Severe earthquake shakes Turkey: Follow-up tsunami hits metropolis and vacation island - video shows massive collapse

There has been a strong earthquake in Turkey.

Media reports of collapsed houses and panic on the streets.

• A major

  earthquake off the coast of Izmir

  shakes

  western Turkey, the Aegean Sea and parts of Greece

  .

• Turkish media report

  numerous collapsed buildings and panic in the streets, with at least four fatalities

  .

• A

  tsunami

  ensued

  on the

  island of Samos

  and the coast around Izmir was also hit.

Update from October 30th, 3:28 pm:

"

", reports

on the natural disaster in the Aegean Sea, "My memories are with the people in the region.

In order to prevent worse things from happening, we must now

, especially in Moria. ”The large refugee camp was recently hit by a major fire, now the many people there are again in danger.

Update from October 30th, 3:08 p.m.:

Fahrettin Koca, Minister of Health of Turkey, spoke to the newspaper Hürriyet of

.

are currently

in use.

Update from October 30th, 2:57 p.m.:

Details about

are still

.

The Turkish Environment Minister, Murat Kurum, reported on the TV station TRT, now of

who could be rescued from the rubble.

"By all means our state we stand

to the side," says

now immediate help, "we have

to make contact with all relevant institutions and ministries the necessary work in the region." The discussions about the The Turkish head of state will definitely put the terrorist attack in Nice on the back burner.

İzmir'de meydana gelen # deprem'den etkilenen tüm vatandaşlarımıza geçmiş olsun.

Devletimizin tüm imkanlarıyla depremden etkilenen vatandaşlarımızın yanındayız.

İlgili tüm kurumlarımızla, bakanlarımızla bölgede gerekli çalışmalara başlamak için harekete geçtik.

- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (@RTErdogan) October 30, 2020

Update from October 30, 2:37 p.m.:

As feared

.

Turkish authorities had already issued a warning and the German geological research center

calculated

the

.

Now Greek TV pictures show

.

Videos of

public

from Turkey

.

Another tsunami footage from the earthquake in Izmir province of Turkey.

This one is really dangerous pic.twitter.com/62zfddWSi8

- Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) October 30, 2020

Severe earthquake shakes Turkey: follow-up tsunami threatens to hit a metropolis - video shows massive collapse

First report from October 30th, 2.30 p.m.:

Istanbul - There

has been a

in

.

The

state news agency Anadolu reported on Friday that the

epicenter of the

quake

was in the

in the

.

The tremors were also felt in Greece.

The

has been

particularly

hit, where there have been reports of building damage.

The

, a landmark of the island, collapsed in parts.

Turkey: Violent earthquake in the west of the country - several buildings collapsed

The Turkish news channel TRT showed pictures of a

and reported panic on the streets during the quake.

Telephone connections were interrupted.

Unconfirmed sources speak of a total of 20

.

And the quake is likely to continue - an unusually long time.

Over 20 Buildings have Collapsed after 6.9 Magnitude Earthquake in #Izmir, Turkey

And they are going Down pic.twitter.com/4FKw8y9OgN

- Megh Updates 🚨 (@MeghUpdates) October 30, 2020

The television images showed larger clouds of dust hanging over the city.

In

an interview with the television station, the

said that so far no precise

made.

According to Anadolu, the quake occurred at 2:51 p.m. local time.

Turkey: Tsunami feared after the earthquake near Izmir - warning for the entire region

The Turkish portal Hürriyet reports of

.

Two of them are said to have reached a strength of 4.8.

Unfortunately

, the

no longer the only concern of the people on the

.

A

for the region

. Pictures would clearly show how the water levels in front of the metropolis are sinking. A clear

. The German Research Center for Geosciences has already reported an "

" and calculated waves of up to 1.5 meters. Tourists were hardly against during the incident. Many countries, including Germany, assess the whole of Turkey as a risk area in the corona pandemic.