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At least 22 dead and about 800 injured caused a powerful earthquake this Friday that affected Turkey and Greece and that it even caused a mini tsunami.
The telluric movement, which was felt in Istanbul and Athens, took place in the Aegean Sea, southwest of Smyrna, Turkey’s third largest city, and near the Greek island of Samos.
The magnitude of the earthquake, which occurred ten kilometers deep, was evaluated by the United States Geophysical Institute (USGS) at 7 and 6.8 by the Turkish authorities.
In Bayrakli, Izmir province, rescue teams, with sniffer dogs, scrambled to try to reach victims and possible survivors amid a mass of twisted beams and large chunks of concrete, the remains of a collapsed seven-story building. , according to images from the Turkish public broadcaster TRT.
The Turkish Emergency and Disaster Management (AFAD) confirmed 20 dead and about 800 injured.
In Greece, the island of Samos, in the Dodecanese archipelago, was the most affected area: two young people lost their lives due to the collapse of a wall and nine people were injured, reported the public channel ERT.
“It was chaos, we have never experienced that… So far we have no victims. Some buildings have been damaged, a church in particular ”, located in the port of Karlovassi, declared Giorgos Dionysiou, the deputy mayor of Samos.
The earthquake caused a rise in sea level that flooded the streets of Seferihisar, a Turkish city located at the epicenter. The storm surge also swept the shores of the island of Samos.
The earthquake was also felt in Istanbul, the economic capital of the country mourned 20 years ago by a powerful earthquake. But no damage was found, said the governor of Istanbul province.
“All our institutions began to move to the place to initiate the necessary efforts,” declared President Erdogan, on Twitter.
Both Turkey and Greece are located in one of the most active seismic zones in the world. In Turkey, in recent years, in addition to the 1999 earthquake, in 2011, a 7.1 earthquake in the Van province left more than 600 dead, and last January one of 6.7 left about 40 dead in the province from Elazig (east).
In Greece, the last deadly earthquake occurred in July 2017 on the island of Kos, near Samos, in the Dodecanese archipelago, and caused two deaths.
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