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ON June 20, following foreshocks during the previous night to the accompaniment of torrential rain, a severe earthquake shook the beautiful, rich, fruit-growing district just to the east of the Gulf of Ismid, on either side of the Istanbul-Ankara Railway about sixty miles east of Istanbul. The epicentre of the shock was near, and probably just east of, the town of Adapazar, where most of the buildings were wholly or partly wrecked. Other towns more or less damaged in the district were Geyve, Arefie and Hendick, the latter twenty miles east of Adapazar. Nearly all the villages in the district suffered. The shock was felt severely in Istanbul, where some apprehension was caused by walls collapsing. The Constantine Pillar in old Istanbul, dating from the first half of the fourth century, is reported to have been damaged.
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Earthquake in Turkey. Nature 152, 17 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152017a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/152017a0