Qualla: 1953 Yenice–Gönen Earthquake https://qualla.com/1953-yenice-gonen-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/e/1953-yenice-gonen-earthquake-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: 1953 Yenice–Gönen Earthquake https://qualla.com/1953-yenice-gonen-earthquake 1953 Yenice–Gönen Earthquake: Introduction https://qualla.com/1953-yenice-gonen-earthquake/ Photo credit Turkey_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Uwe Dedering (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. At 21:06 on the evening of 18 March 1953, the ground beneath the Çanakkale and Balıkesir provinces of northwestern Turkey broke apart. The earthquake lasted seconds. The destruction it left behind took years to reckon with. A surface-wave magnitude of 7.5 — classified as intensity IX, 'Violent,' on the Mercalli scale — collapsed homes, mosques, schools, and the accumulated structures of village life across a wide area centered on the towns of Yenice and Gönen. When the counts were finished, 1,070 people were confirmed dead. The number represents individual human lives: farmers, shopkeepers, children, elders, people who had gone to bed expecting an ordinary night and did not wake.

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/5/e/1953-yenice-gonen-earthquake-wp/sx5e-1953-yenice-g-nen-earthquake-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full 1953 Yenice–Gönen Earthquake: The Towns That Bore the Loss https://qualla.com/1953-yenice-gonen-earthquake/ Photo credit Mikenorton, CC BY-SA 3.0. Yenice bore the worst of the earthquake. Of the 1,070 confirmed dead, 998 died in and around Yenice — a town in Çanakkale Province where the shaking was most severe and the buildings most vulnerable. In Gönen, to the south in Balıkesir Province, 50 people died. Çan lost 20, and M...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/5/e/1953-yenice-gonen-earthquake-wp/sx5e-1953-yenice-g-nen-earthquake-the-towns-that-bore-the-loss.mp3 0:06 2 full 1953 Yenice–Gönen Earthquake: The Fault Beneath the Surface https://qualla.com/1953-yenice-gonen-earthquake/ Photo credit Mikenorton, CC BY-SA 3.0. The earthquake struck along the Yenice–Gönen Fault, a geological feature that forms the southern extension of the North Anatolian Fault Zone — one of the most seismically active fault systems on Earth. Turkey sits at the junction of the Eurasian and Anatolian plates, with the Ana...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/5/e/1953-yenice-gonen-earthquake-wp/sx5e-1953-yenice-g-nen-earthquake-the-fault-beneath-the-surface.mp3 0:06 3 full 1953 Yenice–Gönen Earthquake: Felt Across Two Countries https://qualla.com/1953-yenice-gonen-earthquake/ Photo credit Mikenorton, CC BY-SA 3.0. The earthquake's reach extended far beyond the epicentral area. Intensity VI shaking — enough to crack walls and topple chimneys — reached Bursa, Istanbul, Edirne, Izmir, and Sakarya. The tremors were felt throughout the Aegean Islands and across much of mainland Greece, with dam...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/5/e/1953-yenice-gonen-earthquake-wp/sx5e-1953-yenice-g-nen-earthquake-felt-across-two-countries.mp3 0:06 4 full 1953 Yenice–Gönen Earthquake: What the Earth Remembered https://qualla.com/1953-yenice-gonen-earthquake/ Photo credit Mikenorton, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Yenice–Gönen Fault did not rupture in 1953 for the first time. Paleoseismological research — the practice of reading past earthquakes from the geological record of fault trenches — has identified three earlier large earthquakes along this fault: one around 1440 AD, one betwee...

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]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/x/5/e/1953-yenice-gonen-earthquake-wp/sx5e-1953-yenice-g-nen-earthquake-what-the-earth-remembered.mp3 0:06 5 full 1953 Yenice–Gönen Earthquake: Aftermath and Memory https://qualla.com/1953-yenice-gonen-earthquake/ Photo credit Mikenorton, CC BY-SA 3.0. The immediate human costs of the 1953 earthquake were compounded by the region's poverty: repair costs were estimated at US$3,570,000 in 1953 values, but reconstruction in rural northwestern Turkey in the 1950s was slow. The shaking was severe enough that in Greece, where damage ...

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