The 1914 Burdur earthquake (also called the Afyon-Bolvadin earthquake) occurred at 00:07 local time (22:07

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) on 4 October. It was estimated to be 7.0 on the

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scale with a maximum intensity of IX (''Violent'') on the

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. It was centered near

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in southwestern

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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 portion of the southeast coast of Lake Burdur experienced

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of up to and this may indicate that the event was due to

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ing with a

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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

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the great Mosque was destroyed along with more than half of the homes. Other villages were also impacted as far as from the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Afyon Bolvadin 1914 1914 Burdur 1914 in the Ottoman Empire

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Afyon-Bolvadin 1914 disasters in Asia 20th-century disasters in the Ottoman Empire

Earthquake

Damage

See also

References

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