What the records say
- When
- 15 Jun 1995
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 6.5
- Where
- Greece
- Coordinates
- 38.40° N, 22.28° E
- Deaths
- 26
- Injuries
- 60
- Damage musd
- 660
- Intensity mmi
- 7
- Depth km
- 14
1995 Aigio earthquake
Earthquake affecting Greece
An earthquake struck Western Greece near the coastal city of Aigio at 03:15:48 local time on 15 June 1995. The second destructive earthquake to strike Greece in a month, it measured 6.4–6.5 on the moment magnitude scale (Mw). It was assigned a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) and EMS-98 intensity of IX (Destructive).
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The 6.5 Aigio earthquake shook the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), killing 26, injuring 290 and causing $660 million in damage”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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