Kandilli

With air pollution in Istanbul increasing by 9 percent compared to the previous years, Kadıköy's Göztepe neighborhood experienced the highest level of air pollution last year, according to the air quality data collected by the Istanbul Municipality.

UNESCO, which published a report stating that the risk of a significant tsunami in Mediterranean coastal cities in the next 30 years is almost 100 percent, has added Istanbul to the list of cities under tsunami risk.

Some five whistling buoys placed in the Marmara Sea that guide equipment used by experts to observe seismic activities have been stolen, officials from Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Center said on Feb. 3.

"Who stole them and for what? We really do not understand," said Doğan Kalafat, the head of the Tsunami Research Department in Kandilli Observatory.

A 3.8 magnitude earthquake was registered in the Black Sea near Istanbul, Turkish private television NTV reported.

According to data from the Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate, the quake struck at 2:56 this night, 18 km away from the Istanbul municipality of Arnavutköy.

The earthquake, which was about 7 km deep, was felt in many areas of the metropolis.

A 4.0 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale struck Sivrice, eastern Turkey, Istanbul Kandilli Research Center said.

The city of Sivrice is in the Turkish in Elazig province. The earthquake was registered at 18:36 CET at a 1.5 km depth.

Earlier this month, Elazig Province was hit by a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that killed 41 people and injured more than 1,000.

A magnitude 5.1 earthquake was reported not far from the city of Izmir in Western Turkey today, TASS reported, citing data from Istanbul's Seismological Observatory Kandilli. The epicentre was in the area of the city of Kirkagac at a depth of 11.8 km, BTA reports.

So far there are no reports of casualties and destruction.

A 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck Turkey's western Manisa province on Jan. 28, according to The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD).

Boğaziçi University Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute has announced the magnitude of the earthquake as 5.1.

A magnitude-3.7 earthquake rocked the Aegean Sea on Dec. 27, according to the data released by Boğaziçi University’s Kandilli Observatory.

An earthquake occurred in Aegean Sea in 5 magnitude. The epicenter of quake was found to be vulnerabilities of Greece's Magnesia island.

An earthquake of magnitude 4 on the Richter scale is registered today in Eastern Turkey, the European Mediterranean Seismological Center reported, quoted by bTV. 

According to local media quoted by the seismological Kandilli Observatory in Istanbul, the quake is 4.3 on the Richter scale.

It is registered at 12:41 am and its epicenter is in the Erdzhish Yancuttepe area.