People remove the wreckage of a collapsed building following an earthquake in Sindirgi, northwest Turkey, on Sunday, August 10, 2025. Another quake shook the town on October 27, 2025.
A strong earthquake shook western Turkey on Monday, October 27, causing at least three buildings to collapse, officials said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
The magnitude 6.1 quake was centered in the town of Sindirgi in Balikesir province, according to the Disaster and Emergency Management agency, AFAD. It struck at 22:48 local time at a depth of 5.99 kilometers.
It was felt in Istanbul, and the nearby provinces of Bursa, Manisa and Izmir, Haberturk news channel reported.
Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said at least three buildings and a shop collapsed in Sindirgi.
“So far, we have not identified any loss of life, but we are continuing our assessment,” Sindirgi’s district administrator Dogukan Koyuncu told the state-run Anadolu Agency.
The private NTV television quoted the fire brigade as saying that three inhabited buildings, previously damaged by an earlier earthquake, had collapsed.
Sindirgi also was struck in August by a magnitude 6.1 earthquake, which killed one person and injured dozens of other people. Since then, the region around Balikesir had been hit by smaller shocks.
Turkey sits on top of major fault lines, and earthquakes are frequent.
In 2023, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake 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.
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