Earthquake — Turkey: Bodrum, Datca; Greece: Kos

When

20 Jul 2017

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

6.6

Where

Turkey

Coordinates

36.93° N, 27.41° E

Deaths

2

Injuries

500

Intensity mmi

7

Depth km

7

Earthquake in Greece and Turkey

On 21 July 2017, a large earthquake measuring 6.6 on the moment magnitude scale struck close to the tourist locations of Kos in Greece and Bodrum in Turkey, killing 2 people and injuring hundreds. Mostly referenced as the 2017 Bodrum–Kos earthquake, this earthquake generated a tsunami which was one of the largest tsunamis in the Mediterranean Sea region.

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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 “The 6.6 Aegean Sea earthquake shook the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), killing two and injuring 480.”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Séisme de 2017 en mer Égée”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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