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A magnitude 7 earthquake shook the waters of Turkey’s Aegean on Friday. It was also felt in some regions of Greece.
The earthquake shook the coast of the Aegean Sea in Turkey and the Marmara region, the Turkish environment advances. The shock, which occurred at 11:50 am, was also felt in Athens, Greece and Istanbul, Turkey. There are no reports of damage in Istanbul, according to the governor.
Witnesses heard by Reuters said a crowd took to the streets of Izmir after the earthquake. Images from Turkish public television TRT Haber show a dilapidated building in the center of that coastal city. Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Twitter that six buildings collapsed in two Izmir neighborhoods. For now, there are no reports of damage in the other six provinces where the earthquake was felt, the minister stressed.
The epicenter is located 17 kilometers off the coast of Izmir province, at a depth of 16 kilometers, according to Turkish emergency services. The United States Geological Survey, for its part, estimates that the epicenter will have been 10 kilometers long, placing it 33.5 kilometers from the Turkish coast.
Residents of Samos, an island of about 45,000 people, were advised to stay away from coastal areas, Eftyhmios Lekkas, head of the Greek earthquake planning organization, told Greek television Skai TV.
“It was a very big earthquake, it’s difficult to have a bigger one,” he said.
Earthquakes are common in Turkey. Approximately 17,000 people died in an earthquake in Izmir in 1999.
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