{"id":97172,"date":"2011-05-20T12:07:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T07:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=97172"},"modified":"2011-05-20T12:19:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T07:19:06","slug":"earthquake-in-turkey-leaves-at-least-2-dead-79-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/05\/20\/earthquake-in-turkey-leaves-at-least-2-dead-79-injured.html","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake in Turkey Leaves At Least 2 Dead, 79 Injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 has struck north-west Turkey, killing at least two people and injuring 79, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-13466343\"><strong>BBC reports<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The tremor struck just before midnight local time and centred on the town of Simav, in Kutahya province, some 310 km (190 miles) west of the capital Ankara.<\/p>\n<p>Terrified residents ran into the streets, and many spent the night in cars after being warned not to go back to their homes.<\/p>\n<p>One person died after jumping from a window in panic, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Minister Veysel Eroglu put the death toll at two, and said that of the 79 injured only one was in a serious condition.<\/p>\n<p>Kutahya Governor Kenan Ciftci said three people had died.<\/p>\n<p>State media reported that at least one derelict building collapsed and the windows in some buildings were shattered by the quake, which struck at 11:15 pm (2015 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was so strong that we could not even move in the first few seconds,&#8221; lawmaker Idris Bal told NTV television. &#8220;People are waiting in their cars now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The quake was followed by around 50 aftershocks, the Kandilli observatory in Istanbul reported.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey is particularly vulnerable to earthquakes because it sits on major geological fault lines.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 has struck north-west Turkey, killing at least two people and injuring 79.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10223,26790,26791,10222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}