Series of Earthquakes within Minutes in Turkey

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Five earthquakes took place in just five minutes in the western Turkish district of Manisa today, Turkish NTV reported, quoted by BTA.

The strongest earthquake was of magnitude 4 on the Richter scale and occurred early in the morning in the area of Akhisar at a depth of 7 km. Just for several minutes, the Istanbul-based Candilli Seismological Observatory registered four more earthquakes.
On January 24, the eastern Turkish district of Elazig was stuck by a strong 6.8 magnitude earthquake, which killed 41 people and injured 1,600.

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