Azerbaijan, Baku, Jan.11 / Trend /
An earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale took place in the Turkish part of the Aegean Sea near the Limni islands on Friday, Dogan news agency reported.
According to the website of the Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute at Bogazici University, earthquake was recorded at 02:30.
Earlier an earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale took place at the same place on Thursday.
Turkey is located in a seismically active zone. The most powerful vibrations of the earth's crust in this country occurred in the Marmara Sea in 1999. The magnitude of the tremors was 7.4. About 18,000 people killed in the earthquake.