Turkey Earthquake June 2012 Turkey Earthquake Killed

The powerful earthquake that caused many buildings to collapse trapping.

Turkey map sea world earthquake online. Major earthquakes list june 10 2012 very strong dangerous earthquake along the turkey and greece coast no fatalities many injured june 10 2012 by armand vervaeck real time earthquake list s world regions countries states. The quake also caused panic on turkeys aegean coast. More than 17000 people were killed in august 1999 when a 76 magnitude quake struck izmit a.

Afp june 11 2012 556am a strong earthquake hit off the southwest coast of turkey overnight near a popular tourist resort putting dozens of people in hospital including some who jumped from. Turkey is crisscrossed with fault lines and frequently suffers earthquakes. More than 1600 people were injured in the earthquake with 104 still in hospital officials said.

At least 22 people were killed in a devastating 68 earthquake that struck turkeys province of elazig on friday. 2012 06 10 124416 utc 60 magnitude 35 km depth oeluedeniz mugla turkey. In june a 63 magnitude earthquake gutted a village on the greek island of lesbos killing a woman and leaving more than 15 injured.

Reports from the public. Turkey which sits atop two major fault lines has a history of powerful earthquakes. Turkey is a seismically active area within the complex zone of collision between the eurasian plate and both the african and arabian platesmuch of the country lies on the anatolian plate a small plate bounded by two major strike slip fault zones the north anatolian fault and east anatolian faultthe western part of the country is also affected by the zone of extensional.