July 9, 581 Earthquake: Antakya (Antioch), Turkey

Date

July 9, 581

Place

Antakya (Antioch), Turkey

Intensity

9 on the Modified Mercalli scale

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

36.100° N, 36.100° E

Country

Turkey

Damage

Severe (about $5 to $25 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.

• December 13, 115, Antakya (Antioch), TurkeyM7.5 · 260,000 deaths · 0 km
• May 29, 525, Antakya (Antioch), Samandag, TurkeyM7 · 250,000 deaths · 17 km
• November 29, 533, Aleppo, Syria130,000 deaths · 99 km
• September 458, Antakya (Antioch), Turkey80,000 deaths · 11 km
• 1169, Halab (Aleppo),dimashq (Damascus), Syria80,000 deaths · 99 km
• February 13, 1157, Halab (Aleppo), Syria80,000 deaths · 113 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 · 145 km
• 341, Antakya (Antioch), Cyprus (Salamis), Turkey40,000 deaths · 11 km
• 565, Antakya (Antioch), Turkey30,000 deaths · 11 km
• August 13, 1822, Halab,dimashq (Damascus),, Antakya, Syria, Turkey20,000 deaths · 14 km
• 1183, Tripoli, Antakya, Lebanon, Dimashq, Turkey, Syria20,000 deaths · 182 km
• January 3, 1344, Membij, Aleppo, Dimashq (Damascus), Syria5,700 deaths · 173 km
• November 29, 528, Antakya (Antioch), TurkeyM7.1 · 4,870 deaths · 17 km
• October 26, 1156, Halab (Aleppo), Malatich, Syria2,000 deaths · 99 km

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