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Quake jolts Turkish part of Aegean Sea

10 January 2013 [14:35] - TODAY.AZ
An earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale took place in the Turkish part of the Aegean Sea this morning, CNN Turk TV channel reported on Thursday.

Turkey is located in a seismically active zone. The most powerful vibrations of the earth's crust in this country occurred in the Marmara Sea in 1999. The magnitude of the tremors was 7.4. About 18,000 people killed in the earthquake.


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