The strong earthquake of the magnitude 6.2 was hit by Istanbul on Wednesday, the Turkish agency for the Emergency Situations AFAD. After this, the second volume of 5.5 degrees per Richter followed.
So far no reports on the scale of damage, but the citizens of the largest Turkish town are evacuated from buildings.
There are injured
Earthquake epicenter who occurred at 12:49 local time is in the area of Silivrija, a district located about 80 kilometers west of Istanbul. The earthquake struck at a depth of 6.92 kilometers, Afad said.
Video from Istanbul of the M6.2 Earthquake that hit turkey ….pic.twitter.com/bvrtaojbmp
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Turkey’s TGRT portrays that one person who jumped from the balcony was injured during the earthquake.
AFAD warned the inhabitants of the region not to enter the damaged buildings.
#Breaking 🇹🇷a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 Struck Istanbul, According to Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management President. The German Research Center for Geosciences Recorded It AT 6.02 Magnitude with a depth of 10 km.
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Istanbul is located on an unstable northanadolational fault and seismologists therefore warn that earthquakes in the city with 16 million inhabitants are inevitable.
“Small Apocalypse”
The former capital of the Ottoman Empire in history was affected by a series of earthquakes. That 1509. He was so devastating that the Ottoman authorities called him “a small apocalypse”.
Since then, the disaster management agency was established in Istanbul, shake-resistant hospitals were established and the systems created by the gas supply systems.
Experts, however, say the biggest problem for tens of thousands of badly built buildings that have no big supervision nicely during the building boom past decades, writes Focus.
