668, TurkeyM6.6 · 17,500 deaths · 28 km
• July 10, 1688, Izmir, TurkeyM7 · 16,000 deaths · 22 km
• October 15, 1883, Ayvalik, Izmir, Cesme, TurkeyM7.3 · 15,000 deaths · 3,600 houses destroyed · 69 km
• April 3, 1881, Cesme, Khios, Turkey, GreeceM7.3 · 7,866 deaths · 69 km
• October 1491, Kos, Greece5,000 deaths · 189 km
• February 23, 1653, Izmir,alasehir,denizli,aydin, TurkeyM7.5 · 2,500 deaths · 122 km
• 688, Izmir, Turkey2,000 deaths · 34 km
• September 20, 1899, Sultanhisar,atca,nazilli,kuyucak,denizli, TurkeyM6.7 · 1,117 deaths · 7,126 houses destroyed · 185 km
• March 18, 1953, Yenice, Onon, TurkeyM7.3 · 1,070 deaths · $3.6 million · 187 km
• March 7, 1867, Izmir, Mitilini, Turkey, GreeceM7 · 563 deaths · 5,915 houses destroyed · 80 km
• August 6, 1384, Lesbos, Greece500 deaths · 94 km
• March 31, 1928, Tepekoy, Torbali, TurkeyM6.5 · 170 deaths · 2,600 houses destroyed · 71 km
• October 30, 2020, Izmir, Samos, Turkey, GreeceM7 · 118 deaths · $400 million · 79 km
• March 28, 1969, Alasehir, Sarigol, Kiraz, TurkeyM6.5 · 53 deaths · 130 km
• September 21, 1939, TurkeyM6.5 · 41 deaths · 56 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 2849.