{"id":15321,"date":"2011-12-05T12:13:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T10:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=15321"},"modified":"2011-12-05T12:13:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T10:13:20","slug":"aegean-sea-earthquake-of-5-1-magnitude-turkeys-west-coast-and-greek-islands-shaken-15321","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/aegean-sea-earthquake-of-5-1-magnitude-turkeys-west-coast-and-greek-islands-shaken-15321\/","title":{"rendered":"Aegean Sea Earthquake of 5.1 magnitude : Turkey&#8217;s west coast and Greek islands shaken"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15322\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15322\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15322\" title=\"earthquake-turkey-greek-islands-nationalturk-0328\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/earthquake-turkey-greek-islands-nationalturk-0328.jpg\" alt=\"Turkey : Constantly threatened by earthquakes\" width=\"225\" height=\"176\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turkey : Constantly threatened by earthquakes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>An earthquake of 5.1 magnitude hit the Aegean Sea in the early hours on Monday, Greek islands and western Turkish coast shook violently.<\/h1>\n<p>\u0130zmir \/ NationalTurk &#8211; The earthquake struck at 08.17 GMT the weatern coast of Turkey and Greek islands. The quake&#8217;s epicentre is in the Aegean Sea, the Istanbul-based Kandilli seismological observatory.<\/p>\n<p>The quake was keenly felt in Turkey&#8217;s Aegean provinces Izmir and Aydin. The tremor also caused panic in Greek islands near to Turkey west coast. There was no immediate report of casualties or damages.<\/p>\n<h2>Turkey : Constantly threatened by earthquakes<\/h2>\n<p>Turkey is crossed by numerous faultlines, one major line crossing the Northern Anatolia, while Taurus faultline crosses South Anatolia.<\/p>\n<p>A powerful earthquake shook eastern Turkey on October 23, killing more than 600 people, which was followed on November 12 by a 5.6 magnitude earthquake that killed another 40 people in the eastern province of Van.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999, two strong quakes in the North Anatolian faultline hit heavily populated and industrialised parts of northwest Turkey and more than 20000 perished.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An earthquake of 5.1 magnitude hit the Aegean Sea in the early hours on Monday, Greek islands and western Turkish coast shook violently<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,174,194,173],"tags":[11366,19358,19355,18439,16574,5428,19357],"class_list":["post-15321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-headlines","tag-aegean-sea","tag-aegean-sea-earthquake","tag-earthquake-aegean-sea","tag-earthquake-turkey","tag-greek-islands","tag-turkey-earthquake","tag-turkey-west-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}