{"id":59395,"date":"2020-10-30T16:48:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T13:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.163.207.100\/~timesku1\/news\/?p=59395"},"modified":"2020-10-30T16:50:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T13:50:47","slug":"earthquake-of-magnitude-7-0-hits-western-turkey-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timeskuwait.com\/news\/earthquake-of-magnitude-7-0-hits-western-turkey-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake of magnitude 7.0 hits western Turkey, Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A strong earthquake of a magnitude of up to 7.0 struck the Aegean Sea on Friday and was felt in both Turkey and Greece, local and international observatories said.<\/p>\n<p>People flooded to the streets in the Turkish coastal city of Izmir after the earthquake, witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish media showed wreckage of a multiple-story building in central Izmir, with people climbing it to reach rescuers. Smoke was seen in several spots in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Images on social media showed water rushing through the streets of Izmir from an apparent sea surge. No casualties were immediately reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far, we have received information about six collapsed buildings\u201d in Izmir province, which includes the city, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another tsunami footage from the earthquake in Izmir province of Turkey. <\/p>\n<p>This one is really dangerous <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/62zfddWSi8\">pic.twitter.com\/62zfddWSi8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rag\u0131p Soylu (@ragipsoylu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ragipsoylu\/status\/1322163744621973504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Environment Minister Murat Kurum said he knew of five collapsed buildings. \u201cSome of our fellow citizens are stuck in the rubble,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The quake triggered a small-scale tsunami in Seferihisar, Huseyin Alan, head of Turkey\u2019s Chamber of Geological Engineers, told state news agency TRT, warning people to stay away from buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey\u2019s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) put the magnitude of the earthquake at 6.6, while the US Geological Survey said it was 7.0. It struck at around 11:50 GMT and was felt along Turkey\u2019s Aegean coast and the northwestern Marmara region, local media said.<\/p>\n<p>The epicentre was some 17km (11 miles) off the coast of the Izmir province, at a depth of 16 km, AFAD said. The US Geological Survey said the depth was 10km and the epicentre was 33.5 km off Turkey\u2019s coast.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Yerlikaya, the governor of Istanbul where the quake was also felt, said there were no reports of damage.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Greece rocked<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The quake was felt across the eastern Greek islands and even in the Greek capital, Athens. Greek media said residents of Samos and other islands fled their homes, while some rockfalls were reported.<\/p>\n<p>There were no immediate reports of injuries. Both countries reported aftershocks.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Samos, an island with a population of about 45,000, were urged to stay away from coastal areas, Eftyhmios Lekkas, head of Greece\u2019s organisation for anti-seismic planning, told Greece\u2019s Skai TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very big earthquake, it\u2019s difficult to have a bigger one,\u201d said Lekkas.<\/p>\n<p>Public television ERT reported the temblor caused a mini-tsunami on Samos and a number of buildings were damaged. It caused the walls of several homes to collapse and triggered flooding in the port.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey\u2019s Izmir province sits on an active fault line. The major North Anatolian fault line generated a deadly earthquake quake near Istanbul in 1999, killing more than 17,000 people in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strong earthquake of a magnitude of up to 7.0 struck the Aegean Sea on Friday and was felt in both Turkey and Greece, local and international observatories said. People flooded to the streets in the Turkish coastal city of Izmir after the earthquake, witnesses said. 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