Turkey 7.3 Earthquake - Many Dead

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Significant Quakes: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/

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• 7.3 in Turkey - breaking news

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Initial reports were 7.3. The Post is reporting 7.2:

Powerful 7.2 earthquake kills 75 people in eastern Turkey, collapses dozens of buildings

The Washington Post

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... up to 1,000 feared killed

Reuters

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ERCIS, Turkey — Rescuers, working under floodlights, pulled a 13-year-old boy alive from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building early Friday, over 100 hours after a massive earthquake leveled many buildings in eastern Turkey, killing at least 550 people.

A picture by the state-run Anatolia news agency showed a rescue team carrying, Ferhat Tokay, out of the debris, wearing a neck brace. In other pictures from a field hospital, he appeared conscious and looking at his rescuers.

Tokay's rescue came 108 hours after Sunday's 7.2-magnitude earthquake, the agency said.

Huffington Post