Qualla: 1912 Mürefte Earthquake https://qualla.com/1912-murefte-earthquake en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/5/q/1912-murefte-earthquake-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: 1912 Mürefte Earthquake https://qualla.com/1912-murefte-earthquake 1912 Mürefte Earthquake: Introduction https://qualla.com/1912-murefte-earthquake/ Photo credit Mikenorton, CC BY-SA 3.0. Most of the people along the Marmara coast were asleep when the ground tore open on 9 August 1912. It was 3:29 in the morning. The earthquake, magnitude 7.4, ruptured the Ganos Fault — the westernmost segment of the North Anatolian Fault — along a stretch of coastline between Mürefte and Şarköy in what was then the Ottoman Empire's Thracian heartland. In the fishing villages and small towns built close to the water, on land that had no warning of what the fault beneath it was capable of, the shaking reached intensity X on the Modified Mercalli scale — rated Extreme. The death toll is recorded as somewhere between 216 and 3,000. The wide range reflects the chaos of a night disaster in a region with sparse recordkeeping, and the difficulty, even now, of accounting for everyone who was lost.

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/5/q/1912-murefte-earthquake-wp/sx5q-1912-m-refte-earthquake-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full 1912 Mürefte Earthquake: The Fault Beneath the Shore https://qualla.com/1912-murefte-earthquake/ Photo credit Mikenorton, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Ganos Fault runs through the hills above the Marmara coast — the same hills that give the villages of Şarköy district their terraced vineyards and steep descents to the sea. It is a segment of the North Anatolian Fault, the great right-lateral strike-slip system that has shap...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/5/q/1912-murefte-earthquake-wp/sx5q-1912-m-refte-earthquake-the-fault-beneath-the-shore.mp3 0:06 2 full 1912 Mürefte Earthquake: A Wave in the Dark https://qualla.com/1912-murefte-earthquake/ Photo credit Mikenorton, CC BY-SA 3.0. The earthquake did not finish with the shaking. Submarine landslides triggered by the rupture generated a tsunami — waves recorded at heights of up to several meters along the Marmara coast. Evidence of those seafloor landslides was later identified at the southern margin of the ...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/5/q/1912-murefte-earthquake-wp/sx5q-1912-m-refte-earthquake-a-wave-in-the-dark.mp3 0:06 3 full 1912 Mürefte Earthquake: The People of the Coast https://qualla.com/1912-murefte-earthquake/ Photo credit Mikenorton, CC BY-SA 3.0. The towns and villages along this stretch of the Thracian Marmara shore were, in 1912, largely Greek-speaking communities that had lived by fishing and farming — and increasingly by wine-growing — for generations. The earthquake struck without warning, as earthquakes do, in the h...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/5/q/1912-murefte-earthquake-wp/sx5q-1912-m-refte-earthquake-the-people-of-the-coast.mp3 0:06 4 full 1912 Mürefte Earthquake: Aftershock and Memory https://qualla.com/1912-murefte-earthquake/ Photo credit Mikenorton, CC BY-SA 3.0. The region did not return quickly to quiet. A significant aftershock of magnitude 6.8 struck on 13 September 1912, five weeks after the main event, when survivors were still assessing their losses and damaged buildings had not yet been made safe. The Balkan Wars broke out the fol...

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