An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 on the Richter scale shook the Greek islands of the Dodecanese, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center reported. The earthquake was recorded at a depth of 114 kilometers.
The epicenter is located 158 km northeast of Heraklion and 25 km southeast of Astypalaya.
There are no reports of casualties or material damage, BGNES reports.
2023-04-26 20:55:00
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A new earthquake with a magnitude of 5 was registered today in Tajikistan, the European-Mediterranean Seismic Center reported.
According to his data, the epicenter of the earthquake was at a depth of 60 kilometers and 58 kilometers southwest of the village of Murgab, which has a population of 10,800 people, TASS reported, quoted by BTA.
There is no information about casualties or damage.
Less than a week ago, an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale shook the country.
The tremor was recorded in eastern Tajikistan, near the border with China, and was felt strongly in parts of western China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, including the cities of Kashgar and Artush.
At that time, the railway services in the Xinjiang-Uyghur region had temporarily stopped the movement of some trains, but there were no injuries or victims, recalls dir.bg.
“Until now we have addressed you as neighbors, friends. We now address you as brothers and sisters. You responded in the first hours after the tragedy and sent rescue teams with military planes, which brought many people out from under the ruins. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, this was the strongest gesture of solidarity that Bulgaria showed us. I am proud to be an ambassador in such a country.”
This was stated by the ambassador of Turkey Aylin Sekizkök, who met with the Minister of Defense Dimitar Stoyanov.
Ambassador Sekizkök pointed out that Bulgaria’s help is extremely valuable.
“The Ministry of Defense is ready to continue providing necessary humanitarian assistance to Turkey. We were among the first countries to respond – through our Air Force, we transported military medics, rescue teams and humanitarian aid with our military planes,” said Minister Stoyanov, once again expressing his sincere condolences to the families of those killed and injured in the severe earthquakes in Turkey.
According to the latest data, 41 thousand people have died after the earthquakes so far, and 2 million people have been left without shelter.
“We are trying to provide them with a roof and heating. We are therefore grateful that you provide full assistance to the trucks with humanitarian aid to transit through Bulgaria to the affected areas. We will also count on your support to the European Union to restore the damage caused by the earthquake,” said Ambassador Sekizkök.
“You will have the unequivocal support of Bulgaria in the European Union for any necessary assistance to Turkey.” We at the Ministry of Defense remain ready at your request to provide support according to our capabilities,” said the Minister of Defense.
He told the ambassador that the servicemen from the Second Mechanized Brigade in Stara Zagora collected donations for the families of the victims in Turkey.
“This is a small gesture, but it shows our sincere sympathy for your people,” Minister Stoyanov said.
Terror and panic again in Turkey and Syria. Two new strong earthquakes shook the areas that were also most affected by the previous strong tremors on February 6. The first quake had a magnitude of 6.4, and the second – 5.8.
The epicenter was near the city of Defne, near Antakya in Hatay province. According to the latest data there are three victims and over 200 injured from these latest earthquakes.
Tremors were felt both throughout southeastern Turkey and northern Syria, as well as in neighboring Lebanon and even Egypt.
8:04 pm. The earth shakes again in the already destroyed cities. Three minutes later – another strong tremor. Panicked people run from their homes or the tents they are staying in and look for each other in the darkness.
The authorities remobilized all rescue teams to help the population. A warning has also been issued not to stand on the seashore due to the danger of a tidal wave of up to half a meter.
Earlier in the day, the search for survivors was suspended in 9 of the 11 provinces affected by the previous series of tremors. According to the latest data, the total number of dead in Turkey and Syria is over 47 thousand people.
Exactly two weeks after the great earthquakes on February 6, the people of the affected cities continue to live in constant fear. However, today’s earthquake is the strongest of the thousands of aftershocks they have experienced.
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People whose homes have not collapsed will face this night outdoors in their cars or in tents in the camps. Those who have been homeless for 14 days now say that all they have left is the horror of the tremors and that they are getting no help from anywhere.
We contacted a family that this time fell into the very epicenter of the earthquake – in the city of Samandag. Sinan Saglamtash has been living with his relatives on the street for two weeks now, they are experiencing the earthquake tonight as well. Here’s what he told bTV:
– It was 6.4. Hit twice very hard.
– How are you right now?
– It is dangerous, we are not well. Everything is nightmarish and getting nightmarish. Another 20 people are said to have died in Hatay. A nightmare.
The tremors in Hatay are also strongly felt in the affected cities, such as Gaziantep:
“Very cool and it was long, 30 seconds. I thought it would be like last time, we are not calm yet,” shared Zhanna Okukju.
People whose homes remained safe are out again tonight.
“I’m at home, I didn’t go out because I live on the first floor, those people are all out of fear, they’ll probably sleep in the cars again. The professors say that it can happen again at this level something in Adana. It is expected there, because it happened in Kahramanmaras, it happened in Hatay, and now they are waiting for another one around 6 in Adana. I hope it doesn’t happen,” Zhanna Okukju added.
People in Adana have also left their homes.
“We are on the street, we have driven the cars, we are afraid to go inside, it felt very strong, it shook a lot. We were scared, we don’t have much information, but now we hear that two or three blocks have collapsed in Adana, injured, ambulances can be heard,” said Ibrahim Yalmaz.
People say that for two weeks now the ground under their feet has not stopped shaking.
Valentin Kostov and Gergana Venkova worked on the topic
Returned “The Spartan”, delivered aid to Syria. With him is a team from bTV, which is the only television on board the machine. The Bulgarian medics, who helped for 10 days in Turkey, also returned home with the military plane, which landed at Vrazdebna airport.
With “Spartana”, Bulgaria sent the first humanitarian aid to Syria. On the way back, the plane passed through Turkey and picked up our medics who were helping there after the devastating earthquake.
The Bulgarian doctors said that they will never forget what they saw. They saw their loved ones for the first time in 10 days of fieldwork.
“The help we provided was to living people, outside of destruction, suffering of a different nature. From the destruction and buildings themselves, we were not able to get people alive,” said Major Tsvetan Stanimirov, a military doctor.
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Maria was also in the VMA team. She said that as a woman, the experience was more difficult for her because she associated everything with her family and loved ones.
“Sorrow, tragedy, hope in the eyes of the people. It’s an amazing feeling. They are waiting to see what happens to the relatives. Relatives had flocked from all parts of Turkey to sit by the ruins of the building. They are asking for rescuers and hoping that their loved one will come out alive. It’s hard. The sorrow, the tears, the pain that people experienced was indescribable,” said senior officer Maria Borisova, MD at the Academy of Medical Sciences.
General Mutafchiiski was at the airport to meet the medics. He said he was proud of his colleagues. He tried to replace them earlier, but they said they wouldn’t leave because they had more work to do.
“Our people were up to par. Of course I’m proud of them because they left just two hours after the government’s decision to send aid teams was announced,” said Prof. Dr. Ventsislav Mutafchiiski, head of the VMA.
Only a bTV team was on board the plane that delivered the first aid to Syria. He went home with the pilots from Beirut.
“I saw exceptional professionalism on the part of the Bulgarian pilots, the entire team. They do their work without any vanity, only with the idea that this help should be delivered because there are people who need it,” said the international editor Yana Burzakova.
And the pilots who took our medics to Adana and back say that they are already used to the risk and tension.
“The flight went quite normally. These are routine tasks for us, the eighth or ninth of this crisis. Everything was normal,” said Major Veselin Assenov, the plane’s crew commander.
Our doctors are categorical – if there is a need for them, they are always on the line.
Earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 shook Turkey. It happened 29 km from Antakya and 74 km from Latakia, Syria.
The epicenter was at a depth of about 10 kilometers in the Mediterranean Sea and about 5 kilometers from the Turkish coast, in the Hatay district area.
According to the Syrian National Seismological Center, the earthquake had a magnitude of 5.4, BTA reported. It was felt in parts of the Syrian province of Idlib and in some areas of Lebanon.
People in Idlib have taken to the streets in panic. The tremor was registered at 21:47 local time.
After this tremor, several buildings that were damaged by the earthquakes on February 6 collapsed, world agencies reported. So far, there are no reports of casualties.
Earthquakes of 7.8 and 7.2 on the Richter scale
Nearly 42,000 are already the number of victims after the devastating earthquakes. Of these, 36,200 are in Turkey and about 5,500 in Syria.
In the midst of tragedy, miracles continue to happen. In Kahramanmaras, a 17-year-old girl was pulled alive from the rubble 248 hours after the quake.
In 10 days after the disaster, nearly 5,000 healthy babies were born in Turkey.
Thanks to the safe construction, the hospitals withstood the powerful earthquake and treated nearly 90,000 victims there.
