List of earthquakes in Cyprus

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Notable earthquakes in the history of Cyprus include the following:

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Date EET AreaCoordinates Mag. MMI DeathsInjuriesComments
-15 Salamis 35°12′N34°00′E / 35.2°N 34°E / 35.2; 34 Extreme damage [1]
76 Paphos 34°48′N32°00′E / 34.8°N 32°E / 34.8; 32 XSevere damage [2]
1222-05-11 08:15 Paphos 34°42′N32°36′E / 34.7°N 32.6°E / 34.7; 32.6 7.0–7.5IXTsunami
1896-06-2920:48 Limassol Moderate damage [3]
1953-09-10 06:05 Paphos 35°00′N32°30′E / 35°N 32.5°E / 35; 32.5 6.5 Ms X40100Tsunami [4]
1995-02-2323:03 Paphos 35°03′N32°17′E / 35.05°N 32.28°E / 35.05; 32.28 5.9 Mw VII25 [5]
1996-10-0916:10 Paphos 34°34′N32°08′E / 34.56°N 32.13°E / 34.56; 32.13 6.8 Mw VII220 [6]
1999-08-1107:27 Limassol 34°47′N32°56′E / 34.79°N 32.94°E / 34.79; 32.94 5.6 Mw VII15Buildings damaged / landslides [7] [8]
2022-01-11 02:07 Paphos 35°08′46″N31°54′36″E / 35.146°N 31.910°E / 35.146; 31.910 6.6 Mw VI31Minor damage [9]
Mw  = moment magnitude scale and Ms  = surface wave magnitude. The inclusion criteria for adding events are based on WikiProject Earthquakes' notability guideline that was developed for stand alone articles. The principles described are also applicable to lists. In summary, only damaging, injurious, or deadly events should be recorded.

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Earthquakes are caused by movements within the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle. They range from events too weak to be detectable except by sensitive instrumentation, to sudden and violent events lasting many minutes which have caused some of the greatest disasters in human history. Below, earthquakes are listed by period, region or country, year, magnitude, cost, fatalities and number of scientific studies.

The 2007 Alum Rock earthquake occurred on October 30 at 8:04 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time in Alum Rock Park in San Jose, in the U.S. state of California. It measured 5.6 on the moment magnitude scale and had a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). The event was then the largest in the San Francisco Bay Area since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, which measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale, but was later surpassed by the 2014 South Napa earthquake. Ground shaking from the Alum Rock quake reached San Francisco and Oakland and other points further north. Sixty thousand felt reports existed far beyond Santa Rosa, as far north as Eugene, Oregon.

The 2010 Beni-Ilmane earthquakes began 14 May at 12:29:22 UTC, when a Mw  5.3 strike-slip earthquake occurred in Northern Algeria. With a maximum EMS-98 intensity of VII (Damaging), it was the first in a sequence of three shocks that affected the Bouïra Province over a ten-day period. Two people were killed, forty-three were injured, and some structural damage was reported.

The 1999 Aïn Témouchent earthquake occurred on December 22 at 18:36:56 local time in northern Algeria. The dip-slip event had a moment magnitude of 5.6 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII. At least 22 were killed, 175 were injured, and 15,000 were homeless. The Belgian Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters' EM-DAT database and the USGS' National Geophysical Data Center both list financial losses of $60.93 million.

References

  1. ↑ NGDC 1972
  2. ↑ NGDC 1972
  3. ↑ Ambraseys, N. (2009). Earthquakes in the Mediterranean and Middle East: A Multidisciplinary Study of Seismicity up to 1900 (First ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 785–786. ISBN   978-0521872928.
  4. ↑ NGDC 1972
  5. ↑ USGS. "M5.9 - Cyprus region". United States Geological Survey.
  6. ↑ USGS. "M6.8 - Cyprus region". United States Geological Survey.
  7. ↑ USGS. "M5.6 - Cyprus region". United States Geological Survey.
  8. ↑ "Low magnitude earthquake in Larnaca and Paphos". Daily Cyprus. Archived from the original on 2020-12-14. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  9. ↑ USGS. "M 6.6 - 48 km WNW of Pólis, Cyprus". United States Geological Survey.

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