Icmeler Online Holiday Forum & Reviews - Turkey

Just heard UK radio news 0807hrs
Turkey Earthquake
hope all are OK
DATE and TIME (UTC) LAT-ITUDE LONG-ITUDE MAG-NITUDE DEPTH km REGION
08-MAR-2010 07:47:40 38.77 40.24 5.5 10.0 TURKEY
08-MAR-2010 02:32:35 38.89 39.97 5.9 10.0 TURKEY

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/zoom/?view= ... =42&lat=38

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8554857.stm

Terrible - there seem to have been so many major natural disasters recently.

Quake was a long way north and east of Icmeler,but sad for those killed and injured in that area,

the earthquake happened in the east of turkey 340 miles east of Ankara so long long way off icmeler
a lot of people have neen injured and a lot slept in the street all night as they fled their homes incase it fell down
they has been a few earthquakes in turkey in the past month
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I am sooo paranoid about quakes that I have the following as my homepage - great to see what's going on in and araound icmeler/marmaris


http://www.koeri.boun.edu.tr/sismo/map/en/index.html

My thoughts are with the familys of the dead and injured.

Having been in the middle of the Athens earthquake in September 1999 where 130 people lost their live and over 2000 people injured I can honestlyt say it was the most frightening experience in my life. It only lasted 15 seconds at magitude 6.0 but it seemed a lot longer with ceiling panels falling down, cracks appearing in walls etc. From the Tuesday until I left on the Friday we had 600+ aftershocks, people were living in tents in the streets and parks frightened to go back into their homes.

Knowing Turkey is an eathquake zone my wife and children know what to do in an eathquake, there are some tips on the following link http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?secti ... id=6294567

Dave