May 7, 1940 Earthquake: Turkey-Cis

Date

May 7, 1940

Time

22:23:00 UTC

Place

Turkey-Cis

Magnitude

6

Focal depth

19 km (12 mi)

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

41.700° N, 43.800° E

Country

Turkey

Deaths

16

Damage

Moderate (about $1 to $5 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 · 86 km
• June 4, 1679, Dvina, Turkey, ArmeniaM5.9 · 7,600 deaths · 193 km
• May 28, 1903, Varginis,cardahli,mehkerek, TurkeyM5.8 · 1,000 deaths · 128 km
• May 1, 1935, Kigi, TurkeyM6.1 · 540 deaths · 130 km
• October 22, 1926, Turkey, ArmeniaM5.9 · 400 deaths · 84 km
• April 29, 1991, Dzhava, Chiatura, Ambrolauri, GeorgiaM7 · 270 deaths · $1.7 billion · 84 km
• December 31, 1899, TurkeyM5.6 · 247 deaths · 27 km
• January 9, 1925, Ardahan, TurkeyM5.8 · 200 deaths · 100 km
• July 12, 1900, Kars,karakurt,kagizman,digor, TurkeyM5.9 · 140 deaths · 1,100 houses destroyed · 166 km
• June 15, 1991, Dzhava, Tskhinvali, Ossetia, GeorgiaM6.1 · 8 deaths · 86 km
• April 25, 2002, Tbilisi, GeorgiaM4.3 · 5 deaths · 97 km
• April 29, 1976, TurkeyM5.5 · 4 deaths · 120 km
• September 18, 1984, E, Erzurum, Olur-Senkaya, TurkeyM6.4 · 3 deaths · 75,000 houses destroyed · 160 km
• October 18, 1984, E, Senkaya, TurkeyM5.3 · 3 deaths · 75,000 houses destroyed · 174 km
• May 13, 1986, Akhalkalaki, Susuz, GeorgiaM5.7 · 2 deaths · 1,500 houses destroyed · 30 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 3660.