Citing Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Agency, Russia’s news agency RIA Novosti reported today that the death toll in a powerful magnitude 7.0 quake in the Aegean Sea that struck Turkey and Greece on Friday has risen to 79 in Turkey.
According to the latest data, as a result of the earthquake, 79 people were killed and 962 were injured, the country’s disaster agency said according to RIA Novosti.
The temblor occurred at 1:51 p.m. Friday local time and originated at a depth of about 20 kilometers near Samos, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It also triggered a tsunami, causing some coastal residential areas to be inundated with sea water.
