The epic genre, in which important events such as war, migration, earthquake, and drought are the subject of the tradition of minstrelsy, undertakes an important function in conveying the experiences of the society to which it belongs to the future. Although it is a literary product, since its starting point is based on a real event, it has an invaluable value in completing the incomplete or incomplete historical information. However, the fact that the facts are fictionalized from the perspective of the lover and take on a literary structure and the sources of the details in question cannot be estimated, necessitating a cautious approach to this information. But the lover, the effect of the event on society, the feelings of individuals in the face of the event; In short, it is possible to feel human attitudes and reactions in an epic atmosphere. Earthquakes, which cause great deaths, injuries and destructions, are one of the most remarkable events in epic subjects. The geography of Turkey has been the scene of major earthquakes from long ago to the present day and great losses have been suffered in this geography. Although the minstrels describe the earthquakes that affect a certain area regionally, the sad picture that has been revealed actually concerns the whole country. Earthquake epics, in this context, reveal the pain of the whole country and their reactions to the event by subjecting a local earthquake.The great earthquake that occurred in Şarköy, Mürefte and Gelibolu in the north of the Marmara Sea in 1912 caused great damage to the region and nearby settlements. Minstrel lover with the pseudonym The Soytarı, who we think was affected by the earthquake or observed the event, wrote an epic consisting of thirty-eight stanzas and printed it in a one- page printing press in Istanbul. It is possible to examine this epic, which forms the basis of our study, in three parts. The first fourteen quatrains make up the first part. Here, in accordance with the form of earthquake epics, the effect of the event on the society; The time of occurrence of the event is reported by specifying the year, month, day and time, and an extraordinary description of the earthquake is made in the perspective of the ephemeral nature of life. In the second part, the names of the settlements affected by the earthquake, the losses that occurred here and the pain experienced thereafter are mentioned. Nearly seventy place names have been mentioned here, including nearly twenty settlements in detail. In the last part, general numerical data, state aid and submission to fate are discussed. In the epic in question, we see that the first and third parts have a literary nature, and the second part is loaded with numerical data on losses, mostly in the form of historical documents. After the Ottoman text was transferred to today's Turkish alphabet, the content of the epic was compared with the information in the historical records. As a result, it has been seen that this text has the nature to be used in historical research. For this reason, it should not be ignored that epics can be a source of historical events.