Ionian Sea Earthquake, Greece, 1953
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Great Ionian Earthquake, Greece, 1953
Great Kefalonia Earthquake, Greece, 1953
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found: Work cat.: Antipas, Panagēs G. Hē metaseismikē Kephallonia, Noemvrios 1957:page 3 (on the 1953 earthquake of the Ionian Islands and its effect on the island of Cephalonia)
found: United States earthquakes, 1953, 1953:page 42 (Principal earthquakes of the world from January through December 1953: Aug. 12, the earthquake at 09:23 (G.C.T.) near west cost of Greece; the largest of a swarm of about 120 earthquakes which killed 800 and injured 10,000 on the islands of Zante, Ithaca and Cephalonia; Coordinates of provisional epicenter: 38N, 21E; Magnitude: about 7.1)
found: Wikipedia, May 3, 2017(1953 Ionian Sea earthquake; also known as the Great Kefalonia earthquake; struck the southern Ionian Islands in Greece on August 12; in mid-August there were over 113 recorded earthquakes in the region between Kefalonia and Zakynthos, and the most destructive was the August 12 earthquake; 7.2Mg)
found: ThePapasPost WWW site, May 3, 2017(On this Day: August 12, 1953; the worst earthquake in modern Greek history, known as the Great Ionian Earthquake of 1953, was actually a series of hundreds of tremors, shocks and aftershocks that began on August 12, 1953, striking the region between the islands of Kefalonia and Zakynthos)
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2017-05-03: new
2017-07-13: revised
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