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New earthquake in the Aegean Sea
A new earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale hit the Turkish city of Izmir, after the first earthquake, which was on Friday, with a magnitude of 6.6, which caused human and material losses.
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Today Saturday, Turkey’s Emergency and Disaster Management Department, “AFAD”, said in a tweet on its official page on the social networking site “Twitter”, that the new earthquake occurred at 08:31 Turkish time in the Aegean Sea, in front of the Safari Siege area in Izmir.
Earlier, AFAD announced that the number of victims of the first earthquake had risen to 20 and 786 were injured.
He said the region witnessed 244 aftershocks, 24 of which had a magnitude of more than 4 degrees, following the earthquake that struck the Aegean Sea off the coast of Izmir’s Safer Hesar district.
He added that the information received from the Disaster Coordination Center indicates that the death toll has risen to 25, one of whom drowned, while the number of wounded reached 804.
A 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck the Aegean Sea, 17 km off the coast of the Seferihisar district, and at a depth of 16.54 km.
#EARTHQUAKE: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 occurred at 08.31 in the Aegean Sea, off the Seferihisar district of Izmir.
We follow developments.
➡️ https://t.co/cofXSurHiN
– AFAD (@AFADBaskanlik) October 31, 2020
Source: Afad Agency
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