Two earthquakes with preliminary magnitudes of 5.3 jolted Turkey’s northern Aegean Sea coast, damaging dozens of homes in 11 villages and injuring at least five people, officials say.
The first quake, which was centered beneath the Aegean off the coast of the town of Ayvacik in Turkey’s northwestern Canakkale province, struck at 6:51 a.m. (0351 GMT), according to the government’s crisis management agency. The second temblor hit at 1:58 p.m. (1058 GMT) and was centered in Ayvacik.
More than a hundred aftershocks were recorded in the region, the strongest measuring magnitude 4.4, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency reports.
Orhan Tavli, the governor for Canakkale, says 40 homes were damaged in the worst-hit village of Yukarikoy, near Ayvacik. Some 50 homes in 10 other nearby villages were also affected.
“Praise God, there was no loss of life,” Tavli tells reporters in Yukarikoy.
Local residents stand in front of a damaged house in the village of Yukarikoy in Turkey after two quakes jolt the country’s northern Aegean coast on Feb. 6, 2017. (Mustafa Suicmez/DHA-Depo Photos via AP)
— AP
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