February 21, 2007 Earthquake: Dogankoy, Puturge, Sivrice, Turkey

Date

February 21, 2007

Time

11:05:29 UTC

Place

Dogankoy, Puturge, Sivrice, Turkey

Magnitude

5.7 (Mw)

Focal depth

10 km (6 mi)

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

38.318° N, 39.267° E

Country

Turkey

Damage

Limited (under about $1 million)

Houses destroyed

Few (about 1 to 50)

Houses damaged

Few (about 1 to 50)

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 · 179 km
• 1158, Antakya, Malatya,dimashq, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria20,000 deaths · 80 km
• 1268, Erzincan, Turkey15,000 deaths · 160 km
• July 23, 1784, Erzurum,erzincan, Turkey5,000 deaths · 155 km
• September 6, 1975, Lice, TurkeyM6.7 · 2,311 deaths · 128 km
• May 22, 1971, Bingol, TurkeyM6.7 · 995 deaths · $5 million · 120 km
• March 13, 1992, Erzincan, TurkeyM6.9 · 653 deaths · $750 million · 158 km
• December 5, 1943, NE, Anatolia, Turkey550 deaths · 197 km
• March 31, 1893, Malatya, TurkeyM6.7 · 400 deaths · 84 km
• August 17, 1949, Karliova, TurkeyM6.8 · 320 deaths · 179 km
• May 1, 2003, Bingol, TurkeyM6.4 · 177 deaths · 718 houses destroyed · 129 km
• November 27, 1934, Diyarbakir (Mouche Diarbekir), Kurdistan, Turkey100 deaths · 94 km
• July 26, 1967, Tunceli, TurkeyM6.2 · 97 deaths · 164 km
• June 3, 1952, Pasinler (Hasankale),erzincan, Turkey94 deaths · 166 km
• March 8, 2010, Okcular, Yukari Demirci, Elazig Province, TurkeyM6.1 · 51 deaths · 287 houses destroyed · 87 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 7463.