In 1999, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake killed around nine hundred people, also in Duzce.
In the same year, a particularly strong 7.4 earthquake killed more than 17,000 people in the region around the industrial city of Izmit, some 130 kilometers to the west.
An earthquake in Izmir killed more than a hundred people in October 2020.
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