00:006.1 Magnitude Earthquake in Turkey
00:03One person was killed yesterday, 10, when an earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck northwestern
00:08Turkey's Balakiza province, Interior Minister Ali Yurlakea said, adding 29 people were wounded
00:14and 16 buildings collapsed. The quake, which Turkey's Afad Disaster Management Authority
00:19said occurred at around 7.53 p.m., was felt in multiple provinces, including the country's
00:24biggest city, Istanbul. Yurlakea said an 81-year-old person died after being rescued from rubble
00:30by emergency teams. He said search and rescue operations were now concluded and that there
00:35were no other signs of serious damage or casualties. Afad said the quake struck at a depth of 11
00:41kilometers, 6.8 miles, while the German Research Center for Geosciences, GFZ, registered the
00:47earthquake's magnitude at 6.19 and a depth of 10 kilometers. Reporting by Gnanehwar Rajan
00:53in Bengaluru and Tuvan Gumraku in Ankara. Editing by Andrew Cawthorn, Hugh Lawson and Cynthia Osterman.
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