Ankara, September 11: A light earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale shook the central Turkish province of Konya on Thursday, causing panicked residents to jump out of buildings, media reports said.
The epicenter of the quake, which hit at 9:29 pm (1829 GMT), was near the town of Selcuklu, the Istanbul-based Kandilli observatory said.
There were no reports of damage, but a number of people sustained injuries when they jumped out of their windows and balconies in panic, the CNN-Turk news channel said.
Earthquakes are frequent in Turkey, which is crossed by several major fault lines. Two violent earthquakes in the heavily populated, industrialised northwest claimed about 20,000 lives in August and November 1999.
–Agencies