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2017 Aegean Sea earthquake

On 21 July 2017, a large earthquake measuring 6.6 on the moment magnitude scale struck close to the tourist locations of Kos in Greece and Bodrum in Turkey, killing 2 people 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.

2017 Aegean Sea earthquake
2017 Aegean Sea earthquake · Rob Koster, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
When
21 Jul 2017
Where
Aegean Sea
Era
Contemporary

Topics

Turkey1,258 BCE – todayGreece776 BCE – today

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