Simitis, who died on Sunday aged 88, received the full honours of an incumbent leader in a ceremony at the Athens Metropolitan ... In early 1999, Greece was left red-faced when separatist Kurdish ...

THE STATUE OF ZEUS AT OLYMPIA Departing in the shadow of the Acropolis from Athens, the traditional ... for only 56 years before collapsing in an earthquake in 226 B.C. “Even lying on the ...

Earthquakes with a magnitude greater than 7 have hit Istanbul in 1509, 1766 and 1894, causing thousands of deaths and large-scale destruction. A 1999 earthquake in Izmit, approximately 100 ...

Istanbul — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 shook Istanbul on Wednesday, Turkey's disaster and emergency management agency said. There were no reports of serious damage or major ...

The last major earthquake along the same Northern Anatolian Fault Line struck Kocaeli in 1999, killing more than 18,000 people. According to district-level projections by the İstanbul Metropolitan ...

(MENAFN- AzerNews) Istanbul experienced its worst nightmare since the 7.4 magnitude Izmit earthquake on August 17, 1999, yesterday. The city was shaken by a 6.2 magnitude earthquake with an ...

Powerful thunderstorms were felt overnight in South Carolina, but some specific rumbling in the Columbia area turned out to be a very different environmental event — an earthquake.

Historically, that fault has led to several disastrous earthquakes, including a 7.6 magnitude quake that struck the nearby city of Izmit in 1999, killing over 17,000 people, and displacing an ...

No deaths were reported after the magnitude-6.2 tremor, which rattled nerves in the wake of Turkey’s disastrous 2023 quake. By Safak Timur and Erika Solomon Safak Timur reported from Istanbul ...

Unlike hurricanes, floods, wildfires and other natural disasters, earthquakes don't have an annual season that homeowners can prepare for. But they do hit certain parts of the country more than ...

A 2.9 magnitude earthquake struck near Dublin, California on Tuesday afternoon, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake hit around 4:58 p.m. local time about three miles west ...