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1941 Muğla earthquake in 21:51 with local clock on 23 May 1941; the central base of Turkey is located near the village of Muğla iline connected Kıran, under 15 km of the ground, the earthquake with a height of 6.0 according to the richter scale. 4 people died in this earthquake, 20 people were injured.

Tektonic status
South Aegean is a region where especially the Crete Yayi - On Two Islands are most dense in the earthquake activity. Crete Yayi-Kıbrıs Yayi produces earthquakes in central violence and severe violence in the region. Especially Milas-Bodrum-Gökova Bay-Datça walls are located among the regions where earthquake sequences are heavily observed. The region, which is the source of earthquake, is controlled by normal faylar, which constitutes Gökova Bay and parallel to the general distance. There are faylar with the normal faylar in the east-west rounding, forming the northern arm of the bay, and in general, KD-GB and KB-GD rounded into the land are available.

This area where the earthquake occurred is a city that has experienced large earthquakes and tsunamis on time. For many times during the date, earthquakes live in the destructive power. Especially Datça, Marmaris and Rhodes civars have been subjected to destructive earthquakes for decades. After 1900 years, the largest earthquake experienced in this region is the earthquake in 1926, which takes 7.7 in a very close place to Datça. In the near time; on July 21, 2017, Bodrum is very close, and 6.6 in the earthquake in Gökova Bay, there is still financial damage, but there was no loss in Turkey limits.

In 554 or 556, there was almost 7 earthquakes in the same place as Kos Island and Bodrum. Specifically, tsunaminin, which consists of at least 8.5 earthquakes in Crete on 21 July 365, was observed to be 6 meters as an estimate of the tsunami height. Due to this tsunami, some boats were over the houses and about 5 thousand people were drowned out during tsunami.

Earthquake and losses
Earthquake was held in 21:51 with local clock, and mainly in Muğla, Mugla, other districts and other provinces were felt quite strong. The central base of the earthquake was the village of Kıran connected to Mugla iline and is 20 km away from Mugla, Gökova Bay was only 3 km away. Earthquake was under 15 km and lasted for 12 seconds. The roof of a house in the center of Muğla crashed and at the end of which five people were lightly injured. 5 buildings in the earthquake were completely damaged, in 20 buildings there were also light damage. During an artillery earthquake that occurred at 01.42 on the night connecting 23 May 24, two people died in the center with the drop of a copan rock from Asar Mountain located north of Muğla, two people were injured. In addition, a person died in the village of Greenyurt and a person was injured. Name