(Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck western Turkey on Sunday, the nation’s AFAD catastrophe administration authority mentioned, whereas native media mentioned the quake was felt throughout a number of provinces.
AFAD mentioned the quake occurred at round 7:53pm native time within the Balikesir province, close to Turkey’s greatest metropolis Istanbul, however there have been no fast studies of casualties or harm in any of the affected provinces.
Inside Minister Ali Yerlikaya mentioned on X that emergency groups from AFAD had began inspections round Istanbul and the neighbouring provinces however that no destructive studies had come via to date.
AFAD mentioned the quake struck at a depth of 11 km (6.8 miles), whereas the German Analysis Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) registered the earthquake’s magnitude at 6.19 and a depth of 10 km.
(Reporting by Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru; Enhancing by Andrew Cawthorne and Hugh Lawson)