In Türkiye, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake was felt in Istanbul on Wednesday. Authorities report so far 151 people injured as they tried to exit buildings out the windows.
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00:00In Turkey, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake was felt in Istanbul on Wednesday.
00:04Authorities reported so far 151 people injured as they tried to exit buildings out the windows.
00:10The United States Geological Survey said the earthquake had a shallow death of 10 kilometers
00:15via an epicenter of some 40 kilometers southwest of Istanbul in the Sea of Marmara
00:19and was felt in several neighboring regions.
00:22It is worth highlighting that Turkey is crossed by two major fault lines and earthquakes are frequent.
00:27In this sense, let's recall that a magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook the nation on February 6, 2023,
00:34damaging hundreds of thousands of buildings and leaving more than 53,000 people dead.