One person was killed and 16 buildings collapsed on the evening of Sunday August 10 when a 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck northwestern Turkey's Balikesir province in Marmara region, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said.

The quake was felt in multiple provinces, as well as in the country's biggest city, Istanbul, which is exposed to major faults in the earth. The epicentre of the quake was in the town of Sindirgi, located 201 kilometres (125 miles) from Istanbul.

Yerlikaya said an 81-year-old person died after emergency teams rescued them from rubble.

Twenty nine people were known to have been wounded by impacts of the quake, he added.

Search and rescue operations were now concluded, Yerlikaya said, adding that there were no indications of other serious damage or casualties.

Several houses collapsed in the village of Golcuk, near to Sindirgi, while the minaret of a mosque in the village also fell, the Associated Press reported officials as saying.

The earthquake hit at 19:53 local time (18:53 CET), the country's AFAD disaster management authority said.

AFAD said the quake struck at a depth of 11 km (6.8 miles).

The German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) registered the earthquake's magnitude at 6.19 with a depth of 10 km.

In February 2023, a magnitude-7.8 earthquake followed by another that was almost as strong killed more than 53,000 people in southern and southeastern Turkey and destroyed or damaged hundreds of thousands of buildings. Around another 6,000 people were killed in northern parts of neighbouring Syria.