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1914 Burdur earthquake

1914 earthquake in Burdur Province, Turkey

Field	Value
title	1914 Burdur earthquake
timestamp	1914-10-03 22:07:07
anss-url	iscgem914008
isc-event	914008
local-date
local-time	00:07
map2	{{Location map	Turkey	relief=1
lat	37.82
long	30.27
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marksize	40
position	top
width	250
float	right
caption	}}
location
magnitude	7.0 Ms
intensity
countries affected	Ottoman Empire
casualties	2,344

| anss-url = iscgem914008 | isc-event = 914008 | local-date= | local-time = 00:07

The 1914 Burdur earthquake (also called the Afyon-Bolvadin earthquake) occurred at 00:07 local time (22:07 UTC) on 4 October. It was estimated to be 7.0 on the surface-wave magnitude scale with a maximum intensity of IX (Violent) on the Mercalli intensity scale. It was centered near Lake Burdur in southwestern Anatolia and the mainshock and subsequent fire destroyed more than 17,000 homes, and caused 2,344 casualties.

Earthquake

The earthquake, along with several others in 1959 and 1971, occurred along the Fethiye-Burdur fault zone, a parallel and discontinuous series of fault segments. No unambiguous fault displacement has been found that is related to the event, but a 23 km portion of the southeast coast of Lake Burdur experienced subsidence of up to 150 cm and this may indicate that the event was due to normal faulting with a strike of N45°E.

Damage

In Burdur nearly all homes were destroyed along with other significant and historical monuments. Kilinc was destroyed and in Keciborlu around 85 percent of the houses were lost. In the city of Isparta the great Mosque was destroyed along with more than half of the homes. Other villages were also impacted as far as 60 km from the epicenter.

References

NGDC. "Significant Earthquake Information". [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]].
Boğaziçi Üniversitesi. "Bogazici University Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute National Earthquake Monitoring Center (NEMC) List of earthquakes 1900–2004 (Büyük Depremler)".
Ozer, N.. (2006). "New information on earthquake history of the Aksehir-Afyon Graben System, Turkey, since the second half of 18th century". [[European Geosciences Union]].
(2008). "Seismotectonic features of Aegean-Peloponnisos plate and the position of the Fethiye-Burdur Fault Zone, SW Turkey". [[Süleyman Demirel University]].

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