{"id":356890,"date":"2026-05-20T03:20:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/schools-evacuated-as-magnitude-5-6-quake-hits-eastern-turkey"},"modified":"2026-05-20T03:20:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:20:53","slug":"schools-evacuated-as-magnitude-5-6-quake-hits-eastern-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/schools-evacuated-as-magnitude-5-6-quake-hits-eastern-turkey","title":{"rendered":"Faculties evacuated as magnitude 5.6 quake hits japanese Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">ISTANBUL &#8212; <\/span>Eastern Turkey was struck by a magnitude 5.6 earthquake Wednesday, emergency services said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It hit the Battalgazi district of Malatya province at 9 a.m. and the depth was 7 kilometers (4.3 miles), according to the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">There were no immediate reports of damage, but TV images showed schools being evacuated and residents rushing outside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Turkey sits on top of major fault lines and earthquakes are frequent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">In 2023, a <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/earthquake-turkey-syria-february-2023-62dba95d0608a3a587ddd2fe5ec39541\">magnitude 7.8 earthquake<\/a> killed more than 53,000 people in Turkey and destroyed or damaged hundreds of thousands of buildings in 11 southern and southeastern provinces. Another 6,000 people were killed in the northern parts of neighboring Syria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/International\/wireStory\/schools-evacuated-magnitude-56-quake-hits-eastern-turkey-133140230\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL &#8212; Eastern Turkey was struck by a magnitude 5.6 earthquake Wednesday, emergency services said. It hit the Battalgazi district of Malatya province at 9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":343121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32646,92,148,19550,32645,32318,8624,1030,32647],"class_list":["post-356890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-buried-rupture-earthquakes","tag-disaster-accident","tag-environment","tag-istanbul","tag-malatya","tag-quake","tag-syria","tag-turkey","tag-turkey-earthquake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356892,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356890\/revisions\/356892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}