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1963 Skopje earthquake

1963 Skopje earthquake
1963 Skopje earthquake is located in Yugoslavia
1963 Skopje earthquake
UTC time1963-07-26 04:17:17
ISC event872813
USGS-ANSSComCat
Local dateJuly 26, 1963 (1963-07-26)
Local time5:17
Magnitude6.1 Mw
Depth6 kilometres (4 mi)[1]
Epicenter42°06′N 21°24′E / 42.10°N 21.40°E / 42.10; 21.40[1][2]
Max. intensityMMI X (Extreme)[3]
Casualties1,000–1,100 killed[1][4]
  • 3,000–4,000 injured[5][6]
  • 200,000 left homeless[4]
  • 75–80% of city destroyed[7][8]

The 1963 Skopje earthquake (Macedonian: Скопски земјотрес од 1963 година, Albanian: Tërmeti i Shkupit i vitit 1963) was a 6.1 moment magnitude earthquake which occurred in Skopje, SR Macedonia (present-day North Macedonia), then part of the SFR Yugoslavia, on July 26, 1963, which killed over 1,070 people, injured between 3,000[5] and 4,000[6] and left more than 200,000 people homeless.[4] About 80 percent of the city was destroyed.[4]

  1. ^ a b c Seismic Ground Motion Estimates for the M6.1 earthquake of July 26, 1963, at Skopje, North Macedonia Archived April 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Department of Earth Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
  2. ^ "1963 Skopje Macedonia Earthquake". Retrieved August 19, 2015.
  3. ^ "Significant Earthquake: BALKANS NW: MACEDONIA: SKOPJE". National Geophysical Data Center. July 26, 1963. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d Marking the 44th anniversary of the catastrophic 1963 Skopje earthquake Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine MRT, Thursday, July 26, 2007
  5. ^ a b "My Info Agent". Archived from the original on February 24, 2012. Retrieved August 19, 2015.
  6. ^ a b "Макфакс - Макфакс". Archived from the original on April 1, 2010. Retrieved August 19, 2015.
  7. ^ "The 1963 earthquake". Archived from the original on May 13, 2008. Retrieved August 19, 2015.
  8. ^ "BBC ON THIS DAY - 26 - 1963: Thousands killed in Yugoslav earthquake". July 26, 1963. Retrieved August 19, 2015.

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