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An interferogram image of the rupture caused by the earthquake. The 17 August 1999 earthquake was the seventh in a sequence of westward-migrating seismic sequence along the NAFZ. This earthquake sequence began in 1939 and ruptured along a 1000-km part of the fault zone, with horizontal displacements of up to 7.5 m (25 ft). [6]
The earthquake severely damaged the city of Tralles (modern Aydın) and the island of Kos; See 554 Anatolia earthquake [26] 14 December 557 just before midnight Constantinople: 40.9 28.7 n/a X (Intense) Constantinople was "almost completely razed to the ground" by the earthquake. see 557 Constantinople earthquake [27] 14 May 1269 Cilicia ...
The 1999 Turkey earthquake may refer to: 1999 İzmit earthquake , 7.6 magnitude quake on August 17 1999 Düzce earthquake , 7.2 magnitude quake on November 12, 60 miles further east
1766 Istanbul earthquake; 1766 Marmara earthquake; 1784 Erzincan earthquake; ... 1998 Adana–Ceyhan earthquake; 1999 Düzce earthquake; 1999 İzmit earthquake;
It struck at 4:08 a.m. (0108 GMT) and was felt in Istanbul, in the capital Ankara and other parts of the region. ... “I guess it took 40-45 seconds, like the 1999 earthquake,” Algun said ...
Earthquake aid from government-held regions into territory controlled by hardline opposition groups has been held up by approval issues with Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) which ...
Rescue workers departed Istanbul Airport this morning, 7 February, to travel to regions affected by yesterday’s earthquakes. At least 5,000 people have died in Turkey and Syria after two ...
Seismologists studying this pattern believe that each earthquake may trigger the next. [5] By analyzing the stresses along the fault caused by each large earthquake, they were able to predict [quantify] the shock that hit the town of İzmit with devastating effect in August 1999. It is thought that the chain is not complete, and that an ...