 A tower near the Hücum Kapısı ("The assault gate") belonging to the walls of Constantinople damaged by the earthquake in an engraving by W. H. Bartlett (ante 1838). | |
  Location of epicenter in the Marmara region of Turkey | |
| Local date | 22 May 1766 |
|---|---|
| Local time | 05:10 |
| Magnitude | 7.1 Ms |
| Epicenter | 40°48′N 29°00′E / 40.8°N 29°E[1] |
| Fault | North Anatolian Fault |
| Areas affected | Eyalet of Constantinople, Ottoman Empire |
| Tsunami | flooded Bosphorus shores, Galata, Mudanya, Princes' Islands |
| Casualties | 4,000 |
The 1766 Istanbul earthquake was a strong earthquake with epicenter in the eastern part of the Sea of Marmara, in the Çınarcık Basin (or near the Princes' Islands, north of the basin)[2] which occurred in the early hours of Thursday morning, 22 May 1766.[1] The earthquake had an estimated magnitude of 7.1 on the surface-wave magnitude scale,[2] and caused effects in a vast area extending from Izmit to Rodosto (now Tekirdağ).[3] In this area, the earthquake was followed by a tsunami which caused significant damage. The earthquake of 1766 was the last major earthquake to rock Constantinople (now known as Istanbul) because of a rupture of the North Anatolian Fault in the Marmara region.[4][5]
- ^ a b N. N. Ambraseys; J. A. Jackson (June 2000). "Seismicity of the Sea of Marmara (Turkey) since 1500". Geophysical Journal International. 141 (3): F1. Bibcode:2000GeoJI.141F...1A. doi:10.1046/j.1365-246x.2000.00137.x.
- ^ a b N.N. Ambraseys (December 2001). "The Earthquake of 1509 in the Sea of Marmara, Turkey, Revisited". Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 91 (6): 1397–1416. Bibcode:2001BuSSA..91.1397A. doi:10.1785/0120000305.
- ^ Erhan Afyioncu (20 August 2017). "Istanbul'un son buyuk depremi". Sabah (in Turkish). Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Pondard2007was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Cite error: The named reference
Bohnhoff 2016was invoked but never defined (see the help page).