In 1953, a massive earthquake in western Turkey claimed more than 1,000 lives
The Yenice-Gonen earthquake struck western Turkey in 1953, leveling thousands of buildings and claiming over a thousand lives along a fault line that had remained quiet for centuries.
On March 18, 1953, a massive magnitude 7.2 earthquake tore through the Canakkale Province in western Turkey. The tremor originated along the Yenice-Gonen fault, a branch of the North Anatolian Fault system that had not seen significant activity in over 250 years. The violence of the quake destroyed more than 8,000 buildings and killed at least 1,070 people.
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