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Quake measuring 5.2 rocks northwestern Turkey

Quake measuring 5.2 rocks northwestern Turkey

25 July 2011 20:50 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter Scale struck in the Marmara Sea Monday evening, causing panic among the residents of Turkey’s largest city Istanbul, APA reports siting Xinhua.

The Istanbul-based Kandilli Observatory reported the epicenter of the quake in the Marmara Sea at a depth of 8.4 km and a magnitude of 5.2.

No information of any physical or material damage has been reported yet.

Turkey is fundamentally vulnerable to earthquakes because of its geographical location.

The country sits between two huge tectonic plates, Eurasia and Africa/Arabia, which are inexorably grinding into one another, north to south.

Earthquake safety was forced firmly on to Turkey’s agenda following the Izmit tremors in 1999, which killed more than 17,000 people.

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