Abstract
AN earthquake of considerable intensity shook the district around Smyrna on Friday, September 22. In Smyrna itself more than 200 people are reported killed, many more injured and 5,000 are without shelter. In the surrounding district several villages have been almost destroyed. During the remainder of Friday and Saturday, aftershocks have occurred almost continuously, accompanied by underground rumblings. This region of Asia Minor is liable to earthquakes and earth tremors. Smyrna was affected by an earthquake which was destructive also at Aidin and places in the Meander Valley on September 20, 1899, though on that occasion the epicentre was somewhat to the south of the present one, being then near lat. 37·5° N., long. 27·5° E. A destructive earthquake again affected Smyrna on March 31, 1928, the epicentre on that occasion being calculated from the readings of 96 seismograms to have been at lat. 38·5° N., long. 28·0° E., somewhat inland to the east of Smyrna. Further data concerning the present shock will no doubt be somewhat delayed, though it appears to have been sufficiently intense to have affected seismographs throughout the world.
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Earthquake near Smyrna. Nature 144, 589 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144589c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144589c0