Millions of people across Turkey on Tuesday mourned the loss of more than 53,000 friends, loved ones and neighbors in the country’s catastrophic earthquake a year ago.
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“It felt like the world was turning upside down. Telling the story is not the same as experiencing it.” Sixty-one-year-old Kahraman Karat vividly remembers this night last year when the earth shook violently in the middle of his slumbers, taking tens of thousands of lives.
Abdullah Yanar planted flowers in front of his container home to make it feel more like a real home for his family, who have been living in temporary shelters in southern Turkey since last year’s devastating earthquake.
When a devastating earthquake struck Turkey in the early hours of February 6, 2023, the five-storey building in Hatay where 13-year-old Mehmet Koc lived collapsed, burying him in rubble and killing his older brother Emre, 14, and his mother Didem.
A year after a powerful earthquake in southern Turkey reduced hundreds of thousands of homes to rubble, Fatma Kirici lives in a tent with her husband and two grown children, afraid to return to the multistory house they fled that somehow still stands.
The eastern Aegean island of Samos was jolted by a 4.9 magnitude quake on Saturday, as reported by the Geodynamic Institute in Athens. No injuries or damage were reported.
A 4.6 magnitude earthquake has hit east of Evia, Greece’s second largest island, shaking the capital Athens, southwest of the tremor’s epicenter. The tremor was felt at 4.15 p.m. local time. The Athens-based Institute of Geodynamics announced on its website that the earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometers.
A moderate earthquake rattled the eastern Peloponnese and parts of the Greek capital on Tuesday morning, with initial estimates putting its magnitude at 4.8 on the Richter scale.
A 4.3 magnitude earthquake rattled the southern island of Crete on Friday morning.
Japan is at the forefront of seismic technology but contrary to public perceptions, Greece is not dramatically behind, according to seismologist Gerasimos Papadopoulos.
Greece offered its condolences to the government of Japan and its people for the deadly earthquake that hit the country on New Year’s Day.
The southeastern Aegean island of Rhodes was jolted by a 4.2-magnitude tremor on Thursday noon.
An earthquake rattled the city of Patra and other areas in the Achaia region, western Greece at approximately 11.25 a.m. on Sunday.
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck the Turkey region on Monday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), GFZ said. [Reuters]
A 4.1 magnitude earthquake rattled the Peloponnese on Sunday morning.
A 4.4 magnitude earthquake hit the island of Zakynthos on Thursday at 2.39 p.m.
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