Magnitude 6.2 earthquake hits Istanbul injuring more than 150 people – National

A earthquake with a preliminary size of 6.2 shock Istanbul And other areas Wednesday, ask widespread panic and scores of injury in the Turkish city of 16 million people, although there were no immediate reports of serious damage.

More than 150 people were hospitalous with injuries maintained in the buildings, saying the office in Istanbul, where the inhabitants are considered the city is considered a significant quake.

The earthquake had a shallow depth of 10 kilometers (about 6 miles), according to the United States, with its epicenter for about 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of Istanbul, in Marmara.

It was felt in the Tekirdrov Sure, Yalova, Balsa and Ballik or Izmir, some 550 kilometers (340 miles) South of Istanbul. Interior Minister Ali Andaverniaa said the earthquake took 13 seconds and was followed by more than 50 afters and the strongest measurement 5.9.

The Quake started at a public holiday when many children were out of school in the school in the streets of Istanbul. Pany cells shouted from their homes and buildings in the streets. The disaster and distressing agency agreeed to people asked to stay away from buildings.

“Due to panic, 151 were injured from our citizens of hills of heights of heights,” said the office of the Istanbul in a statement. “Their treatments are continuous in hospitals, and they are not in life-threatening condition.”

Many residents for parks, school cuts and other open areas to prevent to be in case of collapse or next earthquakes. Some people have tents uphold in parks.

“Thank God not seem to be a problem,” President recept Tayyip Erdogaan at an event marked the National Sovereignty and Day Holiday. “May God protect our country, and our people out of all kinds of calamities, discomforts, accidents and problems.”

Leyla Ucar, a personal trainer, said they practiced with their student on the 20th floor of a building when they felt in intensely.

“We’re shuffling incredibly. It threw us, we could not understand what happened, we first thought because of the event,” she said. “It was very frightening.”

Senol Sari, 51, told that the associated press, he was in the living room in the living room in the third floor when he heard a loud noise and began to shake the building. They fled to a near park. “We immediately protect us from earthquake and waited for it to continue,” Sari said. “Of course we were afraid.”

They could later come back, Sari said, but they remain worried that a larger floor will kill the city. It is “an expected earthquake, continue our concern,” he said.

CIHAN BOZTepe, 40, was one of a lot that fled to the streets with his family to avoid a potential collapse. Bozepe, stand next to his Savor But that in 2023, he lived in Batman, an area close to the turdy quiet to the time, and that the tremor of the Wednesday, that he was not so afraid.

“First, we were stopped scolding, then we were shaking again. My little, we saw it, we saw to a safe. If he was to me, we would have already returned.”

The interior minister of Turkey Ali, Yerbariaa said authorities had not received a reports from collapsing buildings. He told Httpherturk television that there was no worries of damage to buildings.

The NTV broadcaster reported that a descendant and abandoned and abandoned building in the historic Freede district, which the blue mosque and the Hagia Sophia, Grandshia House.

Educational minister Yusuf tekin announced that schools on Thursday and Friday in Istanbul.

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“In accordance with the need for a secure space, our school garden are open to the use of all our citizens,” said tekin.

Turkey is crossed by two important fault lines, and earthquakes are often.

A major 7.8 earthquake on February 6, 2023, and a second vigorous tremor hours, destroyed or damaged hill in 11 southern and southern provinces, causing more than 53,000 people. Another 6,000 people were killed in the northern parts of grained Syria.

Istanbul was not influenced by that earthquake, but the devastant raised a similar quake, with experts that persists the city’s neighborhood to sit for struiers.

In a bid to prevent damage of any future shaking, the national board and local government began to strengthen buildings at risk and launched campaigns at the risks.

Ekrem IMAMOGLU, the mayor of Istanbul that was imprisoned last month, has released a statement by his lawyers that expresses his sadness at the residents of the city.

“As a managers and city places who dedicated their life to disaster plaster in Istanbul and who have difficulty for this purpose, is my greatest sadness that we can not be with you,” the mayor said the mayor.

Many view the arrest of the politician, considered an important rival for Erdogan, as politically motivated. The government carry on that the courts operate independently.

On Wednesday long queues formed at gas stations as residents, leaving Istanbul plans, rushed to fill their cars. Under her was Emre Senkay who said he may leave in the case of a more hard earthquake later in the day.

“My plan is to leave Istanbul if there is a more serious earthquake,” he said.

-Fraser reported from Ankara, Turkey. Robert Badendieck contributed from Canakkale, Turkey.