A total of 151 people were hurt and received hospital treatment after leaping from buildings in panic
\n ISTANBUL
\nMore than 150 people were injured when they jumped from buildings in Istanbul on Wednesday as one of the strongest quakes in years hit the city.
\nMany people gathered in parks and others sat on doorsteps, or stood outside their homes in the centre of Istanbul as aftershocks from the magnitude 6.2 quake on the European side of the city continued to be felt.
\n\u201cIt started with a big tremor all of a sudden and we felt it very strongly,\u201d said Istanbul resident Neslisah Aygoren, sitting in a park.
\n\u201cI ran straight to my dog in fear, hugged it and we waited for it to end, lying on the ground. After that, we took our belongings and went straight to the street.\u201d
\nA total of 151 people were hurt and received hospital treatment after leaping from buildings in panic during the tremor but none were in a critical condition, the Istanbul governor\u2019s office said.
\nIt said one abandoned building collapsed in central Istanbul, but nobody was hurt there, while there was no damage to energy or water infrastructure in the city of 16 million on the European and Asian shores of the Bosphorus Strait. Some shops closed.
\nTwo years ago, Turkiye suffered the deadliest and most destructive earthquake in its modern history. That 7.8-magnitude quake in February 2023 killed more than 55,000 people and injured more than 107,000 in southern Turkiye and northern Syria.
\nHundreds of thousands of people remain displaced, with many still living in temporary housing as a result of that quake.
\nThe latest tremor also revived memories of a 1999 earthquake near Istanbul that killed 17,000.
\nThe epicentre of Wednesday\u2019s quake, which hit at 12:49pm (0949 GMT), was in the area of Silivri, some 80km (50 miles) to the west of Istanbul. It was at a depth of 6.92km (4.3 miles), Turkiye\u2019s AFAD disaster agency said.
\nTransport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said inspections did not reveal any damage to highways, airports, trains or subways.
\nPresident Tayyip Erdogan said on X he was monitoring the situation and his office issued advice on what people should do in the case of further quakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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