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6 victims and hundreds injured in the Izmir region, on the island of Samos 8 injured and broken roads
A powerful earthquake in the Aegean Sea struck Greece and western Turkey on Friday, toppling buildings in the Izmir region, under which many people are likely buried, and triggering a tsunami. According to the United States Seismological Agency, the earthquake had a magnitude of 7 on the Richter scale.
Six people died and at least 320 were injured in Turkey. Minitsunami flooded the Turkish coast near Izmir and the Greek island of Samos, world news agencies reported. Amateur footage shows how, after the initial wave, the low tide sucked the ships in Izmir harbor and carried them out to sea. There are reports of fishermen missing. Other videos have sealed how
the water floods
the city streets
The disaster occurred shortly before 2:00 p.m., 13 km northeast of the island of Samos, according to the Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Center, which determined the strength at 6.9. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km. According to the Anatolian Agency, the earthquake had a magnitude of 6.6 and the epicenter occurred at a depth of 16 km near Sheferihisar, Izmir district.
Earthquake
feels strongly
in bulgaria
and North Macedonia. Several minor oscillations followed, the strongest being 5.1.
The Bulgarian diplomatic services in Turkey have not received any signal from distressed Bulgarian citizens, the Foreign Ministry announced. According to information from the municipal authorities of the Bornova district, where many people with dual citizenship (Bulgarian and Turkish) live, there are no reports of victims.
Witnesses say the ground shook for 30 seconds. According to the Turkish channel NTV, 10 houses were destroyed in the Bayrakli region of Izmir. Izmir Provincial Governor Tunch Sawyer has declared at least 20 buildings demolished.
“More than 20 blocks have collapsed. It is not known how many people were in them. So far there is no serious panic. However, we were all very scared. As if
the earth itself
divide in two “,
Abdurahim Nursoy, president of the emigration organization in Izmir, told Nova TV. 38 ambulances, helicopters and 35 medical and rescue teams were dispatched to the scene. About 70 people were rescued alive from the rubble in the first hours of the rescue operation.
Witnesses told Al Jazeera TV about
great panic
in the billion
Smyrna
The images show collapsed buildings, crushed cars and people clambering through the rubble in search of survivors.
“I spoke with my children. They are fine, but they are scared. The damage in the Bornova district is enormous. There a nine-story block with 120 apartments collapsed. There were probably about 500 people in it,” said Ibrahim Ayoglu, a resident of Izmir.
It also shook in Istanbul, but without damage.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that the government will help all those affected “by all means available to the state.” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called him on the phone to offer his condolences to the victims. “Despite our differences at the time, our two peoples must be together,” Mitsotakis wrote on Twitter.
Residents of the 45,000-strong Greek island of Samos have been advised to stay away from the coast due to tsunami warnings. “It was an incredibly strong earthquake,
it’s hard to be
Introduce
stronger”,
Efthymios Lekas of the Greek Anti-Seismic Planning Service told NBC. There are 8 minor injuries on the island, but serious damage to the road infrastructure has been caused, mostly caused by fallen rocks.
The EU is ready to help, the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, wrote on Twitter.
In Plovdiv, some people left the blocks in shock, others did not feel it
YAROSLAVA PROKHAZKOVA
The earthquake was felt in the upper floors of Sofia, Haskovo, Burgas, Plovdiv and Kazanlak at 1:51 p.m.
“The epicenter of the earthquake is 50-60 km from the Turkish city of Izmir, to the Greek island of Samos, and the distance from Sofia is about 550 km.” So said the seismologist on duty at the Geophysical Institute of BAS Dragomir Dragomirov for “24 Chasa”.
“This is an area where such events can be generated and there will certainly be consequences. In Izmir on July 29, 1999 there was one of the strongest earthquakes in the region with a magnitude greater than 7, which claimed many victims, there was also great destruction “, said for” 24 hours “the assistant professor Petya Trifonova, deputy director of the Institute in Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography of BAS.
“Thank goodness Turkey and Greece are many times more seismic than we are,” added associate professor Trifonova. Twitter users posted videos showing buildings collapsing in Izmir.
Many Plovdiv residents felt the earthquake. The famous journalist Neri Terzieva, who lives in the Trakia region, described on her Facebook profile that she felt the shaking and was scared.
“The people of our famous block are retreating with dignity to the meadow opposite. I go to my husband’s 150-year-old house, where the children live. Beams and foundations of stone cubes per meter and 50”, Terzieva writes.
However, many Plovdiv residents say they have not felt it.
In the neighboring Pazardzhik region, the earthquake was also not noticed except in the high blocks.
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