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An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 7.0 occurred on 30 October 2020 about 14 km (8.7 mi) northeast of the Greek island of Samos.Although Samos was closest to the epicentre, it was the Turkish city İzmir, 70 km (43 mi) northeast that was heavily affected—more than 700 residential and commercial structures were seriously damaged or destroyed.
445–800. 6.4 M w, 6.8 M w & 7.2 M w. X. Two foreshocks and one major earthquake occurred in the span of three days / 2,412 injured / The islands of Cephalonia, Zakynthos and Ithaca were leveled. From the 33,300 buildings of these three islands, 27,659 were completely destroyed.
2024 Noto earthquake: 2 7.4 18 Taiwan, Hualien offshore VIII (Severe) 40.0 April 2 2024 Hualien earthquake: 3 7.2 0 Peru, Arequipa offshore VI (Strong) 28.0 June 28 - 4 7.1 0 Philippines, Soccsksargen offshore IV (Light) 620.1 July 11 - 5 7.0 3 China, Xinjiang: IX (Violent) 13.0 January 22 2024 Uqturpan earthquake
Historical earthquakes is a list of significant earthquakes known to have occurred prior to the early 20th century. As the events listed here occurred before routine instrumental recordings, seismotomography imaging technique, later detections using space satellites from outer space — they rely mainly on the analysis of written sources, observations of shaking objects and/or animal behavior ...
2021 Arkalochori earthquake. / 35.252; 25.260. A moment magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck the island of Crete in Greece at a depth of 6 km on 27 September 2021. [4] [5] [6] The epicenter of the earthquake was located southeast of Heraklion. The quake killed one person, injured 36 (one indirect) and damaged over 5,000 old buildings on the island.
The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 M w earthquake that struck Haiti at 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010. [8] [9] The epicenter was near the town of Léogâne, Ouest department, approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital.
The 1968 Aegean Sea earthquake was a Mw 7.0 earthquake that occurred in the early morning hours of February 20, 1968 local time about 57.1 km (35.5 mi) away from Myrina, Greece. This earthquake occurred between mainland Greece and Turkey, meaning both countries were impacted. 20 people died, and 39 people were injured to various degrees.
June 28, 2024 at 5:56 AM. By Marco Aquino and Natalia Siniawski. LIMA, (Reuters) -A powerful earthquake of magnitude of 7.0 struck near the coast in southern Peru's Arequipa region on Friday ...