7.0 magnitude earthquake in the Aegean Sea causes tsunami on Greek island of Samos. October 30th 2020

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A powerful earthquake has struck off Turkey's Aegean coast, north of the Greek island of Samos, officials said. The tremor of up to 7.0 magnitude struck off the coast of Turkey's Izmir province, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, and was felt as far away as Athens and Istanbul.

 

Allahım sen koru #deprem #izmir pic.twitter.com/kcb9gjnNFZ

— Yiğit Morningstar (@yigitbayraktar) October 30, 2020

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/greece-turkey-earthquake-today-athens-update-istanbul-izmir-b1447616.html

In Samos, the island closer to the epicentre of the earthquake, a church and some buildings have collapsed, the sea has risen and the roads are flooded

Sea flooding

 

 

 

Sea pulled back, that's a sign before tsunami/flooding

 

Building collapse 10 minutes after the eq

 

Samos cathedral partially collapsed

 

 

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Tsunami hits Greek island of Samos & Turkey after 7.0M earthquake🇬🇷🇹🇷October 30 2020 Σάμος τσουνάμι

 

 

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Sea pulling back and dragging several ships

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Izmir, Turkey 

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"Everyone has been trying to leave the city as tremors have continued for the past 3 hours with magnitudes up to 5.0.

They've closed highways as traffic has been gridlocked--not sure what theyre thinking with closing highways.

12 dead and 438 injured in izmir and 17 buildings destroyed as of now

In Turkey they're reporting 6.6 but its actually 7.0. Not sure of that logic either."

 

The mayor of Izmir is talking to news outlets

Main areas of destruction: Bornova and Bayrakli

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There is a MASSIVE difference between 7.0 (as article headline says) and 6.7 or 6.5 reported in various places. Like a 6.7 is almost half the power of a 7.0. A base 10 log scale means that each integer is 10x more than the previous one. Reporters are super lazy about accuracy with this and it matters. A 6.7 could shake some buildings and cause some damage where a 7.0 would cause wide spread collapse of the same buildings.