What the records say
- When
- 12 Jun 2017
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 6.3
- Where
- Greece
- Coordinates
- 38.93° N, 26.36° E
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 15
- Houses destroyed
- 10
- Intensity mmi
- 9
- Depth km
- 12
2017 Lesbos earthquake
Earthquake that occurred on 12 June in the Aegean sea
The 2017 Lesbos earthquake occurred at 12:28:39 UTC on 12 June. The earthquake's epicentre was 5 km south of Plomari on the Greek island of Lesbos off the Aegean coast of Turkey. It had a magnitude of 6.3 on the moment magnitude scale and a maximum perceived intensity of IX (Violent) on the Mercalli intensity scale.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The 6.3 Lesbos earthquake shook the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing one and injuring ten”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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