Greece Earthquake October 2018 What Is Earthquake Awareness

But few cause injuries or significant damage.

Local time in turkey istanbul. Pshallow focus earthquakes are usually of large spread causing greater damage at distance from the epicenter. Greece lies in one of the worlds most earthquake prone regions with thousands of quakes recorded every year. The chances of experiencing shaking from an earthquake andor having property damage is dependent on many different factors.

In mainland greece normal faulting gives earthquakes up to 7 in magnitude while in the northern aegean strike slip events with a magnitude of 72 have been recorded. 2020 10 01 110538 utc at 1105 october 01 2020 utc location. Compare it to what happened in haiti just a month earlier on.

You can filter the data shown in various ways eg. Determining your risk with regard to earthquakes or more precisely shaking from earthquakes isnt as simple as finding the nearest fault. By magnitude or age of earthquakes the distance from your location the status of volcanoes and so on.

All dates are listed according to utc time. A more powerful magnitude 71 quake rattled the city last september but. Large intermediate depth 50 km earthquakes of magnitude 7 from within the subducting african plate have been recorded but such events cause little damage although they are.

This is a list of earthquakes in 2018only earthquakes of magnitude 6 or above are included unless they result in damage andor casualties or are notable for other reasons. Get the best of smithsonian magazine by email. Volcanoes earthquakes our new free app for android shows the latest earthquakes and active volcanoes on a map and as list as well as volcano news from all the world.

Yet only 550 people died in this earthquake 150 of those in the resulting tsunami and it hasnt lingered in the public awareness. According to the us geological survey the epicenter was recorded in the ionian sea roughly 50 miles from the greek city of pyrgos and 175 miles from capital city of athens. The epicenter is the point at the surface right above where the earthquake originates and is usually the place where the earthquakes intensity is the greatest.

Maximum intensities are indicated on the mercalli intensity scale and are sourced from united states geological survey usgs shakemap data. In 1999 a magnitude 59 quake on the. This theory lead to a belief in earthquake weather that because a large amount of air was trapped underground the weather would be.

Small tremors were thought to have been caused by air pushing on the cavern roofs and large ones by the air breaking the surface. Epicenter at 36763 26781 162 km from kefalos 92 miles dodecanese islands greece.