May 7, 2000 Earthquake: Doganyol, Puturge, Turkey

Date

May 7, 2000

Time

23:10:54 UTC

Place

Doganyol, Puturge, Turkey

Magnitude

4.1 (Ms)

Focal depth

5 km (3 mi)

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

38.164° N, 38.777° E

Country

Turkey

Injuries

1 with its tsunami and other effects

Damage

Moderate (about $1 to $5 million)

Houses damaged

200 with its tsunami and other effects

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.

• February 6, 2023, Kahramanmaras, Syria, TurkeyM7.8 · 56,697 deaths · $43 billion · 542,461 houses destroyed · 189 km
• 1158, Antakya, Malatya,dimashq, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria20,000 deaths · 46 km
• 1268, Erzincan, Turkey15,000 deaths · 187 km
• January 3, 1344, Membij, Aleppo, Dimashq (Damascus), Syria5,700 deaths · 196 km
• July 23, 1784, Erzurum,erzincan, Turkey5,000 deaths · 182 km
• September 6, 1975, Lice, TurkeyM6.7 · 2,311 deaths · 173 km
• May 22, 1971, Bingol, TurkeyM6.7 · 995 deaths · $5 million · 166 km
• March 13, 1992, Erzincan, TurkeyM6.9 · 653 deaths · $750 million · 186 km
• March 31, 1893, Malatya, TurkeyM6.7 · 400 deaths · 44 km
• May 1, 2003, Bingol, TurkeyM6.4 · 177 deaths · 718 houses destroyed · 174 km
• November 27, 1934, Diyarbakir (Mouche Diarbekir), Kurdistan, Turkey100 deaths · 128 km
• June 3, 1952, Pasinler (Hasankale),erzincan, Turkey94 deaths · 192 km
• March 8, 2010, Okcular, Yukari Demirci, Elazig Province, TurkeyM6.1 · 51 deaths · 287 houses destroyed · 131 km
• January 24, 2020, Elazig and Malatya Provinces, TurkeyM6.7 · 41 deaths · 76 houses destroyed · 39 km
• March 25, 1977, TurkeyM4.9 · 30 deaths · 117 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 5558.