Strong earthquake rattles Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude or 6.2 shook Istanbul on Wednesday, said the Disaster and Emergency Management Agency of Türkiye. There were no reports of serious damage or injury, but many people left the buildings in Istanbul with fear, looking for information about their phones and calling their loved ones.

The disaster agency urged people to stay away from buildings.

The earthquake had a shallow depth of approximately 6 miles, according to the United States geological service. His epicenter was about 25 miles southwest of Istanbul in Marmara’s sea.

6.2 Magnitude The earthquake is shaken Turkiye, Silivri District of Epicenter Istanbul: AFAD Disaster Agency — People wait outside of buildings and call their loved ones after 6.2 earthquake magnitude Shakes Istanbul, Türkiye, April 23, 2025.

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The earthquake was felt in several neighboring provinces and in the city of Izmir, about 340 miles south of Istanbul. The earthquake gave a duration of 12:49 pm of a holiday when many children were out of school and celebrating in the streets. The earthquake forced the authorities in Istanbul to cancel the events.

“At 3:12 pm, 51 replicas, the largest or that was 5.9 of magnitude, had registered,” Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya wrote on social networks.

Yerlikaya said previously that the authorities had not received reports from collapsed buildings. He told Haberturk Television, Howver, he had damage of damage to buildings.

Mayor Mehmet Ergun Turan, of the Historical District of Fatih, which houses the famous blue mosque and Hagia Sophia told local media that there was no damage or collapse, but a person was Kurda to jump from a panic window.

A map provided by the United States Geological Service shows the location of an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 that hit the southern coast of Istanbul, Turkey, in the Marmara Sea, on April 23, 2025.

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Kemal Cebi, the mayor of the district of Kucukcekmece in western Istanbul, told the local station NTV that “they were not yet negative developments,” but James traffic reported and said that many buildings were enhanceable in the area.

Türkiye crosses with two main failures, and earthquakes are frequent.

A magnitude 7.8 Earthquake on February 6, 2023And a second powerful tremor that arrived hours later, destroyed or damaged hundreds of thousands of buildings in 11 South and Southeast Turkish provinces, leaving more than 53,000 people dead. Another 6,000 people were killed in the northern parts of neighboring Syria.