Turkish authorities said 79 were killed, all in Izmir, while two teenagers died on the Greek island of Samos. More than 740 victims have so far been discharged from hospitals, AFAD said. Turkey is crossed by fault lines and is prone to earthquakes. In 1999, two powerful quakes killed 18,000 people in northwestern Turkey. The Friday earthquake, which the Istanbul-based Kandilli Institute said had a magnitude of 6.9, was centred in the Aegean Sea, northeast of Samos.

Source: bd News24 November 02, 2020 04:07 UTC