Up to 1.9 m (6.2 ft) along the Greek and Turkish coasts
Aftershocks
390 aftershocks (M > 3.0) in 1 year, the highest being a Mw(KOERI) 5.3
Casualties
2 killed, 480 injured
On 21 July 2017, a large earthquake measuring 6.6 on the moment magnitude scale struck right near Bodrum, a popular town of tourism in Turkey, killing 2 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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responsible for the 2020 Elazığ earthquake. At its southern edge, the African Plate converges north towards the AegeanSea Plate at a rate of 5–10 mm (0...
An earthquake occurred in the northern AegeanSea between Greece and Turkey on May 24, 2014. It had a moment magnitude of 6.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity...
country is also affected by the zone of extensional tectonics in the AegeanSea caused by the southward migration of the Hellenic arc. The easternmost...
1933 Kos earthquake struck the AegeanSea region on 23 April. It measured Mw 6.4 and had an epicenter offshore, near Kos, Greece. The earthquake collapsed...
The 1766 Istanbul earthquake was a strong earthquake with epicenter in the eastern part of the Sea of Marmara, in the Çınarcık Basin (or near the Princes'...
This is a list of earthquakes in 2017. Only earthquakes of magnitude 6 or above are included, unless they result in damage and/or casualties, or are notable...
Earthquakes are caused by movements within the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle. They range from weak events detectable only by seismometers, to sudden...
surrounding islands. The last earthquake that occurred was the 2017AegeanSeaearthquake with a magnitude of 6.7Mw, which injured two people in Kalymnos...
The 2017 Puebla earthquake, also known as 19S, struck at 13:14 CDT (18:14 UTC) on 19 September 2017 with an estimated magnitude of 7.1 Mw and strong shaking...
magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck India, at depth of 16.1 km (10 mi), near Rudraprayag district in the state of Uttarakhand on February 6, 2017. Tremors were...
H. (2000). "Poseidon's Horses: Plate Tectonics and Earthquake Storms in the Late Bronze Age Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean" (PDF). Journal of Archaeological...
the southern extent of the Eurasian Plate, which is surrounded by the AegeanSea Plate, the Adriatic Plate, and the Anatolian Plate. The Apennine Mountains...
ve Marmara bölgesi sallandı: 1 ölü" [The Aegean and Marmara region was shaken by the 4.9 magnitude earthquake in Çanakkale: 1 dead] (in Turkish). Evrensel...
AegeanSea, and Anatolian plates. Southern Greece itself is located on the AegeanSea Plate. The Anatolian Plate is moving southwest into the Aegean Sea...
1933 earthquake, and was thereafter repaired by the Italians, who held Kos at the time. It was further damaged during the 2017AegeanSeaearthquake, whereupon...
On 11 May 2017, at 05:58 CST (21:58 UTC on 10 May), a Mw 5.4 earthquake occurred in Tashkurgan, in Xinjiang, China, near the border with Tajikistan, killing...
90 km beneath the AegeanSea while an 8.1–8.3 Mw would involve a 120 km × 120 km fault rupture at a deeper depth of 130 km. The earthquake caused widespread...
structure extends from the Karlıova Triple Junction in the east to the AegeanSea in the west. In detail the fault is formed of many separate segments....
Alpar B.; Özer N.; Gazioglu C. (2005). "1881 and 1949 earthquakes at the Chios-Cesme Strait (AegeanSea) and their relation to tsunamis" (PDF). Natural Hazards...
frequently as a result of minor earthquakes and other events. Around 1600 BC, the eruption of Thira devastated Aegean sites including Akrotiri (prehistoric...
[ˈθira]) and Classical Greek Thera (/ˈθɪərə/), is an island in the southern AegeanSea, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast from the Greek mainland. It is the largest...
Dardanelles (ancient Hellespont) strait, which links the Sea of Marmara (ancient Propontis) and the AegeanSea, is approximately forty kilometers long and increases...
surrounded to the east by the AegeanSea, to the south by the Cretan and the Libyan seas, and to the west by the Ionian Sea which separates Greece from...
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