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Magnitude 5.0 Quake Shakes Southeast Turkey

FILE: Local residents watch as medics and rescue personnel carry into an ambulance an injured person from the debris of a collapsed building after an earthquake in Izmir, Turkey, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
FILE: Local residents watch as medics and rescue personnel carry into an ambulance an injured person from the debris of a collapsed building after an earthquake in Izmir, Turkey, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
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Magnitude 5.0 Quake Shakes Southeast Turkey

FILE: Local residents watch as medics and rescue personnel carry into an ambulance an injured person from the debris of a collapsed building after an earthquake in Izmir, Turkey, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
FILE: Local residents watch as medics and rescue personnel carry into an ambulance an injured person from the debris of a collapsed building after an earthquake in Izmir, Turkey, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Turkey’s disaster authority and the US Geological Survey said a 5.0 magnitude earthquake has struck Siirt in southeastern Turkey.

The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority, or AFAD, said Thursday there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage from the quake that hit at a depth of 20 kilometers (12 miles) at 8:45 a.m. (0545 GMT).

Turkey is crisscrossed by fault lines and was hit by two strong tremors this year.

The first one that hit the western port city of Izmir last month, killing 117 people, and another in Elazig province, killing 41 people.

At least 17,000 people died in a powerful earthquake in northwest Turkey in 1999.

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More than 1,000 Arrested Following UK Riots

An anti-immigration protester is detained by police officers, in Newcastle, Britain August 10, 2024. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
An anti-immigration protester is detained by police officers, in Newcastle, Britain August 10, 2024. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
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More than 1,000 Arrested Following UK Riots

An anti-immigration protester is detained by police officers, in Newcastle, Britain August 10, 2024. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
An anti-immigration protester is detained by police officers, in Newcastle, Britain August 10, 2024. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

British authorities have now arrested more than 1,000 people following days of rioting involving violence, arson and looting as well as racist attacks targeting Muslims and migrants, a national policing body said on Tuesday.
The riots, which followed the killings of three young girls in the northern English town of Southport, began after the July 29 attack was wrongly blamed on a migrant based on online misinformation.
Violence broke out in cities across England and also in Northern Ireland, but there have been fewer instances of unrest since last week after efforts to identify those involved were ramped up, Reuters said.
Many have been swiftly jailed, with some receiving long sentences
The National Police Chiefs' Council said in its latest update that 1,024 had been arrested and 575 charged across the UK.
Those arrested include a 69-year-old accused of vandalism in Liverpool.
A 13-year-old girl pleaded guilty to violent disorder at Basingstoke Magistrates' Court, prosecutors said, having been seen on July 31 punching and kicking the entrance to a hotel for asylum seekers.
"This alarming incident will have caused genuine fear amongst people who were being targeted by these thugs – and it is particularly distressing to learn that such a young girl participated in this violent disorder," prosecutor Thomas Power said.
The last time Britain witnessed widespread rioting was in 2011, when the fatal shooting of a Black man by police triggered several days of street violence.
Fast and tough judicial action was viewed as helping quell the unrest in 2011, when around 4,000 people were arrested over several weeks.