1269 Cilicia earthquake
1269 Cilicia earthquake is located in Turkey
1269 Cilicia earthquake
Local date14 May 1269
Local timeFirst hour of the night
Magnitude7.0 (est.)
Epicenter37°30′N 35°30′E / 37.5°N 35.5°E / 37.5; 35.5
Areas affectedArmenian Kingdom of Cilicia, Ilkhanate, Principality of Antioch (Modern Turkey, Northwest Syria)
Max. intensityVIII (Severe)
Tsunaminone
Casualties8,000[1] or over 60,000 dead (est.)[2]

An earthquake occurred northeast of the city of Adana on 14 May 1269 at "the first hour of the night".[1] Most sources give a death toll of 8,000 in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia in southern Asia Minor,[1] but a figure of 60,000 dead was reported by Robert Mallet in 1853 and repeated in many later catalogues.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ a b c Guidoboni, E.; Comastri, A. (2005). "1269 04 17 , 17:00 Cilicia (Turkey)".
  2. ^ Ganse, Robert A. and Nelson, John B. (1981) Catalog of Significant Earthquakes 2000 BC - 1979 Including Quantitative Casualties and Damage (NOAA/NGDC Report SE-27), World Data Center A for Solid Earth Geophysics, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Environmental Data and Information Service, Boulder, Colorado, OCLC 7695380
  3. ^ Walford, Cornelius (1879) The famines of the world: past and present London, page 55, OCLC 38724391
  4. ^ Lomnitz, Cinna (1974) Global Tectonics and Earthquake Risk Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co., Amsterdam, ISBN 0-444-41076-7