1269 Cilicia earthquake

1269 Cilicia earthquake
Local date	14 May 1269
Local time	First hour of the night
Magnitude	Mw  7.22±0.46
Epicenter	36°56′10″N 36°15′54″E / 36.936°N 36.265°E
Areas affected	Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, Ilkhanate, Principality of Antioch (Modern Turkey, Northwest Syria)
Max. intensity	MMI VIII (Severe)
Casualties	8,000 or over 60,000 dead (est.)

An earthquake occurred northeast of the city of Adana in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (modern day Turkey) on 14 May 1269 at "the first hour of the night".^[2] Most sources give a death toll of 8,000 in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia in southern Asia Minor,^[2] but a figure of 60,000 dead was reported by Robert Mallet in 1853 and repeated in many later catalogues.^[4]^[5]^[6]

^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference Sesetyan23 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ^a ^b ^c Guidoboni, E.; Comastri, A. (2005). "1269 04 17 , 17:00 Cilicia (Turkey)".
^ 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
^ Walford, Cornelius (1879) The famines of the world: past and present London, page 55, OCLC 38724391
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^ National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS): NCEI/WDS Global Significant Earthquake Database. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. "Significant Earthquake Information". doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K. Retrieved 1 May 2024.