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A 7-degree earthquake hit the Aegean today, causing both Turkey and Greece to shake, many buildings collapsed, sea water flooded the streets.
Turkish media reported that the earthquake occurred around 2:50 p.m. today (6:50 p.m. Hanoi time), it can be felt along the western coast of Turkey and northwestern Marmara.
The ground shook and the water rose in Izmir on the afternoon of October 30. Video: TRT world.
Turkey’s Emergency and Disaster Control Agency (AFAD) said the earthquake was as strong as 6.6 degrees, the epicenter was 16 km deep, about 17 miles off the coast of Izmir province, to the west from the country. kilometer. Meanwhile, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) announced that the magnitude of the earthquake was 7, the epicenter was 10 km, 33.5 km from the Turkish coast and located near the Greek island of Samos.
Most of the damage on the Turkish side occurred in and around the city of Izmir, where some three million people live. The Turkish Disaster Response Agency said at least 12 people were killed and more than 400 injured in the earthquake.
Officials on Samos, an island with a population of about 45,000, warned of the danger of high waves and warned people to stay away from coastal areas. “This is a very large earthquake and it is more unlikely that it will have a larger earthquake,” Efthymios Lekkas, head of the Greek earthquake planning organization, said on Skai TV.
Izmir city officials and residents search for trapped people after the October 30 earthquake. Image: Reuters.
Turkish officials said that at least 20 buildings in Izmir collapsed from the earthquake and that some people were trapped in the rubble. Images on social media showed streets in Izmir flooded by rising sea levels. Istanbul, which felt the tremors from the earthquake, did not record any negative information, Governor Ali Yerlikaya said.
Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu telephoned after the earthquake. “The foreign ministers stressed that the two countries are ready to help each other in case of need,” Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The statement made amid tensions between Ankara and Athens over oil and gas rights in the eastern Mediterranean has shown no signs of cooling.
Turkey is in one of the most powerful earthquake zones in the world. The 7.4 magnitude earthquake in northwestern Turkey in 1999 killed 17,000 people, including 1,000 Istanbul residents. The 2011 earthquake in Van province, southeastern Turkey, also killed more than 600 people.
The location of the October 30 earthquake (red dot) and the affected area. Graphics: Google.
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