The testimony of Indonesian citizens when the earthquake m 6.2 shakes Istanbul: apartment shakes 1 minute

Istanbul – an earthquake with size (m) 6.2 shook the Marmara Sea area, near the western suburbs of Istanbul, Türkiye, on Wednesday (4/23/2025) local time. Residents, including those from Indonesia, also felt the earthquake. One of them is Talimano Telaumbanua, a student who cares for his side track in Istanbul. He said that people in his office building were suddenly harmed when they felt the earthquake. “If the earthquake was at work. By the way, today is a holiday, commemoration of sovereignty days and children’s day in Turkey. By the way, my office has no holiday. The office in the building where I work is only a few people. Everyone is in disarray and leaves the building immediately,” Talimano said when he was contacted on Wednesday (23/4). Browse to continue with the content “really feel (earthquake). Very shocked because there was no warning before,” he added. Talimano said that the aftershocks that emerged had felt since the afternoon of the local time. But he said there was no collapsed building around him. ‘From noon since the earthquake has still felt that the aftershocks have been 3 times so far. So far, there have been no collapsed building or trees that have fallen. But there was a little cracked, ‘he said. Talimano said there was an appeal from the Ministry of Home Affairs and Emergency Management or BMKG Türkiye to residents. He said residents are advised to avoid near high buildings and old homes. “And the government (AFAD/BMKG) has called to avoid high buildings and old houses,” he said. Another Indonesian citizen in Türkiye, Wita Koto, 30, felt the same. He said he was in the inn in the Fatih region, Istanbul. “By the way, I was in the apartment to deliver my high school teachers who had just arrived from Indonesia,” Wita said when the earthquake took place. Wita said the earthquake vibrations are felt in the apartment building. He remembers that the shock felt almost a minute. “Because it feels in the apartment building, it feels a lot like the building that swings almost a minute. The apartment is as high as five floors and maybe every floor has three houses on average,” Wita said. Wita said that everyone felt almost an hour since the first earthquake and the aftershocks that everyone was suddenly spread out of the building. According to him, the streets around his apartment building were suddenly stuck. “Around me that collapsed was no, but all Turkish neighbors, seemed panicked and even longer outside,” says Wita. “Then the road was stuck in front of the apartment and many were closed because the flow of cars became in and out of pressure,” he added. It is known, an earthquake with a size of M 6.2 shook the Marmara Sea area, near the western suburbs of Istanbul, Türkiye, on Wednesday (23/4). As much as more than 50 aftershocks after the M 6.2 earthquake. “At 3:12 afternoon (1512 GMT), 51 afternoon hocks, the largest with a scope of 5.9 on the Richter scale, were recorded,” Turkish Home Secretary, Ali Yerlikaya on X, reported on Wednesday (4/23). Ali said the first size M 6.2 earthquake occurred at 12.59 afternoon with a depth of about 7 kilometers and lasted a total of 13 seconds. (FCA/ISA) HOEGENG Awards 2025 Read the inspiring story of the exemplary police candidate here