M7.0 DODECANESE ISLANDS, GREECE on October 30th 2020 at 11:51 UTC
Last update: 11 January 2021 at 08:34 UTC
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Earthquake details
An earthquake of magnitude M7.0 hit Greece and Turkey, October 30th 2020 at 11h51 UTC. Seismological information are available here.
At the time of this report, a lot of buildings are damaged and Greece's Samos island is flooded. According to the Guardians 85 victims in Turkey's Izmir city and at least 2 people in the Greek island of Samos. More than 1000 people had been injured in Turkey's Izmir city, and unfortunately many people are still missing.
More than 867 earthquakes have been recorded in the last 3 days that followed the mainshock.
Additional information can found on the Twitter moments [link].
Scientific reports are made available by the seismological community:
- Preliminary Report on observed strong ground motion on Samos island [pdf];
- An scientific article "Fault responsible for Samos earthquake identified" (Ganas et al., 2020) [link];
- Preliminary report on the M7 Samos-Izmir earthquake (NOA) [pdf];
- Study on the tsunami caused by the 30 October 2020 Samos(Greece) earthquake [pdf];
- Preliminary report on the Mw 6.9 Samos-Izmir earthquake of 30 October 2020 (NKUA) [pdf];
- Newsletter #21 of Environmental, Disaster, and Crises Management Strategies - The October 30, 2020, Mw 6.9, Samos (Greece) Earthquak [pdf];
- Report from AFAD on the M6.6 Samos-Irmiz earthquake [pdf].
Aftershock sequence
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| Aftershock sequence in Dodecanese Islands since October 30th 2020 at 11:51 UTC. The mainshock is in blue. | Magnitude distribution in time of seismic events within 150 km of the mainshock. |
Maps of felt reports
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| Map felt reports collected for the mainshock. |
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Epicenter location
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