October 22, 1952 Earthquake: Ceyhan,misis, Turkey

Date

October 22, 1952

Time

17:00 UTC

Place

Ceyhan,misis, Turkey

Magnitude

5

Intensity

7 on the Modified Mercalli scale

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

36.500° N, 35.500° E

Country

Turkey

Deaths

20

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 13, 115, Antakya (Antioch), TurkeyM7.5 · 260,000 deaths · 70 km
• May 29, 525, Antakya (Antioch), Samandag, TurkeyM7 · 250,000 deaths · 60 km
• November 29, 533, Aleppo, Syria130,000 deaths · 156 km
• September 458, Antakya (Antioch), Turkey80,000 deaths · 63 km
• 1169, Halab (Aleppo),dimashq (Damascus), Syria80,000 deaths · 156 km
• February 13, 1157, Halab (Aleppo), Syria80,000 deaths · 172 km
• September 30, 587, Antakya (Antioch), Turkey60,000 deaths · 60 km
• February 6, 2023, Kahramanmaras, Syria, TurkeyM7.8 · 56,697 deaths · $43 billion · 542,461 houses destroyed · 156 km
• 341, Antakya (Antioch), Cyprus (Salamis), Turkey40,000 deaths · 63 km
• 565, Antakya (Antioch), Turkey30,000 deaths · 63 km
• August 13, 1822, Halab,dimashq (Damascus),, Antakya, Syria, Turkey20,000 deaths · 71 km
• November 29, 528, Antakya (Antioch), TurkeyM7.1 · 4,870 deaths · 60 km
• October 26, 1156, Halab (Aleppo), Malatich, Syria2,000 deaths · 156 km
• April 3, 1872, Antakya (Antioch), Suedije, TurkeyM7.3 · 1,800 deaths · 71 km
• February 26, 1796, Al-Ladhiqiyah (Latakia), Syria1,500 deaths · 147 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 4005.