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Vibrations could be felt up to Athens and Istanbul, and a tsunami was also observed. At least twelve people died in Turkey and two people died in Samos.
7:05 pm, October 30, 2020
One strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea has in the Western turkey and up Greek islands caused great destruction on Friday. Several people died and a tsunami occurred. According to preliminary information from the Turkish civil protection authority on Friday evening at least twelve people died in western Turkey, at least 419 other people were injured. Two young men died on the Greek island of Samos.
The first earthquake had according to Turkish National Disaster Agency a Strength of 6.6. The person responsible for the earthquakes US agency USGS and the Central Institute of Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) in Vienna, the strength of the earthquake was even 7.0. The center was in the Aegean Sea off the Turkish province. Smyrna, Located about 10 miles north of the Greek island of Samos, Turkish and Greek media reported.
both of them Samos just like him West coast of Turkey entry tsunami in. Earthquake institutes reported the first western aftershocks of the main earthquake, several of them well above magnitude 4.0. Greek television stations showed images of a flooded coastal promenade where the tsunami washed away cars. Power went out. Flooded streets can also be seen in images from Seferihisar, Turkey.
The youths killed in Samos were reportedly headed home after school when the walls of a house collapsed due to the earthquake in a narrow alley. The media had previously reported that eight wounded were being treated at the hospital.
According to calculations of German Geosearch Center (GFZ) in Potsdam, the tsunami waves reached heights of more than 1.5 meters. Tilmann Frederik, a seismologist with the center, said the quake occurred in an area with high tectonic activity. The last earthquake of this magnitude occurred in the area in the 1950s. In 1999, Turkey suffered one of the worst natural disasters in its history. During an earthquake in the region around the northwestern industrial city Izmit, east of Istanbul, more than 17,000 people died at that time.
According to various reports, the earthquake is said to have struck the Turkish metropolis. Istanbul and to the greek capital Athens it could have been felt. Turkish television station TRT showed images of collapsed apartment buildings and clouds of dust over the city of Izmir. Panic was reported on the streets during the earthquake and telephone connections were cut. Turkish media reported that some hospitals in Izmir province had been damaged and needed to be evacuated. According to the Turkish state news agency Anadolu, several games of the Turkish soccer leagues have been canceled. The authorities asked that the roads not be blocked and that the cellular network be relieved as much as possible.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan He addressed the population in a tweet. Help the people affected by the earthquake by all means. Erdogan and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis offered each other assistance in a phone call, Anadolu reported. The governments of Athens and Ankara are currently at odds due to controversial gas exploration in Turkey and border disputes in the eastern Mediterranean.
He too European Union and the NATO offered assistance to Turkey and Greece. “My thoughts are with all those affected,” wrote the head of the EU Council. Charles Michel Friday on Twitter. “The EU is ready to provide support.” Also the President of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the Secretary General of NATO Jens stoltenberg offered that.
Austria could actively participate in European aid. That doubled by the turquoise green government in September Foreign Disaster Fund (AKF) Michel Reimon, a spokesman for the Greens for humanitarian aid, said in a broadcast on Friday that he was prepared for precisely such cases.
