Earthquake — Greece: Samos; Turkey: Izmir

When

30 Oct 2020

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

7.0

Where

Turkey

Coordinates

37.90° N, 26.78° E

Deaths

118

Injuries

1054

Damage musd

400

Intensity mmi

8

Depth km

21

7.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami affecting Turkey and Greece

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 large Turkish city İzmir, 70 km (43 mi) northeast that was heavily affected—more than 700 residential and commercial structures were seriously damaged or destroyed.

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• NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “2020 Aegean Sea earthquake: A magnitude 7.0 earthquake hits Turkey and Greece, killing 119 people and injuring over 1,000”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “2020 Ege Denizi depremi: 7.0 şiddetinde deprem Türkiye ve Yunanistan'ı vurdu”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bei einem Erdbeben der Stärke 6,9 bei Izmir (Türkei) kamen 119 Menschen ums Leben”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un séisme en mer Égée fait deux morts”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “на западе Турции произошло землетрясение магнитудой от 6,6 до 6,9”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “En el mar Egeo se registra un terremoto de 7,0 y un tsunami que dejan 117 muertos en la provincia de Esmirna, en Turquía”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “زلزال في بحر إيجة بقوة 7 ريختر، أدى لوفاة وإصابة العشرات في إزمير التركية، كما وقعت خسائر بشرية ومادية في اليونان”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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