Moderate quake jolts eastern Turkey, no reports of casualties

ANKARA, Sept 30 (AFP) - A moderate earthquake measuring 4.3 on the open-ended Richter scale struck the eastern province of Erzincan on Thursday, the Anatolia news agency said. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
The tremor struck at 12:42 p.m. (0942 GMT) with an epicenter in the province's Ilic town, the Istanbul-based Kandilli seismological institute said.
But the sub-governor of Ilic, Selami Kapankaya, told the agency: "We did not even feel the earthquake."
He said he first heard of the tremor on the television news and that he had received no reports so far of damage or casulaties.
On Wednesday, an eartquake measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale shook Turkey's biggest city Istanbul, sending people rushing into the streets in panic though there was no reported damage or casualties.
Earthquakes are frequent in Turkey, where some 20,000 people were killed in two massive tremors in 1999.