It was centered near Lake Burdur in southwestern Anatolia and the mainshock and subsequent fire destroyed more than 17,000 homes,[1] and caused 2,344 casualties.

[4] No unambiguous fault displacement has been found that is related to the event, but a 23 km (14 mi) portion of the southeast coast of Lake Burdur experienced subsidence of up to 150 centimeters (59 in) and this may indicate that the event was due to normal faulting with a strike of N45°E.

[1] 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 Isparta the great Mosque was destroyed along with more than half of the homes.