View more details about this product on the NASA Disasters Mapping Portal. With actionable Earth observations, the NASA Earth Science Applied Sciences Program empowers communities across the world to find solutions to the challenges they face every day. A three-year-old Ayda Gezgin was also said to have been the second little girl rescued on Tuesday, from an 8-story building. On August 11 of 1904, Samos was rocked by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake causing substantial damage to Greece and Turkey, killing four. On October 30, 2020, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake took place near Izmir, Turkey and Néon Karlovásion, Greece and was felt across a large area of both countries. While minor shaking was also felt in some regions of Athens.[16]. On 30 October 2020, at 13.51 local time (11.51 UTC), an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 Mw struck off the Aegean coast of Turkey, south of Izmir, and north of the Greek island of Samos (37.91 N 26.79 E), with an estimated hypocentral depth of 21 km (USGS-United States Geological Survey). [54], Initially, Turkish Minister of the Interior Süleyman Soylu stated that at least six buildings were destroyed in İzmir, but the city's mayor Tunç Soyer later put the number of collapsed buildings closer to 20. October 30, 2020 541 views ISTANBUL- A strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea has shaken Turkey and Greece. The Program provided damage proxy maps (DPMs) showing potential damage to structures, and displacement maps showing surface movement from the earthquake, to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and seismologists in Turkey. October 30, 2020 On Friday, October 30, a magnitude 6.6 - 7.0 earthquake occurred in the Aegean Sea between Turkey and the Greek Islands. The western part of the Greek island of Samos moved upward by as much as 10 cm, and a small area of the north coast of Samos moved downward by roughly the same amount. [18][19] The fault has been considered dangerous to populations surrounding the area due to its past history of earthquakes. Media in category "2020 Aegean Sea earthquake" The following 30 files are in this category, out of 30 total. This region is no stranger to earthquakes, with a written record of tectonic destruction stretching back centuries. [51] Seferihisar was among the places hit by the tsunami, causing a fatality. Rescue workers and local people carry a wounded person found in the debris of a collapsed building, in Izmir, Turkey, Friday, Oct. 30, 2020, after a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea … Sea recession was the leading motion in most sites implying wave generation from seismic dislocation. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data collected by satellites lets scientists compare ground surface changes from before and after a major event. The earthquake struck the Aegean Sea on Friday. By: Maddie Ecker, Earth Applied Sciences Writer, Keeping a Dry Eye on Drought in East Africa, NASA Helps Empower the Next Generation of Galápagos Conservationists, Making Soil Moisture Data Accessible for Disaster Management, Destination: Mongolia – Understanding the Plateau Rangeland Ecosystem, View Products on the NASA Disasters Mapping Portal. Surprisingly, this quake caused a tsunami along the Turkish coast and on some Greek islands. Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) At least 27 people were killed in Turkey and Greece when a powerful earthquake hit the Aegean Sea on Friday afternoon, sending buildings crashing down and triggering … Minor earthquake - Aegean Sea - October 18, 2020. The earthquake caused flooding and significant damage to the city, and was responsible for numerous casualties according to media reports. The Samos Fault is an east-west striking, north dipping normal fault located offshore, north of the coast of Samos. It subducts or dives beneath the Aegean, occasionally producing great megathrust earthquakes and tsunamis including the 365 Crete earthquake. The main shock of the earthquake led to a small local tsunami and was followed by more than 1,250 aftershocks, 43 … The Applied Sciences Program is part of the Earth Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate. [9] The earthquake is the most powerful in the Aegean Sea since 1981, and the deadliest in İzmir Province since a magnitude 6.6 killed four people in 1955. 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Eurokinissi/AFP via Getty Images The US Geological Survey reports a magnitude 7.0 earthquake has struck in the Aegean Sea, just off the coast of both Turkey and the Greek island of Samos. It ruptured for a length of 37 kilometers and had a maximum slip of 1.8 meters during this earthquake, causing uplift on the island of Samos for 18–25 cm. [6] The other Turkish victim outside Izmir died from drowning in the advancing tsunami in the district of Seferihisar. The tsunami arrived between 10 and 15 minutes after the mainshock. October 18, 2020 by Armand Vervaeck. Poor construction practices and code compliance were reasons for the collapse. [60], On 4 November, mayor of İzmir Tunç Soyer stated that 15,000 people lost their homes only in İzmir in the earthquake. The earthquake occurred as a result of pure normal faulting at a shallow crustal depth within the Eurasian Plate in the eastern Aegean Sea, about 250 km north of the closest main plate boundary, where the African Plate moves to the north at a rate of approximately 10 mm per year with respect to the Eurasian. Check out our latest daily earthquake list. However, the subduction rate along the Hellenic subduction zone at 35 mm/yr which greatly exceeds the velocity of the African Plate. ... Earthquake and Tsunami in the Aegean Sea of 30 October 2020 | DG ECHO Daily Map │04/11/2020 … With help from NASA’s Earth-observing satellites, our community is making a difference on our home planet. Find out how by staying up-to-date on their latest projects and discoveries. It produced wide-ranging effects including tsunami run-up, ground shaking with local zones of high intensity that led to the collapse of structures and 118 fatalities in both countries, and various geotechnical effects including liquefaction, rockfalls, and landsliding. On October 30, when a powerful magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck under the Aegean Sea, dozens of buildings collapsed and water rushed into the streets of the coastal city of Izmir, Turkey, and on the island of Samos, Greece. It struck on 30 October 2020, about 14 km (8.7 mi) northeast of the island of Samos, Greece.. (DHA via AP) Friday, 30 October 2020 … Ilke Cide, a doctoral student who was in Izmir’s Guzelbahce region during the earthquake, said he went inland after waters rose following the earthquake. This page was last edited on 26 February 2021, at 10:56. Preliminary validation of the data was done by comparing with the data with media reports. 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[10][11] The earthquake is also the deadliest in the year of 2020. The earthquake, which the Kandilli Institute said had a magnitude of 6.9, struck at 2:51 p.m. local time (1151 GMT) in Turkey and was centered in the Aegean northeast of Samos. october 30, 2020 14:52 A strong earthquake of magnitude of up 7.0 struck the Aegean Sea on Friday and was felt in both Turkey and Greece, local and international observatories said. The earthquake’s epicenter was just north of Samos, Greece, but the most significant impacts were felt further north in Izmir, Turkey. 7.0 earthquake - north of Samos Island, Greece, on Friday, 30 October 2020 at 11:51 (GMT) - information Major magnitude 6.7 earthquake - Aegean Sea, 17 km northeast of Karlovasi, Samos, North Aegean, Greece, on Friday, 30 Oct 2020 1:51 pm (GMT +2) If Yes, tell us by using the I FELT IT form behind the earthquake or at the bottom of this page. It is funded in part by the Disasters program area of NASA Earth Applied Sciences through the NASA ROSES A.37 research project “Global Rapid Damage Mapping System with Spaceborne SAR Data”. I wish urgent healing to the injured. For that, north-south extension within Aegean Sea Plate in the back-arc compensate the subduction rate. [19] In a 2009 study, the fault had the potential to produce an earthquake of magnitude 6.8. In Greece, 2 people were killed, with 19 more sustaining minor injuries. Kazakh Minister of Foreign Affairs Mukhtar Tleuberdi, sent the following message to his counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, "I offer my deepest condolences to the bereaved families who lost their relatives by sharing irreplaceable grief.