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M7.9 - New Ireland Region, Papua New Guinea, 1983
Damage (VII) along the southeast coast of New Ireland. Landslides and ground cracks occurred, trees were uprooted and steam was ejected from fumaroles in the Feni Islands. Slight damage (VI) and minor landslides in the Rabaul area, New Britain. Felt on Bougainville and (III) at Port Moresby, New Guinea. Felt strongly by two ships at sea in the epicentral area. A twenty-five-centimeter tsunami was recorded at Rabaul. Minor tsunami observed in the Feni Islands and along the southeast coast of New Ireland.
M7.3 - Western Turkey, 1953
1070 killed, including 998 in Yenice, 50 in Gonen, 20 in Can, and 3 in Manyas. Damage estimated at $3,570,000.
Several thousand buildings damaged in the Can-Yenice-Gonen area. Felt (VI) at Sakarya (Adapazari), Bursa, Edirne, Istanbul and Izmir. Felt throughout the Aegean Islands and in much of mainland Greece. Also felt in Bulgaria. About 50 km (30 mi) of surface faulting with as much as 4.3 m (14 ft) of strike-slip (horizontal) offset observed east of Yenice.
From United States Earthquakes, 1953.
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