At least fourteen people have died across Turkey and Greece after an earthquake struck the Aegean Sea near both countries. Here’s what we know so far:
The earthquake: The 7.0-magnitude earthquake sent buildings crashing down and triggered what authorities called a “mini tsunami.”
In Turkey, at least 20 buildings in the city of Izmir were destroyed. Images showed vehicles crushed under the buildings and people digging through the rubble in search of survivors.
More than a 100 aftershocks were recorded in Turkey, say officials, and search and rescue operations continue in 17 buildings, four of them are completely collapsed.
The victims: Officials say 12 people died in Turkey’s coastal west. At least 522 people were injured in the country, said Murat Kurum, Turkey’s Environment and Urbanization Minister.
Among Turkey’s injured, five people are in surgury and eight are in intensive care. Dozens were saved by rescue teams using diggers and helicopters to search for survivors, according to the country’s disaster agency.
In Greece’s island of Samos, two teenagers died, Greece’s Civil Protection Ministry confirmed to CNN. Their bodies have been recovered from the rubble.
Buildings have been damaged in both nations, and some Turkish coastal towns have been flooded.
The reaction: Turkish President Reccep Tayyip Erdogan tweeted “Get well soon İzmir” in the aftermath of the quake.
“With all the means of our state, we stand by our citizens affected by the earthquake. We took action to start the necessary work in the region with all our relevant institutions and ministers,” Erdogan added.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called Erdogan to offer condolences after an earthquake hit both countries on Friday.
“Whatever our differences, these are times when our people need to stand together,” he wrote on Twitter in reference to both countries clashing in last few months over tensions in the eastern Mediterranean.
Erdogan thanked the Greek Mitsotakis for his condolences and offered the same to Greece on Twitter. “Turkey, too, is always ready to help Greece heal its wounds,” Erdogan said, adding “that two neighbors show solidarity in difficult times is more valuable than many things in life.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan thanked the Greek prime minister for his condolences and offered the same to Greece on Twitter, after both countries saw casualties after Friday’s earthquake.
“Turkey, too, is always ready to help Greece heal its wounds,” Erdogan said, adding “that two neighbors show solidarity in difficult times is more valuable than many things in life.”
Greece and Turkey have clashed in the last few months over tensions in the eastern Mediterranean.
Murat Kurum, Turkey’s Environment and Urbanization Minister said 522 people were injured during Friday’s earthquake.
Kurum said 114 aftershocks have been recorded, and search and rescue operations continue in 17 buildings, four of them are completely collapsed.
At least 14 people died after the earthquake, which affected Turkey and Greece. At least 12 people were killed in Turkey and two in Greece.
Among Turkey’s injured following an earthquake, five people are being operated on and eight are in intensive care, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday evening.
At least 12 people were killed, and 419 people were injured in Turkey, according to Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management (AFAD).
At least two people died in Greece, which also saw damage from the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit the Aegean Sea off both Mediterranean nations on Friday.
Erdogan said he had a phone conversation with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, adding that the Greek government is ready to send aid to Turkey.
At least 12 people were killed, and 419 people were injured, following Thursday’s earthquake, according to Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management (AFAD).
Search and rescue operations continue in 17 buildings, AFAD reported.
This brings the total death toll across Turkey and Greece to at least 14 people. Buildings have been damaged in both countries, and some Turkish coastal towns have been flooded.
On the Greek island of Samos, two teenagers died, Greece’s Civil Protection Ministry confirmed to CNN. Their bodies have been recovered from the rubble.
Beril Demiralay was walking along the waterfront in Sığacık, a seaside town in Turkey, when she felt the quake.
Demiralay was on vacation in the area. She told CNN that 20 minutes after the quake, she saw boats crashing into each other in the sea.
Demiralay ended up on the second floor of a building, where she filmed floodwater filling the streets.
When she finally left the building two hours later, the streets had cleared of floodwater.
Streets in the Turkish coastal towns of Cesme and Seferihisar were also flooded after the quake.
At least eight people have died in total across Turkey and Greece after an earthquake struck the Aegean Sea near both countries.
Six people died in Turkey, and another 257 people have been injured in the country. Rescue operations are underway, and some people have been evacuated from their homes.
In Greece’s island of Samos, two teenagers died, Greece’s Civil Protection Ministry confirmed to CNN. Their bodies have been recovered from the rubble.
Buildings have been damaged in both nations, and some Turkish coastal towns have been flooded.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to offer condolences after an earthquake hit both countries on Friday.
Greece and Turkey have clashed in the last few months over tensions in the eastern Mediterranean but both nations suffered damage in the quake.
Two teenagers, one boy and one girl, were killed on the island of Samos after the earthquake struck near the coast of the Greek island, Greece’s Civil Protection Ministry told CNN.
The teens were killed when a wall collapsed on them following the earthquake.
A reporter on Greek television, who was near the rescue scene, described search teams’ efforts to save the children.
The Greek Fire Service confirmed they had recovered the teenagers’ bodies from the rubble.
The teenagers’ deaths are being widely reported across Greek media.
Rescue efforts for dozens of people in Turkey’s Izmir province are underway, as the number of people injured rose to 257 following Thursday’s quake.
Local Turkish channels broadcast footage of wounded people being carried on stretchers from beneath the rubble of destroyed buildings.
Search operations are also continuing in 12 damaged and collapsed buildings in Izmir, according to the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD).
Streets in the coastal towns of Cesme and Seferihisar have been flooded.
“We evacuated the coastal area,” Gurer Solak, the mayor of Seferihisar, told CNN.
Dozens of aftershocks have struck Turkey following Friday’s earthquake.
The country’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority said 84 aftershocks, 16 of which were greater than 4.0 magnitude, had been recorded.
Thirty eight ambulances, 35 National Medical Rescue teams and two ambulance helicopters are at the scene of the earthquake in Izmir, the Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said earlier.
A drone footage from DHA, a Turkish news agency, shows the aerial view of damage in Izmir, Turkey, after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit the Aegean Sea off Greece and Turkey on Friday.
At least six people are confirmed dead in Turkey following the earthquake, according to the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD). More than 200 people have been injured.
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Eyewitness and journalist Idil Gungor told CNN that her bed and breakfast in the coastal town of Sigacik was flooded in the aftermath of the quake.
Gungor was in Seferihisar at the time of the quake, but later drove to Sigacik.
Both towns were affected by the quake. Gungor runs her bed and breakfast with her husband.
The pair own the 100-year-old building, which is by the sea. She told CNN the structure was flooded with water, with fish swimming inside the building. Gungor added that shops in the town were also badly flooded.
Gungor told CNN that there was a rush of tourists leaving Sigacik and that roads leaving the seaside were clogged with traffic.
At least six people are confirmed dead in Turkey following the earthquake, according to the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD).
The number of injured in the country stands at at least 202. Rescue operations are continuing, but search teams are having to contend with flooding in some areas, including the coastal towns of Cesme and Seferihisar.
Turkey’s Red Crescent society has deployed teams from six cities — Izmir, Denizli, Düzce, Ankara, İstanbul, and Adana — to provide food to those affected by the disaster.
In a tweet, the organization said the teams had the capacity to provide food for up to 25,500 people.
The organization has also deployed its first responder teams.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis asked residents on the island of Samos to remain alert in the aftermath of the quake.
The quake’s epicenter was in the sea 19 kilometers north of the island, at a depth of 2 kilometers from the surface according to Greece’s Institute of Geodynamics.
At least four people have been injured on the Greek island of Samos following the quake.
Nikos Stefanis, the president of Samos Hospital, said all four injuries had been minor and suffered by individuals with orthopaedic problems.
He said there was building damage across the island, with the worst sustained in the area of Karlovasi, in northwest Samos.
Describing the quake, Stefanis said it as very strong and had lasted a long time.
Samos Deputy Mayor Giorgos Dionisiou told Greek media that the collapsed buildings were mainly old ones.
The Greek Fire Service in a statement said that so far, only damage to buildings had been reported. The statement said there had been no calls about trapped people.
Even so, the people of Samos have been told by Greek authorities to stay away from the island’s shores and buildings.
Residents have also been asked to evacuate their houses for the next 48 hours for precautionary reasons.
Greece’s Geodynamic Institute said the epicenter was in the sea 19 kilometers north of the island of Samos.
Thirty eight ambulances, 35 National Medical Rescue teams and two ambulance helicopters are at the scene of the earthquake in Izmir, the Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said Thursday.
Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management officials said at least 120 people were wounded in the quake.
At least four people have died following the earthquake, Turkey’s health minister Fahrettin Koca said on Twitter.
In total, 120 Turkish citizens were affected by the disaster, he added.
Zeki Soysal, an eyewitness in the Turkish city of Izmir, said he threw himself out of a building as the earthquake hit.
“I threw myself outside in [the] last second, my building collapsed,” he told CNN Turk Friday.
Soysal added: “There was an older woman in the building but we saved her, she got out. There is another building close to this building, they are continuing to try to get the people out.”
