Turkey News Breaking Greece Earthquake Fault Lines

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Turkey chili left out overnight. The fault line map below shows that the aegean. Turkey too is always ready to help greece heal its wounds. More than 17000 people have died as a result of.

Turkey and greece are located on or near many active fault lines so earthquakes are fairly common in the region. A huge 67 magnitude earthquake has struck greece and turkey with some buildings shaken so violently they have collapsed. Turkish authorities say that the quake had magnitude of 66 and that there have been no reports of casualties thus far but 20 buildings in the city of izmir have collapsed according to bbc news.

Eight countries were affected including. A powerful earthquake has struck off turkeys aegean coast and north of the greek island of samos destroying homes and killing at least 22 peoplethe 70 magnitude tremor was centred off turkeys izmir province the us geological survey usgs saidturkey put the magnitude lower at 66 saying 20 people had died and 786 were injured in the province of izmir. The area within 150 miles of where todays quake struck has seen more than 29.

In izmir turkeys third largest city with the population of nearly three million many people were seen running out into the streets in panic and fear after the quake struck. The quake was given a preliminary magnitude rating of 70 by the us. A building in izmir turkey damaged by an earthquake on october 30 2020.

Because its positioned on a number of major fault lines turkey is one of the worlds most earthquake prone countries according to reuters. On samos two teenagers were. That two neighbours show solidarity in difficult times is more valuable than many things in life turkey is crossed by fault lines and is prone to earthquakes.

Footage showed how homes in izmir turkey were flooded in the aftermath. Bulgaria cyprus turkey egypt greece libya united kingdom and north macedonia. It was centered in the aegean sea about 85 miles northeast of neon karlovasion on the north side of the.