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An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (present-day North Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead.
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1963 Skopje earthquake
1963 earthquake in Skopje, SR Macedonia
The 1963 Skopje earthquake was a 6.1 moment magnitude earthquake which occurred in Skopje, SR Macedonia, then part of the SFR Yugoslavia, on July 26, 1963, which killed over 1,070 people, injured between 3,000 and 4,000 and left more than 200,000 people homeless. About 80…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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