On the Greek side, the only victims of a strong earthquake remain two students whose bodies were found under a collapsed wall on the island of Samos.
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More than 3,500 tents and 13,000 beds in Turkey have been provided to people in need of emergency shelter, according to the local disaster and emergency management office AFAD. The construction of the emergency camp is still ongoing.
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According to the AFAD office, 962 people were injured in the shocks, but more than 740 of them have already been released from hospitals. The three-year-old girl is 106th rescued from the rubble. According to the Daily Sabah, 58 buildings in Izmir collapsed or were severely damaged.
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On Saturday, Turkish rescuers managed to rescue a living woman and three of her children from the rubble of an eight-story house. The last child found is a member of their family. On Sunday, rescuers found a living 70-year-old man in the rubble.
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Friday’s earthquake had an epicenter in the Aegean Sea, northeast of the island of Samos. According to the European Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC), the earthquake had a magnitude of 6.9 degrees, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported 7.0 and the Kandilli Seismological Observatory in Istanbul measured 6.9 degrees. Earthquakes are common in Turkey. In 1999, two strong quakes killed 18,000 people in the northwest of the country.
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