Samos Earthquake Today

Earthquake just north of samos.

Earthquake today fontana turkey red oil. Video showed heavy flooding on the streets in the island. Streets were flooded after an earthquake hit near the greek island of samos. A strong earthquake struck on friday in the aegean sea between the turkish coast and the greek island of samos collapsing buildings in the city of izmir in western turkey and officials.

Todays earthquake in samos greece which occured at 151 pm local time was one of the strongest in the region in the last several years. There is a contradiction regarding the magnitude of the earthquake. A powerful earthquake has struck off turkeys aegean coast and north of the greek island of samos destroying homes and killing at least 19 people.

Greek public media reported there was a mini tsunami. Preliminary magnitude of 70 according to european mediterranean seismological centre. The earthquake struck at 251 pm local time 1151am gmt northeast of samos.

It was felt across the eastern greek islands and as far as the greek capital athens and in bulgaria. They have gone out in the squares in the streets said among others the president of samos hospital workers speaking to skais main news bulletin. For some of the illegal immigrants on samos todays 66 richter earthquake was an opportunity to start looting at the expense of the local people.

A few minutes ago we experienced a very big earthquake that samos has been experiencing for many years. At a time when people were running in panic due to an earthquake with buildings collapsing and killing 2 small children groups of illegal immigrants took the opportunity and enter houses and shops and started robbing whatever they could find. The epicenter was in samos greece but the jolts impacted turkey as well.

Two high school students were killed during the powerful earthquake measuring 70 on the richter scale which struck the greek island of samos on friday afternoon.