Massive Earthquake Rocks Greece and Turkey: Survivors Reeling in Aftershocks and Chaos

News Staff : Jul 21, 2017
Times of Israel

So far, two are reported dead with hundreds injured.

(Greece) — [Reprinted with permission of The Times of Israel] "People left the hotels and began looking for open areas to get away from the beach," Margalit Keren, who was staying on a yacht in Kos with her husband, told [Israel's] Channel 2 news on Friday. (Photo Credit: AFP/Louisa Gouliamaki)

"We were fast asleep when we felt the sea rise up and hit hard on the side of the yacht," she said. "Along the wharf all the boats collided with each other and a yacht moored next to us snapped its ropes and started to float away. The water fell by half a meter in height."

"People came running out of the hotels and searched for open spaces away from the shore," she added. "There were dozens of aftershocks."

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