Around 100 emergency responders rushed to the site, a leisure complex that houses a Radisson hotel and a museum as well as what Sea Life Berlin said was the world's largest freestanding cylindrical aquarium at 14m in height.
"It felt like an earthquake," said hotel guest Naz Masraff.
Another hotel guest, Ms Sandra Weeser, spoke of chaos.
"The whole aquarium burst and what's left is total devastation. Lots of dead fish, debris," she told Reuters.
Two people were injured by splinters of glass, and emergency services asked around 350 hotel guests to pack their belongings and leave amid concerns that there could be structural damage.
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