Live updates as 6.7 magnitude quake strikes between resorts of Bodrum and Kos * Earthquake in Turkey and Greece leaves at least two dead in Kos 4.08am BST Tom Riesack from Germany is staying on Kos in a resort called Astir Odysseus, with his wife and nine-year-old twins. He told the Guardian: We were literally shaken out of our beds from deep sleep. The whole room was shaking and we fled the room into the open. Thankfully I am staying in a newer hotel that has been built ‘earthquake safe’. We have just had another big tremor … bigger than the last aftershocks. [It’s] scary. There had been some flooding of up to 1m, which moved some of the deckchairs and the like. [There was] no damage that I could see, apart from some flower pots toppled over. Overall the hotel looks good compared to the photos from Kos. 4.01am BST The United States Geological Survey (USGS), which monitors earthquakes, said it the strong quake was very shallow – only 10km (6.2 miles) below the seabed – and located off the southwestern coastal city of Marmaris in the Mugla province of Turkey. The epicentre was just 10km south of the Turkish resort of Bodrum and 16km east-northeast of Kos. Continue reading...
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