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| Year |
Location |
Magnitude |
Comment |
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| 1899 |
Menderes Valley, Turkey (Ottoman Empire)
|
6.9 |
1,100 deaths.
Severe damage to buildings, bridges
and railroad and telegraph lines in
the Aydin-Denizli area. Many landslides
occurred, one of which destroyed
Ortakci, causing it to be abandoned.
Liquefaction was observed throughout
the Menderes Valley. A minaret was
damaged at Isikli, about 110 km (70 miles) from the epicenter. It was felt
from the Marmara region and Eskisehir
to Rodhos (Rhodes). The quake seems
to be associated with a normal fault
running through the valley, and is
probably the same fault responsible
for the large earthquake of 23 Feb
1653, which caused destruction in the
Izmir-Denizli area and killed 2,000-
3,000 people.
From K. Ergin, U. Guclu and Z. Uz, A Catalog of Earthquakes for Turkey
and Surrounding Area (11 A.D. to 1964 A.D.), Istanbul Technical
University, Faculty of Mining Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey, 1967; and
N.N. Ambraseys and C.F. Finkel, Seismicity of Turkey and neighbouring
regions, 1899-1915, Annales Geophysicae, 1987, 5B (6), p. 701-726.
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| 1999 |
Taiwan
|
7.6 |
At least 2,400 people killed,
8,700 injured, 600,000 people left homeless and about
82,000 housing units damaged by the earthquake and larger
aftershocks. Damage estimated at 14 billion U.S. dollars.
Maximum intensity (VI JMA) in Nan-tou and Tai-chung
Counties. Half of a village was lost by subsidence into
the Ta-an Hsi and landslides blocked the Ching-shui Hsi,
creating a large lake. Two other lakes were created by
substantial ground deformation near the epicenter. Surface
faulting occurred along 75 km of the Chelungpu Fault. Felt
(V JMA) at Chia-i and I-lan; (IV JMA) at Kao-hsiung, Taipei
and Tai-tung; (IV JMA) on Lan Yu and Peng-hu Tao; (III JMA)
at Hua-lien. Felt strongly in Fujian, Guangdong and
Zhejiang Provinces. Felt (IV) in Hong Kong. Also felt
(II JMA) on Iriomote-jima and Yonaguni-jima; (I JMA) on
Ishigaki-jima and Miyako-jima, Ryukyu Islands. Complex
earthquake. A small event is followed by a larger one about
11 seconds later.
From
Significant Earthquakes of the World 1999.
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U.S. Department of the Interior | U.S. Geological Survey