Tweet
QUAKE SHAKES NORTHWEST TURKEY, ONE DEAD
Reuters
19 May 2011 22:09
A border tower on Turkish territory is seen from the Armenian side
of the Armenian Turkish border near Getk, some 130 km (80miles)
northwest of Yerevan, November 1, 2009. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili
(Adds one person dead, reports of damage)
ISTANBUL, May 19 (Reuters) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0
shook northwest Turkey on Thursday evening, causing some damage,
and one person died jumping from a building as the quake struck,
the local governor said.
The epicentre of the quake was 50 miles (80 km) west-southwest of
the town of Kutahya, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The tremor also
shook buildings further north in Turkey's largest city Istanbul.
"A citizen panicked and died after jumping from the window," Kutahya
Governor Kenan Ciftci told broadcaster NTV.
An empty university building collapsed in the quake, which also
shattered windows in some buildings, state-run Anatolian news agency
reported.
Turkey's Kandilli earthquake observatory said the quake, which
struck at 11:15 pm (2015 GMT), had a magnitude of 5.9 and that its
epicentre was the district of Simav in Kutahya province. There was
a series of aftershocks.
Residents of Kutahya waited nervously in the town's streets
after the quake, television pictures showed. Ambulances were sent
out in the affected area as a precaution.
Major geological faultines cross Turkey and small earthquakes are
a near daily occurrence. Two large quakes in 1999 killed more than
20,000 people in northwest Turkey. (Writing by Daren Butler; Editing
by Jon Hemming
Reuters
19 May 2011 22:09
A border tower on Turkish territory is seen from the Armenian side
of the Armenian Turkish border near Getk, some 130 km (80miles)
northwest of Yerevan, November 1, 2009. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili
(Adds one person dead, reports of damage)
ISTANBUL, May 19 (Reuters) - An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0
shook northwest Turkey on Thursday evening, causing some damage,
and one person died jumping from a building as the quake struck,
the local governor said.
The epicentre of the quake was 50 miles (80 km) west-southwest of
the town of Kutahya, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The tremor also
shook buildings further north in Turkey's largest city Istanbul.
"A citizen panicked and died after jumping from the window," Kutahya
Governor Kenan Ciftci told broadcaster NTV.
An empty university building collapsed in the quake, which also
shattered windows in some buildings, state-run Anatolian news agency
reported.
Turkey's Kandilli earthquake observatory said the quake, which
struck at 11:15 pm (2015 GMT), had a magnitude of 5.9 and that its
epicentre was the district of Simav in Kutahya province. There was
a series of aftershocks.
Residents of Kutahya waited nervously in the town's streets
after the quake, television pictures showed. Ambulances were sent
out in the affected area as a precaution.
Major geological faultines cross Turkey and small earthquakes are
a near daily occurrence. Two large quakes in 1999 killed more than
20,000 people in northwest Turkey. (Writing by Daren Butler; Editing
by Jon Hemming