A magnitude 4.9 earthquake rattled the western Turkish town of Sındırgı on Monday for the third time in less than three months, officials said.
The earthquake occurred just after 3:30 p.m. (1230 GMT) at a depth of 11 kilometers (6.8 miles), Turkey’s AFAD disaster agency management agency said on X.
The Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute said it had a slightly higher magnitude of 5.1.
Sındırgı, nestled in the hills about 150 kilometers northeast of İzmir, was shaken by a magnitude 6.1 earthquake on the evening of October 28 that was also felt in İzmir and İstanbul. Nobody was hurt.
On August 10 an earthquake of the same magnitude killed one person and wounded dozens of others in Sındırgı.
Turkey is crisscrossed by several geological fault lines that have previously caused catastrophes in the country.
Two earthquakes in February 2023 in the southeast killed at least 53,000 people and devastated Antakya, site of the ancient city of Antioch.
At the beginning of July a magnitude 5.8 tremor in the same region resulted in one death and injured 69 people.
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