Date in year · 1970 · The 1970s
On March 28, 1970, an earthquake strikes western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killing 1,086 and injuring at least 1,200. The year's #1 song was "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon & Garfunkel. Ricky Schroder, Saad Hariri, Willie Roaf would arrive in the same year.
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0
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1970
1970s
Featured · March 28, 1970
2 on the Mw scale.
Around 1970
1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1970th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 970th year of the 2nd millennium, the 70th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1970s decade.
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7.2 magnitude earthquake in western Turkey
2 on the Mw scale.
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