A powerful earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck Turkey’s Balıkesir province early Sunday morning, leaving at least one person dead and 29 others injured. The quake, centered in the Sindirgi district, caused 16 buildings to collapse and damaged two mosque minarets. Tremors were felt as far away as Istanbul, nearly 200 kilometers from the epicenter, home to over 16 million people. According to Turkey’s interior minister, an elderly woman who was rescued alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Sindirgi later succumbed to her injuries. Several aftershocks followed, including one measuring 4.6 magnitude. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan expressed his condolences and well wishes for the injured, posting: “May Allah protect our country from all calamities.”