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The Turkish authorities are still counting the losses.
A strong earthquake struck Beaches Turkey YGreece hit hard6.6Scores on the Richter scaleAccording to Turkish officials.
The earthquake, whose epicenter was in the Turkish province of Izmir, destroyed some buildings, and the inhabitants of the Greek islands and Istanbul also felt the earthquake.
Turkish authorities said the earthquake’s strength reached 6.6 on the Richter scale, causing about 20 buildings to collapse, while the United States Geological Survey said the earthquake’s strength reached 7 on the Richter scale. .
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The earthquake triggered a small tsunami that reached the shores of the Greek island of Samos, and the coast of the Turkish city of Izmir, and there were reports that the people of Crete felt it.
The Turkish Ministry of Health confirmed that the number of victims so far has reached four and around 120 injured.
Earthquakes are common in the region, because it is located on a fault line between the continental Earth’s plates.
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Videos posted on social media showed some Turkish citizens searching the rubble for missing persons.
Videos posted on social media showed some Turkish citizens searching for missing persons in the rubble.
Eyewitnesses reported that Izmir city residents rushed to the streets at the time the earthquake struck the area.
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According to the American Survey, the epicenter was only 16 kilometers deep, which is why it is considered one of the earthquakes near the earth’s surface, which is the most destructive.
The videos showed a state of panic among the citizens of Izmir, Turkey’s third-largest city in terms of population, and local media reports reported a sudden rise in sea level and the disappearance of several fishermen and their boats. .
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erogan pledged to support the families of the victims and the injured by all means to make up for their losses.
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The earthquake caused dozens of deaths and injuries
And in january / Last January, 30 people were killed and more than 1,600 injured due to an earthquake that struck the Sivres region of eastern Turkey, while another earthquake struck the Greek capital Athens in 2019.
As for the strongest earthquake in the last two decades, in 1999, it struck the city of Hizmet, near Istanbul, and killed 17,000 people.
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry indicated that Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu received a phone call from his Greek counterpart, who expressed his country’s willingness to help face the crisis.
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