Powerful natural disaster hits off Turkish coast

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At least two people were killed and several injured on the Greek island of Kos by a powerful quake which struck between Turkey and Greece on Friday morning, Greece's semi-official Athens News Agency (ANA) reported.

The tremor struck at 1.31 am local time (10.31pm GMT) approximately 6.4 miles south of Bodrum, Turkey and 10 miles east of the party island of Kos, Greece.

Kos Mayor Giorgos Kyritsis told state-run Greek media that buildings on the island sustained structural damage in the quake that struck early Friday morning. A 6.7 magnitude quake was registered near the Turkish western coast in the Aegean Sea, according to data from the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC).

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Two strong aftershocks followed.

It had a depth of 10 kilometers, the US Geological Survey said.

A major natural disaster has rocked the West Coast of the country of Turkey.

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