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News => "Natural" Disasters => Topic started by: Mimi on October 23, 2011, 04:30:30 AM

Title: Turkey 7.3 Earthquake - Many Dead
Post by: Mimi on October 23, 2011, 04:30:30 AM

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

Title: Re: Turkey 7.3 Earthquake - Many Dead
Post by: Mimi on October 23, 2011, 09:52:11 AM
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 (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/turkish-seismology-institute-says-66-magnitude-earthquake-shakes-eastern-turkey/2011/10/23/gIQAHpf58L_story.html)
Title: Re: Turkey 7.3 Earthquake - Many Dead
Post by: Mimi on October 24, 2011, 07:08:14 AM
... up to 1,000 feared killed

Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/23/us-turkey-quake-idUSTRE79M10Z20111023)
Title: Re: Turkey 7.3 Earthquake - Many Dead
Post by: Mimi on October 28, 2011, 07:24:34 AM
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 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/27/turkey-earthquake-2011-death-toll_n_1034565.html)