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PHOTOS: Deadly earthquake rocks Turkey, Greece
Friday, July 21, 2017, Ten:12 – A powerful earthquake killed two people on the Greek holiday island of Kos in the early hours of Friday, sending tourists fleeing into the streets, and causing disruption in the nearby Turkish tourist hub of Bodrum.
A Turkish and a Swedish tourist, aged thirty nine and twenty two years, died when the roof of a popular bar collapsed, Greek police said.
Kos’s port was put out of activity and, across the strait, a petite tsunami bruised vehicles parked near Bodrum’s shore. On Kos, around one hundred fifteen people were injured, including tourists of various nationalities — twelve of them gravely.
More than three hundred fifty people visited hospitals in Turkey, however most had only light injuries.
The quake struck at 1:31 a.m. (2231 GMT), and many of Kos’s tourists spent the rest of the night in the open as a precaution, hotel owners said.
“All of a unexpected it felt like a train was going right through the room,” said Vernon Hausman, a German holidaying on Kos.
“I told my son: ‘Looks like an earthquake, so let’s get the hell out of here.'”
Click Play to See Below: Tourists Camp Outside Hotels After Quake Rattles Bodrum, Turkey
Greek authorities said the twelve people earnestly injured on Kos included tourists from Turkey, Sweden and Norway; four were transferred to Crete and three to Athens.
One person was in a critical condition, while a Swedish tourist lost a gam, the director of the hospital in Crete told Greek Skai TV.
“Fortunate ESCAPE”
Turkish and Greek authorities put the magnitude at 6.Trio and 6.6 respectively and reported several aftershocks, with one estimated at Five.1. The U.S. Geological Survey located the epicenter of the main quake in the Aegean Sea, ten km (6 miles) SSE of Bodrum and about sixteen km ENE of Kos’s main port.
Hotel owners in Bodrum told Turkish broadcasters that some tourists were checking out.
“It was a fortunate escape and it could have been much worse,” said Issa Kamara, a 38-year old individual trainer at the Maca Kizi hotel in Bodrum’s wise Turkbuku area.
Constantina Svynou, head of the hoteliers’ association in Kos, told Greek state television that many visitors had spent the night outside their hotels.
A post collective by İdo Tatlıses (@idotatlises) on Jul 20, two thousand seventeen at Five:22pm PDT
“There are about 200,000 tourists on the island, we are at the peak season. Our very first reaction was to silent the tourists, following basic rules and evacuating hotel buildings,” Svynou said, adding that there had been no injuries at hotels.
Reuters movie footage demonstrated residents and tourists walking along the streets of Kos’s main town among collapsed walls and debris. Long, broad cracks appeared in the asphalt on the quayside, which is near a tourist de-robe of cafes and bars.
“It was terrible . our bed was wiggling from the left to the right,” said Jara, a 26-year-old Dutch tourist. “Everything was going crazy.”
Kos’s airport remained operational and Greek Deputy Shipping Minister Nektarios Santorinios flew there. But he said the main port was out of act.
“Passengers on ferries have been rerouted to the islands of Nisyros and Kalymnos,” he told Greek SKAI TV.
TIDAL WAVE
Police said most of the harm in Kos had been to older buildings. A seismologist told Greek TV that there had been a tidal wave about seventy cm (28 inches) high.
Turkey’s emergency authorities warned against aftershocks, but said there had been no casualties or major harm there. Some power cuts were reported, and a minaret in the town of Islamkoy was said to have collapsed.
The broadcaster CNN Turk said that, in Bodrum, sixty vehicles had been dragged along by the water. It also demonstrated boats listing in a harbor. Several store owners told the broadcaster NTV they had suffered flood harm.
Turkey said it would evacuate around two hundred of its citizens from Greece by boat.
President Tayyip Erdogan said the fact that no lives had been lost in Turkey was a sign that “the measures we took have been effective”.
Turkey’s location inbetween the Arabian tectonic plate and the Eurasian plate renders it prone to earthquakes. In October 2011, more than six hundred people died in the eastern province of Van following a 7.2-magnitude quake and powerful aftershocks. In 1999, two massive earthquakes killed about 20,000 people in Turkey’s densely populated northwest.
The same year, a Five.9 magnitude quake killed one hundred forty three people in Greece.
Below: Photos of earthquake harm in Turkey and Greece
Photo Below: Harm caused by a quake in Kos, Greece, July 21, two thousand seventeen is seen in this still photograph uploaded on social media. Osman Turanli/Social Media/Handout via Reuters
Pic Below: Bruised boats are seen after an earthquake and a tsunami in the resort town of Gumbet in Mugla province, Turkey, July 21, 2017. REUTERS/Kenan Gurbuz
Pic Below: A man stands next to debris following an earthquake on the island of Kos, Greece July 21, 2017. REUTERS/Costas Baltas
Photo Below: Bruised boats are seen after an earthquake and a tsunami in the resort town of Gumbet in Mugla province, Turkey, July 21, 2017. Yasar Anter/Dogan News Agency via REUTERS
Picture Below: A man walks past debris following an earthquake on the island of Kos, Greece July 21, 2017. REUTERS/Costas Baltas
Picture Below: A woman sits outside of her bruised house after an earthquake in the village of Yaliciftlik near the resort town of Bodrum in Mugla province, Turkey, July 21, 2017. REUTERS/Kenan Gurbuz. REUTERS/Costas Baltas
Photo Below: A bruised car and a house are seen after an earthquake in the village of Yaliciftlik near the resort town of Bodrum in Mugla province, Turkey, July 21, 2017. REUTERS/Kenan Gurbuz
Photo Below: People look at part of the bruised pier of the port of Kos, following an earthquake off the island of Kos, Greece July 21, 2017. REUTERS/Costas Baltas
Pic Below: A man stands in front of a bruised building following an earthquake off the island of Kos, Greece July 21, 2017. REUTERS/Costas Baltas
News – PHOTOS: Deadly earthquake rocks Turkey, Greece – The Weather Network
PHOTOS: Deadly earthquake rocks Turkey, Greece
Friday, July 21, 2017, Ten:12 – A powerful earthquake killed two people on the Greek holiday island of Kos in the early hours of Friday, sending tourists fleeing into the streets, and causing disruption in the nearby Turkish tourist hub of Bodrum.
A Turkish and a Swedish tourist, aged thirty nine and twenty two years, died when the roof of a popular bar collapsed, Greek police said.
Kos’s port was put out of act and, across the strait, a petite tsunami bruised vehicles parked near Bodrum’s shore. On Kos, around one hundred fifteen people were injured, including tourists of various nationalities — twelve of them gravely.
More than three hundred fifty people visited hospitals in Turkey, tho’ most had only light injuries.
The quake struck at 1:31 a.m. (2231 GMT), and many of Kos’s tourists spent the rest of the night in the open as a precaution, hotel owners said.
“All of a unexpected it felt like a train was going right through the room,” said Vernon Hausman, a German holidaying on Kos.
“I told my son: ‘Looks like an earthquake, so let’s get the hell out of here.'”
Click Play to See Below: Tourists Camp Outside Hotels After Quake Rattles Bodrum, Turkey
Greek authorities said the twelve people earnestly injured on Kos included tourists from Turkey, Sweden and Norway; four were transferred to Crete and three to Athens.
One person was in a critical condition, while a Swedish tourist lost a gam, the director of the hospital in Crete told Greek Skai TV.
“Fortunate ESCAPE”
Turkish and Greek authorities put the magnitude at 6.Trio and 6.6 respectively and reported several aftershocks, with one estimated at Five.1. The U.S. Geological Survey located the epicenter of the main quake in the Aegean Sea, ten km (6 miles) SSE of Bodrum and about sixteen km ENE of Kos’s main port.
Hotel owners in Bodrum told Turkish broadcasters that some tourists were checking out.
“It was a fortunate escape and it could have been much worse,” said Issa Kamara, a 38-year old individual trainer at the Maca Kizi hotel in Bodrum’s brainy Turkbuku area.
Constantina Svynou, head of the hoteliers’ association in Kos, told Greek state television that many visitors had spent the night outside their hotels.
A post collective by İdo Tatlıses (@idotatlises) on Jul 20, two thousand seventeen at Five:22pm PDT
“There are about 200,000 tourists on the island, we are at the peak season. Our very first reaction was to silent the tourists, following basic rules and evacuating hotel buildings,” Svynou said, adding that there had been no injuries at hotels.
Reuters movie footage displayed residents and tourists walking along the streets of Kos’s main town among collapsed walls and debris. Long, broad cracks appeared in the asphalt on the quayside, which is near a tourist de-robe of cafes and bars.
“It was terrible . our bed was wiggling from the left to the right,” said Jara, a 26-year-old Dutch tourist. “Everything was going crazy.”
Kos’s airport remained operational and Greek Deputy Shipping Minister Nektarios Santorinios flew there. But he said the main port was out of act.
“Passengers on ferries have been rerouted to the islands of Nisyros and Kalymnos,” he told Greek SKAI TV.
TIDAL WAVE
Police said most of the harm in Kos had been to older buildings. A seismologist told Greek TV that there had been a tidal wave about seventy cm (28 inches) high.
Turkey’s emergency authorities warned against aftershocks, but said there had been no casualties or major harm there. Some power cuts were reported, and a minaret in the town of Islamkoy was said to have collapsed.
The broadcaster CNN Turk said that, in Bodrum, sixty vehicles had been dragged along by the water. It also demonstrated boats listing in a harbor. Several store owners told the broadcaster NTV they had suffered flood harm.
Turkey said it would evacuate around two hundred of its citizens from Greece by boat.
President Tayyip Erdogan said the fact that no lives had been lost in Turkey was a sign that “the measures we took have been effective”.
Turkey’s location inbetween the Arabian tectonic plate and the Eurasian plate renders it prone to earthquakes. In October 2011, more than six hundred people died in the eastern province of Van following a 7.2-magnitude quake and powerful aftershocks. In 1999, two massive earthquakes killed about 20,000 people in Turkey’s densely populated northwest.
The same year, a Five.9 magnitude quake killed one hundred forty three people in Greece.
Below: Photos of earthquake harm in Turkey and Greece
Picture Below: Harm caused by a quake in Kos, Greece, July 21, two thousand seventeen is seen in this still photograph uploaded on social media. Osman Turanli/Social Media/Handout via Reuters
Picture Below: Bruised boats are seen after an earthquake and a tsunami in the resort town of Gumbet in Mugla province, Turkey, July 21, 2017. REUTERS/Kenan Gurbuz
Pic Below: A man stands next to debris following an earthquake on the island of Kos, Greece July 21, 2017. REUTERS/Costas Baltas
Pic Below: Bruised boats are seen after an earthquake and a tsunami in the resort town of Gumbet in Mugla province, Turkey, July 21, 2017. Yasar Anter/Dogan News Agency via REUTERS
Photo Below: A man walks past debris following an earthquake on the island of Kos, Greece July 21, 2017. REUTERS/Costas Baltas
Pic Below: A woman sits outside of her bruised house after an earthquake in the village of Yaliciftlik near the resort town of Bodrum in Mugla province, Turkey, July 21, 2017. REUTERS/Kenan Gurbuz. REUTERS/Costas Baltas
Photo Below: A bruised car and a house are seen after an earthquake in the village of Yaliciftlik near the resort town of Bodrum in Mugla province, Turkey, July 21, 2017. REUTERS/Kenan Gurbuz
Picture Below: People look at part of the bruised pier of the port of Kos, following an earthquake off the island of Kos, Greece July 21, 2017. REUTERS/Costas Baltas
Picture Below: A man stands in front of a bruised building following an earthquake off the island of Kos, Greece July 21, 2017. REUTERS/Costas Baltas
News – PHOTOS: Deadly earthquake rocks Turkey, Greece – The Weather Network
PHOTOS: Deadly earthquake rocks Turkey, Greece
Friday, July 21, 2017, Ten:12 – A powerful earthquake killed two people on the Greek holiday island of Kos in the early hours of Friday, sending tourists fleeing into the streets, and causing disruption in the nearby Turkish tourist hub of Bodrum.
A Turkish and a Swedish tourist, aged thirty nine and twenty two years, died when the roof of a popular bar collapsed, Greek police said.
Kos’s port was put out of activity and, across the strait, a puny tsunami bruised vehicles parked near Bodrum’s shore. On Kos, around one hundred fifteen people were injured, including tourists of various nationalities — twelve of them earnestly.
More than three hundred fifty people visited hospitals in Turkey, however most had only light injuries.
The quake struck at 1:31 a.m. (2231 GMT), and many of Kos’s tourists spent the rest of the night in the open as a precaution, hotel owners said.
“All of a unexpected it felt like a train was going right through the room,” said Vernon Hausman, a German holidaying on Kos.
“I told my son: ‘Looks like an earthquake, so let’s get the hell out of here.'”
Click Play to Witness Below: Tourists Camp Outside Hotels After Quake Rattles Bodrum, Turkey
Greek authorities said the twelve people gravely injured on Kos included tourists from Turkey, Sweden and Norway; four were transferred to Crete and three to Athens.
One person was in a critical condition, while a Swedish tourist lost a gam, the director of the hospital in Crete told Greek Skai TV.
“Fortunate ESCAPE”
Turkish and Greek authorities put the magnitude at 6.Trio and 6.6 respectively and reported several aftershocks, with one estimated at Five.1. The U.S. Geological Survey located the epicenter of the main quake in the Aegean Sea, ten km (6 miles) SSE of Bodrum and about sixteen km ENE of Kos’s main port.
Hotel owners in Bodrum told Turkish broadcasters that some tourists were checking out.
“It was a fortunate escape and it could have been much worse,” said Issa Kamara, a 38-year old individual trainer at the Maca Kizi hotel in Bodrum’s brainy Turkbuku area.
Constantina Svynou, head of the hoteliers’ association in Kos, told Greek state television that many visitors had spent the night outside their hotels.
A post collective by İdo Tatlıses (@idotatlises) on Jul 20, two thousand seventeen at Five:22pm PDT
“There are about 200,000 tourists on the island, we are at the peak season. Our very first reaction was to silent the tourists, following basic rules and evacuating hotel buildings,” Svynou said, adding that there had been no injuries at hotels.
Reuters movie footage displayed residents and tourists walking along the streets of Kos’s main town among collapsed walls and debris. Long, broad cracks appeared in the asphalt on the quayside, which is near a tourist disrobe of cafes and bars.
“It was terrible . our bed was wiggling from the left to the right,” said Jara, a 26-year-old Dutch tourist. “Everything was going crazy.”
Kos’s airport remained operational and Greek Deputy Shipping Minister Nektarios Santorinios flew there. But he said the main port was out of act.
“Passengers on ferries have been rerouted to the islands of Nisyros and Kalymnos,” he told Greek SKAI TV.
TIDAL WAVE
Police said most of the harm in Kos had been to older buildings. A seismologist told Greek TV that there had been a tidal wave about seventy cm (28 inches) high.
Turkey’s emergency authorities warned against aftershocks, but said there had been no casualties or major harm there. Some power cuts were reported, and a minaret in the town of Islamkoy was said to have collapsed.
The broadcaster CNN Turk said that, in Bodrum, sixty vehicles had been dragged along by the water. It also showcased boats listing in a harbor. Several store owners told the broadcaster NTV they had suffered flood harm.
Turkey said it would evacuate around two hundred of its citizens from Greece by boat.
President Tayyip Erdogan said the fact that no lives had been lost in Turkey was a sign that “the measures we took have been effective”.
Turkey’s location inbetween the Arabian tectonic plate and the Eurasian plate renders it prone to earthquakes. In October 2011, more than six hundred people died in the eastern province of Van following a 7.2-magnitude quake and powerful aftershocks. In 1999, two massive earthquakes killed about 20,000 people in Turkey’s densely populated northwest.
The same year, a Five.9 magnitude quake killed one hundred forty three people in Greece.
Below: Photos of earthquake harm in Turkey and Greece
Photo Below: Harm caused by a quake in Kos, Greece, July 21, two thousand seventeen is seen in this still photograph uploaded on social media. Osman Turanli/Social Media/Handout via Reuters
Picture Below: Bruised boats are seen after an earthquake and a tsunami in the resort town of Gumbet in Mugla province, Turkey, July 21, 2017. REUTERS/Kenan Gurbuz
Picture Below: A man stands next to debris following an earthquake on the island of Kos, Greece July 21, 2017. REUTERS/Costas Baltas
Picture Below: Bruised boats are seen after an earthquake and a tsunami in the resort town of Gumbet in Mugla province, Turkey, July 21, 2017. Yasar Anter/Dogan News Agency via REUTERS
Photo Below: A man walks past debris following an earthquake on the island of Kos, Greece July 21, 2017. REUTERS/Costas Baltas
Pic Below: A woman sits outside of her bruised house after an earthquake in the village of Yaliciftlik near the resort town of Bodrum in Mugla province, Turkey, July 21, 2017. REUTERS/Kenan Gurbuz. REUTERS/Costas Baltas
Picture Below: A bruised car and a house are seen after an earthquake in the village of Yaliciftlik near the resort town of Bodrum in Mugla province, Turkey, July 21, 2017. REUTERS/Kenan Gurbuz
Pic Below: People look at part of the bruised pier of the port of Kos, following an earthquake off the island of Kos, Greece July 21, 2017. REUTERS/Costas Baltas
Pic Below: A man stands in front of a bruised building following an earthquake off the island of Kos, Greece July 21, 2017. REUTERS/Costas Baltas