Magnitude 5.9 earthquake injures dozens of people in Turkey

a year ago 23/11/2022
  • Several tectonic plates border each other on the territory of Turkey.

    In November 1999, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake killed around 900 people, also in Duzce.

    In September of the same year, a particularly strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 killed more than 17,000 people in the region around the industrial city of Izmit, some 130 kilometers away.

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