Historic Earthquakes
Northern Sporades, Greece
1965 March 09 17:57 UTC (local time 15:57)
Magnitude 6.3
According to press reports, 2 people were killed and 85 percent
of the buildings on Alonnisos and Skopelos were destroyed. The shock was
felt throughout Greece and in Canakkale and Edremit, Turkey. A tsunami
was observed on Kyra Panagia and Skiathos.
Abridged from
United States Earthquakes, 1965.
Main shock of a long series whose epicentral zone
lines in the Aegean Sea along a line joining the islands
of Skiathos, Skopelos and Alonnisos. Much damage
was done on the small island of Alonnisos; 173 houses
were destroyed and 928 seriously damaged; there
were 2 dead and 2 injured; intensity IX-X was
recorded at Patitiri (Alonnisos), VIII at Alonnisos,
VII at Glossa on the island of Skopelos which had
already been damaged on 23 February and 20 April
1964; the shock was felt strongly on the islands of
Skiathos, Ayios Evstratios and Skiros; the
macroseismic area was 320,000 square kilometres and the
shock was felt over a wide area in Turkey, at Bursa,
Edirne, Balikesir, Izmir, etc.
Abridged from
Rothe, J.P., 1969, The seismicity of the earth, 1953-1965:
Paris, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 336 p.
