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3 dead, 324 injured [2] [3] An earthquake occurred in the northern Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey on May 24, 2014. It had a moment magnitude of 6.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII ( Severe ). Serious damage was reported on the Turkish island of Imbros and the cities of Edirne and Çanakkale, as well as on the Greek island of Lemnos.
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.
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 365 Crete earthquake occurred at about sunrise on 21 July 365 in the Eastern Mediterranean, [4] [5] with an assumed epicentre near Crete. [6] Geologists today estimate the undersea earthquake to have been a moment magnitude 8.5 or higher. [5] It caused widespread destruction in the central and southern Diocese of Macedonia (modern Greece ...
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck Nicaragua 16 km (9.9 mi) southwest of Valle San Francisco on April 10 at a depth of 13.0 km (8.1 mi). [ 46] The earthquake killed 2 people. [ 47] A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck offshore of Chile 72 km (45 mi) southwest of Iquique on April 11 at a depth of 13.8 km (8.6 mi).
An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 7.0 [4] [note 1] 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.
An earthquake occurred at 2:13 p.m. on Friday, July 19, 2019, and affected many people in the middle of the day. Several seismological institutes determined a magnitude of about 5.3 and the epicentral region appeared to be south of Mt Parnitha, ~20 km NW of the Athens metropolitan area. [ 1][ 2] Nearly 20 years before, on the 7th September 1999 ...
1953 Ionian earthquake. 1954 Sofades earthquake. 1956 Amorgos earthquake. 1968 Aegean Sea earthquake. 1981 Gulf of Corinth earthquakes. 1986 Kalamata earthquake. 1995 Kozani–Grevena earthquake. 1999 Athens earthquake. 2006 Greece earthquake.