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Witness location : Avsallar (Turkey) (85 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 25 min

Quite effecting. Last 10-20 seconds with clear roaring. With thunder and lightning above the sea felt apocaliptic. Never before here for last 4 years.

Witness location : Side (Turkey) (90 km N from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 38 min

Everything was shaking inside my house! And it continued a long time as well so I ran outside and waited there for about an half hour.

Witness location : Alanya (Turkey) (91 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 296 min

Medium to strong shaking for approx 20-30 seconds. No damages in our building. Ambulances and police sirens.

Witness location : Mahmutlar (Turkey) (93 km NE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 20 min

We are 8 flights up at first you don't realise what is happening would rather not feel one again

Witness location : Antalya (Turkey) (109 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 16 min

So long significant shaking long waves.

Witness location : Antalya (Turkey) (114 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 20 min

Se sat i a bed om the sixth floor. The beed was slowly shaking.

Witness location : Antalya (Turkey) (115 km NW from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 84 min

Escaped 12 storey hotel due to app. 0,5-1 Hz shakes and swaying building on upper storeys. No harm done that we know of yet.

Witness location : Anamur (Turkey) (143 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 1471 min

No, never experienced this before. Are tourists,  our hotelroom shook for two or three seconds, it was very scarry

Witness location : Lysos (Cyprus) (154 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 17 min

Was in bed taking a nap. Felt the bed shook a couple of times for 5-10 seconds but nothing else.

Witness location : Fyti (Cyprus) (161 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 11 min

Approximately 17:22 Duration 20-30 seconds

Witness location : Paphos (Cyprus) (166 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 62 min

Not felt by my husband who was photographing a lighting storm on the hotel room balcony. TV on dressing table was shaking. Husband has video of storm and me in back ground calling him ss it happened.

Witness location : Paphos (Cyprus) (167 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 43 min

It lasted for 5 to 7 seconds.  Sitting on bed on 2nd floor in hotel room, bed shaking, doors rattling in their frames for the duration. 

Thunder storm at the same time, started about 30 minutes before the tremor.

Witness location : Ayioi Trimithias (Cyprus) (198 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 19 min

The towels hunging in the bathroomd were moving alone, like the air waves them outsides

Witness location : Ypsonas (Cyprus) (207 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 70 min

I thought I was gonna die

Witness location : Nicosia (Cyprus) (208 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 36 min

First shake was strong and happened suddenly. I was setting on sofa and it suddenly jumped from under me so i end up on the edge of sofa at once. Christmas tree and everything around was shaking on the place for about 2-3 minutes. Nothing fell off shelves.

Witness location : Nicosia (Cyprus) (208 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 59 min

I was sleeping and i woke up by the shaking. I am at 4th floor and it felt so strong and like it will never end...

Witness location : Nicosia (Cyprus) (208 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 60 min

I fell very strong this earthquake

Witness location : Strovolos (Cyprus) (209 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 505 min

Thunderstorm at the time of the earthquake made it more confusing and scary

Witness location : (Cyprus) (210 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 11 min

Seating with x4 in kitchen. It was like a dizzy sensation. Gentle movement of ground. No movement of objects.

Witness location : (Cyprus) (210 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 12 min

Lasted a little while, shook ceiling lights / fans etc

Witness location : Limassol (Cyprus) (214 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 1551 min

We live on last floor of 5fl building and feel some shake. Most people we asked did not felt anything at all.

Witness location : Aradippou (Cyprus) (236 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 86 min

All in house felt dizzy for about 20 sec.

Witness location : Oroklini (Cyprus) (240 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 17 min

Lived here for 8 years and its first I have felt. Led on the bed and it wobbled. Structure is a 3 story Town House in a block of 4 joined. Built from reinforced concrete.

Witness location : Oroklini (Cyprus) (242 km SE from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 26 min

We were sitting on the sofa and I thought my son is shaking the sofa with some kind of movements. I looked at him but he wasn't moving at all. Then I realised it was an earthquake. It was a little scarry. I told everybody do not move.

Witness location : Paralimni (Cyprus) (265 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 19 min

Felt it for 5 seconds

Witness location : Tripoli (Lebanon) (446 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 27 min

Shaking sideways_ smoothy, as if underwater.

Witness location : Tripoli (Lebanon) (447 km E from epicenter)

Time : T0+ 148 min

I saw chairs and the table shaking