Strong earthquake hits Greece and Turkey. At least two killed and at least 200 others injured. Tourists into panic.

Strong earthquake hits Greece, Turkey. Two killed and at last 200 others injured. Tourists into panic. On Friday morning a powerful earthquake has killed at least two people and injured 200 others in Greek and Turkish coastal towns. The quake hit around 1:30 am local time, US Geological Survey reported, putting the epicenter at 10.3 kilometers (6.4 miles) south of the Turkish town of Bodrum and 16.2 kilometers east of Kos. It had a depth of 10 kilometres, USGS said. The damage was, however, much less than could have been expected for an earthquake of its size. Around 200,000 tourists were on the island at the time of the quake. People spended the night outdoors. Frightened citizens of Bitez, a resort town about six kilometers (four miles) west of Bodrum, have spent the night outside of homes they feared would collapse. Preliminary reports suggest no loss of life in Turkey. Rescuers were checking for people trapped indoors on the Greek island of Kos after a powerful earthquake killed two people and injured at least 120 others early on Friday. The two dead on Kos were identified as Turkish and Swedish nationals. The two tourists were killed when the ceiling of a bar in a 1920s building in the old part in the centre of Kos. That area of town is known for its bars and is popular with tourists. The island of Kos was nearest to the epicentre and appeared to be the worst-hit. Giorgos Halkidios, Kos regional government official, said the number of injured was more than 100. He said the injured included people who were underneath a building that collapsed. Ferry services were suspended due to damage at Kos's main port, where a 14th-century fortress was damaged. The minaret of an old mosque also damaged. The Paris-based European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) warned that the quake caused a "small tsunami" and urged the people in the area not to go near the beaches. 20-year old Lauren Duffy, visiting from the UK, told the AP news agency she was evacuated along with her mother and sister from the Atlantis Hotel, which was strewn with shattered glass. "We were asleep in our hotel room when we were woken by really violent shaking, and we all were screaming and told to evacuate from the hotel," she said. "The rest of the island has no problem. It's only the main town that has a problem," Kos Mayor Giorgos Kyritsis told state-run Greek media. "The buildings affected were mostly old, and were built before the earthquake building codes were introduced." "The biggest problem at the moment are electricity cuts in certain areas Bodrum Mayor Mehmet Kocadon told. While the governor of the southern Mugla province - where Bodrum is located - said some people had been slightly injured after falling out of windows in panic. The earthquake triggered high waves off Gumbet near Bodrum which flooded the road and left parked cars stranded. There were no reports of casualties. The quake, the second exceeding magnitude 6 to hit Greece’s coastal region bordering Turkey in recent weeks, has produced more than 100 aftershocks, seismologists say. The Greek government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos said that in contrast to a similar 6.2-magnitude earthquake that hit the island of Lesbos last month, the damage on Kos was limited. Ethymios Lekkas, Greece’s top geology professor, said Kos should expect to be rattled by aftershocks for the foreseeable future. At least a dozen aftershocks shook the area over the three hours following the initial quake. Aftershocks will continue for weeks, maybe months, seismologists said.