The temblor measured 6.5, according to Istanbul's Kandilli Observatory, Turkey's main seismic monitoring institute.
People rushed to the streets from their homes in western provinces, including Istanbul, Denizli and Antalya.
The mining disaster-struck town of Soma in the western province of Manisa also felt the earthquake strongly with several people rushing to the streets in panic.
There were no initial reports of damage, but five people in the Tekirdağ province neighboring Istanbul on the west were injured when they jumped out of their apartment windows.
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A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck off the coast of northern Greece on Saturday, some 77 km (48 miles) south-southwest of Alexandroupolis, the US Geological Survey said....
ReplyDeleteThe USGS said the quake's depth was 10 km (six miles). There were no immediate reports of casualties or serious damage.
Residents in Istanbul in neighbouring Turkey felt a small tremor that lasted around 30 seconds.
The quake was widely felt across the western parts of Turkey, including the Marmara region.
Turkey's Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, however, gave a different account and said a magnitude 6.7 earthquake hit the Marmara region, including İstanbul, the largest city of the country.
İstanbul Governor Hüseyin Avni Mutlu said there were no casualties so far.
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(Reuters) - An earthquake of 6.4 magnitude struck off the coast of northern Greece on Saturday and was felt as far as neighboring Turkey and Bulgaria but there were no reports of casualties or serious destruction, police and fire brigade officials said.
ReplyDeleteThe U.S. Geological Survey said the quake occurred some 77 km (48 miles) south-southwest of Alexandroupolis, between the islands of Lemnos and Samothrace, at a depth of 10 km (six miles). It downwardly revised its first reading of 7.2.
Greece, at the southeastern end of Europe, is often buffeted by earthquakes. Most cause no serious damage but a 5.9 magnitude quake in 1999 killed 143 people.
In parts of western Turkey on Saturday morning, panicked residents rushed into the streets as a tremor shook buildings, local media reported.
The quake also rattled Turkey's most populous city, Istanbul, as well as the Aegean coastal city of Izmir, according to Reuters witnesses, but there were no immediate reports of damage here as well.
Hurryiet Daily News said that the quake was also felt in the popular tourism province of Antalya.
Earthquakes are a frequent occurrence in Turkey, which is crisscrossed by geological fault lines. In October 2011, more than 600 people died in the eastern province of Van after a quake of 7.2 magnitude and powerful aftershocks.
In 1999, two massive earthquakes killed about 20,000 people in Turkey's densely populated northwest.
Saturday's tremor caused panic in the southern Bulgarian city of Haskovo, national radio reported, but the country's Civil Protection agency said there was no reports of casualties.
(Reporting by Karolina Tagaris in Athens, Jonny Hogg in Istanbul and Tsvetelia Tsolova in Sofia; Editing by Mark Heinrich) nL6N0OA08M