According to reports, a person is injured by jumping from a balcony duration of the magnitude earthquake 6.2.
A strong earthquake has hit Turkiye, causing buildings in the city of Istanbul to agit.
The earthquake, which takes place at 12:49 [09:49 GMT] On Wednesday at Marmara’s Sea, in front of the coast of the Silvri area of Istanbul, it registered a preliminary magnitude of 6.2, the Turkiye emergency and disaster authority (AFAD).
It was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), according to the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ).
The initial earthquake was followed by three others with magnitudes or 4.4 to 4.9, Afad published in X.
As the buildings were trembling, people rushed to the streets where many people with worried look at their mobile phones to obtain information or calls, said an AFP correspondent.
“I simply felt earthquake, I have to leave,” said a shaking -looking decorator leaving an apartment on the fourth floor where he was working near the Galata tower of the city, which he did not want to give his name.
There were no immediate damage reports, but people evacuated buildings as the structures rumbled in the city, located on the European and Asian coasts of the Bosphorus Strait. The TGRT station reported that a person was injured the bone as a result of jumping from a balcony duration of the earthquake, which occurred with a holiday in Turkiye.
Kemal Cebi, the mayor of the Kucukcekmece district in western Istanbul, told the local NTV station that they were not “negative development”, but said they were traffic jams and that many buildings were.
In a publication about X, Turkiye’s Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said that the emergency authorities have begun “field evaluations” and offered good wishes to those affected.
AFAD warned people in the region not to enter damaged buildings.
The tremors could feel as far as Bulgaria, according to the AFP news agency in the capital Sofia.
Quoke previous mortal
Türkiye crosses with two significant failures, and earthquakes are frequent.
An earthquake of magnitude 7.8 on February 6, 2023, and a second powerful tremor that arrived hours later, destroyed or damaged hundreds of thousands of buildings in 11 Turkish supplies of the south and southwest, leaving more Thead.
Another 6,000 people were killed in the northern parts of neighboring Syria.
While Istanbul was not affected by that earthquake, devastation fears that the fears of a similar earthquake with the proximity of experts in the city to failures.
In an attempt to prevention of damage to any future earthquake, both the national government and local administrations initiate urban reconstruction projects to strengthen buildings at risk and began demolition campaigns of buildings at risk of collapse.
