Greece and Turkey were shaken by a powerful earthquake: streets flooded, buildings destroyed

10/30/2020 World



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Friday at 1 pm 51 min. The epicenter of the local (and Lithuanian) earthquake, with a rating of 6.7 to 7, was on the seabed north of the island of Samos. The underground crashes in Same also caused minor tsunami waves, which destroyed and damaged buildings, the services said.

Firefighters reported that two teenagers were killed when the wall collapsed in the port city of Vati on the island of Sam. Greek public television ERT reported that the first victims of the earthquake in the country were 15- and 17-year-old students walking home from school.

“Two unconscious young men were pulled from the rubble after the day of the collapse and taken to the hospital for identification,” firefighters said in a statement.

Greek authorities said four more people were injured in the demolition of the walls of several old buildings.

At the time, an earthquake in Turkey’s western Izmir province claimed at least six lives and injured 257 other people, AFAD reported to the Natural Disaster and Emergency Management Agency.

“According to the information received, six people died and 257 were injured,” the agency said in a statement.

AFAD has indicated that rescue work continues on 12 more buildings in the impact-affected city of Izmir, which has a population of 4.5 million.

The underground clashes were felt on the island of Crete and in the capital, Athens, but so far local media have not reported the presence of those affected.

“The walls of some houses were smashed; several buildings are damaged, “the public broadcaster ERT quoted Samal’s deputy mayor, Michalis Mijas, as saying.

The report says that after experiencing the earthquake, the people of Samo ran into the streets.

“A tsunami cannot be ruled out,” said Greek seismologist Eftimis Lekas.

Images appeared in the Turkish media of the ruins of a high-rise building in central Izmir and of people climbing over rescuers. Smoke was filmed in various parts of downtown Izmir.

The governor of the region said there is still no information on the dead.

The earthquake is said to have been felt in the Aegean Sea and Sea of ​​Marble regions (Istanbul, located in the Sea of ​​Marmara region) and in the eastern Greek islands, even as far as the capital Athens.

Greek media reports that residents of Samo and other islands have fled their homes and stone falls have also been reported.

“The walls of some houses were broken; several buildings are damaged, ”the public broadcaster ERT quoted the deputy mayor of Samal, Michalis Mijas, as saying.

The report says that after experiencing the earthquake, the people of Samo ran into the streets.

Following the tsunami, the Samo population was warned to stay away from the shores. The water in the main port of Samos flooded the street.

Destroyed rooms

Videos from Izmir show collapsed buildings, people trying to break up piles of rubble in the streets.

Mayor Mustafa Tuncas Soyer told CNN Turk that he had received information that 20 buildings had collapsed.

Images posted on social media show the streets of Izmir, likely flooded by waves of water.

Above the various parts of the city where buildings collapsed, balls of thick white smoke could be seen rising.

NTV recordings of Turkish television made with drones show entire neighborhoods of the city in ruins.

TRT TV showed rescuers armed with chainsaws, assisted by locals and police, making their way through the ruins of a collapsed eight-story building.

Rescuers called for silence, hoping to hear from people who might be under the ruins. People who stood on a living chain cleaned the ruins from hand to hand, passing rocks and debris.

CNN Turk showed how a living woman is being pulled out from under the rubble.

RT Erdogan wrote on Twitter that he was ready to help “by all means available to our state.”

“It was chaos”

On the Greek island of Samo, near the epicenter of the earthquake, people in panic fled to the streets.

“The walls of some houses were smashed; several buildings are damaged, “the public broadcaster ERT quoted Samal’s deputy mayor, Michalis Mijas, as saying.

“It was chaos,” said another deputy mayor, Giorgas Dionisjus. “We have not experienced any of that.”

The Greek Civil Protection Agency has sent short messages to the Samoan population telling them to “stay out and away from buildings.”

As a precautionary measure, the island’s airport was closed.

Greece and Turkey are among the most active earthquake zones in the world.

The magnitude 7.4 earthquake in northwestern Turkey in 1999 killed more than 17,000 people, including 1,000 in Istanbul.

In 2011, another earthquake in southeastern Van province claimed more than 600 lives.

In Greece, the last earthquake that claimed human lives occurred in July 2017 on the island of Kos, near Samos.



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