Earthquake 1920 (?)
Konstantinos Kourtidis
Demokritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
Photograph of an old postcard. On the back, handwritten with pencil, reads `Kallipoli, the earthquake of 1920, Greeks`. Kallipoli is the Greek name of Gallipoli (turkish Galibolu).
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: Konstantinos Kourtidis (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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Type
Image
Format
JPG
Size
3.3 MB
Width
3072 px
Height
2304 px
Aspect
4:3
Exposure
10 mm f/2.8 1/30 s ISO 100
Taken
1920
Coordinates
40.4167, 26.6667
Tint
Light gray
Submitted
31 January 2011
Comments
After posting the photo, I received some information from Dr. M. Ersen Aksoy, Centro de Geofísica da Universidade de Lisboa, who studied earthquakes in the region. According to this information, there are two candidates for the damage shown in the photo; either the 9 August 1912 earthquake in the Ganos region but also the 1935 earthquake, because clothes and photo quality appear more modern. There is no significant other large shock in this region in 1920. The white tent is typical of the Red Crescent Association.