The 1966 Varto earthquake occurred on 19 August with a moment magnitude of 6.8 a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 2,394 were killed and up to 1,500 people were injured in the town of Varto and Hınıs in the Muş Province of eastern Turkey.
The earthquake devastated all the structures in Varto.[3][4] This disaster was preceded by an earthquake of magnitude 5.6 that hit Varto on 7 March 1966 killing 14 and wounding 75 people.[5]
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^[1] Archived 2007-07-17 at the Wayback Machine (in Turkish)
^Boğaziçi Üniversitesi. "Bogazici University Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute National Earthquake Monitoring Center (NEMC) List of earthquakes 1900–2004" (in Turkish). Retrieved 31 January 2011.
^[2] (in Turkish)
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