April 24, 1957 Earthquake: Turkey

Date

April 24, 1957

Time

19:10:12 UTC

Place

Turkey

Magnitude

6.9

Focal depth

40 km (25 mi)

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

36.310° N, 28.620° E

Country

Turkey

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.

• October 1491, Kos, Greece5,000 deaths · 159 km
• September 20, 1899, Sultanhisar,atca,nazilli,kuyucak,denizli, TurkeyM6.7 · 1,117 deaths · 7,126 houses destroyed · 181 km
• April 22, 1863, Rhodes, Kos, GreeceM7.8 · 300 deaths · 2,050 houses destroyed · 59 km
• April 23, 1933, Dodecanese Islands, GreeceM6.4 · 181 deaths · 128 km
• May 12, 1971, Burdur, TurkeyM5.9 · 56 deaths · 178 km
• July 16, 1955, Samos, Soke, Aydin, Greece, TurkeyM6.6 · 23 deaths · 188 km
• April 25, 1957, Fethiye (Lycia, Asia Minor), TurkeyM7.3 · 18 deaths · 3,000 houses destroyed · 13 km
• December 21, 1945, Denizli, Burdur, Turkey7 deaths · 190 km
• August 19, 1976, Denizli, TurkeyM4.9 · 4 deaths · 156 km
• December 1, 1869, Gulf of Keramos, Mentese, TurkeyM7.5 · 3 deaths · 95 km
• July 20, 2017, Kos, Bodrum, Datca, Greece, TurkeyM6.6 · 2 deaths · 128 km
• June 2, 2025, Fethiye, TurkeyM5.8 · 1 death · 60 km
• April 3, 1851, Levisi, Turkey12 km
• January 31, 1741, Dodecanese, Crete, Cyprus, Egypt, GreeceM7.3 · 16 km
• April 1609, Rhodes, GreeceM7.2 · Deaths: many · 22 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 4123.