1919 Ayvalık Earthquake
The 1919 Ayvalık earthquake struck Balıkesir Province in the Ottoman Empire on 19 November. The earthquake had a moment magnitude of 7.0 and depth of 10 km (6.2 mi). Many homes, minarets and public buildings in Soma, Bergama, Ayvalık, Lesbos, Edremit and Balikesir were damaged or collapsed. An estimated 3,000 people were killed and 16,000 buildings were heavily damaged.
See also
References
- ^ ISC (2022), ISC-GEM Global Instrumental Earthquake Catalogue (1904-2018), Version 9.1, International Seismological Centre, doi:10.31905/D808B825
- ^ Ambraseys, N. N. (1988). "Engineering seismology: Part I". Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics. 17 (1): 18. Bibcode:1988EESD...17....1A. doi:10.1002/eqe.4290170101. ISSN 0098-8847.
- ^ Tunc, G. (2017), Cumhuriyetin ilk Yıllarında Meydana Gelen Depremler Sonrası Uygulamalar ve ilk Türk Deprem Yönetmeliği [Practices After Earthquakes in the First Years of the Republic and the First Turkish Earthquake Regulation] (in Turkish), retrieved 12 February 2023
External links
- The International Seismological Centre has a bibliography and/or authoritative data for this event.