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Strong earthquake in the South Aegean: The earthquake is likely to have caused considerable damage in the tourist region of Greece and Turkey.
A strong earthquake struck north of the Greek island of Samos off the Turkish city of Izmir on Friday. The Potsdam Geological Research Center and the EMSC Mediterranean Earthquake Center initially gave strength 6.9, the Greek earthquake service 6.7. Nothing has been known about those injured or killed.
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.
Considerable damage is likely to have occurred in the Izmir region and the Dodecanese islands, including the holiday destinations of Samos, Kos and Rhodes. The Greek portal tanea.gr reports that the church in the port city of Karlovasi on Samos has partially collapsed. Turkish news channel TRT reported panic in the streets during the earthquake
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 and the ships were on dry land, the website erdbebennews.de reported.
There they were asked to leave the immediate coastal area of the region.
