TEMPO.CO, Antalya - Antalya, a city of tourism in Turkey, was hit with an earthquake measuring five on the Richter scale on Sunday, December 8, 2013. Local authority is yet to release an official statement on the number of fatalities.
Anthony Oyewo, who has been living in Antalya for four years, told Tempo that this is the second earthquake in Antalya during the period of his stay.
"My bed was shaking. I thought someone under the bed was the one who did it. Lamps were shaking violently. I wasn't feeling comfortable," he told Tempo on Monday, December 9, 2013.
Meanwhile, Putra Adrian, an Indonesian who has been living in Turkey for sometime, claimed that he did not feel anything from the earthquake.
"I didn't feel any earthquake, I was working on my laptop so I didn't realize the earthquake," he told Tempo.
Tempo correspondent Maryam Az Zahra, reported that city of Van was once hit by an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale that killed 500 people and injured 1,300 in 2011. Previously on August 17, 1999, the city of Golcuk in the Kocaeli Province was crushed by a 7.4-magnitude earthquake killing 17,000 and injuring 43,000 as well as displacing approximately one million people displaced.
MARYAM AZ ZAHRA (ANTALYA)
