February 20, 2023 Earthquake: Turkey, Syria

Date

February 20, 2023

Time

17:04:29 UTC

Place

Turkey, Syria

Magnitude

6.3 (Mw)

Focal depth

16 km (10 mi)

Intensity

9 on the Modified Mercalli scale

Tsunami

Yes: the tsunami it caused

Epicenter

36.109° N, 36.017° E

Country

Turkey

Deaths

6

Injuries

764

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 · 8 km
• May 29, 525, Antakya (Antioch), Samandag, TurkeyM7 · 250,000 deaths · 17 km
• November 29, 533, Aleppo, Syria130,000 deaths · 107 km
• September 458, Antakya (Antioch), Turkey80,000 deaths · 13 km
• 1169, Halab (Aleppo),dimashq (Damascus), Syria80,000 deaths · 107 km
• February 13, 1157, Halab (Aleppo), Syria80,000 deaths · 115 km
• September 30, 587, Antakya (Antioch), Turkey60,000 deaths · 17 km
• February 6, 2023, Kahramanmaras, Syria, TurkeyM7.8 · 56,697 deaths · $43 billion · 542,461 houses destroyed · 149 km
• 341, Antakya (Antioch), Cyprus (Salamis), Turkey40,000 deaths · 13 km
• 565, Antakya (Antioch), Turkey30,000 deaths · 13 km
• August 13, 1822, Halab,dimashq (Damascus),, Antakya, Syria, Turkey20,000 deaths · 12 km
• 1183, Tripoli, Antakya, Lebanon, Dimashq, Turkey, Syria20,000 deaths · 184 km
• January 3, 1344, Membij, Aleppo, Dimashq (Damascus), Syria5,700 deaths · 180 km
• November 29, 528, Antakya (Antioch), TurkeyM7.1 · 4,870 deaths · 17 km
• October 26, 1156, Halab (Aleppo), Malatich, Syria2,000 deaths · 107 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 10665.