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A severe earthquake shook the region around the Izmir holiday province on Friday. The tremor was felt up to Greece. There are also fatalities there and a tsunami alert.
After the earthquake in the Aegean Sea, the death toll in western Turkey rose to 12. – In addition, two young people died on the Greek island of Samos. At least 419 people were injured, the Turkish civil protection agency Afad said late Friday.
The Foreign Ministry currently has no evidence that Germans are among the dead and wounded. The embassy in Athens, the Greek capital, and the consulate in Izmir, Turkey, are still in contact with the responsible authorities, the ministry said late Friday.
The earthquake occurred on Friday north of Samos and in front of the Turkish city of Izmir. The Potsdam Geological Research Center and the EMSC Mediterranean Earthquake Center initially gave strength 6.9, the Greek earthquake service 6.7.
In the video above or here See pictures of Izmir and learn where the epicenter was. There six houses collapsed. Izmir Mayor Tunc Soyer said nearly 20 buildings collapsed in the province. There was still the fear that people would be buried under the rubble. In the Turkish media the first images of collapsed buildings appear, here of a residential building in Izmir.
In general photographs of the city, large clouds of dust can be seen in various places, dating back to landslides.
The wall of the house falls on the children, both dead
The Izmir region also includes holiday destinations such as Samos, Kos and Rhodes. The Greek portal tanea.gr reports that the church in the port city of Karlovasi on Samos has partially collapsed. According to Greek media reports, a girl and a boy in the small town of Vathy were walking home after school when the walls of the house collapsed into a narrow alley due to the earthquake; they both died. Greek authorities had previously reported eight wounded who had been transferred to the island’s hospital after the earthquake. There is still uncertainty about other people injured or killed.
The earthquake occurred at 12:51 pm at shallow depth. It is one of the worst earthquakes in the Mediterranean in recent years. It was also felt on the Greek mainland. Live images from a Facebook user showed that there was at least one small tsunami on Samos.
Previously, images from Izmir showed that the water had clearly receded there and the boats were lying on dry land. He reported the page erdbebennews.de.
There, people were asked to leave the immediate coastal area of the region.
