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More than 100 people were injured when a 6.3 magnitude earthquake emerged from deep within the Aegean Sea and shook parts of Greece and Turkey on Saturday.The quake struck off the Greek coast, 185 miles northeast of the capital Athens shortly after midday, close to the Turkish island of Gokceada and the Greek island of Lemnos, according to the Associated Press.Turkish officials told local media that 100 people had been treated at hospitals for minor injuries sustained mostly from falling debris and while trying to escape buildings. Witnesses said some panicked residents even jumped off balconies.Greece's Muslim Immigrants Are Ashamed of Their Prison Tattoos. Read more here.There were no reports of any collapsed structures, although several buildings were damaged in the area, among them two mosques and a state hospital.The quake and several aftershocks could be felt as far away as Athens and Bulgaria. The footage below also shows the temblor rattling the shelves of a store in Istanbul, Turkey.Trapped in Greece. Watch it here."The earthquake has occurred in an area with especially high seismic activity, which, in the past, has given earthquakes up to 7 magnitude (in 1982)," Manolis Skordilis of the Institute of Geophysics told the AP. "We are currently analyzing the aftershocks and are on alert."Follow Liz Fields on Twitter: @lianzifields
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