Earthquake

[Stan]

Hope all are ok, and stay safe .

[emekliyim]

Thank you, Eric, for that useful information.

Glad there appears to be nobody injured...and hope it stays that way.

[busybee]

Glad that everyone is safe and damage seems to be minimal.  I was sitting with my feet dangling in the pool and saw my pool sway from side to side.  Mick just managed to stop our tall glass cabinet falling flat on the floor.  I apparently now have become a screamer as Mick was torn between holding up the cabinet and coming out to see me screaming like a banshee    My neighbour came down the stairs with the new puppy, bottle of Efes and his fags   Many thanks for the earthquake procedure it is now clearly imprinted on my brain. I just wonder how the little stone cottages around Kings Garden fared as they look like they were thrown up after the biggie in the 1950's.....

[busybee]

We have a bit of our mountain missing at the top, my neighbour who was playing bowls said it looked like a volcano with all the dust just pouring out of the top.

[Jim Fraser]

Was at Bostans lying by the pool and sunbed nearly landed in the water.All the Sunday Lunchers left their tables quick smartish to run into the garden.Lamps around the pool swinging dangerously.Loud crash from the kitchen and over 50 new dinner plates smashed on the floor.Could hear loud screams from surrounding houses and soon after that sirens going off.Been told another quake of 7.1 forecast for later.Stay safe all of you out there.x

Who ever fortold the 7.1 for later is a wonderfull fortune teller!  Can they tell us the lottery numbers for next week too?  scientists have tried for years to find a way of predicting eathquakes to no avail as yet.  Perhaps this person can help them out.

The foreast was genuine and made by Turkish seismologist last year, they had forecasted a 6.5-7.1 earthquake for the area. These forecasts are based on historical movements of the fault plates or in some cases the lack of movement. So chances are this was the expected one and hopefully will be a while before the next one - Inşallah

[Gavos999]

Hope all of you guys are ok

[KKOB]

The following is part of a post on another forum about the earthquake.

Turkey has frequent earthquakes - we are in calis beach - in between fetiye and olu deniz - this earthquake has been described as considerate

Obviously the earthquake was "considerate" enough to gently nudge Calis Beach along the coast a few miles.   :  

[Fafbear]

Don't know any of you personally, but hope you are all okay.  We come over in 5 weeks so hopefully things will settle down now.

[Lynn25]

Thinking of all of you & hope none of you have suffered to much, thank goodness no-one seriously hurt.

[janmack]

We felt another very minor tremor about 21.30 tonight when we eating dinner outside...hope that's the end of it.  Personally speaking I don't think I've ever felt so scared in my life as I did this afternoon!!!  Just very thankful that, as far as I'm aware, there has been no major damage and nobody was hurt.