December 5, 1943 Earthquake: NE, Anatolia, Turkey

Date

December 5, 1943

Place

NE, Anatolia, Turkey

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

40.000° N, 40.000° E

Country

Turkey

Deaths

550

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.

• December 26, 1939, Erzincan, TurkeyM7.8 · 32,700 deaths · $20 million · 120,000 houses destroyed · 37 km
• 1458, Erzincan,erzurum, Turkey32,000 deaths · 36 km
• 1482, Erzincan,erzurum, TurkeyM7.5 · 30,000 deaths · 36 km
• 1268, Erzincan, Turkey15,000 deaths · 51 km
• June 2, 1859, Erzurum, TurkeyM6.1 · 15,000 deaths · 111 km
• July 23, 1784, Erzurum,erzincan, Turkey5,000 deaths · 54 km
• August 19, 1966, Varto, TurkeyM6.8 · 2,394 deaths · $20 million · 159 km
• September 6, 1975, Lice, TurkeyM6.7 · 2,311 deaths · 181 km
• October 30, 1983, Erzurum, Kars, Khorasan, Pasinler, Narman, TurkeyM6.9 · 1,342 deaths · $25 million · 189 km
• May 22, 1971, Bingol, TurkeyM6.7 · 995 deaths · $5 million · 140 km
• May 31, 1946, Ustukran, TurkeyM5.9 · 840 deaths · 146 km
• March 13, 1992, Erzincan, TurkeyM6.9 · 653 deaths · $750 million · 47 km
• August 17, 1949, Karliova, TurkeyM6.8 · 320 deaths · 80 km
• May 1, 2003, Bingol, TurkeyM6.4 · 177 deaths · 718 houses destroyed · 117 km
• January 3, 1952, Pasinler (Hasankale), Erzurum, TurkeyM5.7 · 103 deaths · 132 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 3769.