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17 August 1999
İzmit Earthquake
Gölcük and İzmit Bay rupture area, Türkiye
At 3:02 a.m. on 17 August 1999, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake ruptured the North Anatolian Fault through the densely urbanized and industrialized Marmara region. Shaking, surface faulting, …
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