April 25, 1959 Earthquake: Koycegiz, Mugla, Turkey

Date

April 25, 1959

Time

00:26:00 UTC

Place

Koycegiz, Mugla, Turkey

Magnitude

6.3

Intensity

8 on the Modified Mercalli scale

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

37.000° N, 28.700° 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 · 151 km
• October 3, 1914, Burdur, Kilinc, Keciborlu, Isparta, TurkeyM7 · 4,000 deaths · 17,000 houses destroyed · 166 km
• February 23, 1653, Izmir,alasehir,denizli,aydin, TurkeyM7.5 · 2,500 deaths · 141 km
• May 3, 1875, Capali, Dinar, Civril, Yaka, TurkeyM7.3 · 1,300 deaths · 1,000 houses destroyed · 180 km
• September 20, 1899, Sultanhisar,atca,nazilli,kuyucak,denizli, TurkeyM6.7 · 1,117 deaths · 7,126 houses destroyed · 104 km
• April 22, 1863, Rhodes, Kos, GreeceM7.8 · 300 deaths · 2,050 houses destroyed · 84 km
• April 23, 1933, Dodecanese Islands, GreeceM6.4 · 181 deaths · 127 km
• March 31, 1928, Tepekoy, Torbali, TurkeyM6.5 · 170 deaths · 2,600 houses destroyed · 168 km
• October 30, 2020, Izmir, Samos, Turkey, GreeceM7 · 118 deaths · $400 million · 196 km
• October 1, 1995, Dinar, Evciler, TurkeyM6.4 · 95 deaths · $205.8 million · 5,100 houses destroyed · 173 km
• May 12, 1971, Burdur, TurkeyM5.9 · 56 deaths · 118 km
• March 28, 1969, Alasehir, Sarigol, Kiraz, TurkeyM6.5 · 53 deaths · 180 km
• July 16, 1955, Samos, Soke, Aydin, Greece, TurkeyM6.6 · 23 deaths · 143 km
• April 25, 1957, Fethiye (Lycia, Asia Minor), TurkeyM7.3 · 18 deaths · 3,000 houses destroyed · 66 km
• December 21, 1945, Denizli, Burdur, Turkey7 deaths · 113 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 4187.